In Kenya, we spoke to the data labelers powering U.S. AI companies. They include someone who had to watch porn all day, annotate it, then had to flirt and sext with people over an AI chatbot. The users thought they were sexting an AI. It was actually a person.
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
Friendly reminder that Disabled people still can't legally get married without losing their benefits! Certain states have workarounds, but if you require federal assistance, you're out of luck. We still don't have access to the same rights as others 36 years later
My local anti war committee protests have increased dramatically in number and attendance since 2025 started.
The new Whole Pie has landed, as ever the best overview of who's caging people in the USA along with 10 myths about the system. An essential resource::
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Again and Again … i will have another 2 weeks To take these injections 🥺🥺 Don’t forget to support your friend my friends only $225
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We need reparations for ICE victims.
Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.
In elementary, we had an invasion every year. But one year was particularly bad. You’d move a clock and find hundreds behind it.
So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity
I’m trying to start applying Neil Roberts’s Freedom as Marronage for his this reason.
A friend about why I should watch Pacific Rim: “There’s something wholesome about watching robots and giant monsters pinch each other.”
Here's a thread featuring clips of key moments from the DC Metropolitan Police body camera footage of the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that I obtained as a result of my FOIA lawsuit:
I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
just found out we’ve directly paid march rent for just shy of 130 families through the mutual aid funds that we’ve been raising through the salon ♥️ this is in addition to what we’ve been doing through venmo and whatnot. we ran a separate fundraiser through chuffed that was very successful
It is still happening. No country is stepping in. Cuba has helped so many movements and people around the world and they are being abandoned to die
They are really hitting water infrastructure
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.
"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon
At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me
Tehran
Oops, all war crimes!
"The Israeli army has described the joint assault with the U.S. military as a “preemptive strike,” but, as in 1956, this too is a lie. The current war is a war of choice, initiated by the United States and Israel, just as Sinai was decided in advance by Israeli, French, and British leaders."
Everyone needs to be talking about this.
Can confirm, every Signal chat in town either said nothing or made one snide comment and then immediately got back to work
Probably fine, not like "protecting your privacy" is their entire brand or anything
they double-tapped a fucking girls elementary school
Talking with @erinjbeall.bsky.social
“We will get A job. I believe in the universe’s ability to force capitalism upon us.”
Cuba is in a major blackout now. No country brave enough to stop it. No people powerful enough to pressure their government. Bleak
This is misinformation. Only 60% of votes in.
