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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

5 months

when i would visit indigenous medicine people in ethiopia, the majority of their patients were suicidal women haunted by ptsd after returning from being a domestic worker in the Middle East

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@UpFromTheCracks

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The murder of Ma’Khia Bryant hit me particularly hard because abolitionist spaces have generally not centered the family regulation system in their analysis. To the degree it’s mentioned, I see stats on outcomes or language of “kinder gentler policing”

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I really don’t think the abandonment by the state can be resolved by privatized peer to peer cash apps where whoever writes the best trauma narrative and has the most social media influence wins

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

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The family regulation system or child welfare as its most commonly known, is not “kinder or gentler”, it’s a horrific form of integenerational policing that exists on a vast continuum from removal, detention, child care, surveillance, etc

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this is why afropessimism has currency and regardless of whether you agree with all of its tenets, it poses key questions about blackness in coalition, as perpetual analogy, as appropriated even when we’re not actually present

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@BFriedmanDC

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History doing its thing. Oxford, Mississippi, 2024. Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957.

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@UpFromTheCracks

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our people are regularly held out windows by their feet, made into concubines for the children of their employers, beaten, impregnated and otherwise treated as disposable. returning psychically decimated to communities expecting them to instead return w/ a financial windfall

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@UpFromTheCracks

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1) AI is not taking anyone’s jobs. OpenAI a Microsoft subsidiary stole millions of writers work w/o their consent, fed it into proprietary algorithms to deliberately undercut writers capacity to earn a living wage while concealing plagiarism as innovation

ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners.

Meet the people who have already lost their jobs to AI.

www.washingtonpost.com

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

2 years

💀 lot of words to subtweet Zoé reading you for filth

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

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sudan, south sudan, ethiopia and the drc have been subject to the largest commercial land transfers on the continent. you want to understand settler colonialism? the wars in each of these places? start there.

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

“Fired for Speaking Out Against Anti-Blackness and Ethnic Cleansing: Open Letter to Cornell Tech” I’ve written about my firing, why it has long reaching political implications and I’m thankful to the community who has already supported my demands

Fired for Speaking Out Against Anti-Blackness and Ethnic Cleansing: Open Letter to Cornell Tech

Image Source: Inside Higher Ed

link.medium.com

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@UpFromTheCracks

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the scale of human tragedy sometimes seeps thru coverage about us being sent back home from saudi prisons, refugees of libya videos depicting the spectacularly tortured and held for ransom, but it’s often narrated as timeless rights violations sans historical/political context

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@UpFromTheCracks

2 years

relegating black queer and trans existence to “grad school terms” and “inane rage tweets” sounds a lot like Chappelle complaining about “the alphabet people”, “BLM’s gay agenda”, or broader leftist histories saying gender identity is bourgeois liberal decadence

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

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imagine how deeply we have been taught to hate ourselves in order to pay a smuggler to take us somewhere that this kind of fate might await us. Imagine how constitutive antiblackness is from point A to point B for this fate to be as regular as death and taxes

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

I’m not denying that sometimes kids are unsafe in their home, that sometimes parents can’t parent but 9/10 people don’t understand that child welfare is a system that produces death, jail and sexual assault.

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@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

I think people who are not directly impacted by the system conceive of the problem as microagressing White social workers, but most are not MSWs they are “caseworkers” because brick and mortar poorhouses at the turn of the 20th century were predicated on “worthiness” of aid

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@UpFromTheCracks

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it’s bigger than kafala which as many scholars points out is the condition for all foreign employment incl a professional class not subjected to the same violences. it’s about the domestic sphere’s constitutional reliance on unfree horn labor

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@UpFromTheCracks

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It’s also from the other end, a testament to how we are collectively taught, especially in the countryside, that we are backwards, shamefully living in dirt houses that must be abandoned. Many embark on the journey having heard stories of what might await them.

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

Child Protective Services/The Family Regulation System has never been about safety, it’s about incapacitating parents and terrorizing the most vulnerable children.

Erin Reed

@ErinInTheMorn

3 years

Greg Abbot has officially directed Family and Protective Services to begin investigating all trans children in Texas and prosecuting their parents as child abusers. He has also instructed all teachers, doctors, and caregivers to begin reporting any trans students they see.

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@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

i do care about the Ukraine but I don’t know enough to add anything to the conversation so I am fulfilling my duty to be quiet, read and listen to those who do.

