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'Love without trust is the definition of an abusive relationship.'

That resonat with me—and it might explain why I stopped using smartphones.

I couldn’t pinpoint exactly why they made me feel uneasy, but I think I understand now. Years ago, I carried a work phone in a corporate environment where it had to be always on. The constant external pressure was exhausting. When I finally abandoned mobile phones altogether, I felt relieved. But comparing smartphones to abusive relationships crystallized something I’d been struggling to articulate: the erosion of autonomy, the constant surveillance, the feeling of being controlled.

Phones are addictive, creepy, and surprisingly political. Thanks to @pluralistic, I came across a brilliant feminist analysis by @mariafarrell that connected surveillance capitalism to gendered power dynamics—showing how these systems target and manipulate users in ways similar to how patriarchy itself operates. It’s a reminder that feminism offers practical insight into broader societal problems, but it can be extremely illuminating when applied to technology—and one day, maybe even help us build tech we can actually trust.

https://conversationalist.org/2019/09/13/feminism-explains-our-toxic-relationships-with-our-smartphones/ It’s worth reading.

#TechAbuse #DigitalRights #FeministAnalysis #SurveillanceCapitalism #DigitalAutonomy #TechAndGend #FeministTech #DigitalWellbeing

'Love without trust is the definition of an abusive relationship.'

That resonat with me—and it might explain why I stopped using smartphones.

I couldn’t pinpoint exactly why they made me feel uneasy, but I think I understand now. Years ago, I carried a work phone in a corporate environment where it had to be always on. The constant external pressure was exhausting. When I finally abandoned mobile phones altogether, I felt relieved. But comparing smartphones to abusive relationships crystallized something I’d been struggling to articulate: the erosion of autonomy, the constant surveillance, the feeling of being controlled.

Phones are addictive, creepy, and surprisingly political. Thanks to @pluralistic, I came across a brilliant feminist analysis by @mariafarrell that connected surveillance capitalism to gendered power dynamics—showing how these systems target and manipulate users in ways similar to how patriarchy itself operates. It’s a reminder that feminism offers practical insight into broader societal problems, but it can be extremely illuminating when applied to technology—and one day, maybe even help us build tech we can actually trust.

https://conversationalist.org/2019/09/13/feminism-explains-our-toxic-relationships-with-our-smartphones/ It’s worth reading.

#TechAbuse #DigitalRights #FeministAnalysis #SurveillanceCapitalism #DigitalAutonomy #TechAndGend #FeministTech #DigitalWellbeing

Kurze Eigenwerbung: Wenn ihr auf LinkedIn unterwegs seid: Ich starte am Sonntag meinen Newsletter zum Thema Feminist Service Design und freue mich sehr über jede/jeden einzelnen Leser*in :)
-> https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/feminist-service-design-notes-7468336462430855168/

Gerne teilen wemn ihr jemanden kennt, für den das interessant sein könnte <3 #FeministTech #FeministDesign

Kurze Eigenwerbung: Wenn ihr auf LinkedIn unterwegs seid: Ich starte am Sonntag meinen Newsletter zum Thema Feminist Service Design und freue mich sehr über jede/jeden einzelnen Leser*in :)
-> https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/feminist-service-design-notes-7468336462430855168/

Gerne teilen wemn ihr jemanden kennt, für den das interessant sein könnte <3 #FeministTech #FeministDesign

The engineer looks at that and goes:
"What the fuck am I supposed to do with a class of academics that refuse to emotionally grow up?"

Then they pause. And they realize: these people aren't malicious. They're local actors that act in locally coherent ways that reproduce globally incoherent systemic outcomes.

The engineer looks at **that** and goes:
"How do we fix that?"

And the answer the engineer arrives at is simple. They write a story in anger at 3am, and close with an open invitation:

If you're so certain you're right about AI, hard skills, and "touchy feely" soft skills, then why not invite the neuroqueer systemic engineer that builds a sub-Turing compiler that solves the Alignment Problem for structured inference onto your show. I double dare you. (Hand me your delicious unintegrated projections. I'll mirror them right back.)

