Author: jon
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DRAFT: With FISA abuses in the news, and the USA Freedom Act sunsetting in December, it might get interesting
DRAFT! Feedback welcome! Revised version will be published on the Get FISA Right blog When the Patriot Act was passed in 2001, and again when the FISA Amendment Act was passed in 2008, several key surveillance powers were supposed to “sunset” in a few years unless Congress voted to reauthorize them. Which Congress has, repeatedly,…
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Activism beyond Facebook: what are the alternatives?
DRAFT! Feedback welcome! Please do not share broadly yet! A couple of years ago, in my Open Source Bridge presentation Grassroots Activism is Hard. Can Open Source Help?, I talked about “the Facebook dilemma”. On the one hand, it’s very easy to set up Facebook groups and events for activism, and that’s where a lot…
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Out to Innovate: Software Biases and Your Projects
The three key takeaways from my talk on Intersectional internet studies, trans-inclusive design, accessibility, design justice, and your projects at NOGLSTP’s Out to Innovate 2019 conference: Software tends to reinforce societal systems of oppression There are ways to do better You can apply these perspectives to your own work Here’s the slides — followed…
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7 Organizations to Support on #GivingTuesday
Center for Media Justice, Gender Justice League, Black Mamas Matter Alliance, and more
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SXSW and Diversity: Community Voting Ends this Thursday
Community voting for the 2019 SXSW conference ends on Thursday, August 30. As I said in To Save Tech, #ListentoBlackWomen SXSW says that community voting counts for about 30% of their decision. Since white guys have historically been overrepresented at SXSW (and Black women historically underrepresented), and most voters are past attendees, there’s a built-in…
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Sex, pleasure, and diversity-friendly software: the article the ACM wouldn’t publish
Oh well, maybe next time.