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@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

Our “social safety net” was always punitive but as @DorothyERoberts writes, the family regulation system became most punitive when Black women fought for inclusion into AFDC (aid for dependent families and children)

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

So it’s fascinating that @google hired Marian Croaks to replace @timnitGebru on the AI Ethics team stating she’s a Black history icon with so many patents but no one talks about what exactly she was patenting beyond VOIP

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

They strip search every kid in the house when there’s a child welfare investigation. There is nothing kind or gentle about the family regulation system. Plantation metaphors don’t do it justice cuz it’s like the auction block was never dismantled just professionalized

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@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

So caseworkers were detectives investigating the family’s case, like were they truly worthy of government assistance based on destitution. Majority European immigrants had to give up their rights to citizenship and “whiteness” to enter these poorhouses

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

Scroll to Clinton abolishing “welfare as we know it” to stop the welfare queens (poverty racialized as Black), the Crime Bill heralds not just the beginning of mass incarceration but the height of family separations in the US

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@UpFromTheCracks

4 months

minouche shafik thanking the nypd for their professionalism after we all witnessed them brutalizing students in 4k is nasty work

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

2 years

Data is simply translating characteristics of any given phenomena into discrete, countable events. Data are not facts, they are just reflections of the data collector’s view of the world and the infrastructure available to them.

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

Kids in care end up dead all the time; in foster homes, group homes, residential, detention center, but who’s demanding an autopsy? Would we have known if it was an Adoptive parent or group home worker and not a cop that killed her?

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

The moment you come into contact with child welfare, you’re like 11:59 of the doomsday clock. If you don’t open the door, they’re calling the cops, if you get too loud they’re calling the cops, 5 min late, cops, cops, cops

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

5 months

There is no working within a university that is so deeply invested in siding with Israel as it seeks to annihilate Palestinian life and sics NYPD on students protesting for liberation. We are suspending Logic(s) until student demands are met. Join us. WALK OUT

Logic(s)

@logic_magazine

5 months

As a project administratively housed @Columbia , we are appalled at the university president’s decision to authorize the NYPD to violently disperse the Gaza Solidarity Encampment and are suspending all operations until the student’s demands are met.

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@UpFromTheCracks

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Aka give up their right to vote, put their kids on Children’s Aid Society orphan trains to the west, placed with *good Christian families* or into workhouses and residential centers where many literally were beaten into worthiness

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@UpFromTheCracks

4 years

The twitter ban on 45 is a victory in some sense for the immediate but a warning in the long term, not on the curtail of free speech but as gesture towards the expansive power commercial tech has on every aspect of our governance and our lives, I don’t quite have the words but-

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

In November ‘97, Clinton passes the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) where the state mandates termination of parental rights (TPR) for children who have been in foster care for 15 out of the last 22 months.

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@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

I felt @prisonculture when she said she ain’t got no anxiety about the Chauvin verdict cuz she divested from the system, but I also grieve for what passes with no public emotion b/c it doesn’t get recognized as a system

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

8 months

Dylan Roof murdered 9 people in this church and got McDonalds after. His FB page was decorated w/ Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa emblems, confederate flags and heil hitler but 9 years later, a “4 more years” chant drowns out protestors of Israeli apartheid and genocide

IfNotNow🔥✡️

@IfNotNowOrg

8 months

BREAKING: Activists in South Carolina just took over Biden's speech to call for a ceasefire. "20,000 dead Palestinians; their blood is on your hands." Biden was shaken. He's starting to understand the reality: his war on Gaza is horrifically unpopular, and people are fed up.

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@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

S/o to @movfamilypower who started the @RepealASFA campaign because almost a quarter century later, kids are having their parents rights terminated because billion dollar agencies are commodifying kids over reuniting them

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

10 months

Palestinians, unlike much of the Arab world tbh, have made a substantial effort to form solidarity with oppressed people globally, developed political education materials and teach-ins. This notion that non-Palestinians are “uninformed” is simply a tactic to silence

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

4 years

I support @timnitGebru and we are doomed if demands for corporate transparency are the horizon of tech worker resistance. Let the ethic washing bridges to nowhere burn, so we can birth meaningful, radical resistance against the social impacts of AI/ML

On the Moral Collapse of AI Ethics

I support Dr. Timnit Gebru. I’ve had the good fortune to become friends with Timnit over the last several weeks as we’ve spent hours…

