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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 18h

My latest Brookings commentary (co-authored with Michelle Du) examines the landscape of digital platform work, providing recommendations for governments, tech companies, and outsourcing firms to increase accountability and reshape labor practices.

www.brookings.edu/articles/rei...

Reimagining the future of data and AI labor in the Global South | Brookings

Michelle Du and Chinasa Okolo discuss the content moderation and data labeling behind social media and AI platforms.

www.brookings.edu

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 2d

Applications for JamCoders, a 1 month free algorithms & programming camp for Jamaican high schoolers, are now open.

Head over to jamcoders.org.jm#apply. No programming experience required for students.

We're looking for students & teaching assistants.

Deadline January 31.

JamCoders

jamcoders.org.jm

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure I saw National Guard troops in the NYC subway today.

Still not used to seeing them around D.C. 😬

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

If you have a better idea, you can just execute it.

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 5d

My favorite armchair comment is Americans don‘t understand authoritarianism, because so many of you don’t count Black people as Americans. Learn the history or shut up.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 7d

Blacksky Algorithms is communal infrastructure.

Network graph of Blacksky infrastructure showing personal data servers, global relays, algorithms, apps, and governance tools

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Brian Keith Jackson @bkjwordplay.bsky.social · 5d

Please understand, the noise is not meant to distract. It is meant to steal your will to act. As far as I'm concerned, they've stolen enough.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 4d

As a computer scientist, this salary is mind boggling 😳

Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 5d

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.independent.co.uk

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve been very intentional not to use the bookmark feature on here because I don’t want it to end up like my Twitter bookmarks 😆

Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 5d

🗞️ New op-ed in Science!

For my first article as an Expert Voices columnist, I push back against the effective accelerationism movement, examining how the values of public interest AI define a better paradigm for AI development and governance.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The paradox of AI accelerationism and the promise of public interest AI

Over the past 3 years, the idea that artificial intelligence (AI) development should be accelerated without restraint to drive radical societal change—a phenomenon known as AI accelerationism—has gain...

www.science.org

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 6d

I've had a lot of international collaborations over the past year and am gradually starting to write randomly in British English.

Today I wrote "cataloguing" instead of "cataloging" and I was so confused at first 😅

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 6d

Yesterday, I launched my new publication, Digital Cognoscente, and it has already surpassed 1k subscribers!

I look forward to posting reflections on AI's rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape + general commentary from my research, travels, and engagements.

www.linkedin.com/newsletters/...

Digital Cognoscente | LinkedIn

Perspectives on the geopolitical landscape of AI & digital technologies from my research, travels, and engagements

www.linkedin.com

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 8d

Whenever I travel to South Africa, I always have to make a stop at Woolworths. They have the best dried fruit snacks!

Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 9d

Spoke at the University of Cape Town last evening and it was so heartening to see posters in support of Palestine. Honestly like a breath of fresh air compared to the United States.

Thank you for being on the right side of history, UCT ✊🏾

A poster advertising an event with Jeremy Corbyn, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, Prof. Lydia Cairncross, and Assoc Prof. Zwelethu Jolobe. It it titled “PALESTINE
SOLIDARITY VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA
"New Forms of Global left politics and Palestine Solidarity" “

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 11d

"Efforts to save human heritage, life, and dignity in Gaza allow us to understand what being human meant thousands or hundreds of years ago...and what being human means today."

— Lynn Swartz Dodd

*Gift link added*

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/w...

A Rush to Save Ancient Artifacts in Gaza Highlights All That Has Been Lost

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 11d

"Heritage is something we have in common, and when it is destroyed it is like cutting the roots of a tree. Whatever my cultural, religious or ethnic background, I am losing part of my own history." — Olivier Poquillon

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/w...

A Rush to Save Ancient Artifacts in Gaza Highlights All That Has Been Lost

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 11d

“…Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger announced their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC). They denounced it as Western neocolonialism, aligning themselves with Moscow at a time when President Vladimir Putin is wanted by the ICC for committing war crimes in Ukraine.”

Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 11d

“…Mali has transformed into another battleground in the second Cold War between Russia and the US, and neither party cares at all about the wellbeing of Malians who have found themselves on the front line.”

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

The US and Russia’s proxy war is bleeding Africa

Behind anti-colonial slogans, the Sahel is the front line of a new Cold War – and Africans bear the cost.

www.aljazeera.com

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 11d

“…Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger announced their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC). They denounced it as Western neocolonialism, aligning themselves with Moscow at a time when President Vladimir Putin is wanted by the ICC for committing war crimes in Ukraine.”

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 11d

“…Mali has transformed into another battleground in the second Cold War between Russia and the US, and neither party cares at all about the wellbeing of Malians who have found themselves on the front line.”

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

The US and Russia’s proxy war is bleeding Africa

Behind anti-colonial slogans, the Sahel is the front line of a new Cold War – and Africans bear the cost.

www.aljazeera.com

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 11d

The woman next to me has been watching Andrew Huberman’s podcast for a significant amount of time on this ~15 hour flight…

I’m not sure why United is platforming this show anyway 🤔

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 12d

"If we take seriously the problematic metaphor of an AI arms race...then tech companies, with their SaaS offerings, are acting as arms dealers, encouraging the illusion of a race for sovereign control while being the true powers behind the scenes."

www.techpolicy.press/sovereignty-...

'Sovereignty' Myth-Making in the AI Race | TechPolicy.Press

Tech companies stand to gain by encouraging the illusion of a race for 'sovereign' AI, write Rui-Jie Yew, Kate Elizabeth Creasey, Suresh Venkatasubramanian.

www.techpolicy.press

Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 13d

In "Building AI to serve the Global Majority", my latest commentary for @compiler.news, I discuss the impact of the lack of inclusion in global AI governance and development on socioeconomic growth and global power dynamics.

www.compiler.news/ai-for-globa...

How to build AI to serve the Global Majority

The lack of inclusion in global AI governance raises profound implications for socioeconomic growth and global power dynamics.

www.compiler.news

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 14d

Extremely egregious actions from Harvard Dean, Andrea A. Baccarelli:

"...scientists say his work has demonstrated only a correlation between the drug and autism — and not a causal link, as the Trump administration asserted in the press conference."

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard’s Public Health Dean Was Paid $150,000 to Testify Tylenol Causes Autism | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli received at least $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in 2023 — two years before he published research used by the Trump admini...

www.thecrimson.com

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