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recent bookmarks from jmBig tech relies on refugee labour2021-09-30T09:19:57+00:00
https://restofworld.org/2021/refugees-machine-learning-big-tech/
jmAll of the largest companies in the world are today powered by a covert crowd of the system’s castoffs. Platforms have found amid those struggling to stay afloat in informal work — or else barely clinging onto a life in formal employment — a desperate mass to be tempted with the promise of a better life. Such a promise, however, is broken as soon as it is made; the petty services of the informal sector resemble little more than a blueprint for the microtasks of big tech, without offering anything in the way of rights, routine, role, security, or a future.
]]>colonialism refugees ai data machine-learning amazon google tesla uber mechanical-turkhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:74e3b26de6c2/Climate Change Could Force Millions of Americans to Flee the Coast. AI Predicts Where They'll Go2020-01-29T11:12:58+00:00
https://earther.gizmodo.com/climate-change-could-force-millions-of-americans-to-fle-1841261940
jmBy the end of the century, sea level rise could force 13 million people to move away from the U.S. coasts. But it’s not just the coasts that will be affected—so will the places where those migrants end up.
In a study published last week in PLOS One, researchers used artificial intelligence to predict where those places are. The findings could have huge value to people not only living on the coast, but the communities that may deal with an influx of climate refugees inland over the coming century.
“Our findings indicate that everybody should care about sea-level rise, whether they live on the coast or not,” Bistra Dilkina, a Computer Science Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California who led the study, said in a statement.
no shit, Sherlock -- and this will be dwarfed by levels of international migration....]]>climate-change migration papers climate ai future refugeeshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a97038ca1a6b/'Bees, not refugees': the environmentalist roots of anti-immigrant bigotry | Environment | The Guardian2019-08-19T14:01:14+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/15/anti
jmproclamations of looming dystopia in the form of a mass climate-caused global refugee crisis put well-intentioned environmentalists on some shared ground with fear-mongering nativists, even as they’re attempting to convey a useful urgency about the future of the planet and the disproportionate impacts of climate crisis on the developing world.
“Not to say there won’t be climate-related migration, but I think that portrayal of migrants as climate change refugees, especially these mass movements of people, feeds into the anti-immigrant environmental worldview,” said Hartmann. “Alarmist hyperbole and stereotypes around climate conflict and even climate mass refugee dislocation is based on kind of old, racially and colonially charged stereotypes of poor people of color being more prone to violence in times of scarcity.”
A worsening climate crisis could easily become a cudgel for anti-immigration activists looking to use ecological preservation as an excuse to close borders, a means of gesturing toward doing something about climate crisis that aligns with the right’s other political goals.
“As it becomes more difficult for Republicans to deny that climate change is a thing, this is a really likely next move for the right in climate politics,” said Hultgren.
]]>environment racism politics climate-change future dystopia refugees immigrationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b8ec5fba47df/Excellent twitter thread on the "threat" of a "flood" of refugees post-climate-disaster2019-04-25T10:25:41+00:00
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1119495699408801792.html
jmracism fascism climate-change extinction earth climate-breakdown migration refugees walls borders futurehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:366ce7f38585/How Irish Navy’s expertise saved 367 from 30-second sinking in Mediterranean2015-08-10T16:38:13+00:00
http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/how-irish-navy-s-expertise-saved-367-from-30-second-sinking-in-mediterranean-1.2310376#.VcWph8F8TmM.twitter
jmAs the Ribs made their assessment of the situation and began reassuring those on board that help was at hand, the hopelessly overloaded vessel suddenly listed and sank. The sinking took just over 30 seconds. In those 30 seconds, the Captain of the LE Niamh took a number of instant command decisions that saved hundreds of lives. Most of the refugees cannot swim. Their life expectancy in the water would be measured in seconds.
The crew of the Ribs immediately began throwing orange lifejackets into the water – encouraging the now frenzied and milling survivors to cling to them. Individuals, then groups clung to the lifejackets – and one another – as the Ribs rallied around trying to keep the floating human mass from dispersal into wider waters and almost certain death.
In the meantime, the commander of the LE Niamh managed to manoeuvre close in to the survivors where spare life-rafts were launched into the water. These 25-man inflatable life-rafts were specifically ordered and kept on board the LE Niamh following a “war-gaming” exercise, where the officers and crew envisaged such a nightmare scenario. Had this forward planning not taken place – there would have been no such extra inflatable lifeboats on board.
]]>war-gaming planning navy ireland mediterranean sea boats refugees migration drowning liferaftshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f4038221ab9f/I was a Lampedusa refugee. Here’s my story of fleeing Libya – and surviving2015-04-20T20:01:44+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/20/lampedusa-refugee-fleeing-libya-boats-italy?CMP=share_btn_tw
jm'The boy next to me fell to the floor and for a moment I didn’t know if he had fainted or was dead – then I saw that he was covering his eyes so he didn’t have to see the waves any more. A pregnant woman vomited and started screaming. Below deck, people were shouting that they couldn’t breathe, so the men in charge of the boat went down and started beating them. By the time we saw a rescue helicopter, two days after our boat had left Libya with 250 passengers on board, some people were already dead – flung into the sea by the waves, or suffocated downstairs in the dark.'
]]>lampedusa migration asylum europe fortress-europe italy politics immigration libya refugeeshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:776bac552108/