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Vous connaissiez Virginia Eubanks @PopTechWorks pour son enquête sur les technologies de l'État social américain. On en discute sur @AOC_media, avec l’actualité américaine et un témoignage sur son expérience de proche aidante et sur comment le soin pourrait être réinventé.
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I’m so excited about OUR RIGHT TO CARE conference in April—at @pennlaw & Crossroads Women’s Center. Honored to co-organize and co-keynote with so many amazing activists, scholars & caregivers.
OUR RIGHT TO CARE conference brings together academics, unpaid & paid caregivers and those who depend on care, to elevate caregiving and establish our right to the care we choose when we need it. ▶️For more info & to register: ourrighttocare.net
ALT International Conference April 10 & 11, 2025: Our Right to Care, family caregivers and people who depend on their care vs the care industry. Keynote Speakers Selma James and Prof. Dorothy Roberts. Special Guest US Representative Gwen Moore (D-WI). University of Pennsylvania & Crossroads Women’s Center, Philadelphia PA. www.ourrighttocare.net
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As Meta announces the end to professional fact-checking, please -please- accept finally that social media is not a viable way to get factual information. It was a noble experiment. It failed. Traditional journalism, while imperfect, is the way. Please pay a little bit and use it.
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📢 CALL FOR PITCHES!📢
@econhardship gives grants to indy journalists for essays, features, photography & other reported stories about economic inequality in America.
💵:
Reported personal essays $750-$1,500
News stories $800-$1,500
Features $1-$1.25/word
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Los Angeles! Join me tomorrow, 5/30/24, for an event on AI and inequality, featuring the spectacular minds of @kingavriel @PopTechWorks @CharlesSenteio eventbrite.com/e/ai-and-ineq…
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Join us on June 6 in SF for a behind-the-scenes look at our in-progress oral history collection, Global Stories from the Automated Welfare State.
Project co-editor @PopTechWorks and author Dave Eggers will discuss this growing human rights crisis.
RSVP: bit.ly/AWS-event
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THRILLED to share @EPICprivacy’s new report on AI procurement! 50 states. 621 contracts. Over $700 million. Across the country, EPIC found agencies outsourcing govt decisions to private companies & their AI systems, all without public input or oversight.
epic.org/outsourced
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A year ago, we found a white paper from Spain’s welfare authorities boasting of the agency’s use of “big data to fight fraud.” Today @lhreports @elconfidencial reveal the secretive algorithmic 'doctor' that searches for people shirking work and surveils the health of millions
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The search for your next audiobook is over! For a limited time, save 75% on the "Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor" audiobook by @PopTechWorks. audiobooks.com/promotions/pr…
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MacDowell and the Santa Fe–based Institute of American Indian Arts have launched a new fellowship program intended to make prestigious artists’ residencies accessible to Indigenous talent. pwne.ws/3wpILhm
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Listen to the full podcast or join us for Virginia Eubanks' free, on-campus talk “Automating Care: Technology, Caregiving, and the Labors of Love,” on Feb. 1 at Newman University!
Full podcast and event details: bit.ly/3Zy3ZqB
@PopTechWorks #VirginiaEubanks #NewmanU
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NEW INVESTIGATION finds that low income neighbourhoods throughout the Netherlands have been singled out and run through secretive algorithms to detect welfare fraud. Netherlands hasn't shaken its addiction to "digital dystopia" experiments lighthousereports.nl/investi…
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Experts confirmed our suspicions: the government had silently continued to deploy a slightly adapted version of the SyRI working method. Indicators that can land you as flagged include becoming a single mother while on welfare and having a partner that lives abroad.
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We have a virtual event this Thursday at 7 p.m. about Alice Wong's book, "Year of the Tiger." Tickets are only $9.95. She writes about her fight for disability justice. Author Stephanie Foo (@imontheradio) will discuss Alice's book on her behalf.
nationalwritersseries.org/pr…
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In April, we hosted a full-day online conference, "Drug War Dragnet: Surveillance, Criminalization & Freedom from Drug War Targeting"
You can watch the Keynote Panel here with @DorothyERoberts and @PopTechWorks youtu.be/c-RgwgvjVWQ
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Join us Wednesday at 12:30pm for Virginia Eubanks’ presentation, “Why Not Ask? Oral Histories and the Digital Welfare State.” Register to receive the Zoom link. @PopTechWorks albany.edu/rockefeller/news/…
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My instrument isn't portable to the picket line, but I enjoyed representing @UAW5810 by playing Solidarity Forever on the Berkeley carillon tonight. #FairUCNow
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NEW REPORT: @EPICprivacy & Virginia Eubanks today released a new report cataloguing the automated scoring and screening tools used across D.C agencies! Check it out!⬇️⬇️⬇️ #AI
Read it at: epic.org/screened-scored-in-…
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Do you want to get to the more risqué side of FOIA + public records? You’re right where you need to be.
We’ve already talked about making a good request (10/3/22 thread). Once you do that, how do you manage and use the info the government gives you?
🧵 on best practices 1/
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You can now officially apply for student loan relief: studentaid.gov/debt-relief/a…
It is a beta launch of the application. You may have to refresh the page. Keep trying.
Take a screenshot of the confirmation at the end.
Then join the fight so for full cancellation & free college.