and welcome to redacted tonight. so it seems like everywhere we're seeing the signs of automation, which makes a lot of people feel uneasy. but i don't care why some of. 7 my best friends are robots. what's so weird about a self check out machine, and cbs wishing you and your family. i happy hanukkah. why does it make you so uncomfortable when the caring horizon? customer service chat bought? asks about your mild lupus. it's not disturbing that these guys know where i live after they deliver food once and to the visit. but it's not creepy. they're my friends. what did you know that some of our automated friends are an automated at all? in fact, there's a large amount of human labor that gets hidden behind so called algorithms. it's also known as micro work. micro work is a series of small,

tedious tasks that workers often in the global south get paid pennies to complete. many of these workers live in prisons or refugee camps their work powers, the likes of google, twitter, facebook test for amazon, the riches tech companies in the world. profit awful labor from the most poorly paid, poorly protected workers in the poorest parts of the world. so i found out my best robot friend, who just gets me with his sophisticated algorithm is actually just 30 somali refugees in kenya. if i find out that smarter child was actually a child, i'm going to cry contractors post human intelligence tasks to the site which appear on the screens of thousands of workers who jostled to complete the tasks on a piece by piece basis. from each transaction, the platform takes a 20 percent cut. the work is carried out remotely,

and workers never encounter each other except as digital avatars on online forums. so while we criticize billionaires for shooting themselves into space, unfortunately successfully, we're missing the fact that for over a decade just means those has been profiting from a site that hosts micro job listings for the most disempowered workers. for a penny few might pay for a person to tell you if there is a human in a photo. jeff pays is explained at the public opening of his business. amazon mechanical turk, mechanical turk is actually a small fish in the pond, but was the prototype upon which bigger micro or companies like app and click worker, and plea meant, or based claimant. that's in. and so imagine spending an hour finding humans in this picture. and these loves, don't have anywhere near the career of waldo, and you still can't afford to buy lunch. that's called you got placement.

unfortunately, when the pays this low micro work does not mean bless work, that's because workers spend a lot of their time looking for tasks. and labor is also so cheap says sometimes it's free because payment is optional. wage theft is the norm across mechanical took sites with about 15 percent of the tasks going. unpaid micro work is also called click work because it involves and list clicking ghost work because it's completely hidden and crowd work. because it apparently takes a village to run an algorithm. and they do employ entire lunches to do these menial tasks. even the village drunk is doing it in between blackouts, while a massive amount of raw data gets collected and needs to be tagged and sorted for the not so artificial intelligence, software and big tech to operate. micro workers are paid pennies to do the thankless work of sifting through hate speech and gory photos and videos,

transcribing, audio, or showing algorithms how to identify various photos of cats. and they're not always cute cats. i radically workers are asked to teach the algorithm and once a i can do it on its own, the labour will be obsolete or perhaps big tech will figure out how to get cats to recognize those other cats. and then those few ones will get paid and viral videos and worldwide fame. the range of many tasks goes from the tedious to the weird. sometimes the temporary bosses request yours, ask their anonymized employees to send along their underwear, take photos of their feet or to draw pictures of their genitals like micro loans. the world bank in the u. n. c. micro work as the savior of the increasingly depressed economies of the global south and yields connect refugees and prisoners or the poor and rural areas are occupied territories to microworks platforms and

spread the gospel of give work. not a oh yeah, give a man a fish who h for a day teach an algorithm to see a cat. and the man forgets he's in prison. this is not real employment. even though these tiny tasks serve as a full time job for many in 201875 percent of the crowd sourced work and listed for testers, autonomous vehicle training. for example, identifying and labeling objects in an urban environment came from venezuela. country then struggling with a currency crisis. that's probably why it has the vehicle. they're running people over on auto pilot. they've been programmed by desperate pissed off people. when working on and identifying and labeling objects herself driving software, those venezuelans were probably like this guy looks like the guy i owe money to we're going to say the square is in express lane. yeah. speed up

right there. micro workers are the perfect employees, unable to advocate for themselves unable to organize or unionize, and barely recognized as workers, while crises push people across the borders. that's not a problem for big tech. that's an opportunity for them to exploit the hidden labor of the dispossessed capital without borders or restrictions has crushed the rights of workers from freelance to gig, to invisible to goes work to words we don't even have yet. for now, we can only point out what's wrong with this picture. coming to you from washington dc. this is for adapted tonight the media. i

welcome, i'm naming care bonnie: we camped on vacation. now let's take the news on a private plane across state lines and hope no one ever finds out about it. speaking of which, glean maxwell, heiress and darkest karen in our timeline has finally appeared in court for trial in new york city. this week. bloomberg asks a serious question. glen maxwell, sex trafficking trial is set to be one of the biggest of the me to era. but the jury may have to grapple with a unique question. is maxwell, herself, a victim? oh, it's so hard to grapple with our women capable of taking advantage of other women and grappling. can women be sexual predators and proud us for girls just like wren do? oh boy, i am grappling, i've grappled so hard and i can't get up. is maxwell herself? a victim some question. first of all, are you a newspaper,

bloomberg or the defense team? secondly, are you asking? what if a sexual predator was also a victim? at the same time, all doing the same things? what if words had no meaning. what if i told you that a donut is a brute? also, this questions not unique at all. the perfect female defense is to blame your crimes on a male partner. chances are he's a criminal anyway. right lady. we also have, at the same time, the trial of elizabeth holmes, she defrauded investors, doctors, and the public when selling fake at home blood tests for her startup therapy. her defense was she was a victim of sexual abuse. ma'am, this is not a trial about sexual abuse. you're on trial for wire fraud. please. it's time to look ourselves in the mirror and say i can be evil to. i can be

a white collar criminal, a monster in international sex predator. let's use the same defensive man. like i had no idea those girls were that young or for elizabeth holmes. i didn't know the patients were that old. they should have gone to a real doctor and bloomberg. i got a unique question. fauria. what was michael bloomberg name doing on the liter express flight logs? was he a victim to? and now in even worse knew the new varian kama come know the varian only one can no be. no, no, no. the variant only ban kimono omicron, i was kidding. i studied ancient greek and college, which is true. so with my unique expertise, i can comfortably tell you that america is in a fraternity and not a good one. it's one of those breaths where you die from

a beer anima hazing ritual. oh, i hate that. with the threat looming of another lockdown and, and a dip in the stock market. fight in rush to issue a statement saying, i call on other nations at the w t o meeting to meet the u. s. challenge to waive the intellectual property protection for coven vaccines. so these vaccines can be manufactured globally. i endorse this position in april. let's remember, april was like 3 decades ago and news years. and mainstream news outlets parroted the claim that the white house supports a patent waiver and vaccines for the world. alternative media, however, reported documents reveal that despite public statements, the biden administration is not fighting for a patent waiver. but he said he was gonna look at this conversation biden had with an activist suffering from us. if the u. s. discovers a vaccine 1st, will you commit to sharing that technology with other countries? and will you ensure there are no patents to stand in the way of other countries and

companies mass producing those life saving vaccines? absolutely, positively. this is the only you main thing in the world to do where i present it now and i propose we do it now. set aside $25000000000.00 to put together a plan now. oh, come on. that guy is dying. it would be rude not to lie to him. yes. $25000000000.00. when i make it a $100000000000.00 to what was it you said, a horse and every stable? oh no vaccines. yeah, sure. ice cream, hepatitis c, whatever you want, you got it. i feel we positively, it looks like america's position on the vaccine is vague and uncertain, is actually stalling negotiations on the patent waiver at an informal meeting of the trade related aspects of intellectual property rights or the trips council. the body that determines global intellectual property rules. the u. s. declined to take

robust action to approve and intellectual property waiver. come on, you are expecting robust action from him. i've had catch up more robust than this guy. the poor countries have been asking nicely for the vaccine, pat, pat and waiver for a while, so they could produce their own medicine. they were like, hey, we were just wondering if we could maybe stop this mass, death from happening and bite and said absolutely positively. benny asked the big pharmaceutical companies, hey, would you mind if we shared the patented formulas? and they were like, no, never ask us this again and bite and said, absolutely, positively. i won't ever ask you this again. moving on to the poll lease in louisiana law enforcement agencies have been accused of targeting hispanic drivers and traffic stop and identifying them as white on tickets. mis identification makes

it impossible to track racial bias. this has been a problem in police departments across the country. when federal agencies try to gather information about civil rights violations, everyone getting pulled over suddenly becomes why? according to police departments suspected of racial profiling, beige is white. now trope, also, white chestnut, is not that different from your average parchment police officers in the state or pulling over a disproportionate amount of sanchez's and lopez's. it's obvious and yes, of course there can be white hispanic people. and we all know, race and ethnicity are social constructs, and now police officers will be the 1st to point out that when they're accused of racial profiling whole, cording to the enter kiss historian david graber, the category of races completely on scientific and anyone deploying those racial categories must be assumed to have races motive,

because it's ethically suspect and methodologically flawed. now, get in the car, amigo. next up, our cars are talking to cops. cars. damn. you can trust anyone these days. i thought my old 2014 honda accord was right or die. but turns out whenever i connect my bluetooth to listen to music, the car was accessing a lot more than my throughout fi, which was just k push on repeat. but car give police access to everything in its so called infotainment system where i've been who i've called or texted or email photos web search history. and it definitely knows about the time. i googled m. i a narcissist and then googled you google your nurses, and then i google therapist in my metropolitan area while courts increasingly recognize your phones privacy as a direct extension of your own issue of cracking, infotainment systems. that is,

all of our information in our car and downloading their contents remains unsettled, and border patrol could be exploiting the lack of legal coverage to get out information that would otherwise be protected by a warrant. our cars are becoming a convenient mode of transportation for police to get around the 4th amendment. it's much better actually having a car just in a joke. like i did just there. i didn't have to handle my data to the authorities or pay any insurance. we have to go to a quick break, but stay right there and we'll be back with more. cho, o service delivers a $155000000000.00 pieces of mail every year. constantly 40 percent of the world's mail right now the us postal service is in the fight of its life to say remain that is really bad financial shape. now facing default, the postal service is a cash cow, and there was a way to pull money out of the postal service to put into

a federal budget. there was a mandate that you're bringing $100000.00, new revenue every month. the nature of privatization in the us postal service is very much hidden from public view. it's privatization from the inside out. that's a big business in money. it's not about the public giving them a service that they deserve. it's not about quality train workers. it's about with you a tool that was bad for your eyes and your post. yeah. that it would stop you from having real friends and funding and go friend. but what they fail to mention is that you can make thousands of dollars every weekend by simply playing video game with

a couple of them with georgia was me. because with net, okay, much with his daughter soon. of course, to make video games a high paying job. you have to be gifted and quick with it. i'm going to open up with the nurse to live near bottom and miss thompson with webpage bentley up in young booth but even started yet glove. boy, when you most told me i was do it. i don't you mean? yeah. was it neil's good guy of the owner, but that would be cool. it will still be stuck with these odd to do. i also need the welcome back. i'm still naomi care. bonnie, india is far right, prime minister render mowdy has apparently walked back new agricultural policies, the same policies that caused indian farmers to go into crippling deck and leading

to the largest protest in world history. for more we go to our top indian, but actually pakistani correspondent jennifer con. hello jennifer. hello, naomi. look pakistani indian, it doesn't matter. what matters is that we are all united in solidarity behind the undeniable cause of neurons remotely and against these fascist indian farmers, fascist indian farmers. i thought these farmers were fighting against the laws that will completely destroy them. oh yeah. they are typical neo liberal deregulation policies that favor large corporations. small farmers say the changes make them vulnerable to competition from big business, and that they could eventually lose price support for staples, such as wheat and rice. so just another example of irregular people ignoring the needs of corporations, not to mention unfair bias against india. races tend to nationalist government

buffer are new muslim. yeah. so what i like right wing, strong men like moody and trump, and bolts and arrow at that german guy. hitler, why no hitler was austrian. i'm talking about the german right wing. strong man. arnold schwartzenegger. arnold. schwartzenegger is austrian. what ever? you know what, you sound just like the 700 indian farmers that have tragically died since the beginning of these protests. oh wow. so i guess that's why mowdy is walking back these new policy. but no, he's it right wing strong man. he doesn't care about trivial matters like death. he cares about bigger things like votes. mo, these reversal of these laws came ahead of important elections for his b, j. p. party in state such as with their par,

dash and punjab. both home to large numbers of farmers. oh, so just politics, just politics. how dare you, regular americans like you, he to stay out of mo, these affairs. but instead you're doing the opposite. citing damning examples of reagan era policies that have led to irreparable damage to the u. s. as farmers, 87 farmers unions in the us have extended solidarity to the ongoing protest by farmers and india. in a strong letter. the organizations draw a sharp connection between how agriculture has been affected by forces of neo liberalism in both india and the us. oh my god it's oh, is ronald reagan this in neo liberalism, that blah, blah blah? who cares? what about right wing? strong man? i don't care about american farmers. what does victor orbit have to say about this? who victor or been that he's hungry? he's right wing authoritarian islam of but we'll get to that matter. you don't

appreciate right wing strong man like i do strong, they're masculine. they implement harsh austerity measures, while scapegoating and under class they do that thing where you mix up a bunch of raw eggs and drink it out of glass. here's modi, ending a speech with literally the imperial march. ah, that is real. but, you know, aside from backing down against these farmers, mo, the has done a good job. during his time in power. they net worth of indian billionaires has grown exponentially while unemployment has skyrocketed. wow. he's really achieving the american dream over there. so now that he's walked back, these policies are the indian farmers done protesting. no, the farmers will not call off these protests and will now push for other demands, including minimum support prices for crops,

