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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha, and welcome to stuff.

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Speaker 2: Will never told you, but actually if I heard you,

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Speaker 2: And today's date is February fourteenth, Happy twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Happy Valentine's Day, Samantha, Happy Valentiz again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, which is kind of relevant to what we're

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Speaker 2: talking about today, which is calendars. So I mentioned the

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Speaker 2: date because we're kind of talking about politics today and

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Speaker 2: things are so rapidly changing. As Samantha mentioned recently, the

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Speaker 2: current administration has been really really aggressive with the executive

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Speaker 2: orders and rolling back anything even remotely remotely possibly related

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Speaker 2: to DEI are just related to marginalized communities in general.

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Speaker 2: Since as this comes out, it is President's Day, which

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Speaker 2: I think we have off, it's funny to me how

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Speaker 2: many holidays I'm not entirely sure we have off. I'll

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Speaker 2: be working that day because an unfortunate.

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Speaker 1: Thing, but I must work.

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Speaker 2: But I did want to stop and talk about all

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Speaker 2: of the months and holidays at the administration is trying

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Speaker 2: to erase, and not just the administration, because we are

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Speaker 2: currently seeing huge tech companies absolutely fall in line with

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Speaker 2: Trump and his extreme policies around this. So in late

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Speaker 2: January early February, people started noticing that Google has started

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Speaker 2: removing things from their calendar. Black History Month, Women's History Month,

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Speaker 2: Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pride Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, and Jewish

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Speaker 2: American Heritage Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month,

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Speaker 2: National American Indian Heritage Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, Well,

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Speaker 2: things like Columbus Day, which I thought was gone already

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Speaker 2: but all right here it's back, and President's Day remain.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Obviously this caused a big backlash, but the company claims

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Speaker 2: that this is something that they started implementing last year

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Speaker 2: because it quote wasn't scalable and that they just couldn't

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Speaker 2: keep up with all the events and holidays and observances

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Speaker 2: around the world.

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Speaker 1: But the timing is very interesting. I think we can

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Speaker 1: say they.

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Speaker 2: Were basically like, we can't keep up with all of them,

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Speaker 2: and people rightfully mocked them for it because they're this

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Speaker 2: huge company.

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Speaker 1: That collects data anyway that.

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Speaker 3: Has decided to do calendars as part of their thing,

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Speaker 3: but they can't do it. Also, what does a racing

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Speaker 3: have to do with keeping up? There's more work to

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Speaker 3: erase it than it is to leave it.

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Speaker 2: That's true, it was already there. It was already there.

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Speaker 2: And also, weirdly enough, some of their doodles, like the

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Speaker 2: Google Doodle, still observe these occasions, like there was a

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Speaker 2: Black History Month one, there was a lunar New Year one.

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Speaker 2: They also have curated playlists around things like this. So okay,

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Speaker 2: Outside of Google and Tech, the Defense Intelligence Agency removed

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Speaker 2: a video about the Tuskegee Airmen, which was a group

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Speaker 2: of segregated black men who fought for the US and

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Speaker 2: World War Two. It eventually was restored after a pushback,

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Speaker 2: but I'm not.

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Speaker 1: Sure if it's still up.

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Speaker 2: A part of the reason Black History Month is celebrated

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Speaker 2: in February has to do with Douglas Day, celebrated for

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Speaker 2: Frederick Douglas's birthday on February fourteenth, which again timely as

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Speaker 2: we record this, this was something segregated schools in DC

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Speaker 2: would celebrate in nineteen twenty six that grew into a

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Speaker 2: week long remembrance and also involved Lincoln's birthday. In the seventies,

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Speaker 2: it became Black History Month. Since nineteen ninety six, every

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Speaker 2: US president has released an official proclamation about Black History Month,

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Speaker 2: but not now a right, so Google, along with a

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Speaker 2: lot of other tech companies and other companies at large

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Speaker 2: pretty much eliminated their DEI initiatives with the reasoning that

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Speaker 2: they are a federal contractor and have to comply with

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Speaker 2: the administration's policies. Just a reminder, Google's company slogan is

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Speaker 2: do no Evil. So more than five hundred million people

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Speaker 2: use Google Calendar me included, So this is a big deal.

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Speaker 2: It feels like kind of a small thing to talk about,

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Speaker 2: but it communicates so much and I do use it.

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Speaker 2: Samantha and I literally we work on this show and

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Speaker 2: we forgot.

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Speaker 1: It was Women's History Month in March. Yep.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean to us, it's always Women's History Month.

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Speaker 1: But correct.

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Speaker 2: And that's gonna be the That's going to be the

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Speaker 2: case with us with all of these things. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: keep talking about them no matter the month, and especially

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Speaker 2: during the month, no matter what they say. But it

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Speaker 2: is kind of it was a nice reminder. You'd be like, oh, yes,

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Speaker 2: thank you, it is women's history.

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Speaker 1: Fine.

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Speaker 2: On top of that, both Google and Apple have changed

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Speaker 2: the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf

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Speaker 2: of America on their maps. Also, if you're interested, probably

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Speaker 2: not surprising, but this is a hugely contentious point in

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Speaker 2: terms of borders and wars, Like there's a I believe

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Speaker 2: there's a whole episode on tech stuff about Google Maps

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Speaker 2: and how it the borders impact wars, So look into that.

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Speaker 2: I know that's not related to calendars. I just want

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Speaker 2: to put that in there. And then also just to mention,

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Speaker 2: I've been talking about this anecdotally with a lot of

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Speaker 2: my friends, but we've also done research. Some of it

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Speaker 2: is in our Manisphere episode. But the misogyny online is

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Speaker 2: getting really it's getting worse, and it's spreading to offline

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Speaker 2: spaces too. And yeah, like I said, we're going to

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Speaker 2: keep doing this stuff beyond the months. During the month

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Speaker 2: all of this as an intersextional feminist podcast, it does matter.

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Speaker 2: And obviously black history exists whether a president endorses it

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Speaker 2: or not, and black activists have been fighting to preserve

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Speaker 2: it for so long, so we need to elevate these

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Speaker 2: things at all times. But it is very troubling because

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Speaker 2: so many people do use things like Google Calendar. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's that. That's where we are, and it's so it's

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Speaker 2: changing so quickly. We'll see what happens. Because there is

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Speaker 2: a lot of tech knowlogy things we need to talk about.

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Speaker 2: And luckily friend of the show, Bridget is coming back.

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Speaker 2: She is so good at illuminating this is very complex

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Speaker 2: and distressing situations and providing resources. So that's very exciting.

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Speaker 2: But there's a lot going on when it comes to

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Speaker 2: technology and all of these things.

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Speaker 3: Right, and one of the ways of that we are

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Speaker 3: rebelling is making sure that we are not a part

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Speaker 3: of being that erasure. And I would say I say

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Speaker 3: this as a royal we you the listener, and us

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Speaker 3: as a host coming together like acknowledging that yes, yeah,

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