A podcast about how technology is changing our lives, from an intersectional feminist perspective. 🎧 By @nesient & @undazedandsuch 🌵💜
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12 Jul 2022
Just a little note to say that The Intersection of Things pod is on hiatus for a while. 🛌Thank you to everyone who supported us making this. 💚
In the meantime there are 28 episodes of lovingly made audio for you whenever you're in the mood 🎧
theintersectionofthings.com/
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24 May 2022
Love having @zeynep back from her (crucial) pandemic-focused thought leadership!
"Telling people to not use these powerful platforms if they don’t want to be unreasonably surveilled is blaming the victim."
nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opini…
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24 May 2022
An interesting read by @WorkPrayCode that touches on some of the conversations we had about tech culture in our Ritual episode -
"Today, the theocracy of work... is hollowing out our faith communities and civic associations" nytimes.com/2022/05/24/opini…
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8 Apr 2022
In our latest pod episode we talked about people changing faces & bodies at the altar of "The Algorithm".
And that's not the only way filters change us.
To avoid angering the almighty algorithm, people are creating a new vocabulary - @TaylorLorenz
washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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29 Mar 2022
In New Celebrity we take inspiration from many places including @jaz_off and @helveticade brilliant piece on “aesthetic flattening”, and share why this is the vibe of the pandemic and the tone of too many tiktoks -
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29 Mar 2022
You can read the article here, and we have all the footnotes for our episode on the site above.
#CitationsAreSolidarity
newdesigncongress.org/en/pub…
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22 Mar 2022
"we have to question what it means when new faces, new bodies, new politics always seem to come with the same type of selling" - @aliciakennedy
This is a great piece, especially on✨content making✨, many similar themes to our recent New Celebrity ep.
aliciakennedy.news/p/on-tech…
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26 Nov 2021
will add 2 this thread as a sort of live digital archive of phd thoughts
currently reading @SPonzanesi & nodding furiously 2 their argument re necessity of postcolonial critique to mitigate neocolonial discourse in internet/media studies — smtg i note occurs in #digitalrights
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18 Mar 2022
Taking disaster capitalism and greenwashing and just smooshing them together into a gross exploitation of tragedy -
18 Mar 2022
You may have heard that Clearview AI announced it will offer its surveillance tech to Ukraine.
It seems no human tragedy is off-limits to surveillance companies looking to sanitise their image. 🧵⬇️
privacyinternational.org/new…
2 Mar 2022
"For many influencers, deception is lucrative, and becoming increasingly extreme. There are some feigning their wealth, their followers and even their ethnicity while hawking dubious products to their followers." -
theguardian.com/fashion/2022…
25 Feb 2022
Enjoyed our episode on new celebrity? This article is a great follow on read
@facilitymartin speaks to @symeonbrown about new book “Get Rich or Lie Trying” -
(which is just a *chef kiss* title)
dazeddigital.com/life-cultur…
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23 Feb 2022
🌟New @thingsintersect pod out🌟
We talk about the faces that rise to the top on TikTok, how Instagram algorithms encourage stealing facial structures, and why “aesthetic flattening” has been the vibe of the pandemic -
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23 Feb 2022
In this episode Ruth & Marianela discuss what @jiatolentino calls the “rootless exoticism” of #InstagramFace, the “algorithmic tendency to flatten everything” - and how the pandemic has exaggerated them both -
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22 Feb 2022
New Episode! ⏰We go from new celebrities to reflections 🪞 and talk about mirror-selves, mirror-verses, and mirror cutters.
It’s all about whose faces the algorithms love and reward -
soundcloud.com/thingsinterse…
15 Feb 2022
"Beyond false positives or false negatives is something even more important—the right not to use biometric technology at all, regardless of its accuracy" - @jovialjoy
theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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15 Feb 2022
If, like us, you're not a fan of NFTs or the massive energy waste that is Bitcoin, you might enjoy going back to episode 10 - Money. 🪙🪙🪙
We looked at cryoto scams, colonialism & more -
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26 Jan 2022
After sharing that great article on inclusive spellings from @DIVAmagazine the other day, this beautifully designed piece by @MinamiFunakoshi & Samuel Granados on recognising the spectrum of genders across languages is a brilliant next read -
graphics.reuters.com/GENDER-…
26 Jan 2022
This looks amazing. Remember when we read out the whole Pratchett Vimes Boot Economics on our podcast?
Terry Pratchett estate backs Jack Monroe’s idea for ‘Vimes Boots’ poverty index theguardian.com/books/2022/j…
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26 Jan 2022
You can hear our conversation about it on the money episode theintersectionofthings.com/…
and of course just read it below -
x.com/terryandrob/status/148…
25 Jan 2022
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example…
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18 Jan 2022
Sex With An X: The Perils Of Performative Spelling autostraddle.com/sex-with-an… via @autostraddle
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