🔻Rio Slade 🔻

My name is Rio. Here are my bookmarked tweets.

How am I already overdrawn

The cruelty If anyone cannot recognize the cruelty, do not waste your time trying to convince them.

Disguised men offer kids $100 cash to show up for yard work—ICE were waiting for them it was all a trap. Agents chase them off 2nd story balcony—severely injuring both legs. First was detained after rushed to emergency room. Second also has leg fracture—but afraid to get help. Incident occurred in Murfreesboro, Tennessee—located about 30 miles southeast of Nashville.

This moment was at the very beginning of the war, when we were displaced to the south of the Gaza Strip. My father was making his coffee from whatever dry husks he could find on the ground. I share this because I cannot hold myself together when I look back at these moments. They crush my heart and break me a million times. No matter how much I speak, words will never be enough to describe my father and who he truly was. Those words do not exist yet. I wish you had the chance to know him. He would never hurt anyone. He comforted others and helped everyone around him. This world was never meant for someone like you, my father.

Yesterday Meta told every US employee their computer will now record mouse clicks, keystrokes, and screenshots while they work. All of it goes into training an AI to do their job. In 30 days, 8,000 of these same employees are being laid off. Reuters got the memo. The wording is the company's own: the recordings will be used to build "AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously." Reuters also confirmed the May 20 date and the number, 8,000 people, exactly 10% of Meta's global workforce. Meta is spending $115 to $135 billion on AI infrastructure this year, almost double the $72 billion it spent last year. The entire business only generated $115.8 billion in cash for all of 2025. Meta is now planning to spend more on AI in 2026 than the whole company brings in. Part of the bill went to a company called Scale AI. Meta paid $14.3 billion for 49% of it last June, mostly to bring in CEO Alexandr Wang. Scale's whole job is to tag and clean the human-written data that AI models learn from. Meta wanted Wang because their old data supply ran dry. The public internet is almost out of fresh material to feed these models. A group called Epoch AI ran the math and projects the world will burn through its supply of high-quality human-written text on the web somewhere between 2026 and 2032. The industry calls this the "data wall." Google and OpenAI are stuck on the same side of it. So Meta turned inward, to the most expensive training material money can buy: their own employees doing their own jobs. Mouse movements teach the AI how to move around a screen, click by click. Keystroke logs hand it the exact shortcuts and rhythm an experienced worker uses, the muscle memory of the job. Screenshots show what a finished task should look like. The people being recorded in April are the raw material for the AI that replaces them in May. This is not just a Meta thing. Amazon laid off 16,000 corporate workers in January. Oracle let go of up to 30,000 of its people, about 18% of the company, on March 31. The cash they saved goes toward $156 billion in AI data centers. The whole pattern across big tech is identical. Record profits and record AI spending, paired with the biggest workforce cuts since the pandemic. The thing they are building is a software worker that opens the dashboard, reads the numbers, drafts the email, books the meeting, and never needs a coffee break. The training data for that worker is a senior Meta employee doing all of that, on Meta's payroll, one month before their last day.

A lot of the oil situation watchers are starting to go from reserved discomfort to open panic I’m sure that’s not a bad sign

This fire is 15-20 mins from my house. Ware, Pierce, and Brantley Co are in need of lots of prayers. Many folks struggling to move horses and pets. 🙏

@dbrent_ I'm so sorry this is happening to you 💔

Being laid off without any sign of landing a job, depleting my savings to survive, praying for a parent with cancer, all while battling depression has been the hardest journey of my adult life. I’m overwhelmed. I’m sad. But I’m hopeful and committed to see this through. ❤️

Meet Noor, folks. A female Persian Leopard who resides in Mazandaran, Northern Iran. Noor (نور) in Farsi means brightness and light. Beautiful and mighty like Iran.

I had no idea how involved the BPP was in disability justice until watching Crip Camp, and then it suddenly made perfect sense why no modern movement has even come close to their level. *true* justice for black folks, queer folks, etc, can’t exist w/o justice for the disabled too

Palestinian abductees are always in my mind.. as thousands suffer 24 hours a day in Jewish torture facilities. Free them from this horror 🗝️🇵🇸

Hey all, it’s publishing day for my book “How to Sell a Genocide,” which is a data-driven account of mainstream media’s role in creating the conditions of mass death in Gaza. 100% of royalties go to @MECAForPeace. Thank you! a.co/d/0eEN8Afq plutobooks.com/product/how-to…

The fact that even after 2.5 years of genocide, ex-IDF soldiers are still widely considered more reliable than Palestinians is simply fucking mind-blowing. No matter how many lies they tell, the entire West still takes their words over those of the actual victims. Fuck that shit.

LIVE FOOTAGE: After days of being trapped under the rubble, two Palestinian children were saved by First Responders. They were found hugging each other.

For when they say there was no racism in the Gen X 90s

The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now. Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs are now freely freely available on the Internet Archive, spanning 1830 through 2019. The arguments that shaped America, including Brown v. Board of Education. Loving v. Virginia. Read the full announcement ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s… @WMLawSchool #SupremeCourt #DemocracysLibrary

this was during Obama

In 2019, the settler on the right, Eliyaf Levy, killed 38-year-old Hamdi Alnasan. Seven years later—today—the settler on the left, Shmuel Wendy, killed Hamdi’s son, 13-year-old Awas Alnasan, while he was in school.

NSPM-7 is here