Rufai
@ahmedrufai.bsky.social
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What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
Thank you @polgreen.bsky.social
Thank you @polgreen.bsky.social
Opinion | What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:31 AM
What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
Thank you @polgreen.bsky.social
Thank you @polgreen.bsky.social
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I wrote about my takeaways on TrustCon last week, and how basically everyone from all sides are making the lives of trust & safety professionals more difficult, rather than helping them make the internet better.
Everyone Hates Trust & Safety. Everyone Needs Trust & Safety. This Is A Problem.
Here's the contradiction at the heart of the internet: everyone complains about content moderation, but no one wants to use an unmoderated platform. Everyone thinks trust & safety professionals are either censorial…
Here's the contradiction at the heart of the internet: everyone complains about content moderation, but no one wants to use an unmoderated platform. Everyone thinks trust & safety professionals are either censorial…
Everyone Hates Trust & Safety. Everyone Needs Trust & Safety. This Is A Problem.
Here's the contradiction at the heart of the internet: everyone complains about content moderation, but no one wants to use an unmoderated platform. Everyone thinks trust & safety professionals are either censorial scolds or corporate lackeys, but everyone expects them to magically solve the inherent problems of human behavior at scale. I spent last week at TrustCon, the premier annual conference for the trust and safety industry (
www.techdirt.com
July 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I wrote about my takeaways on TrustCon last week, and how basically everyone from all sides are making the lives of trust & safety professionals more difficult, rather than helping them make the internet better.
Lamine Yamal! Nothing to add.
May 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Lamine Yamal! Nothing to add.
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Thrilled to be at the CHI conference this week where PhD student @schafer.bsky.social will present our paper — co-authored w/ Rachel Moran (1st author) & @mertcanbayar.bsky.social — titled, "The End of Trust and Safety?" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
The End of Trust and Safety?: Examining the Future of Content Moderation and Upheavals in Professional Online Safety Efforts | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Syst...
dl.acm.org
April 27, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Thrilled to be at the CHI conference this week where PhD student @schafer.bsky.social will present our paper — co-authored w/ Rachel Moran (1st author) & @mertcanbayar.bsky.social — titled, "The End of Trust and Safety?" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Meta has gone to great lengths to hide its content moderation operation, where workers are tasked with reviewing disturbing content
Workers say they were instructed to tell no one, not even their families, about the nature of their work (1/4)
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Workers say they were instructed to tell no one, not even their families, about the nature of their work (1/4)
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Meta’s content moderators face worst conditions yet at secret Ghana…
Hit by workers’ rights lawsuits in Kenya, the tech giant has moved its outsourcing to a top-secret new site – where life is grimmer still
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
April 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Meta has gone to great lengths to hide its content moderation operation, where workers are tasked with reviewing disturbing content
Workers say they were instructed to tell no one, not even their families, about the nature of their work (1/4)
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Workers say they were instructed to tell no one, not even their families, about the nature of their work (1/4)
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Those who sold globalization to the world are suddenly against the very idea they forced down people's throats.
April 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Those who sold globalization to the world are suddenly against the very idea they forced down people's throats.
The Sky is Blue even on Bluesky.
March 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The Sky is Blue even on Bluesky.
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happy first birthday to Bluesky, and what a year it's been!
with every day, the need for an open network that puts people first becomes increasingly clear. we're glad to be building this with you. after all, the heart of a social network is the people.
with every day, the need for an open network that puts people first becomes increasingly clear. we're glad to be building this with you. after all, the heart of a social network is the people.
February 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
happy first birthday to Bluesky, and what a year it's been!
with every day, the need for an open network that puts people first becomes increasingly clear. we're glad to be building this with you. after all, the heart of a social network is the people.
with every day, the need for an open network that puts people first becomes increasingly clear. we're glad to be building this with you. after all, the heart of a social network is the people.
If they explain Kai Harvertz to you, you won't get it. You have to witness it. And the assist and that miss are the perfect description of a player with so much potential but incredibly inconsistent.
February 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
If they explain Kai Harvertz to you, you won't get it. You have to witness it. And the assist and that miss are the perfect description of a player with so much potential but incredibly inconsistent.
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by the time the public realises the havoc these charlatans are causing, it'll probably be too late to do anything about it (if anyone is capable or powerful enough to do anything at all)
futurism.com/openai-signs...
futurism.com/openai-signs...
