Dr. Corinne Cath-Speth’s Tweets

Sep 6, 2021

@oiioxford

PhD thesis "Changing Minds & Machines" is live! If you’re interested in reading an #ethnographic study of #internetgovernance, the culture(s) and politics of #internet infrastructure, standardization & civil society you can find it here: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9

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Taking an tech infrastructure walk through Amsterdam facilitated by the wonderful

@nielstenoever

& co— showing how tech infuses our movements through the city scape & how to resist its gaze #5G #smartcity #radio #cctv #surveillance #sousveillance #wifi #baby

numun

@numunfund

Mar 25

Get your hands on and come shape with us Numun Fund! 🛠💥 Our grantmaking is on its way and we are opening 3 positions. Join us and help sustain feminist tech ecosystems in the Larger World 🌱 Apply before April 15th! (thread) 📢#FeministJobAlert #FeministJobs

We offer opportunities for people who are committed to ensuring data and AI work for people and society.

Imogen Parker

@ImogenParker

Mar 24

We're recruiting 3x dream roles

@AdaLovelaceInst

- want to lead our programme on public sector data and algorithms, or be a senior visiting researcher on climate or gender & AI? Come join us👇

adalovelaceinstitute.org

Jobs

FRIDA

@FRIDAfund

Mar 23

It gives us great joy to announce that FRIDA has been selected for a USD 10 million #donation, the largest amount we have ever received from an individual or institution. The donation comes from

@mackenziescott

and here is our public statement about it: youngfeministfund.org/money-is-polit

An illustration of five individuals with different looks: someone has an Afro, someone has punk hair, someone else has brown hair. They are all looking at each other placed in a circular way.

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How Is Russia Connected To The Wider Internet?

Mar 23

“While we don't see massive changes in network connectivity, the latency effects we see could be indicative of an increase of traffic and/or a decrease in available capacity between Russia and the rest of the world.”

@ripencc

blog

labs.ripe.net

Speculation about Russia disconnecting or being disconnected from the wider Internet abounds. In this article, we look at the connectivity of the Russian Internet to the wider Internet and how this...

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Great to see

and

presenting at

's Global Access to the Internet for All #IETF113 session. With censorship circumvention tools, 'another internet is possible,' and this internet is still possible, too, even in times of war.

William Isaac

@wsisaac

Mar 21

I'll also add that in addition to graduate funding, many of the recipients also get to spend time with DM researchers (👋🏿) to gain additional career mentorship. This is a wonderful program if you are interested in AI or the intersection of AI and society!!

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Colorintech

@Colorintechorg

· Mar 21

Interested in a career in AI? @DeepMind offers a range of scholarships for graduate courses in AI and related fields. Find the list of participating universities here: rebrand.ly/deepmind-schol

Frederike Kaltheuner

@F_Kaltheuner

Mar 16

We've now published our findings and analysis: ▫️ an mapping of all actions taken by

so far on Ukraine ▫️an analysis of how decisions compare to those taken in other crises and conflicts hrw.org/news/2022/03/1

@hrw

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Frederike Kaltheuner

@F_Kaltheuner

· Mar 11

Our team at @hrw has been monitoring how tech companies have responded to the war on Ukraine and will publish our findings next week. Some background on Meta allowing users to call for violence against Russians in some countries & Russia's move to ban Instagram, WhatsApp. 1/10

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Desiree

@Des

Mar 15

A #RIPE Cooperation WG calls for Open discussion on #Internet sanctions and connectivity next week -> meeting-registration.ripe.net/meeting-pub/re

Mar 16

Dream job for nerdie tech journalists!!

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Kelsey L. Hayes

@kelseylh

· Mar 16

Jobs alert

@POLITICOEurope is filling two policy-reporting roles on the tech team.

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The War in Ukraine Exposes Social Media as a Tool of the State

Justin Hendrix

@justinhendrix

Mar 14

The War in Ukraine Exposes Social Media as a Tool of the State Charis Papaevangelou (

@CharisPapaev

) and Nikos Smyrnaios (

@smykos

) say the power to deplatform is real power, and one that governments will seek to deploy:

techpolicy.press

The long term implications of platform and government actions to restrict Russian state media are difficult to discern in the fog of war.

Alix Dunn

@alixtrot

Mar 14

🚨We are in the weird two week period when the US has experienced it’s time zone shift and the rest of the world has not (I speak on behalf of all of Europe). Be mindful if you are scheduling globally my friends!

Eline Peters

@elineannepeters

Mar 13

Je kunt deze week op mij stemmen voor GroenLinks Amsterdam, superspannend. Ben je nog op zoek naar een feministische kandidaat lager op de lijst? Ik heb oa bij DeGoedeZaak en de studentenvakbond veel ervaring opgedaan en heb zin dat naar de lokale politiek te brengen!

Kristina Moraes

@kristinamoraes

Mar 14

Hoje completam 4 anos que a Marielle Franco foi assassinada na tentativa de silenciar a luta diária que ela trazia através do seu mandato com os projetos que continuam vivos até hoje pelo

@inst_marielle

🌻. Queremos justiça!!! #justiçapormarielleeanderson #4anossemrespostas

John Graham-Cumming

@jgrahamc

Mar 13

Evolution of Internet traffic in Ukraine comparing mobile devices and desktop devices. Lots of use of mobile in first couple of days of the invasion, then back to "normal", followed by a gradual drift towards mobile devices.

