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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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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you!

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 2d
"It’s fascinating how immigrants are somehow both lazy and collect welfare, and also stealing our jobs. Behold, Schrödinger's immigrant!"

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How To Protect Your Community From Trump's Mass Anti-Immigrant Raids
Last night I received a credible tip that Trump is deploying mass immigration raids in Chicago this week—here's how we stand united to fight back Last night I received a credible tip that Trump is de...
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 3d
Worth waiting for! @alexhanna.bsky.social and I did a LOT of podcast guesting last spring & summer and this one, one of my favorites, is finally available:

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Thinking Through...The AI Con & Deconstructing the Hype
YouTube video by Thinking Through Podcast
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404 Media @404media.co · 3d
404 Media has obtained material that explains how two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

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404 Media @404media.co · 3d
NEW: At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

Our latest:
DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 3d
While I'm here, please support Respond Crisis Translation which is at the front lines right now w.r.t. ICE terrorism. respondcrisistranslation.org
Respond Crisis Translation | Translation & Interpretation
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 3d
Hard to believe it hasn't even been one year since these people took office, and here we are.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 4d
Amazon, of course tried to discredit our work, but when Tekendra asked them what "complete data" would look like, as they said our research was based on "incomplete data", "the spokesperson did not respond to my follow-up on what Amazon considered complete data."

Of course.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 4d
The article also discusses our report, written by former Amazon delivery driver Adrienne Williams, @alexhanna.bsky.social and Sandra L. Barcenas Fuerte, detailing the extent of Amazon's worker surveillance & wage theft through that surveillance.

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Worker Surveillance and Wage Theft
How algorithmic management and workplace surveillance allows corporations to steal wages, intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 4d
"By now we have become so accustomed to reports of exploitation of gig workers that it is almost quaint to think back to the mid-2000s when Big Tech marketed the gig economy as unshackling workers from the scrutiny of micromanaging bosses while bringing entrepreneurship to the masses."

Indeed.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 4d
@tekendra-parmar.bsky.social writes about a fake reddit post that went viral, on how DoorDash treats its drivers. I said that I'd have believed the post cause it's close to how companies treat gig workers, like machines controlled through opaque algorithms.

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The DoorDash Deep Throat scam lays bare our new era of untruthiness
The uncomfortable reason the internet fell for a fake delivery app whistleblower.
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