#hispanicheritage — Public Fediverse posts

Ever heard The Star-Spangled Banner in Spanish? 🇺🇸
Why does it make sense to sing the U.S. National Anthem in Spanish at LA home games? ⚾

Nearly half of LA County identifies as Hispanic or Latino — and the U.S. government actually commissioned a Spanish version of the anthem back in 1945 under Roosevelt.

Culture, identity, and tradition — they all show up at the ballpark.

#Bamlytics #DataViz #HispanicHeritage #Baseball #LosAngeles #NationalAnthem

@tech Meanwhile, Google's #Gemini #AI can't be trusted or used for adding a hundred or so holidays per year to #Google Calendar internally at Google. <sarcasm>

Google Calendar users are angrily calling the company out after noticing that certain events like #Pridemonth are no longer highlighted by default in Google calendar. #BlackHistoryMonth, #IndigenousPeopleMonth, #JewishHeritage, #HolocaustRemembranceDay, and #HispanicHeritage have also been removed

Google, "Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world. We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable..."

@the-age-of-ai-tech

#Rasicm #Bigotry #DEI #DEIA #USPol

https://www.theverge.com/news/608858/google-calendar-missing-events-holidays

@tech Meanwhile, Google's #Gemini #AI can't be trusted or used for adding a hundred or so holidays per year to #Google Calendar internally at Google. <sarcasm>

Google Calendar users are angrily calling the company out after noticing that certain events like #Pridemonth are no longer highlighted by default in Google calendar. #BlackHistoryMonth, #IndigenousPeopleMonth, #JewishHeritage, #HolocaustRemembranceDay, and #HispanicHeritage have also been removed

Google, "Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world. We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable..."

@the-age-of-ai-tech

#Rasicm #Bigotry #DEI #DEIA #USPol

https://www.theverge.com/news/608858/google-calendar-missing-events-holidays

@tech Meanwhile, Google's #Gemini #AI can't be trusted or used for adding a hundred or so holidays per year to #Google Calendar internally at Google. <sarcasm>

Google Calendar users are angrily calling the company out after noticing that certain events like #Pridemonth are no longer highlighted by default in Google calendar. #BlackHistoryMonth, #IndigenousPeopleMonth, #JewishHeritage, #HolocaustRemembranceDay, and #HispanicHeritage have also been removed

Google, "Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world. We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable..."

@the-age-of-ai-tech

#Rasicm #Bigotry #DEI #DEIA #USPol

https://www.theverge.com/news/608858/google-calendar-missing-events-holidays

@tech Meanwhile, Google's #Gemini #AI can't be trusted or used for adding a hundred or so holidays per year to #Google Calendar internally at Google. <sarcasm>

Google Calendar users are angrily calling the company out after noticing that certain events like #Pridemonth are no longer highlighted by default in Google calendar. #BlackHistoryMonth, #IndigenousPeopleMonth, #JewishHeritage, #HolocaustRemembranceDay, and #HispanicHeritage have also been removed

Google, "Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world. We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable..."

@the-age-of-ai-tech

#Rasicm #Bigotry #DEI #DEIA #USPol

https://www.theverge.com/news/608858/google-calendar-missing-events-holidays

@tech Meanwhile, Google's #Gemini #AI can't be trusted or used for adding a hundred or so holidays per year to #Google Calendar internally at Google. <sarcasm>

Google Calendar users are angrily calling the company out after noticing that certain events like #Pridemonth are no longer highlighted by default in Google calendar. #BlackHistoryMonth, #IndigenousPeopleMonth, #JewishHeritage, #HolocaustRemembranceDay, and #HispanicHeritage have also been removed

Google, "Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world. We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable..."

@the-age-of-ai-tech

#Rasicm #Bigotry #DEI #DEIA #USPol

https://www.theverge.com/news/608858/google-calendar-missing-events-holidays

Full day #k12 #ProfessionalDevelopment today about #HispanicHeritage and #FamilyEngagement, mostly as they relate to supporting #EnglishLearner / #EMEB / #EL students and their families.

Was excellent, but tiring. Going to sleep well tonight.