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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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Color PDF of August 2023 Change Links

By |2023-09-03T00:24:18-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Arts, Black liberation, Calendar, Climate Change, Economy, Editorial cartoon, Events, In Memoriam, Independent Journalism, Labor, Low income|0 Comments
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Red Horizons

by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/red-horizons/ The images were startling: New York City, summer 2023. Its horizon lit by a ruby-red sky, as sun light tries to shine through smoke and ash from Canada’s roaring fire season.   First came the shock that Canada had a “fire season.” I thought it had only four seasons. Second was learning that Canada had over four hundred fires, raging on its eastern forest shores.   Then the [...]

By |2023-07-08T17:09:52-05:00July 8th, 2023|Anti-capitalism, Climate Change, Commentary, Ecology, Economy, Environment, Environmentalism, Health, Mumia Abu-Jamal, News, Sustainability, Wall Street|0 Comments
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The End of Homeownership in Canada

For generations, middle-class Canadians have been sold on the promise of homeownership.  The promise was always flawed. Today it’s simply broken.                     https://macleans.ca/longforms/the-end-of-homeownership/      By Michelle Cyca [Excerpt - full article at link above] I was born in Vancouver in 1987, and I’ve lived here nearly all my life. Anyone of my generation who grew up in this city spent their youth hearing constantly about the twin dangers that imperiled our future: a [...]

By |2023-07-08T16:43:05-05:00July 8th, 2023|Banks, Canada, Capitalism, Economy, Homelessness, Housing|0 Comments
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PDF of June 2023 print edition of Change Links

By |2023-06-02T18:38:54-05:00June 2nd, 2023|Activism, Ads, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Brazil, Calendar, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Climate Change, Cuba, Ecology, Economy, Elections, Film & Documentaries, Films, Homelessness, Independent Journalism, Labor, Latin America, LGBTQ+, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Mexico, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, Peace Vigils, Poetry Corner, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Reviews, Russia, Socialism, Unity, Venezuela, Voting, War|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: The Equation

The Equation by Cosmo the Poet   FREEDOM = Department 3C + Yard 4B – MONEY:   Do you know what it is like to be caged like an animal? In a box that is unfit to be healthy for human growth? For deep inside the bowels of cellblock 4B are men and women Who breathe like me, hurt like me, Cry like me, and are yearning to be free – like [...]

By |2023-06-02T18:27:44-05:00June 2nd, 2023|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Cosmo the Poet, Disability issues, Economy, Health, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Low income, Movements, Poetry Corner, Prisons|0 Comments
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May 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 or writings 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 encouraged to donate $5 (per event), payable to AFGJ, [...]

By |2023-05-01T10:46:00-05:00April 29th, 2023|Activism, Arts, Calendar, Climate Change, COVID-19, Ecology, Economy, Education, Events, Features, Feminism, Films, Free Speech, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Non-violence, Peace, Peace Vigils, People|0 Comments
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The Sound of the New War Drum Goes Tik Tok

By Wei Yu, Nuvpreet Kalra and Melissa Garriga Last [month], a Congressional hearing took place where the TikTok CEO was grilled for five hours on the grounds of “security concerns.” This was days after the FBI and DOJ launched an investigation on the Chinese-owned American company. Isn’t it ironic that while the US government is putting TikTok under the magnifying glass, it’s turning a blind eye to its own surveillance programs on [...]

By |2023-04-29T01:29:08-05:00April 29th, 2023|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Asian-American, Capitalism, China, China, Economy, Internet, National Security, News, Peace, Peace and War, Psy-Ops, Security and Insecurity, Surveillance|0 Comments
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Inflation is Worse than They Say

The Real Cost of Inflation Corporate media and government statistics claim inflation is now running between 4 and 7% per year, and has cooled down.  But read the fine print, and you will see this is so-called "core inflation" leab=ving out supposedly "volatile" prices for gas and food, which are of course necessities for most people in this capitalist economy. And inflation there is much higher, as a trip to grocery or [...]

By |2023-04-29T01:27:57-05:00April 29th, 2023|Anti-capitalism, Banks, Capitalism, Economy, Labor|0 Comments
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Who’s winning and losing the economic war over Ukraine?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Photo: Half a million tons of methane rise from the sabotaged Nord Stream pipeline. Photo credit: Swedish Coast Guard With the Ukraine war now reaching its one-year mark on February 24, the Russians have not achieved a military victory but neither has the West achieved its goals on the economic front. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and its European allies vowed to [...]

By |2023-03-02T01:32:57-05:00March 2nd, 2023|Activism, Capitalism, China, Climate Change, Ecology, Economy, Europe, Medea Benjamin, Movements, National Security, News, Nicolas Davies, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Russia, Security and Insecurity, Solidarity, Ukraine, United States, War|0 Comments
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USC grad student workers win unionization vote

We are an organization by, of, and for Graduate Student Workers (GSWs) who want to unionize in order to improve our teaching, research, and employment experience at USC. Our work as Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, and Assistant Lecturers not only benefits the university and the California economy, but also has positive impacts worldwide. We work in many different fields and have varied experiences, but our dedication to teaching and research unites us [...]

By |2023-03-02T01:30:03-05:00March 2nd, 2023|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, California, California, Disability issues, Economy, Economy, Education, Elections, Housing, Labor, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Politics, Solidarity, Voting, Women|0 Comments
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