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**Funding Open Source Science Software** commissioned by The Wellcome Trust to better understand the current state of funding open source science software.
Understanding the Potential of Web3: A report I wrote with Careful Industries which examines whether emerging web3 technologies can make progress with significant global challenges
The Current State of Assurance in Establishing Trust in PETs: this is a report I wrote in collaboration with Alice Thwaite, as part of The Royal Society’s wider report on privacy enhancing technologies. Alice and I conducted a review on how certain privacy enhancing technologies build or maximise trust-relationships within the contexts that they are used.
**The Words We Use in Data Policy: Putting People Back in the Picture:** this was commissioned and produced by Defend Digital Me, and outlines the ways in which the language we use to describe data changes the way we perceive and use it.
Provocation write-ups for Hattusia: when Hattusia was active, I would attend their monthly tech ethics meet up and then write the talks into blog posts. These covered a range of subjects within tech ethics, from algorithmic impact assessments to critical views on how technology has caused a ‘crisis of attention’.
These are some side-projects and other little bits to give you an idea of the kinds of things I produce when given full creative freedom.
Horrific/Terrific is a newsletter where I analyse the culture of Big Tech extractivism, AI, and the gradual erosion of traditional media. Two examples: Rapid Onset Reality Detachment and Cultureware.
Mutual Dislike is a fun zine of dystopian flash fiction that I produce and write in my spare time.
Pasta Shapes is a limited series of emails, direct to your inbox, about pasta shapes. One pasta shape a day for 28 days. Do you want to know what the best shape is? How about the WORST shape? Sign up now…
One Hundred Mornings was written for GDFC Magazine, a magazine produced by Goal Diggers FC. It is an exhaustive list of the different types of morning one might experience, separated into good, bad, and kind of middling mornings.
How To Do Cooking is a selection of joke recipes from The Mutual Dislike Reader, a special edition of the quarterly zine that I produce. These ‘recipes’ are more like solutions to life’s gruesome unavoidable problems; it’s creative non-fiction about food, if you like.
Art Reflects Life is a collection of short essays that analyse typical tropes within stock images. Part of The Mutual Dislike Reader.
Covid: The Gathering is something I did to amuse myself while trapped in a hotel room in Paris because of Covid. I took objects around the room and turned them into ‘cards’ that you might find in a table-top fantasy card game like Magic: The Gathering.