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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 30/11/2024
In Sudan, the world’s largest humanitarian crisis has left more than 11 million displaced and 25 million at risk of starvation. Sudan’s people are “dying from neglect,” says IRC country director Eatizaz Yousif, who herself has been displaced due to the war. #Velshi
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‘No safe place’: People of Sudan ‘dying from neglect’
Eatizaz Yousif, herself displaced because of Sudan’s civil war, says there is “no safe place in Sudan” because fighting has spread through the entire country. Yousif says that the country’s capital, Khartoum, being the epicenter of fighting means a weakened and decentralized government. As a result, health and education services have completely collapsed and half of the country’s population is at risk of acute hunger, according to the World Food Programme.
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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Just going to point out that the tech space has been aggressively misogynist and racist since...forever. So anyone arguing it was full of lefty progressives until recently is full of the most obvious bullshit imaginable.
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Sanctuary Supply Depot @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Help us help your unhoused neighbors with the bare (!) minimums for dignity and comfort PP @supplydepotmpls Venmo SupplyDepotMpls Cashapp $SanctuarySupplyDepot more options at our linktree ✨🩲✨
Mutual Aid graphic that says: "BLACK FRIDAY MUTUAL AID. Help us purchase underwear for unhoused neighbors during Black Friday sales!" Then there are some clipart pics of underwear and the Sanctuary Supply Depot logo and url, SupplyDepotMpls.com

Sanctuary Supply Depot is a fiscally sponsored project of GMCC EIN-4106-93933 a Minnesota non-profit corporation that is described in Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3)
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 30/11/2024
"Black parents or caregivers of any kid in Texas ha[ve] a much higher risk of having a removal and an abuse allegation substantiated due to racism in the child welfare system. And [so] we don’t see those families represented in the media,” Devlin said.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Stop paying random white dudes who agitate you with no action but paying them While making everyone else do the actual work
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 30/11/2024
1. Supporting builders like @rudyfraser.com on BlueSky 2. Supporting builders like h-i.social/@are0h on Mastodon 3. Supporting Black women in general. Eg. @wagatwe.com @blackamazon.bsky.social @ericajoy.astrel.la @aliafonzy.bsky.social @tiffaniashleybell.com 4. Not being cowards about DEI.
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Gorgeous Killer (@are0h@h-i.social)
8.59K Posts, 166 Following, 1.81K Followers · Creative, Founder, Fedi Legend, They/He, Chaotic Good
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Tweet from Clint Smith

"We tried to tell y'all."

