'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
12.03.2026 15:13
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PBH is pointing a gun and Gosling is in old man makeup wearing a blousy puffy shirt and cargo pants
This still from All Good Things featuring Philp Baker Hall and Ryan Gosling is one of the damned strangest things I've ever seen
14.03.2026 06:40
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woman in the dunes???.what, is this about Rebecca Ferguson??
13.03.2026 14:53
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Max Fleischerβs granddaughter has been funding these restorations on her own and weβd really appreciate if we can get the public support on the blu ray. It will help us get more out of the vault and keep the legacy alive. Thank you!
11.03.2026 23:40
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Anyway, I hope [small business owner] enjoys filling up his F150 with $6/gallon gas as he drives into Austin from Georgetown and back everyday. Sorry [80s dtv director] that someone called you racist on the internet one time! Hope this is all very healing for you. 3/3
09.03.2026 02:39
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Some thought he would be better for national security, some saw Kamala as the face of a woke movement that had gone too far. All agreed he would be better for the economy and reined in by level headed advisors. 2/3
09.03.2026 02:39
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I rarely look at Facebook, but it is the one social media site where I am connected with Trump 2024 voters (that I know of). I saw a lot of defensive posts around the election with a common refrain of "I think he's a bad person, but..." 1/3
09.03.2026 02:39
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Yes! I wish I had seen 1-6 too. I just rewatched The Return last year, though, so I wasn't feeling super motivated. Kicking myself now.
08.03.2026 01:19
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The David Lynch two cookies and a Coke meme altered to be about cookies and Twin Peaks
Episode 8 in a movie theater, bucket
list item checked off
07.03.2026 21:27
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I saw [new sci-fi movie about countries banding together to solve a global natural disaster] last week, and first thing I thought was, "Nah, people would just be betting on which nation would collapse first."
04.03.2026 15:50
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The End
The End https://www.wikiart.org/en/edward-ruscha/the-end-1997
03.03.2026 12:13
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One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.
03.03.2026 00:49
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great news! your local fire department is teaming up with kalshi!
02.03.2026 23:09
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Weβre thrilled to launch Muscleβs home video line this month with the blu-ray release of @weard.moe's CASTRATION MOVIE ANTHOLOGY I. TRAPS, which is now up for preorder and will be released at the end of the month.
Preorder:
vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...
01.03.2026 17:18
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Larry Ellison, who lives on a Hawaiian island he owns 98% of, and who flies fighter jets for fun... thinks he knows what "the middle of the country" wants for their entertainment?
27.02.2026 05:38
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We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post.
We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts.
Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert.
Subscribe below.
25.02.2026 16:24
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Yeah, Johnny Knoxville! I believe he's responsible for that bilboard
25.02.2026 05:10
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If things don't work out with the paper you could always pivot to Vidalia
24.02.2026 23:31
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So young, he was but a mere Offerboy!
24.02.2026 22:07
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Tickets for the first handful of DIVINE HAMMER screenings in Chicago, Seattle, and Philadelphia have been moving fast β more dates to be announced soon.
Ticket links and more info at: divinehammermovie.com
24.02.2026 20:48
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Vin Diesel beginning to emerge from under the surface of the sea. The water is bowing like a thin vacuumed formed plastic sheet around his head.
Vin Diesel further out of the sea. The water is surrounding him like a cocoon.
His head is fully out now. He is still - somehow - full encased into a carapace of water, his cheeks blown out like a squirrel gathering a feast for winter.
Half watching a very poor Vin Diesel Triple X film so I could collect this moment when he emerges from under water. This isnβt a special effect.
23.02.2026 22:25
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Kenny Powers has Friends season 6 on DVD. "Criterion collections"
23.02.2026 17:55
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One of the greatest bollard walks in history.
#WorldBollardAssociation
22.02.2026 13:23
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This was the Landmark staff screening at The Metro, btw, @theendofcinema.bsky.social . I remember the Metro manager on duty apoligizing and saying "They're not mine!."
21.02.2026 23:45
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At the one I went to some rowdy bros took their shirts off to reveal they had S N A K E S painted on their bare chests and were hooting and hollering like it was a football game. They got kicked out before the movie even started! I often wonder what the rest of their night was like.
21.02.2026 23:45
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Atlanta Public School was wild. Things we watched in class:
β a cam bootleg of The Lion King
- Predator 2 (someone convinced the teacher that the thermal vision sequences were "scientific.")
- Bad Boys
- the Zeffirelli Romeo & Juliet (a kid got up and rewound the part with nudity)
20.02.2026 22:07
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20.02.2026 02:35
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"Well, that was bad!" - unassuming cinema patron
"I'm sorry, what did you say?" - Matt turning various shades of scarlet with cartoon smoke billowing out his ears.
"So bad it's good?" - person not realizing their clarification has just made the situation even worse.
18.02.2026 22:45
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Sorry to get radical but I donβt think itβs my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I donβt like any part of it, so I wonβt. Iβm missing out? Good, thatβs what I want. Youβre worried about me missing out? Thatβs fuckin weird, man.
18.02.2026 05:13
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