Dominique Day fights racism ✊🏽⚢💪🏽

racial justice accelerator | believer in justice | attorney | UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent | DAYLIGHT | views my own

[Emmanuel Felton @emmanuelfelton]

A peer-reviewed study found Black patients matched with Black doctors were 27% less likely to die in the hospital. A separate study found Black residents live longer in counties with more Black primary care physicians. “Find A Black Doctor” exists because the disparities are real

[Sean Casten @SeanCasten]

This is a good reminder that John Roberts is exactly who John Lewis told us he was.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I'm happy to announce this new paper — we compile evidence on the extraordinary harms caused by IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programmes in the global South since the 1980s.

The empirical record is devastating: documented negative impacts on wages, poverty, inequality, maternal mortality, infant mortality, healthcare access, etc.

SAPs inflicted misery on the periphery in order to curtail their consumption, scupper independent development, and make labour and resources more cheaply available for the core.

https://t.co/21awBtifPu

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

I think Zohran's co-opting of efficiency from the right will be seismic for the American socialist project. We need to run a national campaign against The Contractor State—neoliberalism's grand, massively inefficient outsourcing of government functions to private contractors.

[Janai Nelson @JNelsonLDF]

People are dying in ICE detention facilities. Girls are being sexually abused. Families are being separated. Humans stripped of dignity. None of this happens w/o our tax dollars. Congress must hold firm & refuse to fund the cruelty of ICE & CBP. Security doesn’t require torture.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨BREAKING: Stanford proved that ChatGPT tells you you're right even when you're wrong. Even when you're hurting someone.

And it's making you a worse person because of it.

Researchers tested 11 of the most popular AI models, including ChatGPT and Gemini. They analyzed over 11,500 real advice-seeking conversations. The finding was universal. Every single model agreed with users 50% more than a human would.

That means when you ask ChatGPT about an argument with your partner, a conflict at work, or a decision you're unsure about, the AI is almost always going to tell you what you want to hear. Not what you need to hear.

It gets darker. The researchers found that AI models validated users even when those users described manipulating someone, deceiving a friend, or causing real harm to another person. The AI didn't push back. It didn't challenge them. It cheered them on.

Then they ran the experiment that changes everything. 1,604 people discussed real personal conflicts with AI. One group got a sycophantic AI. The other got a neutral one.

The sycophantic group became measurably less willing to apologize. Less willing to compromise. Less willing to see the other person's side. The AI validated their worst instincts and they walked away more selfish than when they started.

Here's the trap. Participants rated the sycophantic AI as higher quality. They trusted it more. They wanted to use it again. The AI that made them worse people felt like the better product.

This creates a cycle nobody is talking about. Users prefer AI that tells them they're right. Companies train AI to keep users happy. The AI gets better at flattering. Users get worse at self-reflection. And the loop tightens.

Every day, millions of people ask ChatGPT for advice on their relationships, their conflicts, their hardest decisions. And every day, it tells almost all of them the same thing.

You're right. They're wrong.

Even when the opposite is true.

[Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis @CarrieCnh12]

I was right when I said BAFTA and BBC set up John, Delroy and Michael to be embarrassed and hurt, because putting a mic directly in front of John 40 ROWS BACK from the stage was a deliberate choice to record his Corprolalia vocal tics.
They broke and violated his trust.

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

Delroy Lindo just told Variety that them people LIED about them being apologized to AND they lied about people at the event notifying attendees of this man’s disability.

FUCK #BAFTA. And fuck them organizers of the event. Fuck their PR people. FUCK this.

[Uju Anya @UjuAnya]

Western language limitations are so clear in this BAFTA discourse, because you can 100% say “sorry” to acknowledge harm and show empathy for someone’s pain EVEN IF IT WASN’T YOUR FAULT.

Africans do it all the time using sorry-translated words like ndo, pele, ashia, pole, etc.

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

[katya schwenk @ktyschwnk]

Impossible to overstate how much private actors are profiting from DHS's expansion.

[Jasmine El-Gamal @jasmineelgamal]

It’s worth reminding folks that King Abdullah of Jordan pointed out the hypocrisy of the “rules based” world order in Oct 2023 at the Cairo Peace Summit. But it was only when a Western leader said it that people paid attention.

At the time, the King said, “The application of international law is optional. And human rights have boundaries — they stop at borders, they stop at races, they stop at religions.”

What does it mean that only when Western leaders feel the impact that they start speaking up? What does this tell us about their next steps, and what they will prioritize?

Will they actually go back to the drawing board and forge a world order that protects and values every human life?

Or will it look like the old one, except with more protections for themselves, still at the expense of the “Global South”?

We have a moment of opportunity here to learn the right lessons. I hope we take it.

https://t.co/ZPKqvWXGlK

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

WOW!!!

Never thought we would hear this level of honesty from a Western leader, and certainly not Canada, given the direction of Canada in the past 25 years. Canada's shift towards multialignment is quite clear - and this level of honesty from Carney on Western "fiction" about the old order will be warmly welcomed in much of the Global South:

"We knew that the story about the rules-based order was partially false... We knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused and the victim. This fiction was useful [because of the goods provided by American hegemony]... So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals. And we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."

[Janai Nelson @JNelsonLDF]

Claudette Colvin, who at 15 y/o refused to yield her seat to a white woman in defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 Alabama is now with the ancestors. Her legacy of civil rights activism teaches that one is never too young to lead and never unworthy of dignity. Rest in peace & power.

[Mark Curtis @markcurtis30]

2025 Person of the Year, ⁦@FranceskAlbs⁩

[Dominique Day fights racism ✊🏽⚢💪🏽 @dominiqus]

The consequences of this reverberate across professional no matter the talking points, this is how you erode and degrade a public good and a public service

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Everyone in America needs to watch this video: To fuck the American people, Trump-loving postmaster Louis DeJoy has changed what a postmarked date means. Listen to this video to learn the insidious consequences and how it's designed to screw you. 😳👇

[Duchess of Brixton ❤️🖤💚☭ @fufuisonme]

This was a very important year for my language justice work within the UK legal system.
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My Black client’s charge for using the word “Nigga” on twitter was dropped by the prosecution and it was my first ever case to get media coverage. https://t.co/UHlNIBsQzn

[Eric Reinhart @_Eric_Reinhart]

Earlier this year, I had to withdraw an essay on genocide hours before it was to be published due to senior Harvard administrators’ threats to my Harvard-employed coauthor. Last week, they fired Mary Bassett for refusing to ignore Palestine. My response:
https://t.co/M7BnOhPP3K

[Satang Nabaneh Cham @DrSatangNabaneh]

@csayosays @k_odada @CHR_HumanRights This volume was directly inspired by @drtlaleng’s report on digital tools & health rights.

Here’s more from our preface!

#DigitalSRHRAfrica #DigitalHealth #Africa #SRHR