Dawn Nafus
@dawnnafus.bsky.social
Trained as an anthropologist, former tech worker, now... who knows?
Books--Ethnography for a Data-Saturated World, Quantified, & Self-Tracking.
Permaculture, fungi, foraging, & climate justice get me out of bed.
Books--Ethnography for a Data-Saturated World, Quantified, & Self-Tracking.
Permaculture, fungi, foraging, & climate justice get me out of bed.
Oh spoke too soon... there's a bunch of corporate partnership nonsense in the link. Vehicle for grift it seems.
December 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Oh spoke too soon... there's a bunch of corporate partnership nonsense in the link. Vehicle for grift it seems.
I am choosing to believe this is a 'stopped clock is right twice a day' situation.
December 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I am choosing to believe this is a 'stopped clock is right twice a day' situation.
Doesn't use the word "lake" but came from a time when I was doing technical work aggregating data into... something somewhat lake-like... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Data Aggregation as Social Relations: Making Datasets from Self-Tracking Data | European Review | Cambridge Core
Data Aggregation as Social Relations: Making Datasets from Self-Tracking Data - Volume 27 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Doesn't use the word "lake" but came from a time when I was doing technical work aggregating data into... something somewhat lake-like... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
You forgot to add a section about "where your data really goes." In the US, that's ICE.
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
You forgot to add a section about "where your data really goes." In the US, that's ICE.
Reposted by Dawn Nafus
Everyone should know that you can type “-ai” at the end of your Google search to leave off the AI crap…
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Everyone should know that you can type “-ai” at the end of your Google search to leave off the AI crap…
Yes, and... I agree, but the seeds were sown too. Social media isn't good at subtlety, but science has also contributed to the issue- ignoring EJ community needs, dismissing women and minorities' pain, "diseases you have to fight to get," etc. Great new book on this global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Yes, and... I agree, but the seeds were sown too. Social media isn't good at subtlety, but science has also contributed to the issue- ignoring EJ community needs, dismissing women and minorities' pain, "diseases you have to fight to get," etc. Great new book on this global.oup.com/academic/pro...
I was not aware either, but I am in no way surprised.
November 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I was not aware either, but I am in no way surprised.