Message from @King Canuck
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oh well, the tech might change, the basics dont
I still use phone-based modems, albeit in a point-to-point config. Though I can't exactly tell you why, it was really the best option for what I was doing four years ago when I set it up. (and the modem could mostly be encased in resin, which was a big plus)
who wants to do some background searches
@Timcast I'll do it for a shout out
Bear in mind that this list may not be complete. Any particularly controversial members may have been omitted. They have no obligation to provide an accurate record.
they are left leaning, they don't really have "controversial" members
Danah Boyd's blog. She's a real gem.
<http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/>
Her undergraduate thesis was titled ""3-D computer systems used cues that were inherently sexist.""
How does someone take this person serious to the point where they get a job at Microsoft?
"Most Americans have been socialized into believing that all forms of capitalism are inherently good (which, by the way, was a propaganda project)."
they do have controversial
members
ive tracked one already
Alexander Macgillivray seems okay, worked with CAMFED, which is seemingly a fairly transparent and well functioning organization.
Anil CEOs Fog Creek, which I'm sure some people here are familiar with, and I don't think he's done anything controversial there. He worked with the Obama administration.
Anil seems to be connected to people at Twitter. Alexander Macgillivray worked with Twitter as GC. So Anil + Alexander a Twitter connection makes, though somewhat weakly.
Anil recommended to Twitter that they more aggressively police the userbase, and endorsed the use of community-maintained blocklists like Block Together (and IIRC he was involved socially in Twitter adding the block list import feature).
_Catherine Bracy_ doesn't have a clickable profile on that page, which could be a sign.
Catherine Bracy's tumblr: http://cbracy.tumblr.com/
Catherine Bracy also worked for the Obama administration (on Code for America), in a similar capacity to Anil Dash (“adviser to the Obama White House’s Office of Digital Strategy”[0]), it seems.
[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-02/-making-the-tech-world-more-humane-and-ethical
_Anil Dash_ has defended the SSRC (of which _Alondra Nelson_ is President) in public,
https://twitter.com/anildash/status/983408275164225536
@Timcast would, too
@Atkins that is... a pretty disappointing GitHub profile. All of the commits are documentation (barely), it seems.
that's the point
these people are parasites
they don't produce anything that has an actual function
Most of these people seem like typical East coast "startup culture" types.
John is guilty only of inexplicably whoring out the image of his family on his baby company: Giphy.
I think I ~~know~~ have met a couple of these people.
I'd look at the odd ones out: the west coast folks. ;- )
Alondra Nelson is a member of the "Social Text Collective", post-modernist journal that became famous for publishing a fake nonsense article.
I bet she receives state funding
Alondra Nelson seems like your typical activist in that area, and thematically related to their recent release I guess.
I think I have a copy of one of those books sitting around here...
Nelson "shared the case of Georgetown University’s Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation, which used genetic ancestry testing to identify the decedents of 272 enslaved people that were sold in 1838 to pay off debts at Georgetown. These cases are complicated, complex, and remain unsettled. Alondra Nelson reveals the role that genetic ancestry testing has played and the meaning-making of what people want these tests to do."