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Mel
@melosare.bsky.social
scientist, data lead | machine learner | opinions are solely my own
I do wish some (really a lot of) people who remain in this space understand that this is what you should be striving for if you truly care about positive outcomes for the groups you claim to support.
December 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
“When you bring people into a broken systems, you don’t fix the system- you break the people”. My primary goal was always safety. I set out to correct systematic issues that impeded the success of marginalized individuals.
December 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.

That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
never change.
November 26, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I’m truly convinced that no one hates math but rather there are a lot of terrible math “teachers”
November 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
At one point an audience member questioned if fragmentation is truly an impedance to solidarity in the opposition of oppression.

And now I’m back wondering who wins when fragmentation is almost ignored in the interest of holism.
September 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I’m sorry but what is a “boneless” cookie?
September 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
work-related, my employer.
July 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM