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This is a guest post by Victor Zhenyi Wang. Victor worked as a data scientist in global health and development at IDinsight India. He is currently a Masters student at the Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley. He is interested in technology policy, participatory approaches to AI, and digital public infrastructure. He studied […]

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 […]