“Kodak slowly began to fix this bias in its film, but not out of any sense of
racial injustice: it was a response to complaints from furniture makers and
chocolate sellers that Kodak cameras couldn’t properly capture their products’
hues.”
James Vincent ,
Keep It Clean
(London Review of Books October 20, 2022 ,
via Nick Heer )
posted 11/11/2022 8:00pm ∞
“But the syphilis story stuck. Even as newspapers trumpeted particulars of
Graham’s passing (and there were many), her cause of death, like so many details
about women in her line of work, never seemed to be worth investigating.”
Hanna Brooks Olsen ,
Lou Graham, Seattle’s Misunderstood Madam
(Seattle Met August 9, 2022 )
posted 10/21/2022 8:00pm ∞
“For papers that bomb, there was no difference; women and men ended up on papers
with zero citations at equal rates. But for a reasonably successful paper (one
that gets cited 25 times), women are about 20 percent less likely than men to
end up on the author list.”
posted 9/27/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Twitter wanted all of the credit for the innovation and none of the credit for
the impact, when the reality was the other way around. Time after time, they
came right up to the limit of acknowledging that, always to turn away at the
last moment.”
posted 9/17/2022 8:00pm ∞
“There’s another previously underserved audience that’s responded to Wingspan :
women. Stegmaier doesn’t have gender breakdowns of who’s purchased Wingspan ,
but he does note that the game’s official Facebook group is 40 percent women —
which may not sound particularly high, but the group for Stonemaier’s other
bestselling game, Scythe, is 90 percent men.”