Allison De Marco
@allisoncdemarco.bsky.social
Social scientist building anti-racism research practices and community in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.
This and @arrianna-planey.bsky.social's entire thread on widespread failings of AI.
(21) We do not have so-called "GenAI" without exploited labor
“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”
October 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This and @arrianna-planey.bsky.social's entire thread on widespread failings of AI.
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Im so jealous right now lol. Doing activities like this also builds community. Its a really fun way to get people engaging and connecting with each other outside of protests and mass grievance. Collective joy goes a long way to sustaining a movement
August 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Im so jealous right now lol. Doing activities like this also builds community. Its a really fun way to get people engaging and connecting with each other outside of protests and mass grievance. Collective joy goes a long way to sustaining a movement
10/10 community building ❤️❤️❤️❤️
We made it to the end of the #zcavengerhunt! Waited for over an hour to meet @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
10/10 community-building, educational campaign event. We need more elected officials to organize our community in positive ways like this!
10/10 community-building, educational campaign event. We need more elected officials to organize our community in positive ways like this!
August 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
10/10 community building ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Road closure in #Carrboro on Main Street from Fleet Feet down past Crooks Corner due to structure fire. @chtransit.bsky.social is determining re-routing. Best to walk down Rosemary towards campus.
August 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Road closure in #Carrboro on Main Street from Fleet Feet down past Crooks Corner due to structure fire. @chtransit.bsky.social is determining re-routing. Best to walk down Rosemary towards campus.
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Do you have a free @GoTriangle GoPass through UNC? It’s time to renew! Do it here: apps.fo.unc.edu/move/gopass-...
July 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Do you have a free @GoTriangle GoPass through UNC? It’s time to renew! Do it here: apps.fo.unc.edu/move/gopass-...
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This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.
NEW: Unbelievable. A seemingly endless line of tanks & other military vehicles arrive in DC ahead of next week's parade.
They departed Texas 5 days ago.
What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel.
(🎥 DW)
They departed Texas 5 days ago.
What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel.
(🎥 DW)
June 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.
Tomorrow afternoon I'm moderating this event that is sure to be 🔥 even if you aren't a social worker! Join us: tinyurl.com/5dfekj8n
April 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Tomorrow afternoon I'm moderating this event that is sure to be 🔥 even if you aren't a social worker! Join us: tinyurl.com/5dfekj8n
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"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."
March 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."
Did a talk w/ @nyu Furman Center on equitable data sharing for our @rwjf.bsky.social project on structural racism & housing. A participant shared "I'm a social worker, and I LOVE that y'all considered those power dynamics and were so thoughtful in your approach. My social worker heart is GLOWING!" 🙏🏼
March 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Did a talk w/ @nyu Furman Center on equitable data sharing for our @rwjf.bsky.social project on structural racism & housing. A participant shared "I'm a social worker, and I LOVE that y'all considered those power dynamics and were so thoughtful in your approach. My social worker heart is GLOWING!" 🙏🏼
One of the best days each semester is when George and Yvonne come from the Marian Cheek Jackson Center to share their abundance-based community workshop with our CEF-advocate economic justice students. #buildcommunity #joyisresistance ✊🏼🫶🏼
March 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
One of the best days each semester is when George and Yvonne come from the Marian Cheek Jackson Center to share their abundance-based community workshop with our CEF-advocate economic justice students. #buildcommunity #joyisresistance ✊🏼🫶🏼
“We is the most important word in the justice language” Rev. William J. Barber speaking at the UNC School of Social Work ✊🏼
March 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“We is the most important word in the justice language” Rev. William J. Barber speaking at the UNC School of Social Work ✊🏼
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I’m sorry you’re having one of those days. I know the feeling.
Take a moment and think of a person you’d give anything to protect. That person, those people, are your point.
Today, take care of yourself for them. Love yourself so you can love them. One day, and then another day, and then—
Take a moment and think of a person you’d give anything to protect. That person, those people, are your point.
Today, take care of yourself for them. Love yourself so you can love them. One day, and then another day, and then—
@theferocity.bsky.social Saeed, may I trouble you for some pearls of wisdom? I am feeling a great amount of despair today. Very what’s the point. I’m so over being ruled by classist elites who are more interested in filling their coffers than do anything to help us.
March 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I’m sorry you’re having one of those days. I know the feeling.
Take a moment and think of a person you’d give anything to protect. That person, those people, are your point.
Today, take care of yourself for them. Love yourself so you can love them. One day, and then another day, and then—
Take a moment and think of a person you’d give anything to protect. That person, those people, are your point.
Today, take care of yourself for them. Love yourself so you can love them. One day, and then another day, and then—
Join the Housing Solutions Lab Mar. 20 for an episode of Data Talks. Donna, @patrickspauster.com, and I will discuss how to present data in accessible ways to encourage community involvement in housing policy, with a focus on underrepresented communities. localhousingsolutions.org/lab/notes/re....
