men face almost no consequences for rape

'As early as 2021, an estimated 70,000 people in India were working in data annotation, which had a market value of about $250m (£180m) in 2021, according to the country’s IT industry body Nasscom. About 60% of revenues came from the US, while only 10% came from India.

About 80% of data-annotation and content moderation workers are drawn from rural, semi-rural or marginalised backgrounds. Firms deliberately operate from smaller cities and towns, where rents and labour costs are lower, and a growing pool of first-generation graduates are seeking jobs.

Improvements in internet connectivity have made it possible to plug these locations directly into global AI supply chains, without relocating workers to cities.

Women form half or more of this workforce. For companies, women are seen as reliable, detail-oriented and more likely to accept home-based or contract work that could be seen as “safe” or “respectable”. These jobs offer rare access to income without migration.

A sizeable number of workers in these hubs come from Dalit and Adivasi (tribal) communities. For many of them, digital work of any kind represents an upward shift; cleaner, more regular and better-paid jobs than agricultural labour or mining.'

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/05/in-the-end-you-feel-blank-indias-female-workers-watching-hours-of-abusive-content-to-train-ai

Me 30 minutes into barely working after arriving an hour late to work:

"i love pickles!@!@!@!@!"

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most of what we call civilization is colonial culture

"IQ demolished. Definitively. Goodbye IQ. You're not real. Brain numbers are a foolish undertaking, tied to unimaginable suffering and horror. You are not science. Bye bye."

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0RAPKYhANbNacL1uwRRSbO

"In identifying the NF as Nazis, SKAN made explicit the groups they were facing down were not simply far-right, but actively fascist. In doing so, they also carried out political education to deepen students’ understanding of fascism and its history.

Leafleting schools, community centres and football grounds to counter the racist lies peddled by the NF was a key part of this work. Links were also made with international anti-racist movements, as groups in Wandsworth and Brighton invited anti-apartheid activists to speak."

https://www.huckmag.com/article/the-british-school-kids-who-took-on-the-nazis-in-the-70s

"we owe each other help and respect"

"The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves.

Those with no sides and no causes.

Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you.

But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does.

I choose my own way to burn."

— Sophie Scholl

"The loss of meaning and agency at work — where we spend most of our waking hours — is a huge blow to the psyche in and of itself. However, the capitalist system generates alienation on an even grander scale. As social beings gifted with powerful mental faculties, we are naturally wired to cooperate and to create. But because capitalism forces us to fight over jobs and resources, we view each other not as collaborators and companions, but as competitors. In time, this system would come to dictate our social relations; now, in an era of competition and profit maximization, we see each other as objects — as means to our various ends, rather than multi-dimensional beings.

Indeed, research done by social psychologists such as Tim Kasser have found that individuals who internalize 'the materialistic ethos of corporate culture' exhibit 'more anti-social activities” and “lower empathy.'"

https://medium.com/reason-in-revolt/capitalism-is-dangerous-for-your-mental-health-b02fd8f56dfe

"Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities.

The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable."

— Erich Fromm

"I didn't see it either."

Haben Girma

anarchists most of the time

Fuck school, fuck work, fuck school.

"It must be borne in mind that it is through the channel of the child that the development of the mature man must go, and that the present ideas of the educating or training of the latter in the school and the family — even the family of the liberal or radical — are such as to stifle the natural growth of the child.

Every institution of our day, the family, the State, our moral codes, sees in every strong, beautiful, uncompromising personality a deadly enemy; therefore every effort is being made to cramp human emotion and originality of thought in the individual into a straight-jacket from its earliest infancy; or to shape every human being according to one pattern; not into a well-rounded individuality, but into a patient work slave, professional automaton, tax-paying citizen, or righteous moralist."

— Emma Goldman

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-the-child-and-its-enemies

'In the Philippines, the Tagalog word "pamamalo" refers to the corporal punishment of children.

This violent means of domestic punishment, which typically involves beating a child by hand or with the use of household objects, is widely believed to be an effective form of discipline.

Multiple studies, however, have shown physical punishment to be both ineffective and harmful, instead triggering pain, sadness, fear, anger and trauma. It can desensitise children to violence and damage family relationships, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).'

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/longform/2024/11/7/breaking-the-cycle-of-child-physical-punishment-in-the-philippines

📰 Here’s a quick recap of the latest developments across the region:

• The US and Israel launched air strikes on Iran on Saturday shortly after 9:30am local time (6am GMT).

• Iranian state TV announced the death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

• Iran’s Red Crescent Society says US and Israeli attacks have struck 24 provinces across the country, leaving 201 people dead and 747 wounded.

• At least 115 killed, mostly young girls, after a deadly strike on a school in southern Iran.

• Six killed in Pakistan as protestors storm US Consulate in Karachi after Khamenei assassination.

Iran targets US military bases in the region, with strikes reported in Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Manama, Doha and Kuwait. Blasts were also heard in the Jordanian capital, Amman.

🔗 Follow our live updates: https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran

the concluding chapter of february

"Interaction with nonhuman species is an important but under-investigated source of child development and mental and physical health, and also plays a significant role in adult wellbeing."

— Michael S Northcott, Place, Ecology and the Sacred: The Moral Geography of Sustainable Communities