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@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

🗣 Reminder to please listen to #adoptees #FFY and people currently in the foster care system (of which I’m not but am always down to amplify those who are)

khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

Also pleaseeeee listen to #adoptees , former foster youth ( #ffy ) and people currently in the foster care system. If you’re in these categories I’m always down to amplify. I just don’t want to subject you to unwanted following 😬 by tagging all the time

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@UpFromTheCracks

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This produces a generation of legal orphans as many of them either are left in foster care or if adopted under the age of 12, come back in on PINS (person in need of supervision/kiddy parole) petitions as teenagers

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

1 year

2) It’s disturbing how so many journalists continue to ascribe agency to non-sentient large language models while also denigrating blue collar work as dirty, repetitive and seemingly acceptable sites of antisocial automation *unlike* superior white collar jobs for white people

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

Some Cops Are Called Caseworkers #AbolishNYCACS at the Brooklyn Detention Center

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

2 years

i just learned about “content babies” meaning babies who are born just to create content for youtube, tik tok or whatever and…whew

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

1 year

GPT v whatever is just an elaborate public relations campaign that seems to be successful in that people continue to be debating sentience claims instead of focusing on the corporate capture of academia, centralization of compute power and the sectors active military applications

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

10 months

people simply don’t know as much about Congo, Sudan or Ethiopia so linkages to genocide in Gaza need to be coupled with education. Yes antiblackness but its also mediated by who gets to (survive) and emigrate to western academies and movements w/ the biggest mics

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

this highlights how child services only exists to police parents. ACS is nowhere to be found when schools are subzero temperatures, when police are killing our kids or when shelters are rat infested. they only get called on parents.

SOLAECLIPSE®️

@DrinkSolaPop

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nyc schools are a shtshow rn

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@UpFromTheCracks

4 years

Prescient warning by ⁦ @DorothyERoberts ⁩ about translating the defunding of police into increased investment of misnamed child welfare agencies that violently surveil and separate families. #AbolishACS

Abolishing Policing Also Means Abolishing Family Regulation

Dorothy Roberts argues that any attempt to substitute police with family service workers is a shift from one racist institution to another

imprintnews.org

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

Are we ever going to talk about the way Coded Bias both shows the dangers of facial recognition and promotes US State Department propaganda with a framing of we need to hurry up and civilize AI before we end up living in a Chinese dystopia? 👀

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

10 months

Gaza is the first genocide of this century receiving this level of international attention. I think we have to be mindful though of how the tactics we’re witnessing were implemented in Tigray since 2020 and have been ongoing through different methods in the DRC and Sudan

Julia Steinberger

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Listen up. Gaza is a blueprint for all of us this century. This is what the first real signal of this new century looks like, out in the open, clear for all to see. 1/

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

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Also, the NYC child welfare system is almost exclusively Black and Puerto Rican vs nationally where it’s disproportionally Black. The only parallel is North Dakota where foster care is almost exclusively indigenous

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@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

REMOTE PT Summer Research Position for Black Undergrad Students W/ @prisonculture Pay: $20/hour (~200 hours total) When: June-July *Looking for someone interested in Black History Email jjinjustice1 @gmail .com with a cover letter & resume

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@UpFromTheCracks

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antiblackness is not “US centric race politics,” it is the weather structuring the very heart of that clip of Motaz. it’s why even response to genocide is stratified by race

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

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so since June, i’ve been sick as a dog which has slowed down the hustle. I got hella kids, responsibilities and dreams that I refuse to give up on. I refuse to die just as I have arrived at the prime of my life. If you can, please contribute.

Khadijah’s Emergency Fund, organized by Galaan Hayle

Hi, my name is Galaan Hayle. I am fundraising on behalf of my partner J. Khadijah Abdurahman… Galaan Hayle needs your support for Khadijah’s Emergency Fund

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

1 year

periodic reminder that meritocracy is a lie, professional success = collective access determined by your social location. Didn’t get that fellowship? Did you know the person who created it? No? that’s why. everything is about networks or serendipity/proximity

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@UpFromTheCracks

2 months

code camps accomplished 2 things: proletarianizing programming jobs by producing a surplus of skilled labor and entrenching computation as a first principle across every mode of professional life. so not a scam as much as an epistemic takeover tied to gutting worker power

Dare Obasanjo🐀

@Carnage4Life

2 months

Really sad that “Learn to code” and the business models that sprang up around it were another tech bro scam.

