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I don’t use Google Calendar, but my pal says they’ve removed:
.Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Women's History Month
• Indigenous People Month
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
???
This in concert with “Gulf of America” change.
@GottaLaff I posted about this recently. The excuse they give is almost as insulting as their removal.
oldfriends.livePaul Chambers🚧 (@paul@oldfriends.live)@tech@flipboard.com 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@flipboard.com
#Rasicm #Bigotry #DEI #DEIA #USPol
https://www.theverge.com/news/608858/google-calendar-missing-events-holidays
@paul @GottaLaff the relatively polite euphemism for their statement is BS.