It's great to see my writing about climate grief highlighted in this thoughtful series about housing and the climate from KQED
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Scroll down for my thoughts on grieving the future losses of climate change (and a nice snapshot of my bookcase)! https://www.kqed.org/science/1985440/draft-living-in-californias-sierra-foothills-residents-confront-climate-change
New: Negotiations between 180+ former Facebook content moderators in Kenya & Meta to reach a settlement in a labor lawsuit collapsed on Monday. The case now heads back to court
We feature the backstory of the lawsuit & the workers in our recent investigation: https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/kenya-content-moderators/
In July, I traveled to Nairobi to meet the young African content moderators leading an unlikely fight against big tech. They say reviewing content for the likes of Meta, ChatGPT, and TikTok through outsourcing companies left them with unspeakable trauma, including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, insomnia, and thoughts of suicide.
They've sued Meta. And now they want to form the world's first union for content moderators.
Read and share if interested https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/kenya-content-moderators/
The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe has electrified the transnational anti-abortion movement. My 1st dispatch on the global impacts of Dobbs brings us to Ethiopia, where a landmark abortion law hangs in the balance as the opposition rides a post-Roe high.
The reporting for this piece began in Rwanda at the world's largest gender conference. Many thanks to the United Nations Foundation for supporting the project!
https://www.codastory.com/waronscience/dobbs-abortion-global-impact/
For @CodaStory I spent last month looking at how the rise of surveillance is changing the geography of America's immigration enforcement apparatus.
It's moving the border away from a physical barrier and onto the bodies of people seeking to cross it. My deep dive: https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/us-immigration-surveillance/
This week, the Missouri House voted 2 defund the state's public library system. The cuts came in response to a lawsuit challenging SB 775, a Missouri law banning sexually explicit material in school libraries & threatening librarians found in violation of the policy w jail time
I did a deep dive into the law and how it is permanently affecting the lives & work of librarians statewide. Some are considering leaving the field. Others are working in fear and isolation
https://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/missouri-libraries-book-ban/
Trying it out here again...
A new law in Missouri orders jail time for librarians who share "explicit sexual material" with minors. I spoke to a librarian visited by police in her school library over baseless accusations from a parent that she was stocking pornography on bookshelves. This happened months before the law passed. Now, she has decided to leave the profession
https://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/missouri-libraries-book-ban/