and compensation for the families of farmers that died during the protests. it's like, what do these people even want, you know, minimum support prices for crops and compensations for the what they want is to humiliate a strong man like no render amadi. jennifer? why do you identify with this guy so much because i am also a strong man. fine, strong boy. fine weak boy. are you happy? yes, i am. thanks for the report. jennifer, thanks. i owe me. moving on, new inflation numbers are making policy makers nervous, but the real danger comes in the form of their overreaction. for more on this, we go to our intelligence failure, anders li, ah, inflation ask any mainstream economist and they will tell you that it is the greatest threat to the economy if not civilization at large. what about climate

change you ask when we don't have time for climate catastrophes when the price of bread has gone up $0.04. currency inflation can mean many things like that. your cash will start filling up with hair and getting so big. it doesn't fit your wallet . it also means that prices of goods and services are rising to your money. whether it's cash, credit or check is worth less. going to be clear, i just said 2 words worth in, less meaning less valuable. not one word worth less, which would be a degree in economics. according to new economic data, inflation over the past year has risen. i over 6 percent to give you an idea of how much 6 percent is in this case. just take one percent, add 8 to it and then subtract 3. all right, i'm not an economist. i don't know what 6 percent means here, but everyone talking about it makes it sound really bad. more inflation means

a less valuable dollar. how much less valuable you asked? 6 percent. the by the administration initially predicted that inflation would only rise by 2 percent, which is 3 times smaller. according to some economists, we should have seen this inflation coming, and it's only going to get worse. the loudest voice on this matter is former treasury secretary, whose policies led to the 2008 crash. his saginaw, larry summers. he fixed that current treasury head, janet yellen needs to be way more concerned about inflation. though his opinion of her may have something to do with his other view, that the lack of women who work in math and science is probably due to issues of intrinsic aptitude. there's not a lot of data out there to support his conclusions on gender. though there is some showing that larry summers is intrinsically an, as he thinks that all the money coming in from the trumpet biden's stimulus is the

infrastructure bill. and now whatever they can find, the reconciliation package to wheel out on a stretcher are all causing the economy to overheat over. he is an interesting metaphor using the situation, given the state of the actual economy for to be completely accurate. we'd have to imagine the supposed risk of overheating taking place in the middle of the yukon, where you're wearing a speedo filled with ice cubes lay re thinks the economy needs time to digest all this deeply inadequate public investment or else inflation will knock society out of control, but it's not at all clear that government spending as much really anything to do with the increased rate of inflation. plenty of other 1st world countries has spent weigh more money on their economic recovery and their inflation rates are more. so whether this 6 percent come from the corner, the center for economic and policy research, it's cove,

it because of the pandemic. consumers in the united states and other countries shifted their consumption from services like restaurants and movies, to goods like cars, television sets, and smartphones. this surgeon, demand for goods created the backlog of containers in container ships that we are now seeing at major ports. huh. so maybe its supply chain issues that are increasing inflation and not the mere width of a suggestion that the government should spend to improve people's lives. but if larry summers and company truly are worried about inflation, there are ways to offset government spending and make it deficit neutral. like say, raising taxes on billionaire. i thought the bleeders tax was not the right thing to do. i thought the mark to market capital gains aspect was impracticable, and i thought the general idea of targeting a few 100 people for a special tax was something that didn't fit with my sense of the right of

values. if you raise taxes on billionaires that will inflate. how much my friends will be mad at me. larry's friends on wall street make money out of money out of money. if all of a sudden that money is worth less money, well then they have slightly less of their precious money. it on the likelihood inflation will subside in the coming months. a 300000000000 dollar deficit sounds like a lot until you consider that we live in a 30 trillion dollar economy. but that won't stop deficit hacks from trying to raise interest rates. impose austerity and bring down wages and employment, all in the name of fighting inflation. but to same script every time. if you're actually concerned about people not having enough money for goods and services, then great. let's do something about that. but don't pee on us and say about it's inflation from dc. i'm anders late with reductions in ah,

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ah, twitter face is a barrage of accusations that it's doing the u. s. government bidding after the social media giant work with a washington think tank in suspending, more than 3000 calories from 6 countries for a lead state back propaganda. also coming up on the program, the u. k. is royal college of midwives apologizes for new supposedly inclusive guidelines describing mothers of postnatal people. a former n h s nurse believes an influential lobby group is steering conversation. this is yet another example of stone wool going in with diversity offices and telling people how to reset the thinking of their members.