Social Justice

A powerful work by NYU professor, data scientist, and one of the few Black women AI researchers, Meredith Broussard. Reveals how tech neutrality is a myth and algorithms need accountability. From facial recognition only trained on lighter skin tones, to mortgage algorithms encouraging discriminatory lending, to dangerous feedback loops in medical diagnostic algorithms. Solution isn't making omnipresent tech more inclusive, but rooting out algorithms that target demographics as 'other.'

The Memoirs of Louise Michel is the autobiography of the famous 19th-century anarchist, feminist, and Paris Commune fighter Louise Michel. It chronicles her combat experiences during the Paris Commune, her subsequent exile, and her unwavering belief in social justice, women's liberation, and anarchist ideals.