Lidia S

A Chatty Mom ! IG @Lidiasaysso

[President Eniola Daniel @UnlimitedEniola]

No Sharia Law In Burkina Faso- Traore
“I am a Muslim, but everyone in Burkina Faso has the right to practice their own religion. There will never be Sharia law in this country.
“To those Burkinabè studying Sharia law in Saudi Arabia, do not return to Burkina Faso. Instead of acquiring technological knowledge and skills that can help develop our country, you chose to study Sharia law. Stay where you are, you won't be allowed back here- President Traore

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

This is one of the most disheartening videos I have watched about what Africans who want to go to Europe in search of greener pastures go through in Libya. The useless African Union and so-called leaders need to look for a solution.

[IG: olesoul57.2 ♉️ 5/12 @olesoul57_2]

Friend: You coming out tonight?

Me: I guess, what’s the dress code?

Friend: Oh it’s casual

Me: Ok I’ll throw on something light

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Elderly US woman shocked to receive racy new car licence plate https://t.co/nwgGXPRAZj

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

One of the most shocking data center developments in the country is families increasingly being pushed to sell their property for data center power lines, under threat of eminent domain.

[Wendell Potter @wendellpotter]

NEW: UnitedHealth Group's Optum bought up behavioral health clinics across the country, then closed many of them while expanding virtual mental health businesses it already owned and invested in.

Our analysis found that more than half of the behavioral health entities UnitedHealth acquired either closed entirely or closed at least one office, resulting in the loss of half of the individual practice locations we examined across 21 states.

Some key findings:

• Optum shuttered its behavioral health services in New Jersey, closing roughly 90 offices and cutting 572 jobs.
• It shut down in-person eating disorder clinics that patients called "lifelines."
• It closed an autism-focused practice that inspired the Broadway musical How to Dance in Ohio.

Read the full report at HEALTH CARE un-covered: https://t.co/Q2MzzeoIph

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

LEAKED AUDIO: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told employees that he would like to sue workers who leak, saying on a weekly meeting: "We fine and fire leakers all the time. We tend not to sue those people, but I'd like to..."

When Meta began using employee data to train AI without worker consent, over 1,800 Meta workers signed a petition asking to end the Model Capability Initiative (MCI). Bosworth claims these people “made the entire company worse.”

Because of the workers collective action and an internal data breach where private data was exposed, Meta management ended the nonconsensual MCI surveillance program.

Now the company's CTO is lashing out against workers, and appears to be equating worker organizing to leaking, even hinting at threatening workers for their protected organizing.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Mayo Clinic is being sued by its former AI compliance lead, who is alleging the hospital network tried to hide its AI tool’s 67% error rate at patients’ expense.

The lawsuit alleges staff deleted results and mischaracterized outcomes to cover up the AI tool’s mistakes. The former employee says Mayo fired her in retaliation when she tried to raise her concerns.

https://t.co/Ij5nsNgQLt

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔File this one under "we built the AI, we swear we didn't use it." 26 former Meta employees are suing the company for using AI-powered software to rank employees during layoffs. The complaint alleges the system weighed productivity metrics and AI token usage, which penalized workers who had taken medical leave, disability accommodations, or pregnancy leave. Meta cut about 8,000 employees earlier this year. Three months before the lawsuit, reports revealed Meta had been collecting employee keystrokes, mouse movements, and screen activity to train AI systems. Meta says "workforce decisions were made by people, not AI."

My Take
I find Meta's denial hard to square with everything else they've said publicly. This is a company that has told investors it's replacing headcount with AI infrastructure, cut 21,000 jobs in the past year, and was caught tracking employee keystrokes to train AI models. If you're scoring employees on AI token usage and productivity metrics that don't account for legally protected leave, the system is going to flag the person who took three months of medical leave as less productive than the person who didn't. The algorithm did exactly what it was designed to do.

The broader problem is that most companies adopting AI for workforce decisions are doing exactly what Meta allegedly did. They feed the system productivity data, the system ranks people, and management treats the output as objective. Nobody asks whether the training data accounts for FMLA leave or ADA accommodations until a lawsuit forces the question. If this case goes to discovery and the plaintiffs get access to the ranking model, a lot of companies running similar systems are going to want to revisit how theirs work before someone asks to see it in court.

Hedgie🤗

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

DISGUSTING—META used AI software to identify workers with medical conditions for layoffs. 26 former employees have ‌filed ⁠a ⁠lawsuit accusing META of using AI targeted ⁠people with disabilities, or who took ⁠medical leave, ⁠in selecting people for mass layoffs.

