Google Calendar’s Culling of Holidays Is a Values Call
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Google says its process for manually adding cultural celebrations was “unsustainable.”
Photographer: David Paul Morris/BloombergFebruary is Black History Month, whether or not it appears as such on Google Calendar. Austin Carr writes today about the lack of transparency around the changes recently made to the default holiday settings. Plus: How AI insiders learn which models work best, and social media’s favorite baby formula. If this email was forwarded to you, click here to sign up .
If you use Google Calendar in the US, you likely saw a reminder for Valentine’s Day on Friday and another for Presidents Day just yesterday. But you’ll no longer see February marked as Black History Month: Google has removed that entry from its default set of holidays and public observances.