Futurists’ visions of digital immortality and the Metaverse may not be as utopian as they seem. Do big tech’s current models betray a coercive future of data piety? I extend a well-known thought experiment to explore the darker possibilities of digital life after death. ...
— futurism —
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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— currently reading —
MONUMENTS
Hannah Burstein
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
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— projects —
A tool for regularly purging your Bluesky social media feeds.
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.
A study of the daily lives of violent far-right actors using court records to peer inside their living spaces.
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.
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.
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.
The opinions shared on this page do not necessarily reflect the views of any organization listed above.
— key technologies —
python
Comfortable with many architectures and frameworks.
Azure
I can set up most services with IaC and understand the basic concepts to a practical degree.
AZ-900, DP-900, AI-900, SC-900
Apache Airflow
Can build complex dags and optimize workflows, familiar with metadata model.
F#
denotes recent progress. For a more complete overview, see my CV.
— languages —
Español
Lapsed
English
American, Mother Tongue
Deutsch
Can engage in daily conversation.
B2 Zertifikat 2022 (Goethe Institut)
denotes recent progress. For a more complete overview, see my CV.