The Daily Populous

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An engineering director and a software developer have quit Alphabet Inc’s Google over the dismissal of AI researcher Timnit Gebru, a sign of the ongoing conflicts at the search giant over diversity and ethics.

Gebru, who co-led a team on AI ethics, says she pushed back on orders to pull research that speech technology like Google’s could disadvantage marginalized groups.

Reuters reported in December that Google had told some staff not to cast its technology in a negative light. »

A group of Senate and House Democrats have reintroduced a resolution urging President Joe Biden to cancel up to $50,000 in federal student loan debt held among 44 million Americans.

Within the next four years, if unchecked, outstanding student debt is expected to hit $2tn.

Congresswoman Pressley said an executive order on student debt would "lay the groundwork for an equitable and just recovery, to truly build back better", borrowing the president's campaign slogan. »

Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki revealed in October 2017 that Hayao Miyazaki was ending his retirement from directing after four years in order to leave behind a feature film project for his grandson.

Suzuki explained in a television interview, “Miyazaki is making the new film for his grandson.

So he started with making a short film for the [Ghibli] museum, and then he went on to making his new feature-length film.”. »

Before deputy Clyde Kerr III took his own life Monday outside the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office, he left haunting final words in a series of social media videos.

The videos show a man who professed he was upset by the state of society: “I’ve had enough.”.

But in his videos Kerr insisted, repeatedly, that his decision to kill himself was a conscious choice made in his right mind as a “protest.” »