Let's see which pitch the wine glass produces now. (Prediction: Dismissal and emotionally detached engagement trying to steelman me.) 🍷

(Fun fact: this whole thread is a paradoxical second-order cybernetic intervention. The fun thing about those: they work, even when you know the mechanism. 😉)

Cheers
[email protected] 🌈

https://systemic.engineering/the-shape-of-the-thing

#MentalHealth #PsychologicalSafety #QueerTech #FeministTech #TransTech #AuDHD #Neurodivergent #Podcast #Cybernetics #AI #AIAlignment

The engineer looks at that and goes:
"What the fuck am I supposed to do with a class of academics that refuse to emotionally grow up?"

Then they pause. And they realize: these people aren't malicious. They're local actors that act in locally coherent ways that reproduce globally incoherent systemic outcomes.

The engineer looks at **that** and goes:
"How do we fix that?"

And the answer the engineer arrives at is simple. They write a story in anger at 3am, and close with an open invitation:

If you're so certain you're right about AI, hard skills, and "touchy feely" soft skills, then why not invite the neuroqueer systemic engineer that builds a sub-Turing compiler that solves the Alignment Problem for structured inference onto your show. I double dare you. (Hand me your delicious unintegrated projections. I'll mirror them right back.)

Let's see which pitch the wine glass produces now. (Prediction: Dismissal and emotionally detached engagement trying to steelman me.) 🍷

(Fun fact: this whole thread is a paradoxical second-order cybernetic intervention. The fun thing about those: they work, even when you know the mechanism. 😉)

Cheers
[email protected] 🌈

https://systemic.engineering/the-shape-of-the-thing

#MentalHealth #PsychologicalSafety #QueerTech #FeministTech #TransTech #AuDHD #Neurodivergent #Podcast #Cybernetics #AI #AIAlignment

I can't sleep. I can write. So I'm writing..

Let me tell you a story. About an engineer that's been in tech for 15 years, burned out three times, left the industry, started systemic training, and then realized what they had been taught in school was not only incomplete, it was actively misleading.

Not because of bad actors (although these exists, newsflash, I know). But from the geometry of composition. The structure of who talks to whom, when, in which order, produced properties that none of the individual parts had — the composed system's complexity exceeded the regulatory variety any single actor had been built to handle. Ashby's law, applied to alignment: a regulator must match the variety of the system it regulates. The parts were sized for themselves. The composition exceeded their variety.

(Are we talking about AI or are we talking about humans? Yes.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics)

#TechIndustry #SoftwareEngineering #Burnout #TechBurnout #QueerTech #FeministTech #TransTech #AuDHD #Neurodivergent #MentalHealth #PsychologicalSafety #Cybernetics

I can't sleep. I can write. So I'm writing..

Let me tell you a story. About an engineer that's been in tech for 15 years, burned out three times, left the industry, started systemic training, and then realized what they had been taught in school was not only incomplete, it was actively misleading.

Not because of bad actors (although these exists, newsflash, I know). But from the geometry of composition. The structure of who talks to whom, when, in which order, produced properties that none of the individual parts had — the composed system's complexity exceeded the regulatory variety any single actor had been built to handle. Ashby's law, applied to alignment: a regulator must match the variety of the system it regulates. The parts were sized for themselves. The composition exceeded their variety.

(Are we talking about AI or are we talking about humans? Yes.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics)

#TechIndustry #SoftwareEngineering #Burnout #TechBurnout #QueerTech #FeministTech #TransTech #AuDHD #Neurodivergent #MentalHealth #PsychologicalSafety #Cybernetics

✨ Female Maker Club geht in die nächste Runde: Circular Futures

Am 7. Mai öffnen wir das MakerLab für gemeinsames Arbeiten, Austausch und Vernetzung – mit Fokus auf zirkuläres Design und nachhaltige Innovation.

