“[Y]ou are forced to hide your identity, you are forced to be somebody different from what you are[.]” Discrimination based on one’s caste is an unfortunate fact of life that many tech workers from the Dalit caste have to deal with even in the United States. While sharing their own experiences with discrimination, Dalit workers on a Santa Clara County Human Rights Commission video call refused to show their faces out of fear of retaliation in the form of demotions, harassment, or termination. Read full article here
Research
Researcher uses AI to make texts that are thousands of years old readable
The Gilgamesh Epic, the oldest work of world literature, has been brought back to life by LMU researchers in the Electronic Babylonian Literature project. Using their new Fragmentarium tool, they have discovered hundreds of manuscripts, including the most recent tablet of the Gilgamesh Epic which dates from 130 BC – thousands of years after the earliest known version. This shows how highly valued the Epic was, even at a late period. With the public release of the Fragmentarium, anyone can now explore the thousands of cuneiform fragments and explore the ancient Babylonian literature. Read full article here
Merv
March 12, 2023