Data Talks 7: Equitable Storytelling with Data – Free Webinar
Join the Housing Solutions Lab for Session 7 of Data Talks on March 20 at 12 p.m. Learn how to present local data in engaging ways.
localhousingsolutions.org
February 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Join the Housing Solutions Lab Mar. 20 for an episode of Data Talks. Donna, @patrickspauster.com, and I will discuss how to present data in accessible ways to encourage community involvement in housing policy, with a focus on underrepresented communities. localhousingsolutions.org/lab/notes/re....
Disappointed to see our new public restrooms in the @chapelhill.bsky.social parking deck locked up tight on a busy Friday night at 8 PM. Thought these were supposed to support our community. 🚽🥹
February 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Disappointed to see our new public restrooms in the @chapelhill.bsky.social parking deck locked up tight on a busy Friday night at 8 PM. Thought these were supposed to support our community. 🚽🥹
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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
February 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
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📢 Our 2nd Annual Policy Slam! Got an idea to create a more inclusive and equitable community? We want to hear about it! Follow the link in the QR code to submit your idea for a chance to be one of the competitors and win prize money! Entries due March 7th. 🙌🏼🎉
February 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
📢 Our 2nd Annual Policy Slam! Got an idea to create a more inclusive and equitable community? We want to hear about it! Follow the link in the QR code to submit your idea for a chance to be one of the competitors and win prize money! Entries due March 7th. 🙌🏼🎉
Join us during Carolina Engagement Week 2025, Feb. 24 - 28! Through skill-building workshops, panel discussions and more, Carolina Engagement Week highlights partnerships between UNC-Chapel Hill and our communities. We'll be talking about data walks on Feb. 24! engagementweek.unc.edu/event/seeing...
February 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Join us during Carolina Engagement Week 2025, Feb. 24 - 28! Through skill-building workshops, panel discussions and more, Carolina Engagement Week highlights partnerships between UNC-Chapel Hill and our communities. We'll be talking about data walks on Feb. 24! engagementweek.unc.edu/event/seeing...
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Join us tomorrow @epiloguebooks.bsky.social for our writing activity and first Thursday happy hour with @margotlester.bsky.social. Swag! Churros! Community building!
February 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Join us tomorrow @epiloguebooks.bsky.social for our writing activity and first Thursday happy hour with @margotlester.bsky.social. Swag! Churros! Community building!
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We are including a special workshop with @margotlester.bsky.social during our February 1st Thursday happy hour on February 6. We’ll take care of your first drink and there just might be churros! Thanks Epilogue Books for hosting📚☕️🍷💕
January 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We are including a special workshop with @margotlester.bsky.social during our February 1st Thursday happy hour on February 6. We’ll take care of your first drink and there just might be churros! Thanks Epilogue Books for hosting📚☕️🍷💕
Today, at the 2025 annual Society for Social Work and Research conference I shared our research on structural racism and homelessness, met this cool researcher from Case Western Reserve, Meagan Ray-Novak, and had a mentorship lunch with doctoral students, Farzana and Max! #SSWR25
January 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, at the 2025 annual Society for Social Work and Research conference I shared our research on structural racism and homelessness, met this cool researcher from Case Western Reserve, Meagan Ray-Novak, and had a mentorship lunch with doctoral students, Farzana and Max! #SSWR25
📣 New article w/Iheoma Iruka, Noreen Yazejian, Zach Price, Laura Kuhn, & Destiny Ho! It details our work to infuse more racially equitable research practices in a national network. While we work w/early childhood scholars, the practices are relevant for all scholars.
www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/la...
www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/la...
January 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
📣 New article w/Iheoma Iruka, Noreen Yazejian, Zach Price, Laura Kuhn, & Destiny Ho! It details our work to infuse more racially equitable research practices in a national network. While we work w/early childhood scholars, the practices are relevant for all scholars.
www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/la...
www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/la...
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First-ish Thursday happy hour coming up n e x t Thursday! Come tell us about your urbanist goals for 2025! 🚲🏘️🚍🚶🏽♂️
January 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
First-ish Thursday happy hour coming up n e x t Thursday! Come tell us about your urbanist goals for 2025! 🚲🏘️🚍🚶🏽♂️
Yes - housing above huge US Postal Service facilities!
The idea of building more housing on federal land has become popular among Trump and the Republicans. But where would it make sense to sell off federal land? Or build "freedom cities"? In my first post for a new Substack, I decided to map it.
mnolangray.substack.com/p/where-coul...
mnolangray.substack.com/p/where-coul...
Where Could the Federal Government Actually Build Freedom Cities?
And where should the BLM sell off land generally?
mnolangray.substack.com
December 2, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Yes - housing above huge US Postal Service facilities!
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Come chat at Steel String next Thursday!
November 27, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Come chat at Steel String next Thursday!