OpenAI Strikes Deal With US Government to Use Its AI for Nuclear Weapon Security
OpenAI has announced that the US National Laboratories will use its deeply flawed AI models to help with "nuclear security."
futurism.com
February 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
by the time the public realises the havoc these charlatans are causing, it'll probably be too late to do anything about it (if anyone is capable or powerful enough to do anything at all)
futurism.com/openai-signs...
futurism.com/openai-signs...
I still have pain in my heart. Twitter culture war everything before Elon.
5. Your culture will die. The hardest lesson I learned is how fragile culture is. It’s more painful than you think. I wrote a whole oped about it. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
I Watched Elon Musk Kill Twitter’s Culture From the Inside
This bizarre episode in social-media history proves that it’s well past time for meaningful tech oversight.
www.theatlantic.com
January 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I still have pain in my heart. Twitter culture war everything before Elon.
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You know how we talk about IBM, Siemens, VW, ThyssenKrupp, et al and their complicity and support for the Holocaust? This is our version of that.
Drag them all into the light.
Drag them all into the light.
"The conflict in Gaza spurred a "gold rush" among tech companies seeking to provide services to Israeli military. [T]he costs just for engineering support & consultancy with the Israeli military amounted to approximately $10M since October 2023 Gaza offensive" www.dropsitenews.com/p/microsoft-...
The Israeli Military Is One of Microsoft's Top AI Customers, Leaked Documents Reveal
Microsoft is a major provider of cloud services and artificial intelligence for the Israeli military, according to internal documents.
www.dropsitenews.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
You know how we talk about IBM, Siemens, VW, ThyssenKrupp, et al and their complicity and support for the Holocaust? This is our version of that.
Drag them all into the light.
Drag them all into the light.
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“The owner of a small restaurant is held accountable if their food poisons customers. Social media tycoons should be held accountable if their algorithms poison our societies.”
www.politico.eu/article/spai...
www.politico.eu/article/spai...
Tech billionaires want to ‘overthrow democracy’ with social media, Spain PM Sánchez says
“The technology that was intended to free us has become the tool of our own oppression.”
www.politico.eu
January 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
“The owner of a small restaurant is held accountable if their food poisons customers. Social media tycoons should be held accountable if their algorithms poison our societies.”
www.politico.eu/article/spai...
www.politico.eu/article/spai...
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This may be our first case in Trump 2.0 where Congress and the courts say one thing and then Trump just does whatever he wants
Supreme Court Upholds Law That Threatens US TikTok Ban
The Supreme Court upheld a law that threatens to shut down the wildly popular TikTok social media platform in the US as soon as Sunday, ruling that free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chine...
www.bloomberg.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This may be our first case in Trump 2.0 where Congress and the courts say one thing and then Trump just does whatever he wants
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Angertainment is a great way to describe the emotional experience most social media platforms are optimizing for.
January 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Angertainment is a great way to describe the emotional experience most social media platforms are optimizing for.
From my experience, if an SM platform is new you actually want those behind it to take their time to build the moderation processes and team. Moving fast and breaking things is how others got it wrong. #T&S
January 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
From my experience, if an SM platform is new you actually want those behind it to take their time to build the moderation processes and team. Moving fast and breaking things is how others got it wrong. #T&S
Long quiet drives.
Bonding over music is one of my favorite forms of intimacy.
January 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Long quiet drives.
I literally thought this was his plan all along.
This TikTok scam by Trump is really something. In a few days, we will be hearing from Trump about how he “saved Tik Tok” & “brought it back.” He literally created the problem by calling for a ban. Rs pass a law. It gets banned. It goes dark for a day or 2, then Trump “saves” it.
January 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I literally thought this was his plan all along.
I just started S1 #Severance. Let's see how it goes.
January 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I just started S1 #Severance. Let's see how it goes.
I guess I should watch S1 of Severance, seeing the attention the S2 is getting.
January 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I guess I should watch S1 of Severance, seeing the attention the S2 is getting.
How does one optimize their feed to only see recent post first on this app?
January 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
How does one optimize their feed to only see recent post first on this app?
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Old enough to remember that TikTok isn't even close to the first technology ban
January 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Old enough to remember that TikTok isn't even close to the first technology ban
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The Biden administration won't do anything about TikTok on the one day it could do something about TikTok. If the app's that big a threat, as they said for years, how to explain this? apnews.com/article/tikt...
Biden won't enforce TikTok ban, official says, leaving fate of app to Trump
President Joe Biden won’t enforce a ban on the social media app TikTok that is set to take effect a day before he leaves office, a U.S. official says.
apnews.com
January 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The Biden administration won't do anything about TikTok on the one day it could do something about TikTok. If the app's that big a threat, as they said for years, how to explain this? apnews.com/article/tikt...