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the Week of April 13, 2020
We’re back for 2020! Make sure to follow us on Twitter, sign up for our mailing list and support on Patreon. We’re independent and fully reader-supported as always. This month we’ve got articles responding to the COVID-19 crisis, and how it’s affecting everyone from visually impaired users to Indigenous game developers. Take a closer look at the “culture war” going on in open source, white-washing of the newsroom and a fresh approach to how we conceptualize our work: society-centered design. Photo CC-BY See-ming Lee.
Worker Coops: A Better Way to Make a Living in Tech
By building our cooperative upon these principles, supplemented by our politics and dedication to social and economic justice, worker-owners at tech coops are able to shape our own deeply rewarding careers in technology, unrestricted by the constraints and bitter compromises that characterize more traditional careers in the industry.
Flocos de Neve Aqui, Ali e nos Trópicos: democratizando as notícias internacionais do Brasil ao Equador
A máquina gigantesca da mídia convencional e ocidental mostra-nos quem é suficientemente articulado, realmente sofisticado, consciente e honesto para cumprir todas as demandas do jornalismo internacional. Tradução por Carlos Alberto Medeiros / Cultne.
#TechSolidarity: Tech and Warehouse Workers Need to Stand Together
The history of the labor movement shows that big business will go to great lengths to keep workers divided and maintain their power.
Tips on Unionizing Your Tech Workforce
Organizers on getting started, holding conversations about your workplace and building solidarity.
Engineering To Death in COVID-19
The sheer existence of the Tech solution creates the “normal” regardless of whether the disease is actually contained and regardless of whether treatment exists and is accessible.
Society-Centered Design Is A New Approach to Tech Development
"By recognizing that human-centered design is problematic in the way that it focuses on individuals, on consumers, we can recognize that we need a new framework to ask different questions."
Snowflakes Hither, Yonder and In the Tropics: Ungentrifying International News Reporting from Brazil to Ecuador
The mammoth machine of mainstream and western media at-large tells us who is articulate enough, indeed worldly, mindful, and honest enough to saddle the demands required of international journalism.
A Six-Month Retrospective on Ethical Open Source
The open source community has a strong desire to evolve, and if necessary, to redefine itself, to ensure that it can address the magnitude and complexity of today’s social, political and technological challenges.
The Culture War in Open Source is On
The challenges to open source's "noble neutrality."
Black Excellence in the Age of Pandemic
America’s Black creative class is busy both re-framing some parts and eradicating others, of the life, culture, and history that we have led.
Re-Victimized: When Sexual Assault Gets Uploaded to Porn Platforms
The role that technology played in my attack not only immortalized the worst night of my life, but made it so that I had no escape from the trauma.
Pixels and Pandemics: Indigenous Game Devs Respond To The Virus
That flux is creating enormous changes in what might be little Indigenous-run studios, but it is these creatives who have been meeting those same challenges head on in ways that larger studios cannot hope to.
