Category: openweb

cover illustration of Branch Magazine issue 3

Branch Magazine: Issue 3

Branch Magazine is dedicated to uplifting fresh thinking for how to green the web technically, aesthetically and politically.  Themes in this issue include: solarpunk artifacts a vision for a fossil-free internet decolonizing innovation and the Green New Deal tech workers unionizing and saying no to fossil…

Fight + Build = Power

At Mozilla, I’m working with the talented Brandi Geurkink to explore how our advocacy and movement-building towards climate justice could better complement each other. We were struggling with immediate actions versus building up positions. The “Fight + Build = Power” model by Geoffrey MacDougall really…

Learning from #Syllabus

As part of the Green Web Fellowship program, we’re hosting a capacity building workshop with the wonderful Beatrice Martini. In it, she grounded us in a capacity building framework and introduced the idea of backward design. As part of the workshop, I shared why we…

Thomas Wright's An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750)

Tech as a temporary force multiplier

Cross-posting from a recent Twitter thread: In 2016, I started talking about IoT as an amplifier and multiplier of harms. At the time, focusing on connected devices seemed wise. The capabilities and ubiquity of smart devices was growing. Amazon Echo, for example, was just rolling…