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@UpFromTheCracks

3 months

There’s no way for engineers employed at tech corporations to ensure the seemingly innocuous component their team is working on isn’t part of a weapons system. There is a genocide in Gaza and most of you are building the weapons, these are the grounds, these are the stakes.

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

2 years

really excited to share @xrw and I will be relaunching @logic_magazine in January 2023 as Logic(s), the first black + asian queer tech magazine. grateful to the founders for passing the torch to us ❤️

Logic(s): The Next Chapter | Logic(s) Magazine

Announcing a new direction and leadership for the magazine.

logicmag.io

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

people: morally appealing to facebook me: they’re literally cia i’m not a nihilist just saying you can’t develop effective tactics if you don’t understand the situation you’re up against

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@UpFromTheCracks

1 year

also those of us who been organizing against family policing haven’t emphasized enough how the genocidal separation of black and indigenous families was a method of disciplining queer kinship and disallowing trans life

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@ztsamudzi

1 year

The state’s willingness to destroy families and traumatize trans kids in order to preserve the “sanctity” of the family and purge transness from existence is beyond horrifying. “I can’t believe this” has to stop; this is the logical conclusion of years of legislative antagonism.

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@UpFromTheCracks

2 years

the fact that we’re reliant on NYPD to give us updates on a shooting that was in no way stopped by the massive influx of police in subways yet will lead to more police everywhere in brooklyn is some bullshit

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@UpFromTheCracks

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does Palestine have to do with black people, ought we be present in uprisings against Israel’s genocide? Yes and are—including but not limited to the fact that some black people are palestinian. but all are struggles are linked ≠ all struggles are like being blac

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@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

I have been eagerly awaiting what @timnitGebru will do next, unspeakably excited to see Timnit’s vision for tech, ethics and knowledge production come to fruition ❤️💫 We need this.

Google’s Former AI Ethics Chief Has a Plan to Rethink Big Tech

Timnit Gebru says regulators need to provide whistleblowers working on artificial intelligence with fresh protections backed up by tough enforcement.

www.bloomberg.com

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@UpFromTheCracks

5 months

Ethiopia is a settler colony long predating the nakba. A good question to ask is “What is the historical relationship between the beta Israel and Abyssinian colonialism?” or at minimum, the Derg regime which traded them w/ Israel for cluster bombs

B.M. 🇵🇸🗝️ ↩️

@ireallyhateyou

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An IDF soldier taking a break from genocide to do a traditional Ethiopian in the ruins of a home in the Gaza Strip.

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@UpFromTheCracks

2 years

TW Graphic family police violence. I don’t normally share things like this but am doing so at the parent’s request. NYPD and ACS came to last year w/ no warrant to remove her grandson from her teenage daughter. Beat her up and then took her son, claiming they beat up the cops

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@UpFromTheCracks

2 years

the human trafficking investigation under obama revealed the majority of actual trafficking victims were current or former foster kids. The response, funneling more funding into family policing in tandem w/ criminalizing voluntary sex work.

Purple Rose

@PurpleRose0666

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Most anti-trafficking campaigns are copaganda designed funnel more funding and support for police and laws that monitor, regulate, and criminalize sex workers, immigrants, BIPOC, and queers.

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@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

7 weeks ago, my father wrote me an email stating my rejection of Ethiopian nationalism (allegiance to an empire that neither of us live in!) is creating a permanent rift.

khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

4 years

My father responded by breaking up with me over email 🙃

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@UpFromTheCracks

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i don’t think people “wanting their life back” is reactionary, we shouldn’t forget there was a time when we could commune, laugh, share air together and not get sick or die.

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@UpFromTheCracks

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? black people in Sudan are not a rhetorical device, they are the ones who raised the issue and also remain in solidarity w/ palestine. the problem is not Palestinians, it’s those who equate naming antiblackness, w/ retracting solidarity

SimplySimone

@simoneumba

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The way people are quickly turning their back on Palestinians because of what Motaz said shows y’all never cared about Palestine Like y’all were waiting for something to pop off so YOU can have a moment to be self righteous and say “I told y’all they hated us” which is just sick

