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Renewable energy, the future of mining, and the re-localization of harm
Renewable energy, the future of mining, and the re-localization of harm
On Covid-19 emergency responses that point towards long-standing radical demands
Can the momentum of institutional scams be used against them?
What do technologists mean by decentralization?
A look at p2p, ownership, sovereignty, and a troubling political philosopher
The counterfactual politics of simulation, inspired by radical cartography
Sabotage in the age of machine learning
An interview with Helen Hester on Xenofeminism
A planning game that accompanied the book, Half-Earth Socialism, by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettesse. Play as a planetary planner and guide the world into ecological utopia...or nightmarish ruin. Includes a simple planetary economic model which calculates resource impacts and GHG emissions from production. View the trailer; See here for a full list of credits.
A terminal application for assisted chord progression composition. Helps with "blank canvas syndrome". Outputs MIDI so can be used to drive a DAW (tested with Live 11).
A model of journalism and social media, considering publisher motivations, attention, media literacy, and values. Developed as part of a project with The New School's Journalism+Design program.
A model of how "news deserts" can form, based on publisher motivations, wealth distribution, bankruptices, consolidation, and subsidies. Developed as part of a project with The New School's Journalism+Design program.
Research and analysis for a piece by Ava Kofman & Moira Weigel on Amazon's use as a publishing platform for white supremacists.
A game and simulation of housing markets in fictional cities. The cities can be designed with an included web tool. This is a multiplayer experience to contrast how housing affordability evolves with the dominant landlord model vs a proposed co-ownership alternative. Made for DOMA.
A proof-of-concept for p2p collaborative text editing using the Dat protocol, so groups can work together without relying on Google. Currently only supports plain text editing; rich text support is experimental/unstable
A whitepaper describing a collective computing project for the atomic simulation of a single human cell and distributing subsequent medical research revenue, w/ Sean Raspet for Rhizome's Seven-on-Seven (2018, NYC)
A transit demand model for the Institute for Applied Economic Research, part of the PolicySpace model. Simulates public transit and private vehicle usage given a city's GTFS feed and available OpenStreetMap data
An open agent-based model with three markets and a tax scheme that empirically simulates 46 Brazilian metropolitan regions, developed with Bernardo Furtado at the Institute for Applied Economic Research.
A Monero miner for using excess computing power and crypto-speculation to collectively post bail for low-income people, developed with Grayson Earle, Maya Binyam, JB Rubinovitz, Sam Lavigne, Rachel Rosenfelt, Madeleine Varner, Devin Kenny, and the rest of Dark Inquiry. Download here
A conference and library in NYC, 11/18/2017, on cybernetics, informatic systems, and social organization; organized with Sam Hart, Melanie Hoff, Sarah Hamerman, David Isaac Hecht, Dan Taeyoung, Charles Eppley, and Alexis Convento
A predictive policing app for white collar crime. "Unlike typical predictive policing apps which criminalize poverty, White Collar Crime Risk Zones criminalizes wealth." Collab w/ Sam Lavigne & Brian Clifton for The New Inquiry
A reading list around speculative fiction, technology, and politics
A participative agent-based economic simulation for speculating alternative economies, w/ Fei Liu
A dystopian business simulator - found a startup, pursue unbounded growth, and accidentally dystopia. Play here
A large set of notes introducing people with modest math backgrounds to artificial intelligence
Digital community design notes for the Coral Project and taught as a New School Journalism+Design course
A New School Journalism+Design course on journalism, algorithms, and automation
A collection of introductory machine learning guides, w/ Gene Kogan
The video for Handsome Furs' "Serve the People", from their album Sound Kapital (Sub Pop)