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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...

my hot take on the proteini is that the espresso + dry rub combination could actually be good. but putting protein powder in a martini is diabolical

ahem buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...

thank you sean 🙏

Casey Means nomination Can we please talk about how vindicated I am by this Public Citizen report? At long last, a comprehensive and structured look at the conflicts of interest...

Taking absolutely no pleasure or joy in writing lately (it feels like pulling teeth honestly) but I wrote about Casey Means buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...

we need a "male fantasies" about IOF soldiers' tiktoks as the primary texts

who is allowed to live in the world they want to create

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Casey Means nomination Can we please talk about how vindicated I am by this Public Citizen report? At long last, a comprehensive and structured look at the conflicts of interest...

Taking absolutely no pleasure or joy in writing lately (it feels like pulling teeth honestly) but I wrote about Casey Means buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...

Lysenkoist Cybersyn, here we come baby

Closed Form welcome! this is an experimental zone for writing and co-writing with my friend and collaborator nate holdren (buttondown.email/nateholdren). the archive of all issues of this newsletter can be found...

I'm back just warming the car up because I am writing a big thing about Casey Means that I'll share when it's done. Subscribe to my newsletter, I have no affiliate partnerships and will never promote, e.g., plant-based protein crumbles that give you acute liver failure buttondown.com/abbycartus

eating hamantaschen for iftar gonna make so many people red and mad online i love it

I’m gonna deactivate again tomorrow but I invite you to sub to my newsletter if you like it, the link is in my bio, it’s free just for the love of the game (writing my weird little screeds)

heck yeah thank you

many thanks for reading :)

as a public health professional, i sometimes forget (and sometimes worry) that not everyone thinks as much as i do about poop and pee

ok this talk sounds great though, is it available to watch/read anywhere?

omg thank you for reading, i feel a little sheepish at a serious person reading my long meditation on poop but i really appreciate it!!

Copropolitics On the same day that the USDA unveiled a new food pyramid, an inversion of the old one (which was actually retired in 2011 and replaced with “MyPlate”), I...

I also wrote about MAHA's politics of shit buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...

Sorry, you can’t have healthcare or supportive housing or anything because 50 billion dollars have been set aside to ensure ample munitions for Operation Vanquished Toddler

only @theworldsgreatestwriter.com has good posts on here

i need to read that!!

Copropolitics On the same day that the USDA unveiled a new food pyramid, an inversion of the old one (which was actually retired in 2011 and replaced with “MyPlate”), I...

I also wrote about MAHA's politics of shit buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...

Is Focusing on Screen Time Diverting Us From the Real Drivers of Youth Distress? Instead of focusing on screen time, we must consider the root causes: the concentration of wealth in the tech sector.

Here's the thing I want to share, which (ironically given my soapbox about how scrolling makes me depressed) is about how I think screen time and youth mental health have more of a confounding-style relationship www.madinamerica.com/2026/03/scre...

Is Focusing on Screen Time Diverting Us From the Real Drivers of Youth Distress? Instead of focusing on screen time, we must consider the root causes: the concentration of wealth in the tech sector.

Here's the thing I want to share, which (ironically given my soapbox about how scrolling makes me depressed) is about how I think screen time and youth mental health have more of a confounding-style relationship www.madinamerica.com/2026/03/scre...

and hopefully get another newsletter out today which i can post while i'm here. i cannot emphasize enough how bad engaging with this website is for my mental health, it's not just you or just how it is, and i wish you a good sojourn through the news today

... is to make doing anything, including the stuff you usually do, your job, etc., feel completely pointless. so i am trying to protect the sovereignty of my own mind by avoiding scrolling on here and by just continuing to do what i know i can do well. gonna share this piece...

good morning folx, i am back just to share some writing i did. i feel a little bit silly for just doing my own work (and not, for example, positioning myself as an iran expert to surf the vicissitudes of the content cycle) but i strongly feel that "the news" is information warfare whose purpose...

You’re way ahead of me!!

You should read @philiprocco.bsky.social’s book “counting like a state”