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# Welcome to JEDII Tech
- URL: https://thenexusofprivacy.net/welcome-to-jedii-tech/
- Published: 2021-01-02T07:37:25.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-04T09:07:31.000Z
- Description: Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Intersectionality, and Technology
- Author: Jon
- Tags: #Import 2026-09-13 18:45

After blogging at achangeiscoming.net and Medium for the last couple of years, I'm ready for a change. One of my goals for 2021 is to start experimenting with a newsletter. Substack's popular, but ... well let's just say that it's not all that congruent with the brand I'm trying to create. 

Instead, I'm going to give self-hosted Ghost a try. How hard can it be? 

Yeah, yeah, I know, famous last words. We'll see how it goes. For now I'm still setting up so expect some roughness ... for example, it doesn't look great when [tweeted](https://twitter.com/jdp23/status/1345278521787047937?ref=thenexusofprivacy.net). But hey, gotta start somewhere.

Posts here will probably be a mix of summaries of existing links, short posts, and longer essays. To start with here's a handful of interesting recent articles and a paper.

### [Timnit Gebru’s Exit From Google Exposes a Crisis in AI](https://www.wired.com/story/timnit-gebru-exit-google-exposes-crisis-in-ai/?ref=thenexusofprivacy.net)

Alex Hanna and Meredith Whitaker in *Wired*

*The situation has made clear that the field needs to change. Here’s where to start, according to a current and a former Googler.*

### [Making Sense of the Facebook Menace](https://newrepublic.com/article/160661/facebook-menace-making-platform-safe-democracy?ref=thenexusofprivacy.net)

Siva Vaidhyanathan in *The New Republic*

*Can the largest media platform in the world ever be made safe for democracy?*

### [Highlighting Accessible Twitter Content](https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2021/01/01/highlighting-accessible-twitter-content/?ref=thenexusofprivacy.net)

Eric Meyer on *meyerweb*

*Twitter doesn’t make it obvious whether someone else’s content has been described*

### [A Queer and Feminist Defense of Being Anonymous Online (PDF)](https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/70925/0248.pdf?ref=thenexusofprivacy.net)

Jessica Lingell in *Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences* | 2021

*This paper argues that a flat rejection of digital anonymity is problematic, foreclosing certain forms of queer and feminist praxis.*

### [How our data encodes systematic racism](https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/10/1013617/racism-data-science-artificial-intelligence-ai-opinion/?ref=thenexusofprivacy.net)

Deborah Raji in *MIT Technology Review*

*I’ve often been told, “The data does not lie.” However, that has never been my experience. For me, the data nearly always lies.*