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Feb 26, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Another perspective on the gigwork fire-targeting story:
According to @ByronTau who has been reporting on Premise for the last 6 months, there is a possibility that the tasks were issued by Western intelligence (not Russian), as Premise has deep ties to the US intel community.
In this scenario, I imagine that Ukraine counterintel could have detained suspicious folks checking on the infamous mysterious markings on roofs/roads: facebook.com/Ukravtodor.Gov…
Feb 25, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
New (to me) dimension of crowdwork platforms:
Russian military uses Premise microtasking platform to aim and calibrate fire during their invasion of Ukraine. Example tasks are to locate ports, medical facilities, bridges, explosion craters. Paying ¢0.25 to $3.25 a task.
This is confirmed by the Ukraine's armed forces: facebook.com/GeneralStaff.u…
Feb 24, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
If you can donate money to support Ukraine now, here are some vetted funds 👇
As mentioned before:
Looking through a popular public dataset for risk scoring in home credit from a real home credit company, and some of the features included there are absolutely wild:
"Who was accompanying client when he was applying for the loan?" (Unaccompanied, spouse, partner, group of people)
This is confirmed by the Ukraine's armed forces: