Black Excellence in the Age of Pandemic by Marcus K. Dowling | Model View Culture
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.| Model View Culture
Originally published in Model View Culture’s 2016 print edition. In late April of 2016, I attended the Aspiration California Nonprofit Technology Festival in Watsonville, gathering with other technologists, nonprofit workers, organizers and activists to exchange ideas on how to better work for social justice through technology. I lead a session about alternative careers in tech Read More| Model View Culture
Enviado pelo autor. Em outubro de 2019, o presidente do Equador, Lenin Moreno, anunciou uma nova rodada de medidas de austeridade. Após o anuncio e o aumento previsto do custo de gasolina, diesel, transporte e alimentos, uma greve nacional, logo em seguida, transformou em protestos em massa. Eu estava no centro da capital de Quito Read More| Model View Culture
Amazon is failing to protect its workers from the deadly spread of COVID-19. But it’s not just Amazon workers – or warehouse workers – who are speaking up about it. Amazon workers deserve safety#TechSolidarity #AmazonStrike #ProtectAmazonWorkers #HuelgaAmazon pic.twitter.com/ilW5tludR5 — #TechSolidarity (@techspeaksout) April 13, 2020 When we met, my coauthor and I worked at Google and Read More| Model View Culture
Earlier this week, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) student activist groups CMU Labor Coalition and CMU Against ICE held a panel with labor organizers from HCL Technologies in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Last year, HCL became the first tech workplace to unionize. The panel included Renata Nelson and Ben Gwin from HCL as well as Damon Di Cicco, Read More| Model View Culture
The Coronavirus hit the World like a truck. First labeled “just like the flu,” or a problem “only relevant in Asia” by Western countries and experts, the pandemic quickly managed to shut down most things people considered essential (schools, factories, shops) while the bodycount kept going for a new record every day. This is where Read More| Model View Culture
Deep cracks have been appearing in the Ayn Rand-inspired radical individualism on which the Silicon Valley ethos was founded. Amongst the many paradigm shifts Covid-19 is triggering is an end to the era of solipsism. In its place, a return to the collective is underway, born from the recognition of how intimately intertwined our planet’s Read More| Model View Culture
Via the author. In October 2019, Ecuador’s president Lenin Moreno announced a new round of austerity measures. As the cost of gasoline, diesel, transport and food skyrocketed in the wake of his announcement, the national strike quickly transformed into mass protests. I was in the heart of Ecuador’s capital, Quito, as riot police, tanks, untold Read More| Model View Culture
The Parable of the Locksmith Photo CC-BY Will Folsom. The parable of the locksmith presented here is based on a thought exercise proposed in the 1960s by Edmund Berkeley, early computing pioneer and founder of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). “One day, a mysterious stranger walked into a locksmith’s shop. The locksmith had never Read More| Model View Culture
Perhaps you remember Eric S. Raymond from his memorable essay “The Cathedral and the Bazaar,” or his advice to programmers on “not reacting like a loser,” or his enthusiasm for guns. Regardless, the legendary open-source coder and commentator recently made a brief comeback to the Open Source Initiative, an organization he co-founded in 1998. On Read More| Model View Culture
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.| Model View Culture
We can’t ignore the composition of the Unicode Consortium’s members, directors, and officers -- the people who define the everyday writing systems of all languages across the globe.| Model View Culture
