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doctordisaster: gayrightsactivia: closet-keys: Katie Porter: You’ve got about 15 thousand…

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Katie Porter: You’ve got about 15 thousand contractors watching murders, stabbings, suicides, other gruesome disgusting videos for content moderation, correct?

Mark Zuckerberg: Congresswoman, yes, I believe that that’s correct.

Katie Porter: You pay many of those workers under $30 thousand a year, and you’ve cut them off from mental health care when they leave the company, even if they have PTSD because of their work for your company. Is that correct?

Mark Zuckerberg: Congresswoman, my understanding is we pay everyone, including the contractors associated with the company, at least a $15 minimum wage, in markets, in cities where there’s a high cost of living, that’s a $20 minimum wage. We go out of our way–

Katie Porter: Thank you, I’ll take your word at the wage. Reclaiming my time. According to one report I have, and this is straight out of an episode of Black Mirror, these workers get nine (*nine*) minutes of supervised wellness time per day. That means nine minutes to cry in the stairwell while somebody watches them. Would you be willing to commit to spending one hour a day, for the next year, watching these videos and acting as a content moderator, and only accessing the same benefits available to your workers?

Mark Zuckerberg: Congresswoman, we work hard to make sure we give good benefits to all the folks who are doing this–

Katie Porter: Mr. Zuckerberg, reclaiming my time, I would appreciate a yes or a no. Would you be willing to act as a content moderator? To have that life experience?

Mark Zuckerberg: I’m not sure it would best serve our community for me to spend that much time–

Katie Porter: Reclaiming my time. Mr. Zuckerberg, are you saying you’re not qualified to be a content monitor?

Mark Zuckerberg: No, Congresswoman, that’s not what I’m saying.

Katie Porter: Okay, then you’re saying you’re not willing to do it.

Video of the transcript above is here and it’s fantastic.

Where’s my vine compilation of women in congress kicking Mark Zuckerberg’s rhetorical ass

bitter-badfem-harpy: shutyourmoustache: LADY GAGA FUCKING SNAPPED. I was just thinking of this…

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LADY GAGA FUCKING SNAPPED.

I was just thinking of this deposition earlier today actually. Honestly seeing Lady Gaga tell off a man publicly and on official court record????????

“Don’t you roll your eyes at me.” I think of how scared she must have been every time I refuse to break eye contact with a man and tell him what I really think. I think of how angry she must have been and how fiercely protective she was in that moment.

Student in Peru makes history by writing thesis in the Incas’ language

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Quechua is still spoken by 8 million people across the Andes, but Roxana Quispe Collantes hopes she can give it added value

A doctoral student in Peru has made history by becoming the first person to write and defend a thesis in Quechua – the language of the Incas, which is still spoken by millions of people in the Andes.

Roxana Quispe Collantes received top marks from Lima’s San Marcos university, the oldest in the Americas, for her study on Peruvian and Latin American literature, which focused on poetry written in Quechua.

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Nazi directives and accounts of Roma genocide go on display

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Forgotten Victims exhibition in London documents fate of 500,000 Roma and Sinti

Marked “secret” and signed by Heinrich Himmler, the bureaucratic language of document 664-PS dated 10 March 1944 masks the genocidal reality of its real meaning.

It reads that as far as Jews and Gypsies are concerned, “the accomplished evacuation and isolation of these groups by the chief of the security police and the SD [SS intelligence]” had made previous prohibitions against them now meaningless.

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Jonathan Glazer: ‘Nazism took hold like a fever. It’s happening again’

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How do you follow up a masterpiece like Under the Skin? By giving BBC Two viewers five minutes of unexpected hell. The visionary director on how a Trump hunting trip inspired his mystery short

The Americas with Simon Reeve is an amiable travelogue in which a dishy documentarian gads about the US. This Sunday night he was in California, examining giant redwoods and Beyoncé’s mansion. At 10pm, the credits rolled and, abruptly, BBC Two plunged us into hell.

For five minutes before the start of Live at the Apollo, the channel screened a new short film in which a masked mob hang a man in a forest. He plunges for what feels an eternity (actually 86 seconds) down a well from the wooden gibbet, before the rope stops spooling and the man – miraculously alive – slowly starts to haul his way towards the light. It was broadcast without introduction or credits. There was no clue as to who was responsible.

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