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Leila Janah
@leila_c
Healing, not tweeting for now. Founder
@Samasource
@Samaschoolorg
&
@LXMIofficial
. Author of #GiveWork. Adventure-lover. Sarcoma fighter.
SF, or a suitcasesamasource.comBorn October 9Joined January 2008
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Leila Janah
@leila_c
11 years ago when I started
@Samasource
, everyone told me it would fail. Fairly paid humans in the AI loop? In Africa? W/ global clients? SO proud of the dream team that got us to a $14.8M Series A led by
@ridgevc
to power the training data revolution!
techcrunch.com
Samasource raises $14.8M for global AI data biz driven from Africa
AI training data provider Samasource has raised a $14.8 million Series A funding round led by Ridge Ventures. The San Francisco-headquartered company delivers Fortune 100 companies with the inputs...
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@leila_c
So refreshing to see a tech leader recognize Africa’s place as the next great economic powerhouse. 👏🏽👏🏽
@jack
, we’d be delighted to host you
@Samasource
to meet our 3,000+ East African team!
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Sama
@SamaAI
Open invite to visit us in Nairobi, Gulu, or Kampala @jack!! twitter.com/BusinessInside…
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Leila Janah
@leila_c
This photo of the #tickfire is haunting. How many heroic firefighters will have to risk their lives, how many acres will have to burn, how many families will have to lose their homes before the US takes serious climate action?
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LACoFD
@LACOFD
Tick Fire: 4,300 acres & 5% containment; see IC update for addt’l info on the LACoFD website at fire.lacounty.gov. To our residents, please continue to heed evacuation orders. The Ready! Set! Go! guide is available on our website. For fire updates, follow @LACoFDPIO.
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Leila Janah
@leila_c
Quick update from cancerland: chemo sucks wigs are more fun than I thought and my m-team
@Samasource
& the doctors & nurses at @sloan_kettering all have a spot in The Good Place (which I also binge-watched; 🙏🏽 for the moral philosophy refresher
@nbcthegoodplace
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@leila_c
“In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations.”
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BuzzFeed News
@BuzzFeedNews
This octopus was caught changing colors while “dreaming” 🐙
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@leila_c
So sorry to hear this.
@PacificStand
will be sorely missed.
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Nick Jackson
@nbj914
Today is an extremely difficult day, the worst day—and I’m heart-broken and devastated. We learned this morning, without any warning, that our primary funder is cutting off all charitable giving and that our board is shutting down @PacificStand, effective next Friday.
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@leila_c
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” RIP Toni Morrison. Your light shines on in your words.
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RAICES
@RAICESTEXAS
Marvin, a 32 yr old man from El Salvador, died in front of his 8 yr old daughter this morning in a CBP detention center. The mother of their child is not yet reunited w/her grieving daughter. This is the 8th death in CBP custody in 9 months. RIP, Marvin, Via -
@angelcanales
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Leila Janah
@leila_c
How many potential medicines will we lose in felling the most biodiverse forest on Earth? And for what — cattle farms and timber? This is pure stupidity.
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Bill McKibben
@billmckibben
The numbers in this story--and their implications--are truly terrifying. It echoes this week's story of Trump drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge. Acts of nihilistic vandalism, just for the sake of $ and of showing who's boss nytimes.com/2019/07/28/wor
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
CBP is detaining *American citizens.* How would you feel trapped in a border camp, where guards wear face masks because the human odor is so strong? When we allow the rights of some to be violated, the rights of all are not far behind.
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Ken Dilanian
@KenDilanianNBC
A Dallas-born citizen picked up by the Border Patrol has been detained for three weeks dallasnews.com/news/immigrati
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Leila Janah
@leila_c
What tech must do to stop hate speech per
@JGreenblattADL
- 1. Reset algorithms 2. Slow down the speed of posting for human content review 3. End monetization of hateful content 4. Label + Eliminate bots 5. Commit to 3rd party audits So relevant & on point. #fortunetech
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Leila Janah
@leila_c
Access to medicine & diagnostic tools for orphan diseases is a human right. Yet thousands of people around the world diagnosed with my rare cancer, epithelioid sarcoma, don’t have the resources I do to fight it. Thanks
@chrissyfarr
for sharing this story 🙏🏽 #sarcomaawareness
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Christina Farr
@chrissyfarr
My latest: @leila_c is a tech entrepreneur in a male dominated world, so she's learned to advocate for herself. But nothing could have prepared her for the battles with the health care system as a patient with a rare cancer: cnbc.com/2019/07/13/can
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@leila_c
My family was told to “go back where we came from” in the years after my parents came here from India. Had all Indians followed this advice, there’d be no Microsoft or Google. Immigrants and people of color have built this country, and we aren’t going anywhere.
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Ayanna Pressley
@AyannaPressley
THIS is what racism looks like. WE are what democracy looks like. And we’re not going anywhere. Except back to DC to fight for the families you marginalize and vilify everyday.
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Billie Jean King
@BillieJeanKing
“The success story of women’s sports shows how marginalized groups can be given opportunities through policy interventions.” Thank you, #TitleIX, for this #USWNT, and for giving all girls the opportunity to follow in their footsteps. 🇺🇸 #FIFAWWC
theguardian.com
USA's formidable women's team is no accident. It's a product of public policy | Moira Donegan
Thank title IX for the dominance of our female sports stars. The law has nurtured several generations of women and girls
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