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@UpFromTheCracks

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this to me is the core of the issue and the problem w/ 972s coverage. if you’re familiar with the corp marketing term AI you know there’s no accuracy to speak of, stats washing occupation and genocide is a sales pitch to other states who wish to buy genocide efficiency

keep your electric eye on me

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And of course, as if it get any worse, this is all part of a sales pitch too... #AI #war #genocide

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@UpFromTheCracks

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The fact that I got fired for initially posting a Kamala Harris sips tea GIF which evolved into a claim that my “incendiary social media posts about ethnic conflict in Ethiopia aka speaking against ethnic cleansing defies imagination

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@UpFromTheCracks

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Part 3 in @logic_magazine Sudan series, @KushiteDictator discusses coming of age during wartime from basic routines like how she charges her phone to a critical re-evaluation of the Sudanese Armed Forces and her identity as someone who grew up in Khartoum.

Coming of Age during Wartime in Sudan: A Conversation with Omnia Mustafa

“When we are engaging with African people, they tell us, ‘You’re too Arab for us.’ And when we engage with Arab people, they tell us, ‘You’re too A...

logicmag.io

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@UpFromTheCracks

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data/computer science, tech policy is bounded by rawlsian notions of distributive justice (at best), leaving us with vacuous concepts like hate speech and disinformation, nakedly insufficient with the backdrop of war.

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@UpFromTheCracks

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did cigarette corporations ever have ppl repackage their employees as an oppressed category like this?

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@dystopiabreaker

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“techbro” is just the reemergence of thinking it’s cool to hate nerds, mixed in with a bunch of resentment from watching the last 20 years of nerds taking over the world

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@UpFromTheCracks

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@strawburriez ok but where’s the national pharmacy association on refusing to comply with this kind of preemptive de-scribing

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@UpFromTheCracks

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i think the word adoption conjures an image of a family benevolently taking in an orphan rather than a legal process whereby a child loses access and is banned from the family relationships they were born into. It is disturbingly effective marketing.

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what’s narrated as “predominantly hispanic” is a heterogenous group of chicanxs, indigenous peoples from mexico and mestizos. Border patrol was a first responder, the teacher was married to SWAT, in 1970 Uvalde HS held one of the longest student walkouts for the Chicano Movement,

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@UpFromTheCracks

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Hamas has no connection to the rapid support forces/janjaweed but Israeli intelligence does. Also it’s gross to continuously appropriate videos of Masalit people’s suffering to try and undermine Black/Palestinian solidarity

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@UpFromTheCracks

2 months

University labor unions, students and parents should be mounting an immediate response to experimental ed tech

reclaim UC

@reclaimuc

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Morehouse to use AI teaching assistants this fall

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@UpFromTheCracks

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announcing: logic(s) enters the collective at incite institute, a new financial and governance structure to drive resources away from the university and forge an exit plan in one years time.

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

Marian Croaks is not just a testament to all your skin folk ain’t your kinfolk, from 1982-2014 she worked at a company infamous for eagerly partnering w/ law enforcement to the total disregard of public interest

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@UpFromTheCracks

9 months

devastating tech journalism evidencing the deliberate, intentional and genocidal targeting of everyday palestinians by israel. the vast majority of the critical tech space is silent while tech is being used to precision target Palestinian civil society.

darryl li

@dcli

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a very detailed and horrifying anatomization of algorithmic genocide in gaza

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@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

APPLICATIONS OPEN: The Otherwise School: Tools and Techniques of Counter-Fascism, a 6 week project based summer institute @hcdeUW w/ @WeBeImagining , examining tech + power in Tigray, Oromia, Kashmir and the Black US South Deadline to Submit: May 14, 2021

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

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logic(s) issue #19 supa dupa skies: move slow and heal things is dropping v soon✨ feat: Petero Kalulé • Maded Batera III • Meredith Whittaker • Shamira Ibrahim Ed Ongweso • Zainab Aliyu • Phillip Smith • Bones Jones • Serife Wong Dani Lalonders • Murali Shanmugavelan

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

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just want to acknowledge that this is an argument @thotscholar made in depth like 18 months ago, then was called a pick me and all types of names for it. Fund independent scholarship and give @thotscholar their flowers 💐

ProPublica

@propublica

2 years

Contrary to the popular understanding that child support is meant to go to kids, more than $1.7B in child support collected from fathers in 2020 was seized by federal and state governments as repayment for mothers & children having been on welfare.

