State-sponsored highway robbery may be on its way out: nytimes.com/2019/02/20/us/… #civilrightsoverstatesrights

Has anyone ever had an #arXiv paper placed on hold? How do I resolve this? There's no notice as to why, and it won't let me edit the source... This isn't my first rodeo but I have no idea what this means. arXiv.org

Very excited to announce my latest paper, joint with the excellent @benjaminrwilso and Judy Hoffman, studying whether object detection systems' performance on pedestrians varies based on skin tone! jamiemorgenstern.com/papers/pid.pdf

FYI my “new professional” twitter account is Jamie Morgenstern. No trash photos (yet) or funny obsessions (visible).

Due process is fundamental to making our justice system just.

26 researchers from 21 institutions call on Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement. medium.com/@bu64dcjrytwit…

AJL advocates for a moratorium on government use of facial recognition technologies. Founder Dr. Joy Buolamwini is part of a team proposing a new type of federal office with the authority to establish redlines and guidelines. #FRTsInTheWild ajlunited.org/federal-office…

The claim that e.g. "political science research shows that voting restrictions don't greatly affect turnout" shouldn't be treated as settled science IMO. My own research shows restrictions do hurt turnout. I know other studies disagree. But there's room for more study on this.

I wrote this blog post about how systems that do targeted advertising should restructure their ad markets to remove high-stakes ads reaching different demographics at different rates. Check it out! jamiemmt-cs.medium.com/ensuring-equit…

Pretty unimpressed Nike USATF that you have 0 annual (2020) trials shirts in women’s sizing. #usatftracktrials

Pro-life ➡️ pro-mask.

Well then maybe West Virginia doesn’t need two military bases.

Gender identity: female except when the line to the bathroom is >>>>> longer than that for male identifying people… 🙈💃💁🏻‍♀️🙅🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

[please share widely!] IF YOU NEED ACCESS TO MEDICATED ABORTION IN THE US, you can probably get this medication with very low personal legal or medical risk, even in states that have outlawed its use:

My sweat under the blue lights looked like unicorn blood in the Forbidden forest. #solidcore

Candid shot of the new @phillyrunnertc uniforms from many angles!… instagram.com/p/BJD1zSPANPqK…

ftw try describing a function mapping from X to a probability distribution over an infinite Y and end with f : X → 2^Y → [0,1] #currying

Just got a slightly acceptable mock-up of a project, all2sides.com. Thoughts/suggestions welcome!

Jamie Morgenstern Hal Daumé III Hanna Wallach (@hannawallach.bsky.social) Jenn Wortman Vaughan Kate Crawford @brianavecchione and I have a working paper jamiemorgenstern.com/papers/datashe… on datasheets for AI datasets and would love your feedback. We've been working on this for a while and hope it nudges the field towards transparency

More exciting news!!! My latest working paper is now online!!! 🎉🎊 Datasheets for Datasets by @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social), Jamie Morgenstern, @brianavecchione, Jenn Wortman Vaughan, me, Hal Daumé III & Kate Crawford. We hope it nudges ML & AI toward more transparency re. data!!! 📊 jamiemorgenstern.com/papers/datashe…