Ab 17 Uhr gibt EcoDesignerin Mariana Yzusqui Burkard Einblicke in Circular Design & systemisches Denken.

👉 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/female-maker-clubcircular-futures-tickets-1984489321983

#FabCity #CircularDesign #MakerCulture #FeministTech #OpenInnovation

✨ Female Maker Club geht in die nächste Runde: Circular Futures

Am 7. Mai öffnen wir das MakerLab für gemeinsames Arbeiten, Austausch und Vernetzung – mit Fokus auf zirkuläres Design und nachhaltige Innovation.

Ab 17 Uhr gibt EcoDesignerin Mariana Yzusqui Burkard Einblicke in Circular Design & systemisches Denken.

👉 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/female-maker-clubcircular-futures-tickets-1984489321983

#FabCity #CircularDesign #MakerCulture #FeministTech #OpenInnovation

I visited @canodrom this morning. I forgot to leave some stickers… Yet another reason for me to come back to Barcelona as soon as possible. Lovely people, super curious projects and approach, especially in the relationship with el barrio (neoghborhood).

It was interesting curious to learn that the whole Canodrom is manages by @colectic_coop, a cooperative that won the 4-years grant by the municipality of Barcelona. The vast majority of the funding is both public and local!

#Canodròm #Canodrom #Canodromo #Barcelona #coop #cooperative #FeministTech #technology

I visited @canodrom this morning. I forgot to leave some stickers… Yet another reason for me to come back to Barcelona as soon as possible. Lovely people, super curious projects and approach, especially in the relationship with el barrio (neoghborhood).

It was interesting curious to learn that the whole Canodrom is manages by @colectic_coop, a cooperative that won the 4-years grant by the municipality of Barcelona. The vast majority of the funding is both public and local!

#Canodròm #Canodrom #Canodromo #Barcelona #coop #cooperative #FeministTech #technology

----> More on the impact of our network in this video:

#APC2024 #AmplifyingRights #Rohingya #FeministTech #CommunityNetworks

----> More on the impact of our network in this video:

#APC2024 #AmplifyingRights #Rohingya #FeministTech #CommunityNetworks

Over the past year, APC amplified environmental defenders' voices through a feminist and Indigenous research framework in four #GlobalSouth countries.

We also supported #Rohingya refugees in reclaiming their narratives against disinformation in Myanmar.

More outcomes in our Annual Report: https://2024report.apc.org/

#APC2024 #EnvironmentalDefenders #FeministTech #CommunityNetworks

Over the past year, APC amplified environmental defenders' voices through a feminist and Indigenous research framework in four #GlobalSouth countries.

We also supported #Rohingya refugees in reclaiming their narratives against disinformation in Myanmar.

More outcomes in our Annual Report: https://2024report.apc.org/

#APC2024 #EnvironmentalDefenders #FeministTech #CommunityNetworks

Borders, algorithms, and erasure.
Jennifer Kamau, Heba Y. Amin, Anni Garza Lau & Gro Sarauw trace how tech enables systemic violence — from migration control to gendered surveillance.

Moderated by Geert Lovink.
Sept 21 · Berlin · #DNL36
🎟️ disruptionlab.org/technoviolence

#Technoviolence #AlgorithmicViolence #FeministTech

Borders, algorithms, and erasure.
Jennifer Kamau, Heba Y. Amin, Anni Garza Lau & Gro Sarauw trace how tech enables systemic violence — from migration control to gendered surveillance.

