oooh a few of these are going in my backdrop for sure!
Seattle's gotten too expensive for me, saying goodbye to my big-city life to settle down in Bellevue, Washington
Data Workers' Inquiry for sure! data-workers.org
Data Labelers' Association
datalabelers.org
see?
here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared
Oh also written from a generative-AI-specific lens, I worked on a book chapter that has a section about ways of trying to evaluate the ethics of data work:
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
(free here: zeerak.org/papers/Evalu...)
So happy to bring this event to Oregon with @dylnbkr.bsky.social 🥹
I had an experience in a meeting today which showed how old school note taking can actually get you ahead of the game. The meeting involved a document that's about 400 pages long. It's exactly the kind of thing that AI fans would suggest should be summarized by AI. Instead...
"Within the refusal of tech, we can find alternative imaginations of the future. Not anti-progress, only refusing a particular, narrow idea of what 'progress' should look like."
New in-person workshop incoming, this time co-hosted with @datasociety.bsky.social in Portland, OR!
Saturday, April 11, 1pm-3pm at 350 PDX. For tickets and more info, head over to Eventbrite ⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-data-...