[Unwana🇳🇬✨ @Iam_sistabibi]

One of the perks of being a woman is that no one can ever surprise you with a child years later and say you’re the mother.

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[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and novelist Scott Turow filed a class action against Google alleging it used millions of copyrighted books to train Gemini. Publishers handed books to Google under a Google Books agreement limited to snippet display. Google used them as AI training data instead. Google's own internal documents estimated "$10Bs-$100Bs" in potential fines and flagged the practice as "highly problematic." Google is the only major AI company that has refused to sign licensing deals with publishers.

My Take
Google knew. Their own internal documents said it was "highly problematic" and estimated fines in the tens of billions. They did it anyway because the cost of asking permission was higher than the expected cost of getting caught. Publishers handed Google their books under a specific agreement, and Google used them for something else entirely. The internal documents make a fair use defense very difficult when your own analysts flagged the risk before you proceeded.

This also comes at a bad moment for Google. Anthropic already settled a similar suit for $1.5 billion. The New York Times case against OpenAI is ongoing. Cloudflare is about to block AI crawlers by default on September 15. USA Today's CEO said the company is prepared to delist from Google Search within a year if there's no licensing deal. Publishers spent three years trying to negotiate and Google refused. Every other major AI company signed licensing agreements. Google bet it didn't have to, and now its own documents are sitting in a federal court filing.

Hedgie🤗

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Georgia Power is acquiring over 300 parcels of land, including family homes, to build a 35-mile transmission line. The company says 70-80% of the power on that line will serve data centers. Homeowners who don't sell face eminent domain proceedings. Georgia Power won't say which companies the data centers belong to, citing "safety and security."

My Take
A for-profit utility is using eminent domain to take people's homes so it can sell electricity to data center operators whose names it won't disclose. I have a hard time seeing how that qualifies as serving a public purpose, which is the legal standard eminent domain requires. The families losing their land aren't benefiting from the data centers. The data centers employ almost nobody locally. And the utility is building new capacity primarily to serve private corporate clients, not residential demand. Georgia Power admitted that in its own numbers.

Eminent domain exists so governments can build roads, schools, and infrastructure that serves the public. When 80% of the power on a new line goes to private data centers and the utility won't tell you whose, the "public purpose" argument starts to fall apart. Ansley Brown's family built their home when she was five years old. Her mother wanted it to be generational wealth. Now it's a right of way for a transmission line so an unnamed company can run GPU clusters.

Hedgie🤗
https://t.co/E32Ba6j7AH

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Amazon has a scheme to offer the lowest prices – by raising prices everywhere else.

If a vendor offers a lower price elsewhere, Amazon allegedly forces them to raise it, making you pay more than you should.

We uncovered Amazon setting prices at Walmart and Target.

[Revamped | Career & Workplace Development @RevampedCP]

META is facing a lawsuit from 26 former employees who allege the company used AI to help select workers for layoffs, disproportionately targeting employees with disabilities or those who had taken medical leave.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

It has now been revealed that the CEO of StubHub also owns hedge fund that scalps millions of dollars worth tickets on StubHub.

[SKI @skiistiredasf]

He was burning alive, yet he kept re-entering the burning Bradley Fighting Vehicle until all six soldiers and the Iraqi interpreter were safe. Burns covered 72% of his body. His first words were, ‘How are my boys?’ He died three weeks later. It took 16 years for him to receive the Medal of Honor. HIS NAME IS SERGEANT FIRST CLASS ALWYN C. CASHE, NEVER FORGET!!!

[Black, Blessed & Unbothered @MelanatedTalk]

Hey Cousins!
Here’s another BlackOwned company to support! This one provides oral care. They have toothbrushes, toothpaste, mouthwash, floss sticks and more!
Website: https://t.co/sfY003g0sg
#BlackOwned
#OralHealth
#DentalCare
#FUBU

[💖 Nikki Tha God @nikkithagod]

Watch what happened after the owner of another beauty supply store walked into a Black owned beauty supply store, got on FaceTime, looked over the inventory, and started asking where the owner gets his products and suppliers. The questions didn't sit right with the owner, who eventually asked him to leave. Watch the exchange and decide what you think.

#BlackOwnedBusiness #BlackConsumerPower #BeautySupply

[Harper @bastognekoekjes]

@makemeprouder @polloalba7 Yeah she's so happy 😊

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