“platform-extractivism”:-inside-venezuela’s-hidden-workforce-training-ai-algorithms-for-pennies

Julián Posada’s upcoming book, titled Platform Extractivism: Data Work and the People Powering Artificial Intelligence, is based on extensive fieldwork among data workers in Venezuela. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid a hyperinflation crisis, entire communities in Venezuela depended on data work, says Posada, a professor at YaleContinue Reading

voting-rights-groups-move-to-block-newly-finalized-mail-ballot-rule

Voting rights organizations today supplemented the complaint in their lawsuit challenging Traitor 47’s executive order restricting mail voting to add claims against the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) newly-finalized mail ballot rule. The groups simultaneously asked a federal court to immediately block USPS from implementing that rule for the November midtermContinue Reading

a-brief-look-at-the-wisconsin-gubernatorial-primary

The seven-candidate Democratic field is second largest in state history and includes four of the 12 major party candidacies for the office by women Wisconsin’s Democratic primary to vie for the seat of retiring Governor Tony Evers has entertained political observers with enough twists and turns worthy of a soapContinue Reading

the-worst-of-the-worst

Well damn, we sure feel safer knowing ICE pulled 5-year-old Liam Tadeo and his construction worker dad Victor off Austin’s streets on their way to a soccer game before Liam could start kindergarten the next day; also that they were held at a family concentration camp, ICE refused to letContinue Reading