-Ancient African-American proverb
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Joseph Lee @josephvlee.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
no pain au chocolat, no gain au chocolat
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...
slate.com
Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Stream This Gripping New Documentary. This Weekend, You Can.
Union won raves and an award at Sundance, but executives have been afraid to make it available. Now it is.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Currently at $3,938 out of a $5,000 goal!
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
"World Central Kitchen is pausing operations in Gaza at this time."
World Central Kitchen statement: We are heartbroken to share that a vehicle carrying World Central Kitchen colleagues was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. At this time, we are working with incomplete information and are urgently seeking more details.
World Central Kitchen had no knowledge that any individual in the vehicle had alleged ties to the October 7th
Hamas attack.
World Central Kitchen is pausing operations in Gaza at this time.
Our hearts are with our colleagues and their families in this unimaginable moment.
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Starlight @starlight462.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
💯 UBI can also be thought of as remuneration for the loss of the commons. In the past people groups (and animal groups) had access to all of the resources of nature. Modern societies deny the right to the commons & they have replaced it with nothing. UBI attempts to start to restore that
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Jesus Christ @jesushchr1st.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
If anyone needs me I'll be turning all the leftover gravy into coffee.
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Cops off campuses everywhere. This is vile.
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
it’s unacceptable really. my parents should have asked for permission before signing me up for this shit
A screenshot: so let me get this straight......i have to do tasks...every day.....dozens of them..and then I have to wash my skin off (did not ask for skin)......and then lie unconscious for a while.. and then do tasks again
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Dr Abolish ICE @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Ahahaha also academia
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 30/11/2023
(Reminder that my wholeass dissertation is available to read online for free: vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919... )
Belief, Values, Bias, and Agency: Development of and
Entanglement with “Artificial Intelligence”
Damien Patrick Williams
GENERAL AUDIENCE ABSTRACT
The twenty-first century has been increasingly full of conversations about how human
values, biases, and prejudices make their way into what is usually referred to as “Artificial
Intelligence.” These conversations have increasingly involved experts from not just science,
technology, engineering, and math (STEM), but also sociology, philosophy, and science and
technology studies (STS). Even so, it’s still often difficult to get the STEM fields to accept the
importance of certain kinds experience and knowledge— especially that of marginalized people.
Additionally, religious scholarship is often excluded from these conversations because many in
the STEM fields (and the general public) feel that religion and science and technology should be
separate fields of study. … (1/3)Here, I demonstrate that knowledge developed from lived experience
and religious, even occult beliefs have always already been part of how we think about and
understand many technologies, especially “AI.” In addition, I show how people’s unwillingness
to accept the importance of our experience and beliefs is what leads to the prejudice embedded in
algorithmic systems, and the hype-laden marketing of the people developing them. This same
hype obscures the mechanisms of actions of both the systems themselves and the people who
create them, and that obscurity makes it harder for the people most often oppressed by the
systems to do anything about it. I highlight a line of connection between bigotry and large-scale
social programs like eugenics, transhumanism, and the idea of the “supercrip,” to reveal how
they all stem from white supremacist colonialist myths about which kinds of lives count as
“really human.” … (2/3)hese myths became part of the religious practice, scientific education, and
social fabric from which “AI” and algorithms are developed. I combine tools from multiple
fields to help show how mythologies and rituals of education, notions of what it means to “be a
professional,” and dominant cultural beliefs about knowledge all animate concepts such as
learning, expertise, and even what counts as knowledge. By considering both the
magical/religious elements and the lived experiences of marginalized people, we can chart new
paths for research and public policy, toward making more ethical and just “AI.”
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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David Moorfield Frank @dmf84.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
“On Prison Radio, Johnson said Eshiet had told him that “the racism and abuses, the hard and inhumane conditions at Red Onion, were so intolerable that he and others were setting themselves on fire in desperate attempts to be transferred away from the prison.”
theguardian.com
Inmates burn themselves in protest at ‘inhumane’ Virginia prison conditions
Officials acknowledge prisoners have harmed themselves but say they did not set themselves on fire or self-immolate
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Zora Neale Hurtin’ 📚🔮✨ @alexaesperanzaa.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This is my wife holding Malcolm, their baby cousin. He is 5 months old and 25 lbs in this picture. Love a big baby
My wife Tekla, a white femme non-binary person with short dark hair and glasses, holds baby Malcolm. He is Black, the size of a toddler, and covered in rolls. He’s grinning happily as he’s snuggled
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RI DaSēr @sotreu.blacksky.app · 29/11/2024
cash.app/$sotreu2 venmo.com/sotreu paypal.me/rikiam Doing my monthly remt raising cycle
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Pay $sotreu2 on Cash App
Instantly exchange money for free on Cash App
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Zora Neale Hurtin’ 📚🔮✨ @alexaesperanzaa.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Me trying to read y’alls sportsball skeets
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a man in a striped shirt is looking at a menu while a woman looks on
ALT: a man in a striped shirt is looking at a menu while a woman looks on
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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Oh, they're in trouble. Tech people get most honest when they sense the end of the line is near, because they're trying to cushion their own fall
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 07/05/2024
Janelle.
Janelle Monáe looks up and to her left at the met gala in a white and gold (?) sequined dressJanelle Monáe looks up and to the left at the met gala in a white and gold (?) sequined dress. The full body shot shows that the leg portion is see through
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The Real Lover Girl 😘 @brightbutterfliii.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I loooooove fresh pomegranate 😍 No brown nowhere!
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Peter John @norbrookchild.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
ppl think anti-blackness is a White alone thing ...it is prevalent throughout Latin America and Asia
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Tarik Moody @tarikmoody.com · 29/11/2024
Research shows that 43% of white Harvard admits received preferences through athletics, legacy status, dean's interest lists, or faculty/staff connections, with three-quarters of these students likely to have been rejected without such advantages. source: www.vox.com/23842764/leg...
vox.com
The Asian penalty in college admissions is still here — even without affirmative action
Legacy and geographic preferences will continue to favor white applicants, a new study finds.
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Leslie Mac @lesliemac.com · 30/11/2024
Outta here for the rest of the wknd. Please keep sharing & donating. You cannot imagine the impact of $150 to each of these amazing BW putting in the hard work for their communities every day. #DirectGivingSavesLives CashApp: $LeslieMacFRN Venmo: @LeslieMacFRN PayPal: paypal.me/fergusonresponse
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I want to invite folks to try an experiment. Block anyone who responds to anything you post with an uncharitable interpretation. They assumed you were ignorant or thoughtless? Block. They reduce your position down to a straw man? Block. Don't even explain why. See if it doesn't improve social media.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 30/11/2024
Alright, tech billionaires are clearly all in on Trump's fascism, but how can tech be used in a smaller level to help combat Trump's fascism?
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Being a Black person in policy is reminding a bunch of lawyers that “It’s legal/ illegal” doesn’t matter when the law doesn’t think you’re a person but the society requires you’re participation for regulation
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Big Pharma is the only reason anyone still dies from HIV: “We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.”
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Big Pharma Is the Only Reason Anyone Still Dies From HIV
We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen. What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The Amy Sherald exhibit at SF MOMA is incredible
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