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"If migrants worked the same jobs and earned the same wages as comparable natives, the European economy could grow by €33.8 billion."
A story that began with a disturbing anecdote from an African reporter, laughed at in a Dutch job centre, ended with @LHReports biggest data investigation into structural discrimination in Europe. A thread 🧵
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‘Those elites’ continues DeSantis, the Yale and Harvard graduate, talking to the world’s formerly richest man and the billionaire VC from Stanford….still talking about YouTube takedowns
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I can’t answer this question for Bill Maher but YOU CAN
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EXCLUSIVE: Zimbabwe’s first lady, Auxillia Mnangagwa facilitates a deal to smuggle $1.2 billion of dirty cash into the country.
Undercover reporters capture a conversation where she discusses the use of presidential planes to fly in cash that needs laundering.
#GoldMafia
robel. retweeted
In the final episode of #GoldMafia, the net is closing on one of South Africa’s most notorious money launderers.
Plus, those who’ve broken their silence now fear they’re being hunted by killers.
📺Watch: 👉aje.io/gmep4
robel. retweeted
Exclusive: The I-Unit gains unprecedented access to the headquarters of the #GoldMafia.
Undercover reporters are invited to visit Dubai where they uncover how rival gangs use gold to launder vast sums of money.
📺Watch Episode 3: El Dorado ⤵️
aje.io/gmep3
robel. retweeted
In episode 2 of #GoldMafia we follow the money, vasts some of money.
The I-Unit uncovers evidence that staff at several banks in South Africa facilitate money laundering.
Catch up with the rest of the episode here: aje.io/gmep2
Here's our news report.
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Exclusive: The I-Unit has filmed a senior Zimbabwean diplomat agreeing to launder billions of dollars in cash. Posing as criminals, the I-Unit undercover reporters uncovered networks in Africa that launder vast sums of money using gold.
Watch #GoldMafia 👉 aje.io/gmep1
robel. retweeted
Rosewood, Florida was a thriving town with a bustling economy. The population was 95% black and most of its residents owned their owned homes and businesses.
That was until a married white woman slept with a man who wasn’t her husband, and told the town it was a “nigger”. #BHM
robel. retweeted
This is why so many people react so strongly to these stories about students feeling like the campus “atmosphere” made them not *want* to speak up. We have actual state legislatures that are prohibiting speech by law, targeting not perceived minority groups, but actual ones.
robel. retweeted
We’re hiring 3 engineers @PPI_Insights to help us translate data into action and prevent pandemics.
If you’re looking to join an amazing team, work on some of the world’s toughest problems, build a brighter more equitable future, and have fun send us your app. My DMs are open.
1/🚨We're #hiring at @PPI_Insights! We're working w/ global partners to strengthen our ability to detect early warnings to save lives -- to do so, we're assembling a team to help build a data-driven #PandemicFreeFuture.
Apply here:
Full Stack Developer: rockfound.link/3oIZEjn
robel. retweeted
“I suppose that one can be right and arrogant and/or wrong and humble.”
“But you can’t be wrong and arrogant.”
@svscarpino on the perils of bad predictive modeling in COVID-19 (amongst other things) during his masterful @sfiscience seminar:
“On the Shape of Epidemics”
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Best thing about this article is the very intentional language of "AI marketed", "presented as AI", etc
AI is not a real thing & @mer__edith doesn't even give Big Tech the satisfaction of calling this tech by that name directly. She challenges even this aspect of the narrative.
📢New paper! In which I work through a lot of my uncomfortable observations since joining academia, examining the alarming-but-quiet capture of academic AI research by big tech, what this means for how and what we know about AI, and how we can resist.
interactions.acm.org/archive…
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/1 As #OmicronVariant cases 📈 Genomic surveillance remains essential to track #COVID19 variants in both unvaccinated and vaccinated populations. @jessicamalaty @jjhoutman @NotoriousRSG @RickABright @_emilybass_ @lshultz82 tell us why in this blog: bit.ly/3lsIpkN
robel. retweeted
On May 16th, Israeli airstrikes struck Gaza's Rimal neighbourhood
twenty times, killing 44 people.
This extensive visual investigation takes us step-by-step through what happened that night. Critical work by @trbrtc & team.
nytimes.com/video/world/midd…
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Cultural appropriation is a trip. @LouisVuitton shamelessly selling these Keffiyehs for a shocking $705. Absurd!
FWIW, my wife Ayesha is selling Keffiyehs on @EqualEntrance for $25 & donating 100% of profits to Palestinian relief. Hope y'all support & RT.
equalentrance.com/products/p…
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Twenty-seven days before the first rocket was fired from Gaza this week, a squad of Israeli police entered al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and cut the cables to the loudspeakers that broadcast prayers to the faithful. It was April 13, the first day of Ramadan nytimes.com/2021/05/15/world…
