This is what "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" thinking gets you: a leader fundamentally incapable of acting in a way suited for the times, and scrambling to worsen fossil fuel reliance rather than decouple society from it
Reactionary centrism always ends up as a pro-fossil ideology
Boycott success
Huge BDS win on cultural front
Giller Prize is no longer partnered w Indigo Books, Azrieli Foundation & Scotiabank
In 2023, comrades were arrested protesting the Giller. Then, thousands of writers & book workers refused participation.
Giller has now separated from all genocide-invested sponsors.
My Resistance Report: Iranian missile and air-defence operations; I break down Hezbollah's combat videos and look at their explosive-laden quadcopters; & lots more. youtube.com/watch?v=w42XSiXMCEE
damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman
My Resistance Report: Strait update; IRGC destroys pivotal USAF early warning radar & command aircraft; near-miss vs USAF F/A-18; IRGC ballistic missile, drone ops footage; Hezbollah's battle in South Lebanon: I break down battle footage from past week; & lots more youtube.com/watch?v=FBxSyj3KHas
I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc.
But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.
I have followed @attackerman.bsky.social's hard-hitting War on Terror journalism for almost 2 decades. But the tenderness of this piece of reporting on Gaza's hospitals is both beautiful and heart-breaking.
My Resistance Report: Strait of Hormuz mapping; IRGC air defence ops vs US fighter jets; missile attacks vs Dimona; drones vs strategic tanker aircraft at Ben Gurion airport; Iraqi resistance vs US bases; Hezbollah battles IDF invasion of South Lebanon. youtube.com/watch?v=Dord3Ef5ELQ
"This is colonial frontier of AI: terrain built not only on land (data centers literally draining indigenous communities of natural resources) but also on language, where enchanting words discipline workers into precarity, convert human labor into a symbolic collateral for speculative value”
It was and is a science. Science can be done for terror. That doesn't make it not science. It doesn't help to try and paint it as "not science" because then we can fool ourselves into regarding certain things as safe and cozy real science when they're still doing harm.
"eugenics and scientific or medical racism etc wasn't real science™"
Be for real, come on.
Science has always been part of heinous things, was implicated in and facilitated colonization, slavery, the Holocaust more. All of this IS part of the story of science.
WHY are you sanitizing this?
This book, "Border and Rule," by Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social, will radicalize you if you're not there yet, will empower you if you're ready, and will help you educate others if you're an organizer.
A brilliant, brilliant work.
Newly declassified RCMP Security Service files of nearly 6,000 pages (!)show how Canada and Liberal govt infiltrated & sought to disrupt Indigenous organizations in 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, wiretapping, informants and countersubversion.
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
Absolutely no Indigenous person is surprised by this. Our activist Elders have been telling us this for ages - and always with hilarious stories of how inept some of these operations were. We laugh, but it's not really funny. They've never STOPPED spying on us.
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
declassified RCMP files confirm Canada's domestic intelligence agency infiltrated and sought to disrupt legitimate political Indigenous organizations in the 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, informants and countersubversion www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
I had been sold out of these pins for a while but now they're back! Available from willburrows.art/shop
So far sales of these pins have enabled me to contribute $4125 USD to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.
Indigenous Peoples have been pointing this out for a looooong time. Especially in terms of creating resilience in these growing "seasons" of wildfires.
The @albertaadvantage.bsky.social folks were kind enough to have me on to talk about my book, Student Power: Canadian Student Movements From the Sixties to Today. Enjoy!
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...
Workers across Canada have been organizing for years to pass resolutions in solidarity with Palestinian trade unions.
After successful motions at four provincial labour federations, they're gearing up for the Canadian Labour Congress convention in May.
pressprogress.ca/labour-for-p...
My Iran report: I break down footage from the second week of the war; missile & drones vs Israel, US bases; billions in air defence radars destroyed; Hezbollah ops vs IDF; Iraqi resistance vs US bases; lots more. youtube.com/watch?v=Fd7Zg63rsNU
33 year old Leqaa Kordia has FINALLY been released after one year in ICE custody. (📷: @gazamom)
Leqaa came to the US ten years ago on a student visa. She was detained for her participation in a Palestine protest, held 1,500 miles away from home, and kept in harrowing conditions.
![The concept of algorithmic bias also entered the mainstream—alongside the popularization of AI products—as investigations of actual deployed algorithms garnered public attention. In 2016, a team of investigative journalists from ProPublica unveiled how an algorithm that was widely used across the United States for recidivism was biased against racial minorities (). Work by Safiya Umoja made breakthroughs establishing that search engines, far from being a neutral tool, often reproduce systemic racism, sexism, and economic inequity. Ruha further argued that algorithmic bias towards racial minorities is not an accident and a byproduct of design but often an inbuilt feature masked by the language of progress, efficiency, or innovation. Empirical investigations of real-world deployed systems had significant impact in the term “bias” becoming a well-known phenomenon, particularly outside academic research. evaluated three commercial facial recognition technology (FRT) products, demonstrating disparate performance based on gender and skin tone. In popular media, scandals such as the Google Photo App that labeled Black people as “gorillas” (), Amazon’s recruitment algorithmic that penalized women (), and the wrongful arrest of Robert Williams, a Black man misclassified by FRT (), all contributed towards the popularization of bias in public understanding. As AI systems increase in scale, sophistication, and modality—especially with the emergence of generative AI—the ways and nuances in which they encode bias are still underexplored [see Large Language Models].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26hkfmtr7jrchexamh7hk6rz/bafkreihdlv4eidaztrsgb3v6g22abfiaouvhypevuqbekzjknz7ve5lv3u)
The concept of algorithmic bias also entered the mainstream—alongside the popularization of AI products—as investigations of actual deployed algorithms garnered public attention. In 2016, a team of investigative journalists from ProPublica unveiled how an algorithm that was widely used across the United States for recidivism was biased against racial minorities (). Work by Safiya Umoja made breakthroughs establishing that search engines, far from being a neutral tool, often reproduce systemic racism, sexism, and economic inequity. Ruha further argued that algorithmic bias towards racial minorities is not an accident and a byproduct of design but often an inbuilt feature masked by the language of progress, efficiency, or innovation. Empirical investigations of real-world deployed systems had significant impact in the term “bias” becoming a well-known phenomenon, particularly outside academic research. evaluated three commercial facial recognition technology (FRT) products, demonstrating disparate performance based on gender and skin tone. In popular media, scandals such as the Google Photo App that labeled Black people as “gorillas” (), Amazon’s recruitment algorithmic that penalized women (), and the wrongful arrest of Robert Williams, a Black man misclassified by FRT (), all contributed towards the popularization of bias in public understanding. As AI systems increase in scale, sophistication, and modality—especially with the emergence of generative AI—the ways and nuances in which they encode bias are still underexplored [see Large Language Models].
Black women scholars, alongside key real-world incidents, played a crucial role in bringing the concept of algorithmic bias into the mainstream
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Yes to this! Solidarity!
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