@themarkup reports on how Chinese migrants are following step-by-step instructions on Douyin, the equivalent of TikTok, in order to immigrate to the United States via Central South America. These include tips on clearing your chat history, bribing law enforcement officers and more. On arrival in the US as asylum seekers, they find a reality they were unprepared for.
What’s your perception of a gig worker? Most are relatively young, but @restofworld spoke to 50 who are aged between 50 and 75 as part of its Graying Gig Workers series. Maureen Zephora Khumalo from Johannesburg, South Africa, told Rest of World that friends laugh at her for doing a young people’s job, but “with harsh economic conditions and my children out of jobs, I [may] even work until my eighties because no one can give me money for free.”
https://restofworld.org/2024/aging-global-gig-workers/
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@404mediaco’s @jasonkoebler did a deep dive into where that “All Eyes on Rafah” image came from. The original image was shared in February in a Facebook group for people interested in exploring artificial intelligence and then modified to remove the watermark that indicated it was made using AI.
https://www.404media.co/viral-all-eyes-on-rafah-image-came-from-facebook-group-to-advance-ai/
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Oleh Tymoshenko writes for @timkmak’s Counteroffensive about the people who live by the border in Ukraine, and steadfastly refuse to leave. "As long as there is us, as long as there are those who protect us, we live somehow," Nataliia tells him.
https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/they-live-on-the-frontlines-why-wont
How do babies learn? @KnowableMag reports on new research that says napping is crucial — could this change parents, preschools' and policymakers’ decisions for older kids?
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2022/how-learning-happens-brains-sleeping-babes
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For @discoverflux, @mattsheffield interviewed author Margot Susca about how hedge funds are destroying local journalism (the subject of Susca’s new book) and why this matters.
https://plus.flux.community/p/why-it-matters-that-hedge-funds-are
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And we learned so much from @Toastie’s High Country News article on how a wildflower is teaching non-Native people about food sovereignty.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/a-wildflower-is-teaching-the-non-native-public-about-food-sovereignty/
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