In 2022, we saw a flurry of “Web3” trends; among them, the Metaverse. Yet for all the talk, the Metaverse is still poorly defined, and understanding technologists' vision means we have to understand what problems they are trying to solve. There are good and bad bits in this futuristic vision, but the book provides only surface-level detail, and misses some easy targets. ...
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I am an advisory board member of the Advancing Data Justice project, a collaboration between the Alan Turing Institute, the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), and individuals and communities across the globe.
Youth Equity and Sexuality Lab
I advise the Youth Equity and Sexuality Lab at Suffolk University, a research lab focused on promoting positive adolescent and young adult sexuality development; preventing sexual violence; and fighting fascism, cis-hetero-patriarchy, and white supremacy.
A study of the daily lives of violent far-right actors using court records to peer inside their living spaces.
A people’s history of the removal of statues honoring racists, slave owners, and colonizers, largely during the Uprising in the Summer of 2020 following the murder of George Floyd.
I am an advisory board member of The Prosecution Project, a data-driven project studying the patterns of prosecution of extremism, terrorism, and political violence.
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— key technologies —
python
Comfortable with many architectures and frameworks.
PostgreSQL
Can optimize and operate for complex workloads.
Apache Airflow
Can build complex dags and optimize workflows, familiar with metadata model.
Azure
I can set up most services with IaC and understand the basic concepts to a practical degree.
AZ-900 Certificate 2021
neo4j
Familiar with basic operations, data models, and Cypher syntax.
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English
American, Mother Tongue
Deutsch
Can engage in daily conversation.
B2 Zertifikat 2022 (Goethe Institut)
Español
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