Author: Kate

  • Presence

    On days when I could stomach a future in biology, I would think of becoming a botanist.

  • Rest

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    The relentless hustle of startup culture, or the crunch of game development, or whatever synonym other tech-adjacent industries like to use for the endless grind of work, all rest on the metaphor of the worker as a single-minded machine.

  • Tangible

    “Data is time-sensitive.” Do we ever actually own anything digital?

  • Purity

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    There’s a popular tendency to view technology as an “objective” field, “purer” and somehow more essential for it.

  • Boundaries

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    Our office intern asked me a strange question this morning: “Hey Kate, when you don’t like a person, is it obvious?”

  • Basic analysis of Twitter takedown data

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    Earlier this month, political analyst Amal Sinha tweeted some preliminary analyses of Twitter data about false accounts / bots: Some background: On 12th June, Twitter released new datasets that compiled anonymised data from accounts that seem to be linked to information operations run by the Chinese (PRC), Russian, and Turkish states. These accounts have since…