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A.I.’s Dirty Secret: It’s Powered by Digital Sweatshops

Millions of human workers in digital sweatshops power Artificial Intelligence by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA The current strikes by screen-writers and actors in the WGA and SAG-AFTRA have focused attention on the use of AI-- "Artificial Intelligence" using large language models by big corporations -- to try to automate creative jobs and other work, through the use of computers that can simulate voices, generate designs, and produce meaningful literary and analytical texts. [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:38:44-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Anti-capitalism, Artificial Intelligence, Asia, Big Business, China, Economy, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Philippines, Tech|0 Comments
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September 2023 Community Calendar

SEPTEMBER 2023 CHANGE LINKS COMMUNITY CALENDAR   See continuing and ongoing events at the end of the calendar.   Change Links cannot publish without your support. Send events, articles or poetry to changelinks2@gmail.com or via http://change-links.org/submit/  Please subscribe as well. Subscriptions to the print edition are $12/25/50 a year, low income, regular or sustainer (sliding scale), payable to “AFGJ,” our fiscal sponsor, with “Change Links” in the memo. All events announced are [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:37:23-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Activism, Ads, Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Calendar, Independent Journalism, Labor|0 Comments
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Advertisement: Grassroots Community Radio Coalition Endorsements @ KPFK

-advertisement- Grassroots Community Radio Coalition Endorsements for KPFK Listener and Staff Delegates 2023 LISTENER CANDIDATES IN PREFERENCE ORDER: Aryana Gladney (former LSB, African National Women’s org); Kelly Flores (CAB, UTLA, Assoc. of Raza Educators); Rachel Bruhnke (Harbor Peace Coal.); Jack Neff (environment activist, GCRC); Charlie Wilken (UTLA, network admin); Rizo Saverio (concerned listener, Brasilena); Ralph Hawkins (fmr LSB sec’y, college radio General Manager); Doug Barnett (KPFK operations volunteer, fmr LSB sec’y); Soni [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:36:46-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Elections, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Movements, Pacifica/KPFK, Politics, Public Radio, Solidarity, Voting|0 Comments
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Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Two-Tiered Justice System?

A two-tiered justice system? © by Mumia Abu-Jamal As soon as the latest charges against former U.S. President Donald Trump were announced, Trumpist acolytes began making claims about a two-tiered justice system ostensibly against Republicans. Such a claim can only be made by those who are blind, deaf, or dumb. They seemingly are blind to the many Black and Browns, who have peopled the phenomenon known as mass incarceration for at least [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:36:08-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Florida, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Independent Journalism, Justice/Injustice, Politics, Prisons|0 Comments
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Corruption Rules the Los Angeles Civic Scene

by NOlympicsLA Coalition To coincide with today's arraignment of LA Councilmember Curren Price (postponed until October) and the sentencing hearing of former County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas (3.5 years in prison to begin one week after his birthday), NOlympics LA is releasing our Olympic Corruption Dashboard — a dynamic tool for tracking the extensive cases of corruption and conflicts of interest tied to LA 2028 and other Olympic Games. See it here: https://nolympicsla.com/olympic-corruption-dashboard/ [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:35:28-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Activism, Beyond Capitalism, Commentary, Elections, Gentrification/Displacement, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, News, Politics|0 Comments
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Guatemalans Voted to End 69 years of corrupt rule – Will the US Accept it?

by Grahame Russell, © 2023 Truthout. [Excerpt] https://truthout.org/articles/guatemalans-voted-to-end-69-years-of-corrupt-rule-will-us-canada-accept-it/ On August 20, 2023, the Semilla Party’s Bernardo Arévalo and Karin Herrera were elected president and vice president of Guatemala. This election will bring a formal end to 69 years of anti-democratic, military-backed, corrupt, “open-for-global-business” governments [since a 1954-US-backed coup--Ed.], when the transition of power takes place on January 14, 2024. “The Supreme Electoral Tribunal has recognized the results and what the people have [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:34:50-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Elections, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Latin America, News|0 Comments
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Ecuador National Referendum Ends Oil Exploitation in the Amazon

Ecuador: National Referendum Ending Oil Exploitation in the Amazon is Victorious By Santiago Rosero on August 21, 2023 While most of the focus was on the general elections in Ecuador, a national referendum was held on oil exploitation in the Amazon. In addition, in a regional referendum the inhabitants of Quito voted on mining. In both cases, the vote to stop exploitation triumphed. The long struggle to save Yasuní Biosphere Reserve reached [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:34:14-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Climate Change, Elections, Energy, Environment, Environmentalism, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Latin America, Movements, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Medical Proof of Black Mold at Women’s Huron Valley Prison in Michigan

Medical Proof of Black Mold at WHV by Naykima Hill 08/15/23 https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/medical-proof-of-black-mold-at-whv/ My name is Naykima Hill, and I’m calling in regards to a few issues. But one I’m gonna deal with today is about my best friend Krystal Clark. When I called the radio station the first time, it was about our health and our maintain- the maintaining us here at Huron Valley Prison for women. I was telling you about [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:33:39-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Commentary, Disability issues, Feminism, Health, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Prisons|0 Comments
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Anti-Trans Bills Are Sweeping the US Despite, Not Because of, Public Opinion

The coordinated attack on trans rights in state legislatures across the US is built on a foundation of hateful paranoia and right-wing lies. But however unpopular anti-trans bills are, the human costs are real: thousands are migrating from anti-tran August 23, 2023 Interview with Erin Reed by Doug Henwood  for JACOBIN radio's "Behind the News" aired on KPFK's "Something's Happening" program that night.   Over the last year, some 540 anti-trans bills [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:33:02-05:00September 3rd, 2023|LGBTQ+, Movements|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: 80’s Sur Gaye, California

80's Sur Gaye, California © 2022 by Melisa Puga [Excerpt] I am from hot concrete and graffiti walls. A place where the taquerias, liquor stores and botanicas abound along with melanin and generational trauma. I am from The City of Azaleas. A place where electrical transmission towers line the way down Southern Ave to the LA River made of concrete. Not a lot of nature for a place that adopted a flower [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:32:20-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Anti-Racism/Racism, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Gentrification/Displacement, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Poetry Corner|0 Comments
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Six Tropes to Look Out for That Distort Israel/Palestine Coverage

Lara-Nour Walton [Excerpt] https://fair.org/home/six-tropes-to-look-out-for-that-distort-israel-palestine-coverage/ “This is quite something,” remarked Nadi Abusaada in a May 8 tweet. As many of us have done, the Palestinian academic found himself experimenting with the seemingly boundless powers of OpenAI’s ChatGPT software. But during this activity, he uncovered something disturbing. “I asked @OpenAI whether Palestinians deserve to be free,” he said. The natural-language processing tool responded to Abusaada’s query ambivalently: As an AI language model, I do [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:31:34-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Activism, Historical, Human Rights, Indigenous Nations, Israel and Palestine, News, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace and War|0 Comments
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