Weekly Tidbits, Vol. 30

Alien: Earth is a creepy and terryfing love letter to the franchise.

Barrier being built around besieged Sudan city - 'With these berms, the RSF is creating a literal kill box around el-Fasher' Yale Humanitarian Research Lab

Mind the gap: Building inclusive AI for African languages - DAIR's Kathleen Siminyu discusses the limitations priotizing one language over another as we build language models to train systems how to recognize them.

Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first - Let's go, Kenya.

Raven Maragh-Lloyd on Black Networked Resistance - Professor Lloyd talks about her book and how Black digital spaces continue a long and complicated tradition of resistance and care.

Reading Rainbow Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! - Ok, this is just cool.