"Nonconsensual “deepfake” pornography and “downblousing” will be made illegal when the online safety bill returns to parliament in December, the government has announced."

"There’s more than one way to sink a social network."

>"I recently got asked in the either-or section of an interview, “Would you rather give up YouTube or Google, if you were forced to give up one?” The answer .."

>"You may be done with the virus, but the virus is not done with you."

The Atlantic: How Social Security Screws Parents.

Excellent piece. While I was previously acquainted with the “Dunbar number,” the part about deep connection was new in terms of being explicated, but exactly fits my experience in group facilitation. “But what do we learn from these facts? _...Read More_

Automated tools that try to calculate “brand safety” reproduce the whiteness of mainstream content

Imagine for a moment that you are a person who rides the subway to work on a daily basis. Imagine also having to walk to that subway in the morning and return home from it at night. Imagine this is a trip you have taken many times, and _...Read More_

“Office-bound boredom, performative-process boredom, overdone-rehashings-of-predictable-ideas-and-strategies-gone-before boredom. These are the boredoms of limitation. The boredoms of ‘playing it safe.’ The boredoms that come from adherence _...Read More_

This Is What It’s Really Like to Keep a Museum Collection Safe Under Lockdown “It was like doing a continuous night shift.” The security, maintenance and caretaking staff of museums give a unique glimpse inside these rarefied spaces under _...Read More_

Why does it say talk “to” your child? Shouldn’t it be “with”?

Partially so. For me it was never about this idea of being kept safe. Do those same sanitation workers have access to proper healthcare in the spaces they clean? Can medical workers perpetuate eugenist ideas by turning away certain people _...Read More_