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Mein neuer Newsletter "Feminist Service Design Notes" (LinkedIn) ist gerade veröffentlicht worden.

Themen diesen Monat: Verstaubte Strukturen ✶ Profit over Fairness ✶ Slow by Design --> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/verstaubte-strukturen-slowness-design-mangelnde-anreize-kegel-o1wtf #feministTech #feministdesign

'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

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
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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

✨ 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

----> 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/

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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

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.

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