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You’ll need: Dishcloths (could use any cotton cloth but slightly thicker is better ) 20 gauge metal wire cut into 2.5″ pieces (could use pieces of a thin wire hanger instead) Elastic cord (could use rubber bands or strips of cloth instead) A sewing machine Good scissors Crochet needle and sharpies Cardboard I’m following the pattern for “Mask 2 (large)” on this webpage . But to be honest I found it hard to follow which is why I’m going to tell you quite plainly how to do this relatively quickly. First, download and print this pdf: mask+2+large+pattern Or simply eyeball the following picture with the ruler as a guide: You’ll want to cut out the printed version and then outline it onto cardboard, then cut out the cardboard so you’ll have a form you can reuse a bunch of times with sharpies: This has been used a bunch and is kind of a mess. That’s ok. Then you outline with a sharpie on your dishcloth: I got 12 cardboard outlines on! That means 3 masks. Be sure to avo...

Friends, I’m writing today to announce that I’m hard at work on a new book, called:   Shame Machine an owner’s manual   It’s once again being written with my editor Amanda Cook at the publisher Crown Random House, just like Weapons of Math Destruction. The tentative release date is January 2021, after the next presidential election. The idea of the book is to understand shame as a social mechanism. When, why, and how do we shame each other? Who profits from shame? Who maintains power or gains power through shame? When is shame valid, and when is it simply mean and cruel? How is shame delivered in the age of big data? I come to these questions because of the proliferation shame-based interactions and strategies in politics but also interpersonally; from my experience of getting my insurance company to pay for bariatric surgery, to observing people interacting viciously on Twitter, to hearing how teachers were unfairly scored with the value-added model, it seems like sham...

Guys I’m super proud of this Sex Robots essay I wrote for Boston Review:   A History of Cyborg Sex, 2018–73     from mathbabe http://bit.ly/2S4AeOm via IFTTT

My newest Bloomberg Opinion piece just came out: Amazon Can’t Fix Facial Recognition Companies lack incentives to stop the creepiness. See the rest of my Bloomberg Opinion pieces here . from mathbabe http://bit.ly/2RLkksK via IFTTT

I registered for this year’s Joint Math Meeting by claiming to be Press so I think it’s only fair that I blog from the conference. I got here Wednesday, met up with my BFF  Aaron Abrams , and we promptly dashed to a fancypants reception to meet up with my buddy Ken Ribet . And yes, both of these wonderful men were wearing knitted hats that I knitted for them in the blistering Baltimore weather. Ken happens to be the outgoing AMS President so has lots of fancypants receptions to go to, and he was kind enough to let us in. The highlight, besides reminiscences with him and others, was when I got to write on a board about how Ken has been a great mentor to me since I was 18, welcoming me with open arms into the warm and wonderful community of mathematics. I also got to (re)meet Francis Su, who is awesome . Then, yesterday I was honored to receive the MAA Euler Book Prize along with a bunch of adorable nerds receiving all kinds of mathematical honors onstage . It was fun, and afterw...

My newest Bloomberg Opinion column just came out, about the international competition for AI dominance: Want To See Your Dystopian Future? Look at China The U.S. needs to stand against the surveillance state.   See the rest of my columns here . from mathbabe https://ift.tt/2Dw6GBc via IFTTT

As I found out on my last night in Paris. I dare you to tell me I’m wrong.   from mathbabe https://ift.tt/2AU9kPH via IFTTT

This is a guest post by Aise O’Neil, a freshman at American University. 1. How I Voted: NYC Ballot Proposals: #1: Yes #2: No #3: No NYS General Election: Governor and Lieutenant Governor: Howie Hawkins (Green) Attorney General: Michael Sussman (Green) Comptroller: Mark Dunlea (Green) NYS Senate District 30: Brian Benjamin (WFP) NYS Assembly District 69: Daniel O’donnell (Democrat) Some Judicial elections: The Democratic nominees will win anyway. They are running unopposed. Just write in some names for the hell of it. Federal General Election: NYS Senate: Kirsten Gillibrand (WFP) US Congress (NY’s 10th district): Jerrold Nadler 2. Why: NYC Ballot Proposals: #1 (references: here and here ): Currently, candidates are given the option to receive funds from the government proportional to the amount of money donated to them by individuals. However, they may not be compensated for any money they receive in donations in excesses of $175. Hence, when a candidate receives $...

Friends, I travel a lot. Too much, if you ask me, or my youngest son, or my husband. It’s all for work, because nowadays I make money giving talks, and also I give book tours in foreign countries where publishers are kind enough to buy, translate, and publish my book, or sometimes I even travel for business related reasons for my company ORCAA . Long story short, I travel way. too. fucking. much. But I think I might have just figured something out about traveling, and I wanted to share it with all of you. In fact it’s not one thing, it’s a whole bunch of little things that might just add up to one medium sized thing. It’s also possible that I simply feel that way because of next dimension jetlag, but whatever, I’m in the mood to share. And in case you’re wondering if I travel enough to feel like an expert, I’m traveling right now, and I started out in Lexington, Virginia, and then Barcelona, and then Madrid, and most recently Seoul South Korea, and now I’m in Paris, which to be hone...

Today I published a new Bloomberg Opinion piece on how Amazon’s sexist recruiting algorithm is not a surprise to anyone, but is framed as one because the tech bros are trying to maintain plausible deniability: Amazon’s Gender-Biased Algorithm Is Not Alone They’re everywhere, but nobody wants to know about it.   For my other Bloomberg pieces, go here . from mathbabe https://ift.tt/2QTJhNA via IFTTT

My amazing, fantastic, and lovable band the TomTown Ramblers is performing at The Rockwood Music Hall next weekend! Buy tickets here , they’re only ten bucks each. . We’re performing mostly original songs thanks to our hugely talented singer songwriting members Blair Bodine and Jamie Kingston (with a new song by Jake Appel!). I’m kind of just amazed I’m allowed to be in this band, they’re so freaking talented. I hope you can come! We will be selling Ramblers merch, including t-shirts and shakers. from mathbabe https://ift.tt/2xYdqoe via IFTTT

This is a guest post by  Jianyin Roachell , Social Innovation, SAS-certified Data Intelligence Developer, US-China-EU relations. My name is Jianyin Roachell, Chinese American and I have been researching how digital innovation and big data can impact socio-economics and political economy in China. In this guest blog, I hope to enlighten you with instances of how big data and AI may change the role of firms and governments, what is China’s National Social Credit System, and perhaps collaborations between business and governments to increase upward social mobility using big data. Allow me to make it clear, I am not promoting or degrading any Chinese social policies in this blog. Background To understand why I do what I do, allow me to introduce my background. I am a Chinese-born-American and grew up in Memphis, TN, the city where Martin Luther King Jr’s died and known for our civil rights movements. Memphis is notorious for the dysfunctional education system and gun-violence (two o...