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links.md

Data Feminism
Catherine D’Ignazio, Lauren Klein
https://bookbook.pubpub.org/data-feminism

Awful AI
"Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI - hoping to raise awareness to its misuses in society"
https://github.com/daviddao/awful-ai/blob/master/README.md

Architectures of Managerial Triumphalism (Review of Benjamin Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty)
by R. Joshua Scannell, boundary2, 7 Nov 2018
https://www.boundary2.org/2018/11/r-joshua-scannell-architectures-of-managerial-triumphalism-review-of-benjamin-bratton-the-stack-on-software-and-sovereignty/?fbclid=IwAR3DsJ8ql8PrkO5qf6wn1kwkKRj47RdY55itc4jjU6nA6LNLXER8knKFHxc

Personal Panopticons
"A key product of ubiquitous surveillance is people who are comfortable with it"
by L. M. Sacasas, 5 Nov 2018
https://reallifemag.com/personal-panopticons/

An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption
by Nitasha Tiku, 22 Oct 2018
https://www.wired.com/story/alternative-history-of-silicon-valley-disruption/

Who's Behind ICE?
"The Tech Companies Fueling Deportations"
https://mijente.net/notechforice/

Weaponizing the Digital Influence Machine
"The Political Perils of Online Ad Tech"
by Anthony Nadler, Matthew Crain, and Joan Donovan, Data & Society, 17 Oct 2018
https://datasociety.net/output/weaponizing-the-digital-influence-machine/

Selling Smartness
"Corporate Narratives and the Smart City as a Sociotechnical Imaginary"
Jathan Sadowski and Roy Bendor, 16 Oct 2018
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0162243918806061

Friction-Free Racism
"Surveillance capitalism turns a profit by making people more comfortable with discrimination"
Chris Gilliard, 15 Oct 2018
http://reallifemag.com/friction-free-racism/

To Save a World: Geoengineering, Conflictual Futurisms, and the Unthinkable
by T.J. Demos, Oct 2018
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/94/221148/to-save-a-world-geoengineering-conflictual-futurisms-and-the-unthinkable/

From the birth of computing to Amazon: why tech’s gender problem is nothing new
"Decades after women were pushed out of programming, Amazon’s AI recruiting technology carried on the industry’s legacy of bias"
by Marie Hicks, 12 Oct 2018
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/11/tech-gender-problem-amazon-facebook-bias-women

Weaponised AI is coming. Are algorithmic forever wars our future?
"The US military is creating a more automated form of warfare – one that will greatly increase its capacity to wage war everywhere forever."
by Ben Tarnoff, 11 Oct 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/11/war-jedi-algorithmic-warfare-us-military

Governing Artificial Intelligence
"Upholding Human Rights & Dignity"
Mark Latonero, Data & Society, 10 Oct 2018
https://datasociety.net/output/governing-artificial-intelligence/

A Master Class in Women’s Rage
"Want to understand what all the women you know are so angry about? Here’s a syllabus"
by Kate Harding, 27 Sep 2018
https://electricliterature.com/a-master-class-in-womens-rage-7b58ec4c255e

A Calculating Look at Criminal Justice
"The criminal justice system increasingly uses algorithms to decide legal fates. But embedded bias and uneven use open opportunities for unfairness"
by Ramin Skibba, 26 Sep 2018
https://undark.org/article/a-calculating-look-at-criminal-justice/

All Eyes on the Border
"In Trump’s America, the politics of recognition are changing"
by Shannon Mattern, September 2018
https://placesjournal.org/article/all-eyes-on-the-border/

Sand in the gears
For TCI x Are.na's Library of Practical and Conceptual Resources, Ingrid Burrington meditates on the geological construction of modern life, and what it means to live in a state of "aggregate."
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/sand-in-the-gears/

Controlled Measures
"Phrenology lies at the heart of biometric governance"
by R. Joshua Scannell, 17 Sep 2018
http://reallifemag.com/controlled-measures/

Alternative Influence - Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube
by Rebecca Lewis, Data & Society, 18 Sep 2018
https://datasociety.net/output/alternative-influence/

Five theses on technoliberalism and the networked public sphere
by Damien Smith Pfister and Misti Yang, Sep 2018
http://damiensmithpfister.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Pfister-Yang-5-Theses-on-Technoliberalism.pdf

Anatomy of an AI System
"The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources"
by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, Sep 2018
https://anatomyof.ai/

What Should an Anthropology of Algorithms Do?
by Nick Seaver, Aug 2018
https://culanth.org/articles/966-what-should-an-anthropology-of-algorithms-do

Logic Magazine Issue 5: Failure
https://logicmag.io/05-failure/

• "Project Runway" by The Editors (full piece)
  How to build a better failure.
  https://logicmag.io/05-project-runway
• "The Undertakers of Silicon Valley" by Adrian Daub (excerpt at The Guardian)
  A report from the front lines of Silicon Valley's failure industry.
  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/21/the-undertakers-of-silicon-valley-how-failure-became-big-business
• "How To Kill Your Tech Industry" by Marie Hicks (full piece)
  A cautionary tale about how sexism helped destroy British computing.
  https://logicmag.io/05-how-to-kill-your-tech-industry
• "The Automation Charade" by Astra Taylor
  Finding the human in the machine.
  https://logicmag.io/05-the-automation-charade/
• "Engineers Don't Solve Problems" by Dean Chahim
  What the story of Mexico City's struggle to stay above water teaches us about engineering.
• "The Problem with Facebook Is Facebook: Siva Vaidhyanathan on Antisocial Media"
  A conversation about moving fast and breaking everything.
• "'Everybody's Brain Knows How to Run a Tail': Glen Weyl Talks to Jaron Lanier About How to Live with Technology" (full piece)
  What is a human being?
  https://logicmag.io/05-everybodys-brain-knows-how-to-run-a-tail
• "Walking Through a Minefield: Jonathan Zittrain on the Future of the Internet, Then and Now"
  A conversation about the many failures of the modern internet.
• "Life Aboard the Rocket Ship: An Interview with an Anonymous Engineer" (full piece)
  An engineer fails up, down, and sideways.
  https://logicmag.io/05-life-aboard-the-rocket-ship
• "The Servers Are Burning" by Dale Markowitz (full piece)
  What happens when code explodes?
  https://logicmag.io/05-the-servers-are-burning
• "Freedom Isn't Free" by Wendy Liu (full piece) An inquiry into the failure of the free software movement, and a proposal for recovering its radical soul. https://logicmag.io/05-freedom-isnt-free
• "Data Against Democracy" by Bermet Zhumakadyr kyzy A dispatch from Kyrgyzstan about using data to help rig an election.
• "RadioShack Sucks" by Colin Muller The rise and fall of the “gripe site,” and the corporate enclosure of the web.
• "The People’s Utility" by Devin Kennedy The internet isn’t a market. It’s a utility.
• "Different Ways of Moving Through the World" by Ashley Shew How does technology fail disabled bodies?
• "Nothing Ventured" by Nick Serpe A look at the rhetoric versus the reality of venture capital.
• "The Museum of Failed Startups" by Gaia Scagnetti and Sha Hwang The purest way to study startup as a culture is through failure.

Odd Numbers
"Algorithms alone can’t meaningfully hold other algorithms accountable"
by Frank Pasquale, 20 August 2018
http://reallifemag.com/odd-numbers/

Digital sovereignty or digital colonialism?
by Renata Avila Pinto, Jul 2018
http://sur.conectas.org/en/digital-sovereignty-or-digital-colonialism/

Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests
by Amanda Taub and Max Fisher, 21 Aug 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/world/europe/facebook-refugee-attacks-germany.html

Inside Facebook’s Myanmar operation - Hatebook
A REUTERS SPECIAL REPORT, Aug 2018
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-facebook-hate/

How social media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump
"To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves."
by Zeynep Tufekci, 14 August 2018
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-social-media-took-us-from-tahrir-square-to-donald-trump/

Captivating algorithms: Recommender systems as traps
by Nick Seaver, Aug 2018
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55eb004ee4b0518639d59d9b/t/5b707506352f5356c8d6e7d2/1534096646595/seaver-captivating-algorithms.pdf

Two-Faced
"The culture of platform capitalism"
by Daniel Joseph, 9 August 2018
http://reallifemag.com/two-faced/

Tech’s Military Dilemma
"Silicon Valley’s emerging role in America’s forever war"
by Jacob Silverman, 7 Aug 2018
https://newrepublic.com/article/148870/techs-military-dilemma-silicon-valley

Potemkin AI
"Many instances of “artificial intelligence” are artificial displays of its power and potential"
by Jathan Sadowski, 6 Aug 2018
http://reallifemag.com/potemkin-ai/

Facial Recognition Is the Perfect Tool for Oppression
"With such a grave threat to privacy and civil liberties, measured regulation should be abandoned in favor of an outright ban"
by Woodrow Hartzog, 2 Aug 2018
https://medium.com/s/story/facial-recognition-is-the-perfect-tool-for-oppression-bc2a08f0fe66

Life Aboard the Rocket Ship - An Interview with an Anonymous Engineer
Logic Issue 5 "Failure", Aug 2018
https://logicmag.io/05-life-aboard-the-rocket-ship/

Freedom Isn't Free
by Wendy Liu, Logic Issue 5 "Failure", Aug 2018
https://logicmag.io/05-freedom-isnt-free/

The Digital Turn
edited by David Golumbia, boundary 2, vol.3 issue 3, Aug 2018
https://www.boundary2.org/b2o-digital-turn-special-issue/

• The New Pythagoreans by Chris Gilliard and Hugh Culik, 17 Jul 2018 http://www.boundary2.org/2018/07/gilliard-culik/
• Digital Proudhonism by Gavin Mueller http://www.boundary2.org/2018/07/mueller/
• Artificial Saviors by tante http://www.boundary2.org/2018/08/tante/
• The Computational Unconscious by Jonathan Beller http://www.boundary2.org/2018/08/beller/
• What Indigenous Literature Can Bring to Electronic Archives by Siobhan Senier http://www.boundary2.org/2018/08/senier/
• The Digital Turn and the Ethical Turn: Depoliticization in Digital Practice and Political Theory by Rob Hunter http://www.boundary2.org/2018/08/hunter/

Fred Turner: Silicon Valley Thinks Politics Doesn’t Exist
31 Jul 2018
https://032c.com/fred-turner-silicon-valley-thinks-politics-doesnt-exist

Organising Silicon Valley's Shadow Workforce
"The tech giants rely on an ever-growing underclass of contractors who are paid less and denied benefits. Is it time for them to organise?"
by Wendy Liu, 31 July 2018
http://www.notesfrombelow.org/article/organising-silicon-valleys-shadow-workforce

Neodymium
"Magnets: How Do They Work?"
by Ingrid Burrington, 30 Jul 2018
https://popula.com/2018/07/30/neodymium/

'The discourse is unhinged': how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong Artificial intelligence (AI)
"Social media has allowed self-proclaimed ‘AI influencers’ who do nothing more than paraphrase Elon Musk to cash in on this hype with low-quality pieces. The result is dangerous"
by Oscar Schwartz, 25 Jul 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/25/ai-artificial-intelligence-social-media-bots-wrong

The surveillant consumer
Luke Stark, Karen Levy, 25 Jul 2018
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0163443718781985

Material Epistemologies of the (Mobile) Telephone
Matthew Hockenberry, Anthropological Quarterly Volume 91, Number 2, Spring 2018
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701825

Can We Make Non-Racist Face Recognition?
Sidney Fussell, 25 jul 2018
https://gizmodo.com/can-we-make-non-racist-face-recognition-1827639249

Software as Ideology
Code Societies, Day 8 with American Artist
written by stud1nt, School for Poetic Computation, 23 Jul 2018
https://medium.com/@sfpc/software-as-ideology-6ad1091ef929

Why Do People Share Fake News? A Sociotechnical Model of Media Effects
Alice E. Marwick, July 2018
https://www.georgetownlawtechreview.org/why-do-people-share-fake-news-a-sociotechnical-model-of-media-effects/GLTR-07-2018/

How American Economics is Ruining Your Life
"Why America Collapsed Instead of Joining the Modern World"
Umair Haque, 22 Jul 2018
https://eand.co/how-american-economics-is-ruining-your-life-d66bcb4bac45

Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation
by Samantha Bradshaw and Philip N. Howard, Jul 2018
http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/93/2018/07/ct2018.pdf

Design Justice, A.I., and Escape from the Matrix of Domination
by Sasha Costanza-Chock, updated 18 Jul 2018
https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/costanza-chock

Myth and the Making of AI
by Molly McCue and Kat Holmes, 16 Jul 2018
https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/holmes-mccue

The Environment is Not a System
by Tega Brain, July 2018
http://www.aprja.net/the-environment-is-not-a-system/

What Do Facial Recognition Technologies Mean for Our Privacy?
By Jordan G. Teicher, 18 July 18 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/lens/what-do-facial-recognition-technologies-mean-for-our-privacy.html

Tracking Disinformation by Reading Metadata
by Data & Society Affiliate Amelia Acker, 17 Jul 2018
https://medium.com/@MediaManipulation/tracking-disinformation-by-reading-metadata-320ece1ae79b

Technoleviathan
"China, Silicon Valley, and the rise of the global surveillance state."
by Brian Hioe, Jul 10 2018
https://popula.com/2018/07/10/china-silicon-valley-state-surveillance/

Code Red
"Organizing the tech sector"
by Alex Press, n+1 Issue 31, Spring 2018
https://nplusonemag.com/issue-31/politics/code-red/

The quantified heart
"Artificial intelligence promises ever more control over the highs and lows of our emotions. Uneasy? Perhaps you should be"
Polina Aronson and Judith Duportail, 12 Jul 2018
https://aeon.co/essays/can-emotion-regulating-tech-translate-across-cultures

The Eugenicist Doctor and the Vast Fortune Behind Trump’s Immigration Regime
by Brendan O'Connor, June 25 2018
https://splinternews.com/the-eugenicist-doctor-and-the-vast-fortune-behind-trump-1827322435

Racial Shorthand: Coded Discrimination Contested in Social Media
Edited by Cruz Medina and Octavio Pimentel
http://ccdigitalpress.org/book/shorthand/

Big Brother’s Blind Spot
"Mining the failures of surveillance tech"
by Joanne McNeil, The Baffler no.40, July 2018
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/big-brothers-blind-spot-mcneil

All EFF’d Up
"Silicon Valley’s astroturf privacy shakedown"
by Yasha Levine, The Baffler no.40, July 2018
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/all-effd-up-levine

Privatizing Poverty
"How the poor became an alien population"
by Kim Phillips-Fein, The Baffler no.40, July 2018
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/privatizing-poverty-phillips-fein

Self-Invasions and the Invaded Self
"The hidden injuries of the age of exposure"
by Rochelle Gurstein, The Baffler no.40, July 2018
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/self-invasions-invaded-self-gurstein

Speech Defects
"How consumer marketing distorts democracy"
by Jim Sleeper, The Baffler no.40, July 2018
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/speech-defects-sleeper

A Thousand Unblinking Eyes: A History
"Cinema and surveillance from Fritz Lang to Michael Mann"
by Nick Pinkerton, The Baffler no.40, July 2018
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/a-thousand-unblinking-eyes-pinkerton

Trial by Fire
"How Nina Droz Franco became a face of Puerto Rican resistance"
by Molly Crabapple, The Baffler no.40, July 2018
[https://thebaffler.com/salvos/a-thousand-unblinking-eyes-pinkerton](https:// https://thebaffler.com/salvos/trial-by-fire-crabapple

Private Telegram, Public Strife
"The precarious future of messaging apps."
by Jacob Silverman, July 2018
https://longreads.com/2018/07/03/private-telegram-public-strife/

Beyond Disruption
"How Tech Shapes Labor Across Domestic Work & Ridehailing"
by Julia Ticona, Alexandra Mateescu, Alex Rosenblat, Data & Society Report, June 26 2018
https://datasociety.net/output/beyond-disruption/
5 Star Service: A curated reading list
reading list accompanying the report, curated by Alexandra Mateescu, June 27 2018
https://points.datasociety.net/5-star-service-a-curated-reading-list-7f7c3b5cfea1

DECEIVED BY DESIGN
"How tech companies use dark patterns to discourage us from exercising our rights to privacy"
Forbrukerrådet, June 27 2018
https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-06-27-deceived-by-design-final.pdf

Brown Existence Anxiety
"The courts and the culture are building an edifice of exclusion"
by Rafia Zakaria, June 26 2018
https://thebaffler.com/alienated/brown-existence-anxiety-zakaria

Who Gets to Live in Silicon Valley?
"Google and San Jose hope to make the city more affordable for working- and middle-class families."
by Ingrid Burrington, June 2018
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/who-gets-to-live-in-silicon-valley/563543/

Humane Metrics/Metrics Noir
by Martina Franzen, Eileen Joy, Chris Long, June 2018
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19823/

Guerrilla Open Access
by Balázs Bodó, Laurie Ellen, Chris Kelty, June 2018
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19825/

Predatory Publishing
by Kirsten Bell, Jill Claassen, Lena Nyahodza, Reggie Raju, Vaclav Stetka, June 2018
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19827/

Crawling the City
"By enlisting millions of smartphone users to make cities more legible for consumption, apps like Foursquare and Yelp are also helping gentrify them."
by Will Paynel, June 2018
https://logicmag.io/04-crawling-the-city/

AS OF___ growing between inside///& outside — timings\,
by Jennif(f)er Tamayo, June 2018
http://contemptorary.org/as-of___-growing-between-inside-outside-timings/

HOW SOCIAL NETWORKS SET THE LIMITS OF WHAT WE CAN SAY ONLINE
by Tarleton Gillespie, June 26 2018
https://www.wired.com/story/how-social-networks-set-the-limits-of-what-we-can-say-online/

YouTube keeps deleting evidence of Syrian chemical weapon attacks
"As Google-owned YouTube continues to delete millions of videos, the Syrian Archive is racing to back-up crucial evidence"
by Kate O'Flaherty, June 26 2018
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/chemical-weapons-in-syria-youtube-algorithm-delete-video

THE WIRETAP ROOMS
"The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities"
Ryan Gallagher, Henrik Moltke, June 25 2018
https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/

The woman who taught internet strangers to actually care for one another
by Claire L. Evans, June 23 2018
https://qz.com/1309564/the-woman-who-taught-internet-strangers-to-actually-care-for-one-another/

The Dangers of Facial Analysis
By Joy Buolamwini, June 21 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/opinion/facial-analysis-technology-bias.html

Policing Is an Information Business
by Ingrid Burrington, Jun 20 2018
https://urbanomnibus.net/2018/06/policing-is-an-information-business/

The CompStat Evangelist Consultant World Tour
by Ingrid Burrington, Jun 20 2018,
https://urbanomnibus.net/2018/06/the-compstat-evangelist-consultant-world-tour/

A Non-Exhaustive Taxonomy of Tools of Data-Driven Policing
by Ingrid Burrington, Jun 19 2018
https://urbanomnibus.net/2018/06/non-exhaustive-taxonomy-tools-data-driven-policing/

The Messy Fourth Estate
"I want to believe in journalism. But my faith is waning."
by danah boyd, Jun 20 2018
https://medium.com/s/trustissues/the-messy-fourth-estate-a42c1586b657

Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay
by John Herrman, June 20 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/magazine/want-to-understand-what-ails-the-modern-internet-look-at-ebay.html

Bias detectives: the researchers striving to make algorithms fair
"As machine learning infiltrates society, scientists are trying to help ward off injustice."
by Rachel Courtland, June 20 2018
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05469-3

Critical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
by Melanie Penagos, June 20 2018
https://points.datasociety.net/critical-perspectives-on-artificial-intelligence-and-human-rights-971bfc02d3c

Machine learned cruelty and border control
by Flavia Dzodan, June 19 2018
https://artificeofintelligence.org/machine-learned-cruelty-and-border-control/

AI in the Doctor-Patient Relationship
"Identifying Some Legal Questions We Should Be Asking"
by Claudia Haupt, June 19 2018
https://points.datasociety.net/ai-in-the-doctor-patient-relationship-1b44dd1b24c8

Why Do We Care So Much About Privacy?
"Big Tech wants to exploit our personal data, and the government wants to keep tabs on us. But “privacy” isn’t what’s really at stake."
by Louis Menand, June 18 2018
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/18/why-do-we-care-so-much-about-privacy

XYZ
by Tactical Technology Collective
"XYZ is a space for practical tools to navigate digital security and privacy from a gender perspective, learn from each other's activism, inspire one another and co-create."
https://xyz.informationactivism.org/en/

Organization after Social Media
by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter (2018)
http://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/organizationaftersocialmedia-web.pdf

History Won’t Save You
"For most of Trump's cabinet there will be book deals, not prosecutions"
by Jacob Silverman, June 15 2018
https://thebaffler.com/latest/history-wont-silverman

Epic Systems v. The Workforce
"There are ways to counter the erosion of employee rights"
by Jennie Rose Halperin, June 15 2018
https://thebaffler.com/latest/epic-systems-halperin

Carbon Ironies
"William T. Vollmann on the hot dark future"
by Wen Stephenson, June 13 2018
https://thebaffler.com/latest/carbon-ironies-stephenson

The Unbearable Awkwardness of Automation
"The machine age is changing the nature of work. In the process, it is also transforming buildings, and making them less hospitable for human use."
by Carolina A. Miranda, Jun 13 2018
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/the-unbearable-awkwardness-of-automation/562670/

How alt-right Twitter tricks the media into panicking
"@thebradfordfile has been cited as evidence of the rise of the alt-right, but its popularity is faked through power-engagement groups and networks of sockpuppets."
by Paris Martineau, Jun 13 2018
https://theoutline.com/post/4918/how-alt-right-twitter-tricks-the-media-into-panicking?zd=1&zi=ct7rqiz5

'Surveillance society': has technology at the US-Mexico border gone too far?
"Private companies are helping the government build a virtual alternative to the physical wall, prompting an outcry"
by Oliva Solon, June 13 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/13/mexico-us-border-wall-surveillance-artificial-intelligence-technology

How Trump Voters Decide Who to Trust
"Google keywords, fact-checking the news, and the occasional sophistication of conservative media analysis"
by Francesca Tripodi, June 12 2018
https://medium.com/s/trustissues/how-trump-voters-decide-who-to-trust-4e66fc7b6d27

It was raining in the data center
(First given as a talk at eyeo 2018, under the title Fragment Ecology for Online Space)
by everest pipkin, Jun 12 2018
https://medium.com/@everestpipkin/it-was-raining-in-the-data-center-9e1525c37cc3

The Menace and the Promise of Autonomous Vehicles
"What does it mean to experiment with technology that we know will kill people, even if it could save lives?"
by Jacob Silverman, June 2018
https://longreads.com/2018/06/12/the-menace-and-the-promise-of-autonomous-vehicles/

Inside Palmer Luckey’s Bid to Build A Border Wall
"How the Oculus founder, along with ex-Palantir executives, plan to reinvent national security, starting with Trump’s agenda."
by Steven Levy, June 11 2018
https://www.wired.com/story/palmer-luckey-anduril-border-wall/

Whistleblowers are a terrible answer to the problems of big tech
"We cannot and must not leave moral decisions about our common future to the consciences of a privileged technological elite"
"If you need a whistle-blower to tell you that something is rotten at the heart of Silicon Valley – and the wider systems it’s enmeshed with - then we need to think a lot harder about how we talk about and explain the world to one another."
by James Bridle, 11 June 2018
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/silicon-valley-whistleblowers-james-bridle-book-new-dark-age

Henry A. Giroux: The Nightmare of Neoliberal Fascism
"It's time we recognize that capitalism is not a democracy"
by Mark Karlin, 10 June 2018
https://truthout.org/articles/henry-a-giroux-the-nightmare-of-neoliberal-fascism/

Technology, Political Economy, and the Role(s) of Law
by Julie Cohen, 8 June 2018
"This post is adapted from Part I of a book manuscript, Between Truth and Power: The Legal Construction of Informational Capitalism (OUP, forthcoming)."
https://lpeblog.org/2018/06/08/technology-political-economy-and-the-roles-of-law/

Blind Justice: Fairness with Encrypted Sensitive Attributes
Niki Kilbertus, Adrià Gascón, Matt J. Kusner, Michael Veale, Krishna P. Gummadi, Adrian Weller
submitted on 8 Jun 2018
"Recent work has explored how to train machine learning models which do not discriminate against any subgroup of the population as determined by sensitive attributes such as gender or race. To avoid disparate treatment, sensitive attributes should not be considered. On the other hand, in order to avoid disparate impact, sensitive attributes must be examined, e.g., in order to learn a fair model, or to check if a given model is fair. We introduce methods from secure multi-party computation which allow us to avoid both. By encrypting sensitive attributes, we show how an outcome-based fair model may be learned, checked, or have its outputs verified and held to account, without users revealing their sensitive attributes."
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03281

POTs: The revolution will not be optimized?
by Seda Gürses , Rebekah Overdorf, Ero Balsa
submitted on 7 Jun 2018
"The ability of these optimization systems to treat the world not as a static place to be known, but as one to sense and co-create, poses social risks and harms such as social sorting, mass manipulation, asymmetrical concentration of resources, majority dominance, and minority erasure."
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02711

Tech Platforms and the Knowledge Problem
by Frank Pasquale
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/05/tech-platforms-and-the-knowledge-problem/

How Bitcoin made right-wing conspiracy theories mainstream
"Critic David Golumbia is blowing the whistle on how crypto has normalized right-wing economic thought"
by Keith A. Spencer, June 8 2018
https://www.salon.com/2018/06/08/how-bitcoin-made-right-wing-conspiracy-theories-mainstream/

A New Tech Manifesto - Six demands, from a citizen to Big Tech
by Baratunde Thurston, Jun 4 2018
https://medium.com/s/trustissues/a-new-tech-manifesto-21d251058af3

The Menace and the Promise of Autonomous Vehicles
"What does it mean to experiment with technology that we know will kill people, even if it could save lives?"
by Jacob Silverman, June 2018
https://longreads.com/2018/06/12/the-menace-and-the-promise-of-autonomous-vehicles/

Conflict transformation in indigenous peoples’ territories: doing environmental justice with a ‘decolonial turn’
by Iokiñe Rodríguez & Mirna Liz Inturia, 18 Jun 2018
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21665095.2018.1486220

Whose Infrastructure? Towards Inclusive and Collaborative Knowledge Infrastructures in Open Science
by Angela Okune, Rebecca Hillyer, Denisse Albornoz, Alejandro Posada and Leslie Chan, June 2018
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01816808/document

Life, Liberty, and Trade Secrets
"Intellectual Property in the Criminal Justice System"
Rebecca Wexler, May 2018
https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/print/article/life-liberty-and-trade-secrets/

How the Tech Giants Created What Darpa Couldn’t
by Renee DiResta, May 29 2018
https://www.wired.com/story/darpa-total-informatio-awareness/

Effortless Slippage
by Ingrid Burrington
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/dimensions-of-citizenship/178279/effortless-slippage/

The Madness of King Musk
"Tesla's foundering founder is on a wild tear"
by Jacob Silverman, May 25 2018
https://thebaffler.com/latest/musk-silverman

Private space, public space, personal space
by Flavia Dzodan, May 25 2018
https://artificeofintelligence.org/private-space-public-space-personal-space/

Big Brother Goes Digital
by Simon Head
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/05/24/big-brother-goes-digital/

Amazon Urbanism: Patents and The Totalizing World of Big Tech Futures
"Taken as whimsical follies by the design press and broader culture, Amazon's architectural and logistical patents are altogether more sinister, signalling new, automated urban ambitions."
by Matthew Stewart, 23 May 2018
https://failedarchitecture.com/amazon-urbanism-patents-and-the-totalizing-world-of-big-tech-futures/

The Oxygen of Amplification - Better Practices for Reporting on Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators Online
Data & Society report by Whitney Phillips, May 22 2018
https://datasociety.net/output/oxygen-of-amplification/

My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
"For TCI x Are.na's Library of Practical and Conceptual Resources, Laurel Schwulst encourages all artists to create and cultivate websites."
by Laurel Schwulst, 21 May 2018
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/laurel-schwulst-my-website-is-a-shifting-house-next-to-a-river-of-knowledge-what-could-yours-be/

We’re All Zucked
"Tepid regulations aren’t enough to break Facebook’s hold on our personal data."
by Jacob Silverman, May 16 2018
http://inthesetimes.com/article/21107/Facebook-Mark-Zuckerberg-regulations-personal-data-monopoly

Searching for Alternative Facts - Analyzing Scriptural Inference in Conservative News Practices
Data & Society report by Francesca Tripodi, May 16 2018
https://datasociety.net/output/searching-for-alternative-facts/

Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online
Data & Society report by Alice Marwick and Rebecca Lewis, May 15 2018
https://datasociety.net/output/media-manipulation-and-disinfo-online/

We created poverty. Algorithms won't make that go away
"In the absence of political will to tackle America’s growing economic crisis, hi-tech tools can only serve to automate and amplify existing inequalities"
by Virginia Eubanks, May 13 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/13/we-created-poverty-algorithms-wont-make-that-go-away

D.C. Police Sought a Contract With Palantir, But It Never Materialized
"Residents who want to weigh in on big data policing in D.C. should study up on contracting and procurement."
by Bill Myers, May 10 2018
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/city-desk/article/21004474/dc-police-sought-a-contract-with-palantir-but-it-never-materialized

More than words: The complexities of platforms responding to online harassment
by Jillian York, May 9 2018
https://xyz.informationactivism.org/en/more-than-words-complexities-platforms-responding-online-harassment

Open Source is Not Enough
"The open source movement has fundamentally changed how software gets written. But in the process, corporations have been given a vast gift of free labor."
by James Halliday in Technology and The Worker (#2), May 7 2018
http://www.notesfrombelow.org/article/open-source-is-not-enough

Searching for a Future Beyond Facebook
"If we want to liberate ourselves from the tech monopolies, we have to figure out what to do with our data."
by Jacob Silverman, May 2018
https://longreads.com/2018/05/01/searching-for-a-future-beyond-facebook/

Data Violence and How Bad Engineering Choices Can Damage Society
"Cultural harms can go well beyond search results — which can be bad news for vulnerable communities"
by Anna Lauren Hoffmann, Apr 30 2018
https://medium.com/s/story/data-violence-and-how-bad-engineering-choices-can-damage-society-39e44150e1d4

A pioneer in predictive policing is starting a troubling new project
"Pentagon-funded research aims to predict when crimes are gang-related"
by Ali Winston and Ingrid Burrington, April 26 2018
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/26/17285058/predictive-policing-predpol-pentagon-ai-racial-bias

Tech has no moral code. It is everyone’s job now to fight for one
by Lizzie O'Shea, April 25 2018
"From racist ads to Cambridge Analytica, technology’s ethical deficit needs disrupting fast – and we have the power to do it" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/25/tech-no-moral-code-racist-ads-cambridge-analytica-technology-ethical-deficit

Delete Your Account: On the Theory of Platform Capitalism
by Leif Weatherby, 24 April 2018
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/delete-your-account-on-the-theory-of-platform-capitalism/

Glitch capitalism: How cheating AIs explain our glitchy society
by Malcom Harris, 23 April 2018
https://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/malcolm-harris-on-glitch-capitalism-and-ai-logic.html

Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match
"False rumors set Buddhist against Muslim in Sri Lanka, the most recent in a global spate of violence fanned by social media"
by Amanda Taub and Max Fisher April 21 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/world/asia/facebook-sri-lanka-riots.html

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW WE ENDED UP IN A CYBER DYSTOPIA, READ READY PLAYER ONE
"The 2011 book wants to have it both ways — just like Mark Zuckerberg"
by Laura Hudson, April 19 2018
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17250892/ready-player-one-book-facebook-internet-dystopia

Palantir Knows Everything About You
"Peter Thiel’s data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate for new customers"
by Peter Waldman, Lizette Chapman, and Jordan Robertson, April 19 2018
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/

We Don’t Have Elections
"How tech companies merge with the nation-state"
by Jacob Silverman, April 18 2018
https://thebaffler.com/the-future-sucked/we-dont-have-elections-silverman

Algorithmic Accountability: A Primer
Data & Society report by Robyn Caplan, Joan Donovan, Lauren Hanson, and Jeanna Matthews, Apr 18 2018
https://datasociety.net/output/algorithmic-accountability-a-primer/

The arts at Facebook: An aesthetic infrastructure for surveillance capitalism
by Fred Turner, Poetics Volume 67, April 2018, Pages 53-62
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2018.03.003

The New Octopus
"Technology has spawned new corporate giants. Their control of society’s digital infrastructure threatens our democracy. What should we do about it?"
by K. Sabeel Rahman, Logic Issue 4 "Scale"
https://logicmag.io/04-the-new-octopus/

The Scale Is Just Unfathomable
"In the early internet, content moderation was an artisanal affair. Today, as social media platforms have scaled to millions, even billions, of users, it’s become an industrial process."
by Tarleton Gillespie, Logic Issue 4 "Scale"
https://logicmag.io/04-the-scale-is-just-unfathomable/

The Data Is Ours!
"What is big data? And how do we democratize it?"
by Ben Tarnoff, Logic Issue 4 "Scale"
https://logicmag.io/04-the-data-is-ours/

Style Is an Algorithm
"No one is original anymore, not even you"
by Kyle Chayka, Apr 17 2018
https://www.racked.com/2018/4/17/17219166/fashion-style-algorithm-amazon-echo-look

Performing a Vanilla Self: Respectability Politics, Social Class, and the Digital World
by Mikaela Pitcan, Alice E. Marwick, danah boyd
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Volume 23, Issue 3, 1 May 2018, Pages 163–179, Published: 06 April 2018 https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmy008

chapter 7 in Part II - Technology and Human Rights Enforcement of "New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice" (pp 149-161)
Big Data Analytics and Human Rights
by Mark Latonero
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316838952.007

New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice
edited by Molly K. Land and Jay D. Aronson, Cambridge University Press, April 2018
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316838952

CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA IS BAD, BUT PALANTIR IS FUCKING TERRIFYING
"With its vehicle tracking software, the company Peter Thiel co-founded knows you ran that red light."
by Drew Millard, March 30 2018
https://theoutline.com/post/3978/peter-thiel-knows-you-ran-that-red-light?zd=1&zi=t6vhyr53

Bringing Back The Lucas Plan
"What the Lucas Plan could teach tech today"
by Felix Holtwell in Technology and The Worker (#2), March 30 2018
http://www.notesfrombelow.org/article/bringing-back-the-lucas-plan

Edifices of Empire
"Capitalism, from its very beginning, was twinned with racism. Two books describe how these two forces emerged together, at the same moment in the unfolding of Western political economy."
by Gaiutra Bahadur, Dissent, Spring 2018
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/edifices-of-empire-peter-hudson-bankers-stuart-hall-familiar-stranger-caribbean

Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again
"Silicon Valley's startup culture believes it's changing the world for the better. But in reality its culture is deeply unethical since it institutionalises theft on a global scale."
by Ian Wright in Technology and The Worker (#2), March 30 2018
http://www.notesfrombelow.org/article/silicon-valley-startups-doing-evil-again-and-again

Disrupting Disruption: On Intervening Against Technological Restructuring
"Strategies for class struggle must include organizing at the sites of techno-scientific research and development."
by R.K. Upadhya in Technology and The Worker (#2), March 30 2018
http://www.notesfrombelow.org/article/disrupting-disruption

Diversity, Scarcity, and Labour in Tech
"An anonymous software engineer explains why we need to democratise software engineering education."
in Technology and The Worker (#2), March 30 2018
http://www.notesfrombelow.org/article/diversity-scarcity-and-labour-in-tech

The Techies Who Said Sorry
"Can the master's apps dismantle the master's house?"
by Jacob Silverman, March 20 2018
https://thebaffler.com/latest/techies-who-said-sorry-silverman

The Real Scandal Isn’t What Cambridge Analytica Did
"It’s what Facebook made possible"
by Will Oremus, March 20 2018
https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/the-real-scandal-isnt-cambridge-analytica-its-facebooks-whole-business-model.html

UNGOVERNED SPACE: HOW SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM AND AI UNDERMINE DEMOCRACY
by Taylor Owen, March 20 2018
https://www.cigionline.org/articles/ungoverned-space

#deletefacebook
by John Biggs, Mar 19 2018
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/19/deletefacebook/

Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism
Pankaj Mishra, March 19 2018
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/

How J.G. Ballard’s Science Fiction Tells the Future of Our Privatized Cities
by Hettie O'Brien, Friday 16 March 2018
https://failedarchitecture.com/how-j-g-ballards-science-fiction-tells-the-future-of-our-privatized-cities/

The Intellectual We Deserve
"Jordan Peterson’s popularity is the sign of a deeply impoverished political and intellectual landscape…"
by Nathan J. Robinson, March 14 2018
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-deserve

YouTube Extremism and the Long Tail
"Unlimited selection is revealing ugly truths about what some Americans want in their politics."
Conor Friedersdorf, March 12 2018
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/youtube-extremism-and-the-long-tail/555350/

YouTube, the Great Radicalizer
by Zeynep Tufekci, March 10 2018
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html

There Are No Guardrails on Our Privacy Dystopia
"If tech is going to infiltrate, influence, and shape all of society, it is unacceptable for tech and pure market forces to decide the limits of the surveillance state."
by David Golumbia and Chris Gilliard, March 9 2018
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmwaee/there-are-no-guardrails-on-our-privacy-dystopia

New Mexico’s Sad Bet on Space Exploration
"Spaceport America was supposed to bring a thriving space industry to the southern New Mexico desert—but for now it’s a futurist tourist attraction, not an operational harbor to the cosmos."
by Ingrid Burrington, March 2 2018
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/new-mexicos-sad-bet-on-space-exploration/554243/

The Billionaire Philanthropist
"It’s American tradition for CEOs to stockpile their wealth, avoid taxes, and participate in the theater of giving. Will Jeff Bezos make it scale?"
by Jacob Silverman, March 2018
https://longreads.com/2018/03/13/the-billionaire-philanthropist/

Silicon Valley’s Origin Story
"The generational shift that made tech companies a cultural and political force"
by Jacob Silverman, February 28 2018
https://newrepublic.com/article/146924/silicon-valleys-origin-story

PALANTIR HAS SECRETLY BEEN USING NEW ORLEANS TO TEST ITS PREDICTIVE POLICING TECHNOLOGY
"Palantir deployed a predictive policing system in New Orleans that even city council members don’t know about"
by Ali Winston, Feb 27 2018
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predictive-policing-tool-new-orleans-nopd

Untrue-Tube: Monetizing Misery and Disinformation
"Welcome to 2018, a time when we clicked and swiped ourselves into a cultural dystopia for a few trillion views."
by Jonathan Albright, Feb 25 2018
https://medium.com/@d1gi/untrue-tube-monetizing-misery-and-disinformation-388c4786cc3d

The Case Against Google
"Critics say the search giant is squelching competition before it begins. Should the government step in?"
by Charles Duhigg, Feb 20 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/magazine/the-case-against-google.html

Toward ethical, transparent and fair AI/ML: a critical reading list
by Eirini Malliaraki, Feb 19 2018
https://medium.com/@eirinimalliaraki/toward-ethical-transparent-and-fair-ai-ml-a-critical-reading-list-d950e70a70ea

Isomorphism through algorithms: Institutional dependencies in the case of Facebook
by Robyn Caplan and danah boyd, Big Data & Society, February 14 2018
https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951718757253

Stop Saying 'Smart Cities'
"Digital stardust won’t magically make future cities more affordable or resilient."
by Bruce Sterling, Feb 12 2018
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/stupid-cities/553052/

Artificial Advancements
"Technological innovation is not an inherent good for disabled people, especially when the focus is on cure over care"
by Taeyoon Choi, Feb 9 2018
https://thenewinquiry.com/artificial-advancements/

How YouTube Drives People to the Internet’s Darkest Corners
"Google’s video site often recommends divisive or misleading material, despite recent changes designed to fix the problem"
by Jack Nicas, February 7 2018
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-youtube-drives-viewers-to-the-internets-darkest-corners-1518020478

Your Faceprint Tomorrow
"The selling of facial recognition technology—and the staggering consequences"
by Jacob Silverman, January 25 2018
https://thebaffler.com/the-future-sucked/your-faceprint-tomorrow-silverman

Engineered for Dystopia
"Engineering is full of authoritarians who, predictably, take all the wrong lessons from pop culture"
by David A. Banks, January 24 2018
https://thebaffler.com/latest/engineered-for-dystopia-banks

Could Facebook Be Tried for Human-Rights Abuses?
"The legal path is murky."
by Ingrid Burrington, Dec 20 2017
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/12/could-facebook-be-tried-for-war-crimes/548639/

Don't Be Evil - Fred Turner on Utopias, Frontiers, and Brogrammers
appeared in Logic Issue 3 "Injustice"
https://logicmag.io/03-dont-be-evil/

Engine Failure
Safiya Umoja Noble and Sarah T. Roberts on the Problems of Platform Capitalism, Logic Issue 3 "Injustice"
https://logicmag.io/03-engine-failure/

Cartographers Without Borders
"Indigenous communities are building drones to make their own maps—and using them to fight erasure and exploitation at the hands of the state and capital."
by Clayton Aldern, Logic Issue 3 "Injustice"
https://logicmag.io/03-cartographers-without-borders/

Machine bias: There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. and it’s biased against blacks
by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica, 23 May 2016
https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing

Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization.
by Shoshanna Zuboff, Journal of Information Technology 30 (2015): 75–89
https://ssrn.com/abstract=2594754

Fairer Machine Learning in the Real World: Mitigating Discrimination Without Collecting Sensitive Data
Michael Veale and Reuben Binns, Big Data & Society 4(2), 2017
doi:10.1177/2053951717743530

THE WEB BEGAN DYING IN 2014, HERE'S HOW
by André Staltz, Oct 30 2017
https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html

THE WORLD SILICON VALLEY MADE
by Shannon Mattern, 27 Oct 2017
http://www.publicbooks.org/the-world-silicon-valley-made/

Racial Capitalocene - Is the Anthropocene racial?
by Françoise Vergès, August 30 2017
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3376-racial-capitalocene

Biopunk: Subverting Biopolitics
"A three-way essay on biopunk, futurism, and rejecting genetic determinism"
by Simone Browne, Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Joerg Blumtritt, 10 Jul 2017
https://thenewinquiry.com/biopunk-subverting-biopolitics/

Beyond the Internet and All Control Diagrams
by Simone Browne and Zach Blas, 24 Jan 2017
https://thenewinquiry.com/beyond-the-internet-and-all-control-diagrams/

The challenges of platform capitalism: Understanding the logic of a new business model
by Nick Srnicek, Juncture 23(4), March 2017
https://doi.org/10.1111/newe.12023

How Companies Use Personal Data Against People
"Automated disadvantage and personalized manipulation? A working paper on the societal ramifications of the commercial use of personal information, with a focus on automated decision-making, personalization, and data-driven behavioral change."
working Paper by Wolfie Christl, Cracked Labs, October 2017
http://crackedlabs.org/en/data-against-people

Corporate Surveillance in Everyday Life
"Report: How thousands of companies monitor, analyze, and influence the lives of billions. Who are the main players in today’s digital tracking? What can they infer from our purchases, phone calls, web searches, and Facebook likes? How do online platforms, tech companies, and data brokers collect, trade, and make use of personal data?"
by Wolfie Christl, Cracked Labs, June 2017
http://crackedlabs.org/en/corporate-surveillance

Tracing You: How transparent surveillance reveals a desire for visibility
by Benjamin Grosser, February 2017
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053951717694053

Tech and the Fake Market tactic
In one generation, the Internet went from opening up new free markets to creating a series of Fake Markets that exploit society, without most media or politicians even noticing."
by Anil Dash, 11 Feb 2017
https://medium.com/humane-tech/tech-and-the-fake-market-tactic-8bd386e3d382

Limitless Worker Surveillance
by Ifeoma Ajunwa, Kate Crawford, and Jason Schultz, 105 Cal. L. Rev. 735 (2017)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2746211

Networks of Control
"A Report on Corporate Surveillance, Digital Tracking, Big Data & Privacy"
by Wolfie Christl and Sarah Spiekermann, 2016
http://crackedlabs.org/en/networksofcontrol

Notes From An Emergency
by Maciej Cegłowski, May 2017
http://idlewords.com/talks/notes_from_an_emergency.htm

Encouraging individual sovereignty and a healthy commons
by Aral Balkan, Feb 18 2017
https://2018.ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/

How a dead WWII-era philosopher understands Donald Trump better than anyone on CNN
by Ingrid Burrington, 28 Oct 2016
https://splinternews.com/how-a-dead-wwii-era-philosopher-understands-donald-trum-1793863264

The Surveillance of Blackness: From the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to Contemporary Surveillance Technologies
interview to Simone Browne by Claudia Garcia-Rojas, 3 March 2016
https://truthout.org/articles/the-surveillance-of-blackness-from-the-slave-trade-to-the-police/

Google and Microsoft have made a pact to protect surveillance capitalism
"Two bitter rivals have agreed to drop mutual antitrust cases across the globe. Why? To fend off the greater regulatory threat of democratic oversight"
by Julia Powles, 2 May 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/02/google-microsoft-pact-antitrust-surveillance-capitalism

The Moral Economy of Tech
by Maciej Cegłowski, June 2016
http://idlewords.com/talks/sase_panel.htm

Reboot the World
"The internet was supposed to be democratic and open to all. Then Facebook and the NSA got their hands on it. Is it too late to reclaim our digital future?"
by Paul Ford, 22 June 2016
https://newrepublic.com/article/133889/reboot-world

Uncanny Valley
"I would say more, but I signed an NDA"
BY Anna Wiener, Spring 2016
https://nplusonemag.com/issue-25/on-the-fringe/uncanny-valley/

Decolonising Science Reading List
by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
https://medium.com/@chanda/decolonising-science-reading-list-339fb773d51f

Critical Algorithm Studies: a Reading List
by Tarleton Gillespie and Nick Seaver
https://socialmediacollective.org/reading-lists/critical-algorithm-studies/#1.1

Overpowered Metrics Eat Underspecified Goals
by David Manheim, September 29 2016
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/09/29/soft-bias-of-underspecified-goals/

Technology Colonialism
by Anjuan Simmons, Sep 2015
https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/technology-colonialism

Algorithmic culture
by Ted Striphas, June 16 2015
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1367549415577392

Big Data’s big libertarian lie: Facebook, Google and the Silicon Valley ethical overhaul we need
"The tech world talks of liberty and innovation while invading privacy and surveilling us all. It must end now"
by Jacob Silverman, April 26 2015
https://www.salon.com/2015/04/26/big_datas_big_libertarian_lie_facebook_google_and_the_silicon_valley_ethical_overhaul_we_need/

Making Tech Spaces Safe for Diverse Faces
by Anjuan Simmons, Oct 2014
https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/making-tech-spaces-safe-for-diverse-faces

How big data is unfair?
by Moritz Hardt, 26 September 2014
https://medium.com/@mrtz/how-big-data-is-unfair-9aa544d739de

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Multi-task dialog act and sentiment recognition on Mastodon
Christophe Cerisara (SYNALP), Somayeh Jafaritazehjani, Adedayo Oluokun, Hoa Le (SYNALP), 13 Jul 2018
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05013

Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks: The effects of social recommendations on network diversity
Stoica et al., Apr 2018
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3186140