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Responsible data, digital ethics, safeguarding, trust + safety, privacy. Human rights, global dev, humanitarian work. MERL Tech, NLP-CoP, NYC Tech Salon. CIPP-E/CIPM certified. Brooklyn, cats, gardening, biking. She/her.
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Mike Farrell @heymike.bsky.social · Jul 31
We’re planning something very cool during UNGA with @theodoraskeadas.bsky.social @meowtree.bsky.social @authormala.bsky.social @ruchowdh.bsky.social and more. Save this date and follow @compiler.news for more details coming soon.
compiler.news Compiler @compiler.news · Jul 31
We're excited to announce the next edition of our global pop-up series on Sept. 16 in partnership with @humaneintelligence.bsky.social & Technology Salon NY. Details coming soon. For now, sign up for Compiler to get more info on this event, articles and more.
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Tech Policy Pop-Up: The UN Edition
Join Compiler, Humane Intelligence & Technology Salon NYC for an evening of big ideas for building a safer, healthier global internet.
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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · Jul 2
I don't center electoral politics in my work, but the NYC mayoral race and Mamdani's campaign commitment to collaborative action captivated me. So I wrote about it.

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The New Guard
When collective leadership lays a path to democratic renewal
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meowtree @meowtree.bsky.social · Jun 25
"If a socialist can wrest power from the servants of oligarchy in the financial capital of the world—well, my friends around this country, around this world, what can you do to take the power back from them where you live?”(by @attackerman.bsky.social) #IloveNYC

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This Is The Beginning of The End of The 9/11 Era
Capital and nativism will fight even harder against Zohran Mamdani now. But in capital's seat of power, socialism defeated barbarism. I fucking love New York
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Jun 17
And the person who turned up to support him with no notice is the Muslim dude who have cross endorsed each other and who the msm has been going into overtime to cast him as antisemitic
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jun 17
So I just want to be clear that the gentile President's anti-immigrant goons illegally assaulted and kidnapped the leading Jewish candidate for Mayor in New York City for walking into a federal building

for the crowd that is keeping track of The Antisemitism Problem
samthielman.com CHOAM Nomsky (thankful) @samthielman.com · Jun 17
what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word
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Rebecca C. Lewis @rebeccaclewis.bsky.social · Jun 17
NEW: Gov. Hochul announces that the state is dedicating $50 million for legal assistance for immigrants like those who may be targeted by ICE when leaving the federal courthouse
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meowtree @meowtree.bsky.social · Apr 14
'We will need to build an unruly open-hearted movement of the Earth-loving faithful: faithful to this planet, its people, its creatures and to the possibility of a livable future for us all.' Faithful to here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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MERL Tech Initiative @merltech.bsky.social · Mar 18
📣 New guide for those thinking about using GenAI in research on violence against women.

