After blogging at achangeiscoming.net and Medium for the last couple of years, I’m ready for a change. \u00a0One of my goals for 2021 is to start experimenting with a newsletter. \u00a0Substack’s popular, but … well let’s just say that it’s not all that congruent with the brand I’m trying to create. \u00a0 <\/p>\n
Instead, I’m going to give self-hosted Ghost a try. \u00a0 How hard can it be? \u00a0 <\/p>\n
Yeah, yeah, I know, famous last words. \u00a0 We’ll see how it goes. \u00a0For now I’m still setting up so expect some roughness … for example, it doesn’t look great when tweeted<\/a>. \u00a0 But hey, gotta start somewhere.<\/p>\n Posts here will probably be a mix of summaries of existing links, short posts, and longer essays. \u00a0To start with here’s a handful of interesting recent articles and a paper.<\/p>\n Alex Hanna and Meredith Whitaker in Wired<\/em><\/p>\n The situation has made clear that the field needs to change. Here\u2019s where to start, according to a current and a former Googler.<\/em><\/p>\n Siva Vaidhyanathan in The New Republic<\/em><\/p>\n Can the largest media platform in the world ever be made safe for democracy?<\/em><\/p>\n Eric Meyer on meyerweb<\/em><\/p>\n Twitter doesn\u2019t make it obvious whether someone else\u2019s content has been described<\/em><\/p>\n Jessica Lingell in Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences<\/em> | 2021<\/p>\nTimnit Gebru\u2019s Exit From Google Exposes a Crisis in AI<\/a><\/h3>\n
Making Sense of the Facebook Menace<\/a><\/h3>\n
Highlighting Accessible Twitter Content<\/a><\/h3>\n
A Queer and Feminist Defense of Being Anonymous Online (PDF)<\/a><\/h3>\n