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Posted here is an email I broadcast to the entire Recurse Center alumni community, of which I was a part, through their internal email list serve called Community (source code). The subject of the email was “Why I am disassociating myself from the Recurse Center.” Predictable spoiler alert: after sending this email, RC faculty has …
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Earlier this week, the WordPress NYC Meetup group hosted me at their space inside the Microsoft Technology Center. I was there to present some of my recent work on “Enterprise Features for Small Businesses Running WordPress.” I had a lot of fun and really appreciated the opportunity to showcase three projects I’ve been working on …
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1984 is here … 13 years early…. The following call has been issued to peace activist groups. In addition we urge all computer people to join us in Atlantic City in May. Computers are increasingly being used as a means of oppression. They are at the heart of every military and police system. They are …
I wrote an essay in 2009 about the Internet of Things, before people were calling it “the Internet of Things.” When I re-read it this afternoon, in 2017, I noticed something rather queer. It wasn’t actually about the Internet of Things at all. It was actually a personal manifesto advocating Anarchism, and condemning techno-capitalist fascism. …
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Last Saturday, I hosted another Mr. Robot’s Netlfix ‘n’ Hack session at the Recurse Center. I’ve been doing these weekly for three weeks now (here is a link to last week’s), and this time was the first week when the new set of batchlings were in the space. To better include them, we rebooted the …
About a week ago I published a post cautiously praising the work of Boulder, Colorado based SafeArx, the company behind a smartphone app called Cell 411 claiming to cut down on the need for police: Let me be clear that I love the idea of a decentralized emergency alerting response platform. I think it’s incredibly …
If you’re following anti-police brutality activists, you might have heard about a new smartphone app that aims to cut down on the need for police. Cell 411 is touted as “the decentralized emergency alerting and response platform” that “cops don’t want you to use.” There’s only one problem: its central marketing claims aren’t true. Cell …
Buoy, (the first?) anti-policing community-based crisis response system, is now available in Spanish. This is a really, really big deal, because communities of Spanish-speaking residents in the United Snakes of Amerikkka are some of the most oppressively policed communities in this so-called “great†country. These are sometimes families of immigrants, with members who may be …
Enhanced transcript of panel introductions at the “Technology, the Internet, and Race: Tool for Liberation or Oppression?” session at the recent at 25th annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Washington, DC held on October 14th, 2015. The transcript is “enhanced” because its links were added by me, the transcriber, and do not mean to …
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