We partnered with @thesvri.bsky.social to lay out big picture, structural, and ethics questions that researchers should ask before using GenAI for violence against women research.
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New guide: key questions to ask before using GenAI for research on violence against women - MERL Tech
SVRI and The MERL Tech Initiative have developed a guide to support researchers with critical literacy to make decisions about GenAI tools in research on violence against women.
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meowtree @meowtree.bsky.social · Mar 5
The second event is on March 13, 9-11am. mailchi.mp/technologysa...
Please RSVP: What Happens When Women’s and Girls’ Rights Online are Not Protected?
Join your Tech Salon peers to explore the use of AI and other digital tools.
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meowtree @meowtree.bsky.social · Mar 5
We're running 2 events on online gender-based violence this month in NYC. Join us if you are around, or coming to the CSW! This one is from 4-6pm on March 17. mailchi.mp/technologysa...
Please RSVP: How Can Media Tell Effective, Real Stories About Online Violence Against Women and Girls?
Join us for a Tech Salon Media Showcase Event with CNN
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meowtree @meowtree.bsky.social · Mar 2
Do you have any numbers on how it will affect Indiana businesses? Esp small businesses? That might be useful. His biggest issue with govt is all the "needless bureaucracy" that small biz has to go through to operate -- the fees, paperwork, compliance, the hoops/circles. (He's not entirely wrong)
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meowtree @meowtree.bsky.social · Mar 2
I'm not sure what services he depends on, but good idea. He def uses highways! IDK about medicaid. I think it's going to take things really crumbling for people to see what's happening. There's lots of "they must be lazy if they need govt services" without understanding where federal $ actually goes
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meowtree @meowtree.bsky.social · Mar 2
A hometown friend works with the local VA hospital, helping older and disabled vets adapt to living at home as their health declines. She got the 5-things email. She says it's a total waste of time, and everyone is pissed about it. Maybe the heartland will wake up soon, as this is coming for them.
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meowtree @meowtree.bsky.social · Mar 2
At the same time he's calling me every 2 days to ask how I'm doing, what's happening with my own income, and saying he wishes he could do something to help. But he means help *me* find a new job/a new field of work, not help stop the whole dismantling of the government from happening.
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meowtree @meowtree.bsky.social · Mar 2
He was shocked by the morning paper saying that his state gets 42% of its funding from the federal government. But I can't even tell how he is processing that info. Is he thinking "well, that's 42% 'waste' to cut," or is he thinking "hm, federal funding must be important to our state's well being."
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meowtree @meowtree.bsky.social · Mar 2
How do you even have conversations with people you love about this stuff when the foundations on which to build dialogue are parallel universes and our media and information sources project alternate realities and values?
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meowtree @meowtree.bsky.social · Mar 2
My dad: "If the 5-things-you-did-this-week email finds even 5,000 ghost employees, it'll have been worth it."

[I love my dad, but JFC]

Me: "What are you even talking about?'

Dad: "Do you have a better idea for identifying ghost employees?"

Me: "...So, is the cold front hitting you out there?"
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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · Mar 1
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
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We're not done yet | 18F
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MERL Tech Initiative @merltech.bsky.social · Feb 26
Earlier this month our NLP-CoP hosted @madianou.bsky.social (Professor and Co-Director of the Migrant Futures Institute at Goldsmiths, University of London) to discuss her new book “Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful.”

Here are some of the key takeaways from the event (1/5)🧵
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meowtree @meowtree.bsky.social · Feb 21
Yea, Trusk is burning everything down and approvals are super low. Power loves a vacuum. Who is going to step in? Would be nice if there were an intentional choice. Opposition is def fractured now, but it has been for aaaages. Hope Dems wake up soon or - even better - an alternative emerges.
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meowtree @meowtree.bsky.social · Feb 21
Super interesting stats on current approval rates of different political figures (assuming we trust the numbers) Where are the charismatic leaders who can leverage the weaknesses all around us and create representatives we could actually get behind?

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Trump Is Unpopular—and So Are the Do-Nothing Democrats
The president is increasingly hated, but so is an opposition party that fails to oppose.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Feb 17
Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all.

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The Generative AI Con
It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st ...
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meowtree @meowtree.bsky.social · Feb 10
"Anatomy of an AI Coup" from Tech Policy Press

1) This is a very good read on the situation in the US.

2) Is there a way to block this photo? I honestly never want to see it again.

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Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press
DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.
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meowtree @meowtree.bsky.social · Feb 10
Feb 11, @madianou.bsky.social will talk with the NLP-CoP about her book Technocolonialism. This will be a good space for a convo about tech, humanitarianism, and colonialism. We planned it last year + it's so relevant now. Personally, I'd love some nuance on the topic. merltech.org/humanitarian...
Join us for a special NLP-CoP members-only event with: Mirca Madianou, author of Technocolonialism - MERL Tech
Join the Humanitarian AI+MERL Working Group and Mirca Madianou to discuss her new book on "Technocolonialism."
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 3
seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions
nanjala.bsky.social Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · Feb 3
But when it comes to cutting aid budgets no one says “let’s spend less money on Israeli or Egyptian military capacity”. Instead you want to start by taking healthcare and education away from people who have been made vulnerable by the structural injustices you create and benefit from.
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meowtree @meowtree.bsky.social · Feb 4
Dios mio.
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