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Distillations/Constellations #10: a loud death
April 20, 2025
This week, the Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona was murdered, along with nine other members of her family. It was days before her wedding, just a...
Distillations/Constellations #9: liberatory (digital) movement building
November 4, 2024
The view from the hotel in Sarajevo Last week, I had the huge honour to be among a group of 60ish people invited to Sarajevo for Weaving Liberation's...
Distillations/Constellations #8: double standards
July 3, 2024
I’ve found that a good litmus test for rooting out prejudices is the following: would people be comfortable with [situation], if their friends or family were...
Distillations/Constellations #7: there's no data justice without justice
May 29, 2024
Photo: Sara M. Watson Yesterday I gave a talk at re:publica, a big (big!) conference here in Berlin focused on digital society. This year's theme is: Who...
Distillations/Constellations #6: igniting our humanity
April 19, 2024
I've been listening to the fantastic podcast, Green Dreamer. In their words, the podcast "explores our paths to collective healing, biocultural...
Distillations/Constellations #5: feminist (digital) self-defence
March 18, 2024
What follows contains mentions of anti-Palestinian violence and racism – if you don't feel like reading that right now, I encourage you to close this. I'll...
Distillations/Constellations #4: language justice and LLMs
March 4, 2024
At the weekend, I made my first appearance on German public radio – I was part of a panel discussion on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, talking about the challenges...
Distillations/Constellations #3: name matching
February 19, 2024
Recently, I've been helping a team who is building a name matching algorithm and evaluation mechanism, by thinking through the ethical implications in...
Distillations/Constellations #2: the family farm
February 5, 2024
This past week, I listened to one of the best podcast series that I've heard in a long time. It's called Landed, by Farmerama, an "an award-winning podcast...
Welcome! Distillations/Constellations #1
January 29, 2024
Welcome! It's 2024 and I'm finally hopping on the newsletter bandwagon. Why the title, distillations/constellations? In 2017, I came across this paper:...
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