Moderated by Geert Lovink.
Sept 21 · Berlin · #DNL36
🎟️ disruptionlab.org/technoviolence

#Technoviolence #AlgorithmicViolence #FeministTech

Nil Uzun joins #dnl36 as moderator and research associate at RWTH Aachen, where she investigates algorithmic warfare, military AI, and alternative tech futures. Her work bridges sociology, STS, and global justice, unpacking how technology both reflects and resists power.
🔗 disruptionlab.org/technoviolence
#dnl36 #AlgorithmicWarfare #TechAndSociety #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #FeministTech #AIandJustice

Nil Uzun joins #dnl36 as moderator and research associate at RWTH Aachen, where she investigates algorithmic warfare, military AI, and alternative tech futures. Her work bridges sociology, STS, and global justice, unpacking how technology both reflects and resists power.
🔗 disruptionlab.org/technoviolence
#dnl36 #AlgorithmicWarfare #TechAndSociety #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #FeministTech #AIandJustice

Anni Garza Lau is a Mexican artist and technologist whose practice blends speculative design, software critique, and feminist tech strategies. As co-founder of Ghost Agency, she builds tools of resistance to defend digital rights and challenge platform violence.

Part of Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action. Co-funded by the European Union.

#dnl36 #FeministTech #DigitalRights #GhostAgency

Anni Garza Lau is a Mexican artist and technologist whose practice blends speculative design, software critique, and feminist tech strategies. As co-founder of Ghost Agency, she builds tools of resistance to defend digital rights and challenge platform violence.

Part of Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action. Co-funded by the European Union.

#dnl36 #FeministTech #DigitalRights #GhostAgency

Whose knowledge counts?
We reject “universal” objectivity and instead center situated knowledge — grounded in lived, local, and embodied experience, especially from marginalized perspectives.

🧠 Part of the TECHNOVIOLENCE glossary series by Disruption Network Lab
📚 Source: Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges, 1988
🔍 Learn more at: disruptionlab.org/technoviolence

#Technoviolence #SituatedKnowledge #FeministTech #CriticalTheory #DigitalJustice #DNLGlossary #dnl36

Whose knowledge counts?
We reject “universal” objectivity and instead center situated knowledge — grounded in lived, local, and embodied experience, especially from marginalized perspectives.

🧠 Part of the TECHNOVIOLENCE glossary series by Disruption Network Lab
📚 Source: Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges, 1988
🔍 Learn more at: disruptionlab.org/technoviolence

#Technoviolence #SituatedKnowledge #FeministTech #CriticalTheory #DigitalJustice #DNLGlossary #dnl36

Here's our #FeministTech Starter Pack:

People and organisations prioritising feminist perspectives, women’s rights and movement building in the use of information and communications technology.

Any recommendations on others to add?

https://fedidevs.com/s/NDg3/

Here's our #FeministTech Starter Pack:

People and organisations prioritising feminist perspectives, women’s rights and movement building in the use of information and communications technology.

Any recommendations on others to add?

https://fedidevs.com/s/NDg3/

- Mastodon Starter Pack on #FeministTech

People and organisations prioritising feminist perspectives, women’s rights and movement building in the use of information and communications technology.

https://fedidevs.com/s/NDg3/

- Mastodon Starter Pack on #FeministTech

People and organisations prioritising feminist perspectives, women’s rights and movement building in the use of information and communications technology.

https://fedidevs.com/s/NDg3/

Have you listened to our #FeministSoundBites?

> APC’s Feminist Internet Research Network is a collaborative and multidisciplinary project that aims to influence activism and policy making.

.- Join us as we listen to the researchers discuss their work, bringing unique knowledge and experience and bridging communities. All while highlighting the unique challenges and successes of transforming gendered structures of power.

https://www.apc.org/en/news/listen-feminist-sound-bites-2024

#FeministTech #AWIDForum #AWID2024

Are you following the AWID Forum?

