A lot of column inches have been burned on pieces about “Cancel Culture” lately; this is another one. The tenor of those pieces range from concern trolling about the fates of mostly-privileged folks who find themselves targeted by Cancel Culture, to pieces defending it as an unavoidable and necessary process of accountability. Too often, though, those pieces lack a critical element: the costs of Cancel Culture paid by those partaking in it. Without evaluating whether Cancel Culture is “good” or “bad” (which are fallacious concepts nevertheless), this piece will try to explore the taxes Cancel Culture imposes on the progress towards a goal. ...
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I am quoted in this fantastic piece about the work that anti-fascists do to expose and name white supremacists and neo-Nazis.
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A blog about preparedness from a community-oriented point of view.
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.
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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#
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English
American, Mother Tongue
Deutsch
Can engage in daily conversation.
B2 Zertifikat 2022 (Goethe Institut)
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