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

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@bigblackjacobin they could have built affordable housing but they literally chose violence

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

Y’all know how it started, this is how it’s going

khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

“Fired for Speaking Out Against Anti-Blackness and Ethnic Cleansing: Open Letter to Cornell Tech” I’ve written about my firing, why it has long reaching political implications and I’m thankful to the community who has already supported my demands

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

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So grateful to have been in conversation with @essaysmythe about black freedom dreaming, racial regimes mediated by technology, ethiopia, gender, black study, migration, satellites, abolitionist organizing, 1492 and all the things❤️ @logic_magazine

Technologies of Black Freedoms: Calling On Black Studies Scholars, with SA Smythe

Refusing to see like a state.

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

i think middle class people are having a hard time understanding the pandemic response is not an education gap or a “lack” of political will. The state has chosen abandonment, it is actively investing in eugenics, not simply unwilling to spend money on evidence based solutions.

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@UpFromTheCracks

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I remember when everyone was talking about therapy language being weaponized. Unfortunately many more people are going to find out therapy *is* a weapon

@[email protected]

@Imani_Barbarin

6 months

If they’re calling ALL forms of protest a mental illness, it might be worth asking what society does to the mentally ill.

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@UpFromTheCracks

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the problem with critical tech is that despite its stated refutation of technosolutionism, it programmatically tends to start with some given tech instead of looking at the long duree of surveillance, repression and extraction it’s adopted into in that local context

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@UpFromTheCracks

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most overdoses are accidental, harm reduction means it’s better when people don’t use alone, that they use with someone who has naloxone, that they have access to suboxone when possible/desired. “addicts” aren’t the problem, stigmatizing use and gutting public health systems is

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

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This is why we need alternate infrastructure

Joe Tidy

@joetidy

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‘Microsoft killed my online life after I called Gaza.’ We spoke to 20 Palestinians living abroad who say Microsoft, which owns Skype, kicked them off the app and their email accounts after calling home. “My email was 15 years old, I’ve lost everything”

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@UpFromTheCracks

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Part 2 in this week’s @logic_magazine Sudan series , I spoke with @balagonline about her forthcoming book, The Interminable Catastrophe and how it can help us understand the ongoing war and genocide in Sudan. #KeepEyesOnSudan

On Sudan and the Interminable Catastrophe: A Conversation with Bedour Alagraa

“In terms of genres of the human, I think that Sudan has a lot to tell the world about our assumptions about Man, because it’s a country that doesn...

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

Fascinating because Hossein Eslambachi while not totally forthcoming with @theintercept did acknowledge he lead the project allowing the NSA to do warrantless wiretapping of American citizens through AT&T’s central hubs

The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities

Fortress-like AT&T buildings across the U.S. are central to an NSA program that has monitored billions of communications, documents reveal.

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

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Also, the NYC child welfare system is almost exclusively Black and Puerto Rican vs nationally where it’s disproportionally Black. The only parallel is North Dakota where foster care is almost exclusively indigenous

khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

The murder of Ma’Khia Bryant hit me particularly hard because abolitionist spaces have generally not centered the family regulation system in their analysis. To the degree it’s mentioned, I see stats on outcomes or language of “kinder gentler policing”

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

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in a world where much of political action is “raising awareness”, solidarity often is misconstrued as a question of being informed when in fact, the beautiful risk of solidarity is not knowing but being deeply curious and wanting to

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

3 years

what’s considered trashy if you are poor but classy if you are rich? 💰

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

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I’m so grateful that I transitioned from receipts custodian to eic b/c I will be publishing an in-depth investigation into the ecosystem that loves to villainize @timnitGebru for maintaining the ethics the rest of you either abandoned or never possessed

Gary Marcus

@GaryMarcus

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Appalled that @timnitgebru , AI ethics icon, can’t lay off a lovely 87-year-old man, one of the great scientists of our time, whose journalist son was kidnapped and publicly beheaded in an act of political violence. Her power has gone to her head; her humanity has vanished.

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@UpFromTheCracks

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In solidarity w/ @GWCUAW I will not be crossing the picket line for this Friday’s conference on the abolition of the child welfare/family regulation system. (It appears likely that it will be rescheduled as a whole with wide support from panelists for the Union)

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khadijah

@UpFromTheCracks

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Why are hundreds of police being sent into #Queensbridge projects tonight compounding the amount of stress people are experiencing during #COVID19 ?? @NYCMayor @NYGovCuomo @Gothamist

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