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Canton McKinley coaches fired for making player eat pork

A high school football coach in Ohio was fired Thursday after forcing a player to eat pork as a punishment, according to the New York Times. The incident occurred after a senior on the Canton McKinley High School football team missed an optional practice. On May 24, the 17-year-old player was reportedly forced by coaches to eat an entire pepperoni pizza as punishment. The player is a Hebrew Israelite, and cannot consume pork for religious reasons.  The player was reportedly told he had to eat… Source link

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Second Google A.I. Researcher Says She Was Fired: Live Business Updates

Here’s what you need to know: Margaret Mitchell, who was one of the leaders of Google’s Ethical A.I. team, sent a tweet on Friday afternoon saying merely: “I’m fired.”Credit…Cody O’Loughlin for The New York Times Two months after the jarring departure of a well-known artificial intelligence researcher at Google, a second A.I. researcher at the company said she was fired after criticizing the way it has treated employees who were working on ways to address bias and toxicity in its… Source link

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A second Google A.I. researcher says the company fired her.

Two months after the jarring departure of a well-known artificial intelligence researcher at Google, a second A.I. researcher at the company said she was fired after criticizing the way it has treated employees who were working on ways to address bias and toxicity in its artificial intelligence systems. Margaret Mitchell, known as Meg, who was one of the leaders of Google’s Ethical A.I. team, sent a tweet on Friday afternoon saying merely: “I’m fired.” Google confirmed that her… Source link

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“You’re fired:” legality of terminating workers over Capitol Hill protest varies by state

Trump supporters who were fired from their jobs for participating in Wednesday’s siege on the U.S. Capitol may be asking themselves if their termination was legal. Dozens of Trump supporters were arrested after storming the Capitol to protest the election results, and Reuters reported Thursday that “internet detectives” identified some participants who were later fired by their employers. Even for those fired Trump supporters who did nothing illegal, it may still be perfectly legal for… Source link

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Chattanooga coach fired after Abrams tweet

A Chattanooga football assistant coach no longer has his job after he disparaged Stacey Abrams on social media. The school announced Thursday morning that Chris Malone had been fired after a Tuesday night tweet calling Abrams “Fat Albert” along with other insults because of the results of Georgia’s Senate elections. There is absolutely no evidence that any significant voter fraud took place in Georgia in either November or January. Abrams, a former Georgia state legislator and… Source link

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Fired Longhorns coach Tom Herman releases statement

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Former Texas Longhorns head coach Tom Herman made his first public comments since being fired over the weekend after four years at the helm of the Longhorns football program. Texas won the Alamo Bowl 55-23 against Colorado on Tuesday night and Herman was out of the job four days later. Texas announced Alabama offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian as Herman’s replacement on Saturday afternoon. List: Latest on Longhorns coaching staff for the Sarkisian… Source link

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Youth football coach who assaulted player banned, fired

Gerrel Williams has been banned by American Youth Football. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images) A youth football organization has banned a coach for life after video surfaced this week of him assaulting a player during a game. The video shows a coach of a 9-and-under team from Savannah, Georgia, twice striking one of his players in the helmet. Both an incident report obtained by Yahoo Sports and the coach’s now-former employer identified him as Gerrel Williams. Someone shared this with me. It was on… Source link

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Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I.

A well-respected Google researcher said she was fired by the company after criticizing its approach to minority hiring and the biases built into today’s artificial intelligence systems. Timnit Gebru, who was a co-leader of Google’s Ethical A.I. team, said in a tweet on Wednesday evening that she was fired because of an email she had sent a day earlier to a group that included company employees. In the email, reviewed by The New York Times, she expressed exasperation over Google’s… Source link

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Renowned AI researcher Timnit Gebru says Google abruptly fired her

AI Research Scientist Timnit Gebru. Kimberly White | Getty Images Timnit Gebru, a well-known artificial intelligence researcher at Google, tweeted on Wednesday that the company abruptly fired her, drawing widespread statements of support from other Google employees and tech workers throughout the industry. Gebru, who was the technical co-lead of the Ethical AI Team at Google and worked on algorithmic bias and data mining, is a well-known advocate for diversity in technology and is the… Source link

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Google’s co-lead of Ethical AI team says she was fired for sending an email – TechCrunch

Timnit Gebru, a leading researcher and voice in the field of ethics and artificial intelligence, says Google fired her for an email she sent to her direct reports.  According to Gebru, Google fired her because of an email she sent to subordinates that the company said reflected “behavior that is inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager.” Gebru, the co-leader of Google Ethical Artificial Intelligence team, took to Twitter last night, shortly after the National Labor… Source link

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