Guest post: Who gets to live in techno-utopia? Disability rights, eugenics, and effective altruism

Guest post by Sander O’Neil https://sanderoneilclock.tiiny.site/ This is a follow up to this post https://mathbabe.org/2015/03/12/earths-aphelion-and-perihelion/ from 2015 also try other experiments on my website: https://mroneilportfolio.weebly.com/analemma.html This JavaScript program is a clock/map/single star-star chart in the style of...

C: Tell me a little bit about your college experience. How did you get interested in this work originally?  E: Good question. It kind of started for me in high school actually. I took my first philosophy class when I was 16 or 17, and I loved it. But one of the things that we […]

You have probably heard that Google had to suspend it’s Gemini image feature after showing people black Nazis and female popes: Well I have a simple explanation for what happened here. Namely, the folks at Google wanted to avoid an embarrassment that they’d been involved with multiple times, and seen others get involved with, namely […]

Who knew that CBS works for Silicon Valley? And yet, when I watched their show Eye on America this morning, that’s what I discovered: an entire hour devoted to hyping the likes of Meta and Boston Scientific. Titled Emerging AI and robotics tech, the hour was devoted to asking the most powerful folks in BigTech […]

Do you guys remember when I was a plaintiff in a New York State lawsuit against the tampon tax? My blog was entitled, Holy shit I look amazing holding tampons After that I even designed and knitted a hat to go along with the theme: Period Equity Tampon Hat! Well my best friend Laura Strausfeld […]