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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.”

Abortion law forces doctors to keep pregnant brain dead woman alive "This decision should've been left to us," said the mother of a woman who is pregnant and has been brain dead for over 90 consecutive days.

Adriana Smith was a young mom and Emory Hospital nurse who tragically lost her life in February while nine weeks pregnant.

Georgia’s abortion ban is forcing Adriana’s family — against their wishes — to keep her body on a ventilator for 7 months to incubate the fetus.

The cruelty is unfathomable.

Rodney Hinton, Jr., a Black man wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, mean mugs a crowd of police as he is led past them in court

I haven't seen the same outpouring of support for Rodney Hinton, Jr. that we saw for Luigi Mangione. GoFundMe took down the fundraiser for Hinton, who is accused of killing an officer shortly after he watched bodycam footage of police killing his 18-year-old son.

They don't need a warrant A federal kidnapping in Worcester

A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...

A short thread of some of my favourite n+1 pieces in the hope you’ll read one, fall in love, and consider subscribing in their time of need: (1) Andrea Long Chu’s “On Liking Women”, obviously: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-30/ess...

Ideology Ruled Her Camera | Nihal El Aasar From “The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived” to “Leila and the Wolves,” Heiny Srour highlights the contributions of Arab women to revolutionary struggles.

Made in the aftermath of the shattering of the Pan-Arab dream, Heiny Srour’s early films remained committed to revolution—in theory and in praxis.

LA jails just posted their 19th death for this year:

Care and Carefulness in Today's United States - Steve Salaita A short reflection on what the line “be careful” means in today’s dark political environment.

Here's a short essay about what it means to be caring and careful amid the turn to fascism in the United States:

I think about this image a lot. This is an image from the Aurat March (Women's March) in Karachi, Pakistan, on International Women's Day 2018. The women in the picture are Pakistani trans women, aka khwaja siras or hijras; one is a friend of a close friend of mine.

Remembering Long Hair Dave, Early Champion of Sterile Syringe Outreach When the HIV/AIDS crisis hit Olympia, the person who brought syringes to those of us on the streets was a guy called Long Hair Dave.

"The first time I met Dave, in 1992, I didn’t trust him at all. He was a pretty eccentric guy—big hat, long coat with buttons all over it—but the reason I was suspicious was that he was giving out syringes."

Green Gold | Pepe Roswaldy Palm oil and Indonesia’s plantation economy

I wrote about Indonesia's palm oil for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, an opportunity provided by my involvement with @hpe-project.bsky.social. I am thankful for the editors Maya and Sanoja, who patiently helped me strengthen my piece.

www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/gre...

Who remembers the armenians?

"I remember them
And I ride the nightmare bus with them
Each night
And my coffee, this morning
I'm drinking it with them

You, murderer-
Who remembers you?"

Wages of Citizenship | Michael Macher US immigration enforcement and the cannibalization of labor law

ICYMI: I wrote about how employers shaped immigration enforcement, and why, for Project 2025 conservatives, the undocumented worker is the model for a future in which all workers are expendable. via @phenomenalworld.bsky.social

I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.

Figured I'd make a little thread with things people may not know about the cruelty of U.S. jails and prisons.

1. In California, guards force detainees into "gladiator fights" for their own amusement.

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