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Ethiopian TikTok grieves a popular creator. Are TikTok and Meta complicit in her death? globalvoices.org/2026/05/05/eth…

A Country That Argues Through Sound, by open.substack.com/pub/endalkchal…

Just finished Nicholas Enrich's new book, "Into the Wood Chipper," about Doge's destruction of USAID. It's a window into an asylum in which clueless zealots around Elon Musk were killing aid recipients worldwide without having a clue what they were even doing.

The Ethiopian community’s growth in the Twin Cities is visible here: years of faith, labor, community-building, and investment in America, while preserving deep Orthodox Christian and Ethiopian roots.

From local voices to global conversations, your donation helps us tell stories that matter, in new ways and across new platforms. globalvoices.org/donate/ #GVSpotlight

Two things can be true: It is entirely acceptable to say Candace Owens is a horrible person, an antisemite and part of the always-grifting right. It is also acceptable to recognize that this mockup is a, yes, vile depiction of Owens — trafficking in classic racist and misogynistic tropes of black women (“USES RICH WHITE MEN!” Nice touch there). I’d say it is below the president of the United States, but that train left the station a long time ago.

Minneapolis immigrants are still paying the cost of Operation Metro Surge, housing advocate AsaleSol Young writes. An extension of the pre-eviction filing period pushes the burden onto families, mutual aid networks and small landlords. sahanjournal.com/opinion/minnea…

More than 70 Minnesota children detained in Operation Metro Surge, data show. by @bzosiad and @CynthiaTu2 sahanjournal.com/immigration/ic…

The data-labelling industry relies heavily on workers in Kenya and Nigeria to annotate what AI systems learn. Those same workers rarely see their languages reflected in the systems they help train. Support this vital work: globalvoices.org/donate globalvoices.org/2026/04/20/afr…

Stephanie Wambugu, Running Behind: granta.com/running-behind/

Believe it or not -- I sense we are going to look back at this time as the "good old days" of LLMs (before they became either impossibly expensive, driven by advertising interests or other enshitiffication)

In grad school, I couldn't find a good resource for figuring out where to publish in communication. So I built one. Journal Navigator — 76 journals, searchable by subfield, impact factor, and open access status. endalk-chala.github.io/journals/

Trump is now doing the very thing he once said Sheldon Adelson did to Marco

Falling down the ethio jazz rabbit hole and it's like peeling back the corner of wallpaper in a room and finding the door to a whole new world.

🚨New preprint. Many papers show AI can write fact-checks as well as humans (or better) in the lab, but very few test this in the real world. We run the first online evaluation of AI fact-check writing with X Community Notes’ AI writer API. Paper w. @bakkermichiel 1/

A Brief History of Intelligence by @maxsbennett is utterly wonderful in its clarity. A must read for anyone in both natural and artificial intelligence bookshop.org/p/books/a-brie…

A brief reflection on how audiovisual forms are reshaping digital journalism and why this transition matters for media practice, audience engagement, and journalism studies. endalk-chala.github.io/posts/2026/04/…

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people. OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted? A thread on some of of our findings: