Notices by Timnit Gebru (she/her) (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)

52 democrats voted for this. A classic example of how your hate will come back to haunt you. They did it with glee because they wanted to target organizations against the genocide of Palestinians. https://nonprofitaf.com/2024/11/urgent-actions-to-take-this-week-to-stop-a-bill-giving-trump-unchecked-power-to-destroy-nonprofits/.

@hipsterelectron @DAIR Oh I guessed that you might be this account when I met you in person but didn't figure out until now. Thank you for coming to the conference!

But this is just one session. There will be poetry, art, workshops, and another plenary session featuring Safiya Noble, Ph.D. and Chris Gilliard, moderated by Logic Magazine editor-in-chief Khadijah Abdurahman.

Our very own Adio-Adet Dinika will also lead a Data Workers Inquiry workshop featuring Mophat Okinyi, Kings korodi and Ann Ngira.

@alshafei ➡ David Yambio is a community advocate, human rights defender and spokesperson of Refugees in Libya, who was forcibly recruited as a child soldier. As a refugee in Libya, David advocated against the European Union’s complicity in human trafficking, and strives for policy changes that safeguard refugees' rights instead. 3/

➡ @alshafei is the founding director of Majal.org, a network of online platforms that amplify under-reported and marginalized voices in West Asia and North Africa. She also founded Surveillance Watch, an interactive map that exposes the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry. 2/

There is still time to register for the Color of Surveillance conference happening this Monday (both in person in DC and on livestream).

▶️ Register and find the program on the website: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-technology-center/events/the-color-of-surveillance-surveillance-resistance/

My session will be a discussion with 3 amazing people.

➡ Rami Ibrahim is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement, a transnational, grassroots, volunteer-led movement of Palestinian and Arab youth struggling for the liberation of their homeland./1

Some of y'all here would see a story about someone's experience with genocide written on Google docs or discussed on Zoom & attack those bringing this story to the fore for using the wrong platform.

Makes you look so incredibly privileged & out of touch.

The priority can be to reach as many people as possible using platforms that are easy for them to use, rather than proving that one is against Big Tech.

Same attitude that makes some of the most vulnerable people not want to use Mastodon.

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EMILY M. BENDER: SJayLett adds, "I suspect it emphasizes how the people behind this don't really believe the mind is embodied in any meaningful way," which I think is very true.

Mystery AI Hype Theater Episode 44: OpenAI's Ridiculous 'Reasoning'

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/episodes/16095327-episode-44-openai-s-ridiculous-reasoning

In which @alex and I bring a little actual science to the party to cut through the hype.

Thx to Christie Taylor for production!

The plaintiffs are Salah Al-Ejaili, a former Al Jazeera journalist, Suhail Al Shimari, a school principal and Asa’ad Al-Zubae, a fruit vendor. Despite having no links to armed groups, all three were severely tortured. They were not among those seen in horrific images of Abu Ghraib torture that surfaced in 2004. But they endured many of the same experiences, including beatings, sexual abuse, being attacked by dogs and more.

Polls have closed!
In Somaliland that is. The only fully functioning democracy in the Horn of Africa held Presidential elections today, with over a million registered voters. Since 1991, Somaliland has been a self declared independent republic. It isn't formally recognized as a state by the international community & is considered a part of Somalia.

President Muse Bihi Abdi & two competitors are each promising voters that they will secure international recognition if elected.

🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ This Monday, we will be joined by our friends at Arte es Ética (Oscar Araya), Guerrilla Media Collective (Alex Minshall), the Writers Guild Of America, USA (John López), and Rafael Grohmann at the university of Toronto, with a conversation moderated by our very own @milamiceli

🗯️ They show us the ways in which we are all exploited data workers, and how we can resist this exploitation.

⏰ 9am PT/18:00 CET.
➡ Zoom: register at https://events.zoom.us/ev/AoEkvePmTHAKVpasFIEsgtOhjo05XHtj3bcYn0rgaFtkmUpudYOB~AoUrcNrrBxZzhu2yox7LZ7992KVbxOWg5EH4lILGm2SSBlakP-nLYXjdxg
➡ Live stream: https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

@victorvicpal Oh whoa. I am honored!

*2020

People would have probably brought back 3 strikes if it was on the ballot.

We got a little air time in 2002 and how much backlash?

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-11-05/2024-california-election-propositions-results-retail-theft-minimum-wage

For information on the atrocities the protesters are linking the UAE to, my visual investigation last month into the February 19th drone massacre of 30+ Amhara civilians by a drone likely procured by Ethiopia via the UAE.

https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/113297320820657531

"UAE! Stop sending drones!"

That's the call heard at a bazaar in London, promoting tourism to Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Several Ethiopian protesters loudly disrupted the event, denouncing the UAE's ongoing delivery of armed drones to Ethiopia.

Ethiopian airforce drone attacks have killed hundreds of civilians in the Amhara region.

The protesters accused Emirati President Mohammed bin Zayed of complicity.

The UAE has been among the strongest backers of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

Look at how they care so much about "existential risks to humanity" and how they're so "ethical" as opposed to OpenAI (and how OpenAI was so much more ethical than Google).

"Anthropic...said it is teaming up with...Palantir and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide U.S. intelligence and defense agencies access to Anthropic’s Claude family of AI models."

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/07/anthropic-teams-up-with-palantir-and-aws-to-sell-its-ai-to-defense-customers/

@danherbert At least we still have The Onion.