Who gets to decide how your data is used, especially when you never gave informed consent?

Aram Sinnreich & Jesse Gilbert explore the ethical gray areas of data use, from facial recognition to unseen algorithmic decisions, in THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA on the Future Knowledge #podcast, in conversation with Laura DeNardis.

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https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the-secret-life-of-data

#Consent #DataEthics #Privacy #AI @aram @jesse #Bookstodon

"Still Life with Fish Bowl," Paula Modersohn-Becker, c. 1906.

Considered one of the most important early Expressionists, Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) is considered the first female Western artist to do nude self-portraits, and the first woman artist to have a museum dedicated solely to her works.

Brought up by a cultured family, she learned to draw early and began formal art lessons at 16, when she also set up her first studio. She moved to Paris in 1900, and there married Otto Modersohn. The marriage was turbulent, though, with her realizing that she yearned for independence. It was an intensely creative time for her, though, and she completed many works. Sadly, she died of a postpartum thrombosis in 1907, only 31.

A museum of her works opened in 1927 in Bremen but the Third Reich ruled her work "degenerate" and some works were seemingly destroyed. After WWII her daughter Mathilde started a foundation in her mother's name and a new museum established.

From the Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany,

#Art #Expressionism #PaulaModersohnBecker #WomenArtists #BannedByTheThirdReich #StillLife

As of today trans women have been banned from playing women's rugby in any USA Rugby sanctioned matches. I only found this sport because I transitioned, and I fell deeply in love. I found friends, and a support network who wanted me to play with them. I was able to express my gender and find myself on the pitch, in ways I thought were closed off to me after I transitioned. I think this is a cowardly move, and an embarrassment to the sport of rugby. #Rugby #WomensSports #RugbyForAll #Trans #TransRights

https://usa.rugby/news/usa-rugby-updates-competition-eligibility-policy-2026227

"Let me strive every moment of my life to make myself better and better, to the best of my ability, that all may profit by it. Let me think of the right and lend all my assistance to those who need it, with no regard for anything but justice. Let me take what comes with a smile, without loss of courage. Let me be considerate of my country, of my fellow citizens and my associates in everything I say and do. Let me do right to all, and wrong no man."

The Doc Savage Code, created in 1933 by author John Nanovic, who edited almost all the Doc Savage adventures, along with many other pulp heroes. Ironic that something from so long ago, and, OK, being imperfect and a product of its time, will still seem "woke" today.

I carry this in my wallet.

#Pulps #DocSavage #WordsToRemember