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How the AI Industry Profits from Catastrophe

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 6, 2022October 19, 2022

The demand for data labeling in the artificial intelligence industry — tagging videos, sorting photos, and transcribing audio in order to train AI — has created a massive need for cheap labor, leading data-labeling platforms such as Appen to hire low-pay workers in countries like Venezuela, the Philippines, and Kenya to do these tasks. In […]

Posted inStory

My Spoon, Your Bullet

by Alice Driver December 17, 2019December 30, 2022

Alice Driver reports from the November protests against the Colombian government of President Iván Duque Márquez.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Quotes, Writing

‘Mami’s biggest lesson’: On Storytelling and the Weight of Words

by Danielle Jackson September 7, 2018October 19, 2022

The author learned how to tell stories from her psychic mother.

Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Story

How Women Survive the World: An Interview with Ingrid Rojas Contreras

by Naomi Elias August 7, 2018October 19, 2022

To this day, when my mother is driving a car, she will only use the blinkers to indicate that she’s turning at the last second — just so that people behind her don’t know where she’s going.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Pablo Escobar: Renaissance Man

by Krista Stevens September 23, 2015October 19, 2022

As dusk settles on the Magdalena Valley, the jungly middle stretch of Colombia’s great river basin, the hippopotamuses bawl and snort. The indelicate groans of these multi-ton beasts border on comedic, but mostly their ruckus is a fearsome thing—a primal ritual that has churned these waters ever since Pablo Escobar imported four hippos to his […]

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