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'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...

If you are trans in America and you are able to get out, please get out.

Israeli strikes have killed nearly 700 people in Lebanon and led to the displacement of about 15% of the country's population over the past two weeks, reports journalist Lylla Younes from Beirut.

The moral, as always: do the fucking reading

Red Flag Alert - Anti-Trans Genocide in the USA - #3 | Lemkin Institute

The Lemkin Institute has issued a *THIRD* trans genocide warning, noting the next stage is widespread containment - and this was before the 4th Circuit ruled today that states can essentially do whatever they want to make trans people "appreciate their sex".
www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

denial of trans care is fascism

At this point in time pettiness and rage are my primary motivators. I am still alive because my demise will delight my oppressors so I have to keep on going because my existence in public life in itself is an act of resistance.

Sick of people framing all this as "what about when they hit back?"

If it were guaranteed they would never retaliate, I would still not want this for them. No civilian population in the world deserves what's being done to Tehran, to Gaza.

No, not the one that reflexively jumped to your mind. None.

For the next two weeks we will be fundraising for our winter ministry project … consider partnering with our local ministry in providing grocery gift cards for the community venmo.com/u/solomon-MI...

1) This is why aid and community care are so important.

2) Every single person who dies this way is a casualty of war, and the landlord who evicted them is a murderer.

CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen says black, oil-contaminated rain is falling over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities by U.S./Israeli airstrikes.

If Bloody Sunday were a person, it wouldn’t be old enough to collect full social security benefits. Very very recent contemporary history

An enslaved potter left messages for the future, inscribed in clay Several groups lay claim to artisan David Drake: a museum, a county, and his descendants. His work serves to illuminate America’s fractured past.

In South Carolina, David Drake, an enslaved African, defied 19th-century laws by signing and etching poetry into his massive clay jars. These rare messages of humanity and resistance now fuel a landmark reparations movement, returning wealth and identity to his descendants.

HBCU asking women to donate less than $2 Discover how Barber-Scotia College, a resurgent HBCU, is preserving its past while securing a brighter future with your help.

"The campaign, organized by the 144K Collective, is calling on 144,000 women across the country to donate $1.44 each to support the struggling Barber-Scotia campus."

#hbcu

Like this narrative that the campaigns for equal marriage were a friendly public conversation where everybody respected each other is wild as fuck. It was only about ten years ago and you guys kept implying we wanted to fuck dogs.

A woman says "Do you expect a country..."

[continued] "that has brought prosperity to no one to bring it to you?"

'Urgent Appeal:
I am a father of 5 kids,& my wife suffers from heart valve prolapse. I urgently need $300 for surgery to remove shrapnel from my back & hand after being injured by a quadcopter drone in Gaza.
Please contribute urgently🥹🥹
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@mommunism.bsky.social'

Jamal's parents are desperate for help, & donations are v slow. Jamal has asthma and diabetes, & is in critical condition. He desperately needs treatment, & his family can't afford it. They need your help, & are being blocked by both the admin & users of the site. Please help them survive genocide:

I think people pointed out years ago that genAI would be weaponized by governments and used to justify war crimes, because once you outsource mass civilian death to a machine, you can just say the machine made a mistake. Israel & the US have been bombing children non-stop for 2+ years.

Please help Mohammed get his son treatment for his vision loss. His family's gone through the ordeal of nearly losing Elias to starvation, & you all helped him survive. He needs your help again.

Please help Ahmed's family survive Israel's genocide. He's just 17, and has to support his starving, sick family with no income:

@narthews.bsky.social
Please repost or donate 😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏

Photos of Bara'a's lost babies

Bara'a with her son

I am Bara'a,from Gaza,agrieving mother.😭
I lost Masa and Maha...my heart was stolen.💔
Now Iam all for Ibrahim, the only one left.
We live in a tent;I strive for his safety.
Stop the fear...my son needs a life.🙏🫂
We are not numbers, we are mothers, and our pain is unforgettable😔
tinyurl.com/baraaZ2

AZEALIA BANKS V @iiwasinthee212 X.com I got paid lol. Its not 7k a post but i def get paid for every Israel mention. Even the troll posts are paid.... * The General • @GeneralMCNews • 22h BREAKING: Israeli officials allegedly hired social media influencers for $7,000 per post, failed to pay them, and are now facing lawsuits totaling millions of dollars over unpaid invoices. 8:40 PM • 04.03.26 • 2,5M Views

I gotta say if you hire Azealia Banks to do something for you and not know she’s also gonna do this… well…

"this one wasn’t made by god or xir angels / she was spat out / [...] spluttered up / when that showgirl who bore her / gave up used panties for lent"

from "Skullduggery" ☠️ now live in Bayou Magazine's Issue 80!

Nailah Mathews • better hands • Print + E-book - Newfound better hands • Print + E-book Summary Who breaks the cycle, and what does breaking it cost? Winner of the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, better hands eulogizes legacies of violence, underscored by a ferv...

"twelve months heavy she gnawed on roots and / woven charms to quicken you for living. / [...] tell me how / she grabbed you by the shoulders and pulled you / blue faced screaming / from her womb, how she polished you clean / with precious handfuls of drinking water"

from "negrita" 🖤

Nailah Mathews • better hands • Print + E-book - Newfound better hands • Print + E-book Summary Who breaks the cycle, and what does breaking it cost? Winner of the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, better hands eulogizes legacies of violence, underscored by a ferv...

"tell me about ... the house yellow as your sisters children / that stood proud in the lord's blond spot, and red clay earth / starved of wetness, and the parched mouths of whitemen vultures / watching calves curve for the knee, bending brown hands into the drinking water"

from "negrita" 🖤

BETTER HANDS is about being queer, black, your mother's daughter, father's son, and the persistent desire to be and become more than either.

i'm nailah, a part time poet who writes for the world to come. this black history month, let these poems help reveal what you want that world to look like. 🖤

ok but what if the bath scene.... was outdoors? 👀