supervision
📸 Dr Claw likes to supervise the folding of laundry.
Lyre Calliope
Tweet Thread
Tweets via @ealshafei: "Funders often reject projects because they "don’t have any potential to scale globally." Not every project, especially in tech, can or should be scaled."
politics of developers
“Counterpoint: any software that is intended to be used by humans is inevitably an expression of its programmers’ understanding of the software’s audience, and therefore the programmers’ beliefs about the nature of those humans’ lives and priorities and the value…
my values
A few years ago a friend of mine walked me through a personal values definition exercise. What came out of the exercise deeply resonated with me. When I’m feeling lost or needing some clarity around the whos, whats, wheres, whens,…
shifting where i post what on social media
Around 2016, I stopped talking about my professional life on Facebook and Twitter. I’m not going to go into why (2016 turned stressful for some reason..) but I’d like to start talking about work I’m doing more publicly in these…
wordpress import
I’m consolidating infrastructure today and just found my old wordpress installation for the previous version of this blog! I’ve imported all my old posts from a few years ago so apologies if they show up in your RSS feed readers.…
#morethancode and Securing Change
I've been ranting and raving about the #morethancode report to my friends and collaborators since the executive summary came out in June. I'd love to hear how other people are using this report to inform their activities within and between…
re-startup mode
For nearly two years, my primary focus has been on the information security of activists and marginalized communities at risk of being targeted by hostile actors through the internet. I began working on this as part ActSecure, an ad-hoc group…
Note to Self
Don’t make a post to wordpress that centers an embedded facebook status and then shortly thereafter mark all of your facebook posts private at once.
just released: ‘Amira 1.0.0’ A Self-Sovereign Web of Trust Engagement Model
I helped make a thing! Amira 1.0.0: A Self-Sovereign Web of Trust Engagement Model This paper began as a collaborative project at the fifth Rebooting the Web of Trust^1 workshop, held in Cambridge MA in October 2017. We reinterpret Christopher…