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‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

This adds desi breadth and geography to @karenhao.bsky.social’s Kenyan stories of similar damage.

India lost *millions* of people, there were people out on the streets begging for oxygen canisters and beds, Twitter turned into a bulletin board to find the same because the government abandoned the people, corpses were floating down rivers. & India forgave, forgot, and voted the same gov in.

LASD has posted the 46th in-custody death for this year.

Through out her life, Alice Wong was encouraged to feel like a burden, to just go away. She refused.

Disability is often the result of a "terminal disease." But people with disabilities can, and do, lead lives of dignity. Death should not be seen as the most noble or "dignified" option for them.

Asad Haider Obituary (1987 - 2025) - Toronto, ON - Centre Daily Times View Asad Haider's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

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As @jacobbacharach.bsky.social has often said, the defenders of western civilization have scarcely encountered it.

sorry about your cookies this is probably TMI

I don't use nyt for recipes so I had no idea this was going on

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Learned this morning that the extraordinarily talent, brilliant, loving, and admirable comrade, Asad Haider, passed away Thursday.

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

Screenshot showing a meal served on Thanksgiving in an Arizona jail. Story: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/07/07/what-s-in-a-prison-meal

Food for thought: As families across the U.S. sit down for Thanksgiving dinner, it's hard not to think about the nutritionally inadequate slop that incarcerated people are fed every single day (including holidays).

It doesn’t just taste bad – it’s a public health concern 🧵

We fed dozens of MQ-9s to the Yemeni mountains for 2 straight years! Three SEALs drowned themselves in the Red Sea for no reason! US army guys got themselves crushed to death by a floating dock so Biden could get a headline in the NYT! Forest Service guys hid from the IDF rape gangs at Sde Teiman!

The United States expended 25% of its entire missile defense capacity to prevent Israel from facing consequences for its war of aggression against Iran! The US Navy pushed maintenance schedules back years to kill Yemenis on behalf of Israel! They poured F/A-18s into the Red Sea for Israel!

I don't want to directly quote tweet but there are apparently still people who think the US is somehow only "indirectly" involved in the genocide in Gaza. We've spent probably $50+ billion to make sure it happens! American soldiers have killed and died making sure it continues!

We all suspected this but it’s incredible to see a systematic study on the automation of caste bias in GPT-5. The harm is immense, especially when we consider India is already OpenAI’s second largest market. Screenshots of findings that will haunt me below www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/01/1...

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

The most ungenerous interpretation of Nuzzi’s career – which is not necessarily the most likely one – is that she used her youth and good looks to her advantage, flattering the egos of men who could get her jobs or serve as sources. In this scenario, she would have made a trade-off – sexual attention for professional opportunity. There is a tendency to demonize this kind of use of sexuality by women (and a less pronounced, usually tardy tendency to criticize such trades when they are demanded or accepted by men). It is this tendency, feeding off the unspoken and unproven assumptions about just what Nuzzi and RFK Jr were offering each other, that has led to all the slut-shaming of Nuzzi in the media. Women who make such trades are not necessarily unequipped for the jobs they get by them: talent and corruption often coexist in one person. (And whatever the controversies and uncertainties about Nuzzi herself, there is no dispute that she is very talented.) But the problem with such transactions, where they do happen, is not that the women who make them are sluts. It is that they are scabs. Such trade-offs can be consensual, but they can never really be ethical: they make it harder for other women in their industries who are not willing or able to use their sexuality to advance to do so; they set the precedent that sex for opportunity is an acceptable trade to make to female workers; they encourage men to leverage their professional power to extract sexual favors. They cast all female professionals under the suspicion of corruptibility and unseriousness.

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A failure to understand climate science is not the problem here.

The American regime opposes effective action on climate because renewable energy threatens to negate their ability to exert global dominance.

They will burn the world to the ground before voluntarily surrendering that power.

To remind folks, 300,000 Black women were pushed out of the LABOR FORCE in three months. What HAPPENS TO US first is coming for everyone else next. Stop IGNORING THE SIGNS. #TheDoubleTax

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Submitted, and would like to use this opportunity to actually talk why I believe bluesky has geoblocked Palestine.

I noticed the issue when creating a bluesky account for a sibling, it was instantly suspended upon creation for spam. This was strange, because we hadn't sent a single post.

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

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Hiding in Plain Sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump

🚨NEW: Local jails & police departments are playing a key role in Trump’s mass arrest & deportation agenda

The actual scope of this collaboration – and the true scale of immigrant arrests and detentions – has not been publicly available, until now 🧵

When he reached the Israeli prison, U.S. human rights defender Chris Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals. They choked him and kicked him in the legs, leaving visible signs of violence on his neck and back.

When his lawyer met with him, Chris was surrounded by six members of Israel’s special police unit. This level of force was not used against other abducted activists.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalitions condemn this violence against Chris and demand accountability for the assault and discriminatory treatment he faced.

At the Israeli prison, US human rights defender Chris Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals. They choked him and kicked him in the legs.
We condemn this violence against Chris and demand accountability for the assault and discriminatory treatment he faced. #BreakTheSiege

So. I've been on field manual labor crews where most of my coworkers were convicts.

I've also worked with a lot of tech companies on automating farms.

And this press conference is incredible. Rollins hasn't the foggiest clue what she's on about.

news story about how the MN shooter and wife operate a private armed security company.

THREAD: The assassinations in Minnesota highlight a dirty secret hardly ever mentioned in the news: U.S. has 1.1 million private police officers. There is an unprecedented footprint of privately organized violence that is doing all sorts of things most people have no idea about.

We have lost all contact with our UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, communications have been cut off.

This morning, for the first time in months, we did not receive their morning messages to say, "good morning" and "we are fine/alive".

We anxiously await to hear from our colleagues.

Rural Missouri Jails Want ICE Contracts. An Immigrant’s Death Shows the Risks. As cash-strapped jails rush in for ICE contracts, one man’s death shows the complexity and risk of detaining immigrants.

A mere nick in the Bible Belt, Ozark County doesn’t even have a stoplight.

What it does have is a 24-bed jail with a cattle trough baptismal pool.

It also has an ambitious sheriff who sees his prayers answered in a new contract with ICE. Here’s why.

A Fire on the Mountain | Shoaib Shafi India and Pakistan may have agreed to a ceasefire—but it’s only a Band-Aid.

In the wake of the April 22 massacre in Kashmir, far-right groups called for the region to be “flattened like Gaza,” Indian citizens faced deportation to Pakistan, and Kashmiri students in Punjab had their classes canceled “for their own safety.”