- Join us in imagining #FeministTech amidst genocides, authoritarianism and tech for apartheid.

https://apc.org/node/40429

> As feminist activists, mobilisers and human rights defenders, it is crucial to resist the regimes and technology of apartheid that flourish over the gross violations of human rights and dignity in plain sight.

https://www.apc.org/en/node/40362

#AWIDForum #BigTech #TechForApartheid

#AWIDForum is here! today at "Moving Money, Building Movements" meeting we spoke about the risk communities face in big tech platforms: "Controlling our ability to communicate is controlling civil society organising" We need to invest in #FeministTech development. ✊🏾🔥

From bridging the tech sector gender gap to environment-friendly fashion to queer joy: GenderIT’s feminist talk highlights local issues and voices across #Asia and #Africa

Read more: https://www.apc.org/node/40415 #FeministTech #GenderIT

Kira Wisniewski, Executive Director of Art+Feminism, champions moving slowly when it comes to decolonizing structured data, to prioritize everyone joining the conversation - especially feminists! Episode 3 of #WhoseVoices is out now -> https://whoseknowledge.org/dsd-whose-voices/.

#DecolonisingStructuredData #Wikidata #FeministTech

Como tejedoras de #TecnologiasFeministas tejemos para crear algo hermoso, para aprender una nueva puntada o para confabular mientras tejemos🕷️🕸️🖤

Escucha el 4to episodio de #TejiendoSignificadosComunes🧶aquí https://archive.org/details/episodio4nuestrasintenciones #FeministTech🎧 @sursiendo @whoseknowledge @APC http://links.numun.fund/tejiendo

Para las #TecnologiasFeministas el desacuerdo es importante, las formas como decidimos superar en colectivo las dificultades.

¿Cómo caminamos los conflictos? es la pregunta del 3er episodio de #TejiendoSignificadosComunes 🧶
@sursiendo @NumunFund @WhoseKnowledge #FeministTech

Lee 🤓 https://sursiendo.org/2024/04/las-tecnologias-que-sonamos-son-feministas/

Escucha 🎧 https://archive.org/details/episodio3caminar

En el 2do episodio de #TejiendoSignificadosComunes 🧶 les invitamos a caracterizar las infraestructuras feministas ¿son diferentes cuando pensamos la #TecnologiaFeminista como infraestructuras sociales y no solamente digitales?
@sursiendo @NumunFund @WhoseKnowledge #FeministTech

Lee 🤓 https://sursiendo.org/2024/04/las-tecnologias-que-sonamos-son-feministas/
Escucha 🎧 https://archive.org/details/episodio2comoson

¿Cómo llegamos a las tecnologías feministas?

▶️🎧📻 Escucha en el primer episodio las voces, sentires y pensares compartidos durante el Feminist Tech Playground organizado por @APC y
@numun sobre #TecnologiaFeminista #FeministTech

https://archive.org/details/episodio1lallegada

Next Tue 🗓️19 March 16:30 at 8th Floor of UN Church Center we will discuss about the need of financing #FeministTech with @APC and LOCNET

Join our parallel event at #NGOForum #CSW68

Dreaming big 🤩 what a billion💸 would do for #FeministTech?

Support tech for communities
More access & literacy
Alternatives to big tech
Better org infrastructure
Lobbying feminist ICT policies
Take down trolls
Take back Twitter 🐤 #DRAPAC23

How can technology help achieve gender equality? A #FeministInternet and #FeministTech challenge patriarchy and discrimination, online and offline.

Join @numunfund @WhoseKnowledge and @APC_News at #CSW67👇

Join @numun @WhoseKnowledge @APC at #CSW67 NGOForum in person event & meet activists making a #FeministInternet🌍👩🏾‍💻🔧at the frontlines!

#FeministTech strives for gender equality + fights opressions online & on-ground✊🏾🔥 Come and learn the challenges and strategies!

Look forward to talks from @l03s on the damaged earth catalog and from Tung-Hui Hu on digital lethargy as part of the "Toward a Minor Tech" workshop in collaboration with @transmediale @xocffoeg & more! https://kingsdh.net/2023/01/16/toward-a-minor-tech/ #minortech #permacomputing #transmediale #smalltech #lowtech #feministtech #digitallethargy

Hello world! 👋🏾

We are Numun Fund, the first dedicated fund for #FeministTech organising in the Larger World -aka Global South 🌱 🌾 🌿

Willing to build community in alternative spaces 😎 this is our first toot 🐘!