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DRAFT: How social media algorithms embed and magnify racism, sexism, and misogynoir
DRAFT! Work in progress! Please do not forward broadly yet. Feedback welcome! There’s a comment section at the bottom, experimenting with Commento, or you can get in touch with me via email or social networks. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit and other social networks use algorithms to decide what news to show you; which of your…
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JEDII Tech Links – January 8
Back to links on diverse topics today … including a video! My Data Rights by Chenai Chair on My Data Rights (mydatarights.africa) A feminist review of AI, privacy and data protection to enhance digital rights. Are we all equal in the eyes of AI? What are the opportunities and challenges for marginalised groups…
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Social networks, disinformation, and the white supremacist mob
Image description: a multi-colored meter, with the needle pointing to the orange area “attempted coup”, labled Coup-o-meter. Screenshot from Is this a coup? What happened yesterday in DC and statehouses around the country is certainly part of an attempted coup, but it’s just one event so needs its own name … a lot of people…
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JEDII Tech Links – January 6
Quite a crop of links today! Envisioning a Decolonised Digital Rights Field – and Charting Next Steps By Nani Jansen Reventlow and Claire Fernandez on Digital Freedom Fund (digitalfreedomfund.org) If together we had built a digital rights field in which all groups in society have their voices heard and which works to protect the digital…
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Privacy Roundup – JEDII Tech Links for January 5
Image from ENISA. Description: a keyboard, including a big blue key with the word Privacy and an image of a lock. With the People’s Privacy Act about to be introduced in Washington state, I’ll be focusing even more than usual on privacy for the next few months. Here’s a handful of recent…
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Tech Worker Organizing: the new Alphabet Workers Union
Getting the new year off to a fast start, workers at Google today announced the Alphabet Workers Union. From their page on Why we organized: We recognized that our power as Alphabet workers—full-time employees, temporary employees, vendors, and contractors—comes from our solidarity with one another…. To fight the systems of oppression that persist to this…
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Colophon
JEDII Tech is hosted using Ghost, an open source publishing platform. I chose Ghost because I’ve used WordPress for years and want to try something different (and I’d really prefer to avoid the white male-dominated, YCombinator-funded Substack world). JEDII Tech is currently self-hosted (on a $5/month Digital Ocean droplet) so that I can…
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Starting 2021 with the Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies
What if the technologies we cherish were developed to crash, instead of maintain, the matrix of domination of capitalism, hetero-patriarchy, white supremacy, and colonisation? — Joana Varon,
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Welcome to JEDII Tech
After blogging at achangeiscoming.net and Medium for the last couple of years, I’m ready for a change. One of my goals for 2021 is to start experimenting with a newsletter. Substack’s popular, but … well let’s just say that it’s not all that congruent with the brand I’m trying to create. Instead, I’m going…
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Happy New Year!
2017 was a challenging year – although some good things did happen. Here’s to a more positive 2018!
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Lessons (so far) from Mastodon for independent social networks
Update, November 2022: This post was originally written in May 2017. Since then I’ve updated by fixing typos and adding new links but haven’t changed the lessons. In 2018 I noted that Mastodon has continued to make progress, and that were new lessons to learn, so added “(so far)” to the title. Flash forward to…
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“Diversity-Friendly Software”: a SXSW proposal!
Originally posted on the TapestryMaker blog Update, October 10: the proposal was accepted. Yay! And, thanks! SXSW’s “Panel Picker” opened for voting today, so it’s a golden opportunity to check out the session Shireen Mitchell and I proposed on “Diversity-friendly software“.  Voting counts for 30% of the score on a proposal, so if you’re interested…
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Notes from Underground: Tribal Convergence (New Year’s Weekend 2015/2016)
For the first time in years, we rang in the New Year at a psytrance party in SF — Tribal Convergence at the Gingerbread House! Michael Liu, Witchdokta, and the Mendo Organized Chaos crew had done a great job putting the party together, and the place looked amazing.  We found a cab with no problem…
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Galactic: New Year’s Eve 2013/2014 at the Atrium
“It’s the happiest I’ve seen you since I can’t remember when …” — more than one friend, to me, October-December 2013 Indeed! The last few months have been great: working on an exciting project, and (finally!) hanging out online at a positive, diverse, site with interesting people and great discussions. And even though 2013 as…
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TSA Comments due *Monday*, 11:59 p.m. Eastern
If you’re tired of the TSA to electronically strip-searching us, abusing and humiliating people, making kids cry, and wasting billions of dollars on technology that doesn’t actually make us more secure, make sure to file your comments by Monday June 24 at 11:59 p.m.  You can theoretically submit comments online via regulations.gov (although as…
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A Rainbow of Light: Replenishing at the Atrium
A rainbow of light Candles and colorsReplenishing energy.A rainbow of light
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Notes from Underground: The Dark Before the Dawn
Dancing in the darkness, Your deepest desires … Do you know why you’re here? Do you think you have control? — Lexicon Avenue, Why R U Here? What a week. What a month. Hard to believe I’m back on the fast track in the Silicon Valley startup scene. Shipping! Hiring! Organizational issues! Interpersonal conflicts! Planning! …
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A tidal wave in progress? I ♥ Innovation at the Women 2.0 PITCH Conference
The sold-out Women 2.0 PITCH Conference’s opening keynote features Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr and Hunch,* on “Making and the True Path.” The rest of the sessions look great too: case studies by Robin Chase of Zipcar and Julia Hu of Lark, and the “$50 Million Panel” featuring Deena Varshavskaya of Wanelo, Leah Busque of…
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Notes from Underground: Eclipse
End-of-year schedule overload led to an intense week, complete with meetings trickling over to the weekend. Sigh.  But Friday afternoon was sunny, so I knocked off early and went for a walk in the woods. After dinner I took a short nap and a good thing too. What leads to a pivot? You don’t just…