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Tricia Wang
@hitriciawang.bsky.social
· Mar 9
a man wearing a beanie and a necklace says " decentralized " in front of a blue background
ALT: a man wearing a beanie and a necklace says " decentralized " in front of a blue background
media.tenor.com
I'm officially here after, done mourning loss of twitter.
Bluesky kinda feels like old days of twitter! But actually decentralized into the stack....
Bluesky kinda feels like old days of twitter! But actually decentralized into the stack....
1/ My op-ed on #Technofascism & the danger of centralized tech power is out in @FortuneMagazine. (Paywall, but you get a few free articles)
Key points for you. 👇 fortune.com/crypto/2025/...
Key points for you. 👇 fortune.com/crypto/2025/...
Technofascism is here. We have one way out
Big Tech has taken control of our democracy. The answer is to build decentralized platforms these companies can't control.
fortune.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
1/ My op-ed on #Technofascism & the danger of centralized tech power is out in @FortuneMagazine. (Paywall, but you get a few free articles)
Key points for you. 👇 fortune.com/crypto/2025/...
Key points for you. 👇 fortune.com/crypto/2025/...
Reposted by Tricia Wang
“Record labels need to treat their artists as valuable employees with a livable wage and health insurance and protection. Labels, we got you — but do you got us?”
— Chappell Roan demanding labels to do better during her #GRAMMYs acceptance speech.
— Chappell Roan demanding labels to do better during her #GRAMMYs acceptance speech.
February 3, 2025 at 2:46 AM
“Record labels need to treat their artists as valuable employees with a livable wage and health insurance and protection. Labels, we got you — but do you got us?”
— Chappell Roan demanding labels to do better during her #GRAMMYs acceptance speech.
— Chappell Roan demanding labels to do better during her #GRAMMYs acceptance speech.
Reposted by Tricia Wang
This UNBELIEVABLE 15-year-old with college and masters degrees is in medical school working on a doctorate,,, but federal funding has cut off her research and scholarships.
We NEED more doctors,,, especially little black and brown girls to grow up believing they can be anything.
gofund.me/1549247a
We NEED more doctors,,, especially little black and brown girls to grow up believing they can be anything.
gofund.me/1549247a
Donate to Support 15-year-old Alena's Journey at LLU Medical School, organized by Daphne McQuarter
Support 15-year-old Alena's Journey in her Ph.D. & Medical Re… Daphne McQuarter needs your support for Support 15-year-old Alena's Journey at LLU Medical School
gofund.me
February 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This UNBELIEVABLE 15-year-old with college and masters degrees is in medical school working on a doctorate,,, but federal funding has cut off her research and scholarships.
We NEED more doctors,,, especially little black and brown girls to grow up believing they can be anything.
gofund.me/1549247a
We NEED more doctors,,, especially little black and brown girls to grow up believing they can be anything.
gofund.me/1549247a
Reposted by Tricia Wang
March 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I'm officially here after, done mourning loss of twitter.
Bluesky kinda feels like old days of twitter! But actually decentralized into the stack....
Bluesky kinda feels like old days of twitter! But actually decentralized into the stack....
a man wearing a beanie and a necklace says " decentralized " in front of a blue background
ALT: a man wearing a beanie and a necklace says " decentralized " in front of a blue background
media.tenor.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I'm officially here after, done mourning loss of twitter.
Bluesky kinda feels like old days of twitter! But actually decentralized into the stack....
Bluesky kinda feels like old days of twitter! But actually decentralized into the stack....
Reposted by Tricia Wang
"[computational engines] were prefigured on the plantation; as tech to control enslaved people. Issues like worker surveillance, workplace automation, and the computationally mediated restructuring of employment as gig work—echo the way that [this] thinking historically emerges as a mode of control"
NEW ARTICLE!
Connecting Babbage, his blueprint for digital computing to industrial labor control & the 19th c creation of a denigrated "free" labor regime. All of which has roots in plantation slavery.
https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/
Connecting Babbage, his blueprint for digital computing to industrial labor control & the 19th c creation of a denigrated "free" labor regime. All of which has roots in plantation slavery.
https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/
Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control
The proto-Taylorist methods of worker control Charles Babbage encoded into his calculating engines have origins in plantation management.
logicmag.io
June 13, 2023 at 5:50 AM
"[computational engines] were prefigured on the plantation; as tech to control enslaved people. Issues like worker surveillance, workplace automation, and the computationally mediated restructuring of employment as gig work—echo the way that [this] thinking historically emerges as a mode of control"
Reposted by Tricia Wang
“The vulnerable mind fits ambiguous information to its own preconceptions and expectations”
Video from our Defcon talk is now available:
The highest purpose of computers is to augment human intelligence, and to do so, our computers must be designed to challenge the way we think.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHqD...
The highest purpose of computers is to augment human intelligence, and to do so, our computers must be designed to challenge the way we think.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHqD...
DEF CON 32 - Counter Deception: Defending Yourself in a World Full of Lies - Tom Cross, Greg Conti
YouTube video by DEFCONConference
www.youtube.com
February 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
“The vulnerable mind fits ambiguous information to its own preconceptions and expectations”