Musings on technology and justice
Should we end prisons? I have been thinking through this question since reading a recent New York Times article on Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s efforts to dismantle, if not slow the role of, the prison industrial complex. Her focus has been the California prison system and has a book you should check out called The Golden […]
Read More Do we need prisons?San Francisco recently passed an ordinance controlling the use of facial recognition in the city. The ordinance was in large part thanks to the pioneering research of Joy Buolamwini. The argument against the technology is twofold: first, the technology is highly invasive in public spaces and may constitute a direct threat to basic (US) constitutional […]
Read More San Francisco passes facial recognition ordinanceSeen along the Danube.
Read More Viennese muralsBuy a French dessert, I’ll donate to ACLU!
Read More Liberté for GeorgiaLast night the, right-wing Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache resigned. He was allegedly videotaped asking a Russian citizen for donations in exchange for government contracts. It is a trope all too common in the democracy of my citizenship, tragically banal as mass shootings. The impact in Austria was the apparent collapse of the current governing coalition […]
Read More Austria as harbinger of changeGeorgia on my mind part 3
Read More Stalinists in Georgia (the state)The statistical who exposed the Tuskegee experiments
Read More Remembering Bill JenkinsLet the Sistas speak
Read More Let her lead!Gardens pop up everywhere in Vienna. Outside a pharmacy for inclusion in the herbal remedies On a staircase In a rooftop forest
Read More Rooftop forestThe view close to landing at Vienna airport, UN climate change summit 2019 in mind https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/un-climate-summit-2019.shtml
Read More Green Austria
