Last year @tegabrain and I contributed an essay to the book "Are You a Software Update". For our research, we scraped the names, descriptions, and funding totals of around 17,000 "AI" companies from crunchbase.
You can explore this sad, searchable archive for yourself at: https://aicompanies.labr.io/
A form which calculates an individual’s "income tax body count", or the total number of conflict-related deaths they have caused through their income tax contributions to the U.S. government.
I wrote a short thing about "unconventional" carbon credits, making the world's first (??) income-based carbon footprint calculator, and trying to determine the avoided emissions benefit of Brian Thompson's homicide.
Excited to announce I have a new job! I've just joined the faculty at Parsons as their new (and only???) Assistant Professor of Synthetic Media and Algorithmic Justice.
Really happy to be officially back in NYC. Also, I'd like to give a big thank you to my former department at UT Austin for all the support over the past few years.
(image of me transforming into Jeff Bezos is unrelated)
Wrote up some notes on building the system and exploring cop data here: https://lav.io/notes/exploring-cop-data/
Includes clustering cop faces by similarity, cop face emotions, the richest cop in new york, and more!
Wrote a piece with Tega Brain in e-flux architecture about data and carbon offset schemes.
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/spatial-computing/592129/all-that-is-air-melts-into-air/
The goal is fungibility—to assert equivalence between activities by people or environments so that emissions created over here can be traded and (theoretically) compensated for by actions removing or reducing carbon over there. The means is, of course, commodification. Offsets privatize planetary metabolism.
