Introducing Needle Nails. Scratching made easy. 💅

Read about Adriana S. Vivacqua and Sane Gaytán’s effort ACM SIGCHI to “bring together a committee for Latin America”: medium.com/sigchi/bringin…

discussing the differences between autonomy and freedom in the Designs of the Oppressed course

Smart Cities? apnews.com/article/artifi…

Thanks to Memory Full? 2021 and the work of everyone involved in the DHS Student Forum, Ahmed Ansari was the first ever student-curated keynote speaker in an event free of charge: Paper docs.google.com/document/d/1Tj… Video vimeo.com/596117147 #memoryfull2021 #DHS2021 @aansari86

Joy Buolamwini (Dr. Joy Buolamwini) is brilliantly defending her dissertation at MIT Media Lab. Her work makes the case that systemic social science audits benefit from being paired with evocative audits that use art and performance to show personal impacts of algorithmic bias.

CALL FOR PAPERS: #Design, #Oppression, and #Liberation GUEST EDITORS Frederick van Amstel | UTFPR | Frederick van Amstel Lesley-Ann Noel | NCSU | Lesley-Ann Noel PhD Rodrigo Gonzatto | PUCPR | Rodrigo F. Gonzatto SUBMISSION DEADLINE March 30, 2022 revistadisena.uc.cl/index.php/Dise…

The fourth part of my Colonial History of Colours series for Futuress is now out! In this piece – my most personal yet – I travel from my own never-ending visa issues, to the impact of gold mining in colonial economies, to golden visas. futuress.org/magazine/gold/

I’m probing the possibility of a weekly study group in English for the Design & Oppression network next year. please RT if you would like to join

“I became infatuated with the mysterious world of crane operators. These men who operate these gigantic beasts from tiny cabins where they can see the world and no one can see them.” – Dania Bdeir, Director (Warsha, 2022 Narrative Short) #SXSWFilm ow.ly/k7pt30sebbc

“Hermeto had always been portrayed in the [Brazilian] media as some kind of a sorcerer, so a lot of people came for that kind of exotic figure. But once they sat there and started to hear the music…” l8r.it/Fd2Q

Ok Robot Reboot!

This is fking terrible news for privacy in NYC curbed.com/2022/08/goodby…

"Hacked Documents: How Iran Can Track and Control Protesters’ Phones" theintercept.com/2022/10/28/ira…

"Tech Cartografies: the map of internet territories" is now available online as an Interactive (and very fun) version: cartografiasdainternet.org #IGF2023 (Its a pre-launch, more to come, let me know what do you think.)