Mar 12

Same nonsense, but now verified. By an archaic academic institute ✅ & tech company of dubious repute ✅. Living my best geriatric millennial life. h/t

@sa0un

for the tip

How Silicon Valley’s Russia crackdown proves its power – and its threat

april glaser

@aprilaser

Mar 12

I’ve got a new op-ed with my team in The Guardian I’m proud of - About how tech companies wait until political events become so terrifying that they have no choice but to do something, which is so chaotic and harmful theguardian.com/media/2022/mar by

@BostonJoan

@jruddock__

and me

theguardian.com

Tech companies took swift action to back Ukraine, a watershed moment for an industry with control over information

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Zara Rahman

@zararah

Mar 11

(Argh, the article for this is behind a paywall) - but the twitter thread here is already fascinating, perhaps the truest form of 'decolonising philanthropy' that I've seen so far:

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Gabe Oatley (they/them)

@GabeOatley

· Mar 10

My latest: In all my work in philanthropy over the last decade or so, I've never seen anything quite like the Right Relations Collaborative. In it, funders must apply to a council of Indigenous aunties for the right to fund their work. 1/ futureofgood.co/council-of-aun

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sofía celi

@claucece

Mar 11

Re-reading this amazing piece by

The technology we choose to create: Human rights advocacy in the Internet Engineering Task Force

around the IETF and Human rights advocacy:

sciencedirect.com

This article is an ethnographic analysis of recent efforts in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to consider human rights values in the develo…

Sarah A | ساره

@sa0un

In moments of crisis (like with #Ukraine currently), I often deal with well-meaning (tech) folks who want to immediately help by putting their skills to use. Here's a good breakdown of wanting to help vs actually helping.

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Alix Dunn

@alixtrot

· Feb 28

Want to help? Have technical skills? That's probably not a good idea. Here are some thoughts based on 10+ years seeing well-meaning technical folks getting involved in crises

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Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity

@CLTCBerkeley

Postdoctoral Scholar - Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) – School of Information - Data...

📢📢We're hiring! CLTC is looking for a postdoc to lead the development of a multidisciplinary research program focused on data privacy issues at scale (e.g. data scraping) aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03349 #data #dataprivacy #privacy #postdoc #postdocjobs #UCBerkeley #cybersecurity

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How can we ethically engage a military-derived technology that has infiltrated every aspect of our lives from refrigerators to furniture? The weaponizing potential of the internet was part and parcel...

Just some casual questions on a Wednesday night by Prof Moya Bailey in An Ethical Internet

just-tech.ssrc.org

An Ethical Internet?

“Can this military-derived, exploitatively built, capitalistically driven, entity of the internet be reconfigured from the ground up in a way that doesn’t exploit human or natural resources? Can the internet be just? Can we have an ethical internet?”

Kees Cath

@KeesCath

Mar 8

Not only today but every day we should celebrate #feminist leadership. Women such as my mother Inez de Beaufort, and sisters

and Ernestine who continue to inspire me, every day. Let’s go from #InternationalWomensDay once a year to equality every day!

Corin Faife

@corintxt

Mar 7

If you're handy with data & reporting on internet shutdowns is your thing,

@accessnow

is hiring an analyst for the #KeepItOn project. accessnow.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?

Commander Michael Burnham

@whimsikal

Mar 7

Kids are actually a 3-4 person job. The nuclear family was a mistake.

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Paddy Leerssen

@PJLeerssen

Mar 5

🚨 JOBS 🚨 Deadline approaching soon for this exciting position at Utrecht University, with prof.

@jvdijck

. Open to many backgrounds e.g. governance, information sciences, digital media. uu.nl/organisatie/we

A new iron curtain is descending across Russia’s Internet

Mar 5

“The Cogent move (to cut its services to Russia) by itself broke a piece of the Internet’s vaunted “backbone” — the most important structural element in keeping global data flowing.”

washingtonpost.com

Russia moved closer to being cut off from Western Internet sites as its censor and Western businesses adopted new measures to limit what can travel across the Web.

@sedyst

we will see the infrastructures of phones and apps as identification staying beyond the pandemic, infrastructures allow policy to be set flexibly — you can update policy at digital speed, can critique keep up w that speed?

Helen: identifies the difficulty of critiquing covid infrastructure as it was seen as anti-care and hence as anti-feminist to do so, it took some time to move through that and articulate a critique of covid infra as caring

The Bones We Leave Behind — Real Life

Also want to drop this gem of a piece in

@logic_magazine

magazine by

@farbandish

on the bones left behind by facial recognition tech, as there are many parallels to our conversation today

reallifemag.com

It’s not enough to make facial recognition illegal when its infrastructural legacy remains

Wonderful comment from the company crowd about the dangers of security theater by shiny UX designs of covid apps ping

@katejsim

Helen: we play with bug reports, submitting bug reports to GitHub that flag the whole system as a bug. Where can we report racial capitalism? Or the extractiveness of the system? Ping

@SianJMBrooke

PowerPoint says it all. Less ethics, more politics

We want to talk about moving beyond the critique to the example of the digital covid passes // covid certificate apps in the EU and the kind of infrastructure it foments

What practices and relations (not just the tech itself) constitute the small c? There are few good examples atm.

Femke: not just critiquing the big C but also think about what it means to build the small c, without falling into tech essentialism.

Or — how are (mobile) apps and (cloud) services capturing institutions? How is this depleting knowledge and resources to operate institutions and the subsequent depletion of creative resistance.