adiod.bsky.social
Research fellow @DAIR |
Co-lead: https://data-workers.org/ Exploring digital labour, platform power, & AI ethics from a global majority lense.
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⬆️ Speakers include Michael Connor of Open MIC, Nadira Narine of @iccr.bsky.social, Brandon Rees of @aflcio.org, @adiod.bsky.social of @dairinstitute.bsky.social & Rosa Curling of Foxglove.
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This event is kindly supported by
@ainowinstitute.bsky.social @dairinstitute.bsky.social @turkopticon.bsky.social and the Data Workers' Inquiry team: @krystalkauffman.bsky.social, @adiod.bsky.social, @timnitgebru.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social
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No more lemonade for you... until your ChatGBD can make you some
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My only problem with this statement is your insulting lemons
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Why is safety and risks in quotes? Is he alleging that we are crying wolf or what?
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I would also love to be added to the list
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As my people say, "tsitsi dzei tsvimborume kubvisa mwana we mvana madziwa?"—what sort of kindness is it in a bachelor to wipe the nose of a young single woman’s child? Thanks for coming to my TED talk! Stay woke, folks! End /15.
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Here’s a tip: if the rich and powerful are vehemently against something, chances are you need to pay attention and support it. There are no morals in capitalism—the rich and powerful are not your heroes. Neither are they your friends, well of course unless you're rich too 14/
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I'm awake to labour exploitation, environmental collapse, and all the other ways the world is rigged. And you should be too. Being woke isn’t the problem. Your apathy and intellectual laziness is! 13/
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Lead Belly said it best: “Stay woke.” It was a call to action then, and it’s a call to action now. Stop letting propagandists twist it into something meaningless. Stay woke because the alternative is sleeping through injustice. Yes, I’m woke. I’m awake to systemic racism...12/
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Now listen folks: mocking woke serves the oppressors. The far-right wants you to think caring about inequality is a bad thing. They want you asleep while they strip away rights, exploit labour, vilify immigrants, and protect the powerful (whome you're not part of). Wake up 11/
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Being woke isn’t some grand conspiracy to take away your rights. It means staying informed, critical, and aware of the systems of oppression that touch every corner of our lives. If that offends you, maybe the problem isn’t wokeness—it’s you. 10/
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And that’s where most of you come in, regurgitating far-right talking points about wokeism like it’s gospel. You’ve turned a word rooted in Black resistance into a playground insult. "Woke mind virus" Do you even know what you’re rejecting? 9/
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Fast forward to the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement, where woke became shorthand for vigilance in the fight for equality. It wasn’t a joke then, and it’s not a joke now. But the far-right figured out they could discredit it by mocking it.( Shakes head and rolls eyes).. 8/
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That’s right, folks. Technically, the first “woke” people were abolitionist Republicans who believed in progress, justice, and equity. Imagine explaining that to today’s “anti-woke” crowd. The cognitive dissonance might short-circuit their brains. 7/
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And fun fact: in 1837, there was a riot in Washington DC called the “Know Nothings” riot. It was an anti-immigration protest, full of xenophobia and bigotry. The irony? Those calling people “woke” today are channelling that energy. History really does rhyme. (Photo cred: me😎) 6/
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But here’s something even further back in history at a pivotal moment too: in 1860, a group of young people organized against slavery and in support of workers’ rights in the US. And you know what they were called?
The Wide Awakes.
And surprise, surprise—they were REPUBLICAN 5/
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“Stay woke” was a warning—a way of saying, "Keep your eyes open to the racist systems designed to crush you." This wasn’t a fad; it was a necessity. And somehow, 80+ years later, we have people using it as an insult while ignoring its original purpose or maybe ignorant of it🤔 4/
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In fact, the first recorded use of stay woke came from Folk and Blues legend Lead Belly in 1938. Yes, 1938! In his song Scottsboro Boys—about nine Black teens falsely accused of raping two white women—he urged his audience to “stay woke.” and if we even go back further... 3/
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First things first: woke isn’t some TikTok trend or something invented by millennials. Its roots go deep into African American culture, specifically as a call to wake up to systemic injustices. A survival tactic, not some hashtag aesthetic or "far left mind virus" 2/
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Stay woke folks!
Yes, I’m woke. And so should you be. Woke isn’t a buzzword—it has history, meaning, and roots. But most of you dismissing it have no clue what it means. You’re parroting far-right nonsense without an ounce of critical thought. Welcome to my TED talk folks. 1/
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Just joined...so no clue