N Krishnaswami

@nkrishnaswami
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Interested in/generally like to talk about
• human rights, justice, inclusion
• computer, social, and data sciences
• public stats (think Census data), open data, and civic tech
• visualization and maps
• math esp. analysis, graphs
• puns
• theatre
• SF/F, sometimes other prose or poetry
• also/esp. the overlaps among the above
• cute animal pics, probably of my cats
Past eng @ Twitter ML Ethics/Transparency/Accountability, Google Search, Bloomberg Portfolio Analytics and IBM System Z. 🏳️‍🌈
Pronounshe/him
Personal + Linkshttps://krishnaswami.org
Githubhttps://github.com/nkrishnaswami
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N KrishnaswamiNov 30
#Privacy folks are usually confused when I bring up #feminist critiques of the private/public dichotomy. Reading Warner's \"Publics and Counterpublics\", chapter 1 might become my go-to (critical) intro from now on. Other suggestions?\nExcerpt here: https://press.uchicago.edu/books/excerpt/2015/Stimpson_Critical_Terms_Gender.html
N KrishnaswamiOct 18
AAron LeckingerOct 18
USDA notified states in May they would be required for the first time to turn over SNAP recipients' personal data going back to 2020. Federal law dictates SNAP recipients' data can only be used for purposes relating to SNAP administration. https://www.npr.org/2025/10/16/nx-s1-5533045/snap-privacy-usda-lawsuit
N KrishnaswamiOct 18
🌧️ Jay Holler 🌧️Oct 18
SPD CCTV Cameras are live https://stopsurveillancecity.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/spd-cctv-cameras-are-live/
SPD CCTV Cameras are live

SPD is now doing 24/7 surveillance of the CID, Aurora North, & Belltown/Downtown. The surveillance includes both people watching camera feeds and algorithms including object recognition. ALL vi…

STOP SURVEILLANCE CITY
N KrishnaswamiOct 18
On one (important) hand, translating academic discourse on #privacy for practitioners is ambitious, welcome, and necessary, but on another, it feels like this isn't enough space to do justice to the broad strokes, let alone the nuance, of the referenced works. Hopefully it encourages more people to read them!
https://iapp.org/news/a/defining-privacy-an-academic-debate-that-s-not-just-academic/
Defining privacy — An academic debate that's not just academic

REI's Chuck Cosson explores the debate among privacy academics on just what "privacy" means.

IAPP
N KrishnaswamiOct 1
Chris GeidnerOct 1

NEW: Judge William Young's ruling against Rubio and Noem is a lesson for all in the Trump era.

Young lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America.

Today, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/judge-william-youngs-ruling-against

Judge's deportation ruling is a lesson for all in the Trump era

Young lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America. Also: More court pushback.

Law Dork
N KrishnaswamiSep 12, 2025
This is interesting; I hadn't even thought about the fashion industry's using gen AI imagery around the likenesses of models. We see arrangements that protect workers' interests in industries (such as film/TV) where there are strong unions. But fashion modeling is not one of these, so we should expect usage of gen AI to be more exploitative, ie diminish models' power/autonomy and increase their precarity
"Fashion’s Data Doubles: How AI is Reshaping Modeling Work"
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/items/1365991d-3479-4eb1-b64b-b69ccadfdb53
Show threadN KrishnaswamiAug 29, 2025
"Our data do not simply point at who we already were before information systems were constructed. Rather, our information composes significant parts of our very selves. Data are active participants in our making. The formats structuring data help shape who we are"
N KrishnaswamiAug 29, 2025
Who are some #philosophers of #data you find interesting? I'll start wtih Colin Koopman: his "How We Became Our Data" is kind of a Foucauldian excavation of the development of the "informational person" and the interplay between selfhood and evolving data and algorithmic practices.
N KrishnaswamiApr 16, 2025
Ashley M. Gjøvik, JDApr 14, 2025

⚖️ Gjovik v Apple Update: NLRB just formally served Apple the final compliance packet. Apple must submit proof of posting to the NLRB by 4/28. The final documents include: the settlement agreement; compliance instructions; & posting obligations.

The official notice, which Apple is legally required to post internally and publicly, affirms:
💪 Employees may discuss wages, hours, conditions.
💪 Apple may not use its policies to silence or surveil.
💪 Apple is rescinded multiple unlawful policies.🧵⬇️

N KrishnaswamiFeb 13, 2025
USB https://youtu.be/wdgULBpRoXk?si=CakCdc59A6tNRTix
How does a USB keyboard work?

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