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Timnit Gebru
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Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.

Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria .. more

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Timnit Gebru is an Eritrean Ethiopian-born computer scientist who works in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithmic bias and data mining. She is a co-founder of Black in AI, an advocacy group that has pushed for more Black roles in AI development and research. She is the founder of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). .. more

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · Apr 15
🔇🔇🔇Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making.

When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵

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Ethiopia’s forgotten war is the deadliest of the 21st century, with around 600,000 civilian deaths
Estimates by European institutions and academics say over half a million non-combatants have died during the Tigray conflict as a result of a government blockade that kept out humanitarian aid
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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 17h
I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.

What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?

I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 21h
A good time to boost Black feminist tech scholars like @wewatchwatchers.bsky.social @poetofcode.bsky.social @timnitgebru.bsky.social , @ruha9.bsky.social & @safiyanoble.bsky.social

Check out Netflix doc on surveillance, tech, & race feat. many of these folks: shorturl.at/m5abv

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 23h
i know the people running it have said they’re trying to clean up what’s being posted, but seriously, if you can’t properly moderate your new platform, shut it down until you can instead of spreading the most vile material you can imagine. truly disgusted.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 23h
decided to see what upscrolled was like, and the third post i saw after making an account was csam

i already had concerns about the platform’s leadership, but now you can be certain i’m going nowhere near it and would recommend others stay away too

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d
It was ridiculous to see MacAskill's strange utopia post super intelligence pontifications at this time, like he is so out of touch he doesn't even pretend to read the room.

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 1d
With the industry in the hands of wealthy moguls and governments who don't share the interests or the same passion for the craft as chronically underpaid muckrakers, journalism was always doomed. It's at the mercy of people who we are mandated to hold to account, a terrible setup from the get go.
Washington Post to lay off a third of staff | CBC Accessibility
The Washington Post is laying off one-third of its staff in the newsroom and other departments, a brutal blow to one of journalism's legendary brands.
www.cbc.ca

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d
SUPER proud.

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 1d
New piece on the surprising similarities between Eliezer Yudkowsky and Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. This might sound like hyperbole, but it's not. In my view, the Rationalist community is a ticking time bomb--it's only a matter of time before someone does something inexcusable.
Eliezer Yudkowsky and the Unabomber Have a Lot in Common
(4,400 words)
www.realtimetechpocalypse.com

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d
@timnitgebru.bsky.social would be proud of me.
TESCREAL Your Score: 9% Transhumanism LOW Extropianism LOW Singularitarianism LOW Cosmism LOW Rationalism LOW Effective Altruism LOW Longtermism LOW

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

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nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social · 1d
I wanna keep doing this work, in any form (podcast! newsletter! movie? AI literacy class!). Pls msg me on Signal at nitasha.10 if you need someone who’s well-sourced in AI & SV, worked hard to understand the technology + ideas + players, cares about getting it right and informing the public

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nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social · 1d
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 3d
In two weeks, world leaders and tech executives will descend on Delhi for the AI Impact Summit 2026. There, power brokers will paint a pretty picture of the role AI will play in saving the world - from sharing prosperity to fixing climate change.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 3d
Anyway, well done effective altruists. I'm actually not shocked that you are the ones coming out swinging against (checks notes) the request to treat other people as fully human.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 3d
I'm not sure if his audience is generally full of EAs or not, but this episode anyway seems to be doing the rounds in that part of the internet and I finally found the crowd who are offended by my boundary setting about acknowledging my humanity.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 3d
I replied with "no we need to get into that because one of my rules is that I don't have conversations with people who don't posit my humanity as an axiom of the conversation. So I'm going to invite you to believe for the purpose of this hour that I have just as much internal life as you do."

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 3d
Early on, the host (Bob) says: "I'm kind of curious as to how you could ever know for sure whether they are or not sentient since you can't really know that about any beings other than yourself" and then tries to say something like "But we won't get into that."

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