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Timnit Gebru
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Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.

Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria .. more

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Timnit Gebru is an Eritrean Ethiopian-born computer scientist who works in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithmic bias and data mining. She is a co-founder of Black in AI, an advocacy group that has pushed for more Black roles in AI development and research. She is the founder of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). .. more

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · Apr 15
🔇🔇🔇Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making.

When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵

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Ethiopia’s forgotten war is the deadliest of the 21st century, with around 600,000 civilian deaths
Estimates by European institutions and academics say over half a million non-combatants have died during the Tigray conflict as a result of a government blockade that kept out humanitarian aid
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 4d
The relationship of eugenics and AI goes waaaay back. @timnitgebru.bsky.social did an execellent talk about this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7XT...

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The Economist @economist.com · 4d
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 11d
If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, @alexhanna.bsky.social and I will be here this evening 👇🏼
timnitgebru.bsky.social Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 14d
I'm going to be hosting part of this in person event in San Francisco along with @alexhanna.bsky.social.

The event is organized by an organization near and dear to both of us, called Respond Crisis Translation, doing front line work which is even more important right now.

RSVP at bit.ly/rct-rsvp
From ICE Abductions to Genocide in Gaza, Languge Workers Resist. A Language Justice Forum with Respond Crisis Translatin. bit.ly/rct-rsvp. Oct 30, 2025. 5:30pm --SF Bay Area, CA

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 12d
TOMORROW -- join @timnitgebru.bsky.social and I at this event sponsored by Respond Crisis Translation.

From ICE Abductions to Genocide in Gaza, Language Workers Resist: A Language Justice Forum
🗓️ Oct 30, 2025 - 5:30 PM
📍Mission San Francisco
RSVP for location = bit.ly/rct-rsvp
A black and yellow flyer for an event. The title reads: From ICE abductions to Genocide in Gaza, Language Workers Resist. A Language Justice Forum with Respond Crisis Translation. Community food + drink reception, multilingual cultural performances, and interactive sessions: Language rights Abuses in ICE Custody: Survivors Speak Out On the ground in Gaza: Palestinian Translators Surviving and Resisting Lost in Machine Translation: AI-Fueled Language Violence against migrants Featured Speakers: Dr. Timnit Gebru Gheed Anna S

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 12d
Authors’ class action suit against OpenAI moves forward www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Authors’ Class Action Lawsuit Against OpenAI Moves Ahead
A New York judge dismissed an attempt by OpenAI to throw out a class action lawsuit that consolidates suits from a number of authors charging the company with copyright infringement.
www.publishersweekly.com

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 13d
If you're in the Seattle area, join us in stretching our collective imagination muscles.
dairinstitute.bsky.social The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 13d
POSSIBLE FUTURES WORKSHOP

🗣️ Looking for a fun, hopeful activity to stretch your imaginative muscle?

🌻 If you’re in the Seattle area, @dylnbkr.bsky.social will be hosting a free in person Possible Futures workshop on November 16 @ 2pm PST.

🪴 RSVP at www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-prese... to attend.
The cover of the zine, "Possible Futures" written in all caps in black at the top, with a white background. Then there is a blue background for most of the rest of the cover, with sketches of people all over the cover. Left, an excerpt of the zine by Adrienne who is a middle school teacher. There are a bunch of plants and crayons, with the writing." There is as much art as there is science" Right, an excerpt from Margaret Mitchell, AI Researcher, with a bunch of cutouts. One says ";Road to Utopia", another says "Its influence begins in the plastic years". "Always Buy" "More Performance." "Order these now." "With open eyes and open minds, we can see so much more," and there is a picture of a yellow butterfly. Then more writing, "We are fierce curious, strong" "Giving back, climb mountains howl with the wind.""

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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 13d
POSSIBLE FUTURES WORKSHOP

🗣️ Looking for a fun, hopeful activity to stretch your imaginative muscle?

🌻 If you’re in the Seattle area, @dylnbkr.bsky.social will be hosting a free in person Possible Futures workshop on November 16 @ 2pm PST.

🪴 RSVP at www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-prese... to attend.
The cover of the zine, "Possible Futures" written in all caps in black at the top, with a white background. Then there is a blue background for most of the rest of the cover, with sketches of people all over the cover. Left, an excerpt of the zine by Adrienne who is a middle school teacher. There are a bunch of plants and crayons, with the writing." There is as much art as there is science" Right, an excerpt from Margaret Mitchell, AI Researcher, with a bunch of cutouts. One says ";Road to Utopia", another says "Its influence begins in the plastic years". "Always Buy" "More Performance." "Order these now." "With open eyes and open minds, we can see so much more," and there is a picture of a yellow butterfly. Then more writing, "We are fierce curious, strong" "Giving back, climb mountains howl with the wind.""

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 13d
I’ve been included among the "100 Brightest Minds in Berlin's Science," a list published annually by Tagesspiegel and widely celebrated by Berlin universities.
page of the German newspaper Tagesspiegel where Milagros Miceli is feature among other scientists from Berlin

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 14d
Incredible!

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 14d
Are you serious? YOU stole HIS tweet?

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 14d
The grift is selling oneself as an expert and making a bunch of coin off it?

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 14d
I'm going to be hosting part of this in person event in San Francisco along with @alexhanna.bsky.social.

The event is organized by an organization near and dear to both of us, called Respond Crisis Translation, doing front line work which is even more important right now.

RSVP at bit.ly/rct-rsvp
From ICE Abductions to Genocide in Gaza, Languge Workers Resist. A Language Justice Forum with Respond Crisis Translatin. bit.ly/rct-rsvp. Oct 30, 2025. 5:30pm --SF Bay Area, CA

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 14d
Your other favorite so-called "critic," Gary Marcus, threatened to sue me for publicly writing how he attacked me, unsummoned. For writing the things he said that people could very easily find themselves.

People were like "you're on the same side."

Hell no we're not. Its not a binary.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 14d
Friends choose your so-called "critics" carefully.

Its not a binary.

If people do circular citations and happen to never cite the women who laid the groundwork for decades and pay the price, there's a problem.
ubiquity75.xyz Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 14d
Who the fuck is this dude who rolled in saying what women researchers have been saying for years? He came on my thread here once to tell me I was wrong about something — I wasn’t. I responded, he said nothing, and disappeared. @alexhanna.bsky.social @safiyanoble.bsky.social
Ed Zitron Gets Paid to Love AI. He Also Gets Paid to Hate AI
He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.
www.wired.com

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 14d
He commented on one of my posts being like why is everyone sharing this as it happened 2 years ago?

I'm like maybe because it is relevant and also what a strange thing to comment.

"Dude with substack & podcast who gets tons of airtime" is a phenomenon I'm ready to end 🙄

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 14d
Who the fuck is this dude who rolled in saying what women researchers have been saying for years? He came on my thread here once to tell me I was wrong about something — I wasn’t. I responded, he said nothing, and disappeared. @alexhanna.bsky.social @safiyanoble.bsky.social
Ed Zitron Gets Paid to Love AI. He Also Gets Paid to Hate AI
He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.
www.wired.com

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