Feminist Data Manifest-No
1. We refuse to operate under the assumption that risk and harm associated with data practices can be bounded to mean the same thing for everyone, everywhere, at every time. We commit to acknowledging how historical and systemic patterns of violence and exploitation produce differential vulnerabilities for communities.
Alienation, Idealization, and Modeling
Models allow us to expose, explore, and excavate our assumptions. This is especially true for the sorts of assumptions that concern scholars of marginalization and resistance, who aim to show how ...
How Human Traffickers Force Victims Into Cyberscamming — ProPublica
Tens of thousands of people from across Asia have been coerced into defrauding people in America and around the world out of millions of dollars. Those who resist face beatings, food deprivation or worse.
OpenAI and Anthropic are ruining San Francisco
SF chief economist warns of an 'uptick in evictions' as AI companies wreck the city.
The Critical Resource Theory of Fiduciary Duty
This Article proposes a new theory to unify the law of fiduciary duty. The prevailing view holds that fiduciary law is atomistic, arising for varied reasons in
The power imbalance between parent and child leaves a trace | Aeon Essays
Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace
Frontiers | Cyber-mobbing, technology-facilitated abuse and online violence
This article collection will explore the pressing issues of cyber-mobbing, technology-facilitated abuse and online violence, including online abuse, stalking...
A Tale of Two Theories (of Coordination)
Leveraging and Deleveraging Toward Thick Sovereignty
The Emotional Toll of Living With Institutional Betrayal - Dame Magazine
What happens to us when institutions protect power instead of people? From Epstein to ICE, institutional betrayal is inflicting trauma and moral injury.
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
By Donella Meadows~ Folks who do systems analysis have a great belief in “leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything. This idea is not unique to systems analysis — […]
"[PSH] asks not only what the psychopathic profile is, but where it wins. ... whether the traits that once had to remain parasitic at the margins of reciprocal communities can become structurally amplified in environments where consequence is abstracted and reward is symbolic."
The Psychopathic Selection Hypothesis Guide for Readers
gregelliott2000.substack.comas an indirect answer, here is a long-form doc on the overall network architecture for moderation and abuse.
AT Moderation Architecture | bryan newbold
whtwnd.comone of the clearest gaps in the ecosystem - working against the lofty decentralisation goals - is how power concentrates in tools: lists/feeds/labellers the implicit decision by bsky rn is "don't let these things become powerful", which also means "don't let these things become *too* useful"
Baldemoto🇵🇸
Moderating @furryli.st always made me feel that something was missing from atproto. If we disappeared, so too would the community we built This feeling’s finally crystallized into this proposal: Composable Trust We created identities that survive platform failure. Lets do the same for communities!
> It is worth considering the power dynamics of a well-known researcher *demanding* first comment on anything anyone publishes about their own work. It is a power move, and obviously so if they don't honor their own policy in cases where the other researchers weren't sufficiently obliging.
