We all suspected this but it’s incredible to see a systematic study on the automation of caste bias in GPT-5. The harm is immense, especially when we consider India is already OpenAI’s second largest market. Screenshots of findings that will haunt me below www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/01/1...

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

A failure to understand climate science is not the problem here. The American regime opposes effective action on climate because renewable energy threatens to negate their ability to exert global dominance. They will burn the world to the ground before voluntarily surrendering that power.

To remind folks, 300,000 Black women were pushed out of the LABOR FORCE in three months. What HAPPENS TO US first is coming for everyone else next. Stop IGNORING THE SIGNS. #TheDoubleTax

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Submitted, and would like to use this opportunity to actually talk why I believe bluesky has geoblocked Palestine. I noticed the issue when creating a bluesky account for a sibling, it was instantly suspended upon creation for spam. This was strange, because we hadn't sent a single post.

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations" cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

🚨NEW: Local jails & police departments are playing a key role in Trump’s mass arrest & deportation agenda The actual scope of this collaboration – and the true scale of immigrant arrests and detentions – has not been publicly available, until now 🧵

At the Israeli prison, US human rights defender Chris Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals. They choked him and kicked him in the legs. We condemn this violence against Chris and demand accountability for the assault and discriminatory treatment he faced. #BreakTheSiege

So. I've been on field manual labor crews where most of my coworkers were convicts. I've also worked with a lot of tech companies on automating farms. And this press conference is incredible. Rollins hasn't the foggiest clue what she's on about.

THREAD: The assassinations in Minnesota highlight a dirty secret hardly ever mentioned in the news: U.S. has 1.1 million private police officers. There is an unprecedented footprint of privately organized violence that is doing all sorts of things most people have no idea about.

We have lost all contact with our UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, communications have been cut off. This morning, for the first time in months, we did not receive their morning messages to say, "good morning" and "we are fine/alive". We anxiously await to hear from our colleagues.

A mere nick in the Bible Belt, Ozark County doesn’t even have a stoplight. What it does have is a 24-bed jail with a cattle trough baptismal pool. It also has an ambitious sheriff who sees his prayers answered in a new contract with ICE. Here’s why.

In the wake of the April 22 massacre in Kashmir, far-right groups called for the region to be “flattened like Gaza,” Indian citizens faced deportation to Pakistan, and Kashmiri students in Punjab had their classes canceled “for their own safety.”

Adriana Smith was a young mom and Emory Hospital nurse who tragically lost her life in February while nine weeks pregnant. Georgia’s abortion ban is forcing Adriana’s family — against their wishes — to keep her body on a ventilator for 7 months to incubate the fetus. The cruelty is unfathomable.

I haven't seen the same outpouring of support for Rodney Hinton, Jr. that we saw for Luigi Mangione. GoFundMe took down the fundraiser for Hinton, who is accused of killing an officer shortly after he watched bodycam footage of police killing his 18-year-old son.

A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...

A short thread of some of my favourite n+1 pieces in the hope you’ll read one, fall in love, and consider subscribing in their time of need: (1) Andrea Long Chu’s “On Liking Women”, obviously: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-30/ess...

Made in the aftermath of the shattering of the Pan-Arab dream, Heiny Srour’s early films remained committed to revolution—in theory and in praxis.

LA jails just posted their 19th death for this year:

Here's a short essay about what it means to be caring and careful amid the turn to fascism in the United States:

I think about this image a lot. This is an image from the Aurat March (Women's March) in Karachi, Pakistan, on International Women's Day 2018. The women in the picture are Pakistani trans women, aka khwaja siras or hijras; one is a friend of a close friend of mine.

"The first time I met Dave, in 1992, I didn’t trust him at all. He was a pretty eccentric guy—big hat, long coat with buttons all over it—but the reason I was suspicious was that he was giving out syringes."

I wrote about Indonesia's palm oil for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, an opportunity provided by my involvement with @hpe-project.bsky.social. I am thankful for the editors Maya and Sanoja, who patiently helped me strengthen my piece. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/gre...

Who remembers the armenians? "I remember them And I ride the nightmare bus with them Each night And my coffee, this morning I'm drinking it with them You, murderer- Who remembers you?"

ICYMI: I wrote about how employers shaped immigration enforcement, and why, for Project 2025 conservatives, the undocumented worker is the model for a future in which all workers are expendable. via @phenomenalworld.bsky.social

I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.

Figured I'd make a little thread with things people may not know about the cruelty of U.S. jails and prisons. 1. In California, guards force detainees into "gladiator fights" for their own amusement. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

COMMENTARY: In January, I received a text that terrified me to my core and opened my eyes to an inhumane, broken system: “ICE just came and got Mohammed," writes Staci Tighe.

In the last two years, I (a 27-year-old) have spent at least $3000 to keep my parents electricity on. I’ve paid a reconnection at least four times. It’s a huge drain for me as I work at a restaurant, but I can’t let my parents be without power.

Who could’ve ever foresaw except all the people who did and got arrested for doing so

A nearly 2,700-mile Keystone oil pipeline was shut down Tuesday morning after it ruptured in North Dakota, halting the flow of millions of gallons of crude oil.

I really don’t think the “innocence” distinction is going to do anything good for us, especially as federal prosecutors become increasingly politicized.

Only a few people really get the opportunity to speak truth directly to the faces of people in power and almost none of them take the opportunity. these people are heroes in my book.

No biggie, just an ancient equivalent of a clay photograph that shows a man walking his dog 3,800 years ago in the city of Borsippa 🥹

Under HB 2894, if you give a ride to an undocumented person, you are committing human smuggling. The bill also excludes undocumented victims of actual human trafficking from receiving restitution. Tell the Senate Judiciary to vote NO.

Remember when Rafah was the US government's red line? (That was a long time ago.) Anyway, it's gone now. It is so insane that US policy carries on supporting this, and that mainstream US institutions pretend this is normal. x.com/DropSiteNews...

ALERT: SB 299 is back on the agenda. It removes exemptions to the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for trans kids, meaning that even if a kid is at risk for suicide, this lifesaving care is still banned. The bill is on the House Health agenda today at 3:30. Demand the committee vote NO.

COMMENTARY: Lawmakers have been moving legislation that would make the problem of hefty jail bills worse, funnel millions more dollars into the failed war on drugs, while providing no additional funding for prevention and treatment programs proven to work, writes Lida Shepherd.

I think there’s a fantasy being sold to folks about the prospects of making a comfortable living while doing things you normally only do under weekend & freetime conditions, ie “working with your hands,” & it is freighted with the same issues of being a rockstar & basketball player etc. >

Also I hope we're all on this same page EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole they were ALL wrongfully deported. I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan' but NO ONE should've been sent there

SB 196: ❌ Adds 21 new penalties for drug possession ❌ Worsens jail overcrowding ❌ Invests nothing in prevention ❌ Drains funds while not making us safer ❌ Triples minimum sentences for drugs that DON'T include fentanyl ❌ Is running in House Judiciary tomorrow. Tell your delegate to vote NO.

Making the above-ground market for scientists disappear is QUITE an interesting strategy if you want to starve the underground chemical market

good for booker, good for crawford, but really, this should be the top news story and nothing else is close www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Reminder

The phrase "in this country" is doing a lot of work here. The groundwork for this was laid by US acceptance of rendition, blacksites, Gitmo, drone killings, deadly sanctions, arming a genocide and more. Naive to think that fascistic foreign policy wouldn't find its way home. Free Rumeysa Ozturk.