Techtonic with Mark Hurst:
Playlist
from April 17, 2023
 |
View Mark Hurst's profile
|
Conversations with creators and thinkers who are charting the way forward in a tech-saturated society. In our shift to a digital future, we need alternatives to Big Tech. Homepage: techtonic.fm
Also available as an MP3 podcast.
More info at our Podcast Central page.
<-- Previous playlist | Back to Techtonic with Mark Hurst playlists | Next playlist -->
Upcoming events:
- Mon. Nov 18th, 6pm - 7pm:
Astronomer Samantha Lawler returns to Techtonic
(More info...)
- Mon. Dec 23rd, 6pm - 7pm: Don Fleming guest hosts Techtonic
- Mon. Dec 23rd, 6pm - 7pm: Don Fleming guest hosts Techtonic
April 17, 2023: Meredith Broussard, author, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech"
Listen to this show:
MP3 - 128K | 
Pop-up player!
Today: Meredith Broussard, author, “More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech”
• More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech, by Meredith Broussard
• meredithbroussard.com, Meredith’s site
• Interview of Meredith in Technology Review (March 10, 2023)
• Meredith’s first appearance on Techtonic (May 28, 2018), speaking about her book “Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World”
On disability dongles
• Disability Dongle (by Liz Jackson, Alex Haagaard, and Rua Williams, Apr 19, 2022) offers several case studies and this definition:
Disability Dongle: A well intended elegant, yet useless solution to a problem we never knew we had. Disability Dongles are most often conceived of and created in design schools and at IDEO.One case study concerns “haptic footwear”: Lecha is a “smart footwear company” that “seeks to create an intuitive and user-friendly wearable technology for visually-impaired people.” But as with other disability dongles, it seemed to overlook the reality on the ground:
Lechal’s marketing narrative ignores the possibility that “few had thought to tackle this problem” because it is not, in fact, a problem. Blind and low-vision people have been using white canes for such a long time because they’re reliable, reasonably cost-effective tools that meet their needs.White canes! Much like the wheelchair ramp that Meredith talks about in the interview: simple, low-tech, low-cost, and effective.
In other news
• Not magic: Opaque AI tool may flag parents with disabilities: “Over the past six years, Allegheny County has served as a real-world laboratory for testing AI-driven child welfare tools that crunch reams of data about local families to try to predict which children are likely to face danger in their homes. Today, child welfare agencies in at least 26 states and Washington, D.C., have considered using algorithmic tools, and jurisdictions in at least 11 have deployed them, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.”
Sign up to get Mark’s weekly email newsletter.
PAST EPISODES: techtonic.fm lists recent Techtonic shows.
PODCAST: Subscribe to the Techtonic podcast
| Artist | Track | Images | Approx. start time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tomaš Dvořák |
Game Boy Tune
|
|
0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Mark's intro |
|
||
| Interview with Meredith Broussard |
|
0:04:42 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Mark's comments |
|
0:38:54 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Felix Kubin |
Download Yourself
|
|
0:52:19 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
<-- Previous playlist | Back to Techtonic with Mark Hurst playlists | Next playlist -->
RSS feeds for Techtonic with Mark Hurst:
Playlists feed | 
MP3 archives feed
| E-mail Mark Hurst | Other WFMU Playlists | All artists played by Techtonic with Mark Hurst |Listen on the Internet | Contact Us | Music & Programs | WFMU Home Page | Support Us | FAQ
Live Audio Streams for WFMU: Pop-up | 128k AAC | 128k MP3 | 32k MP3 (More streams: [+])
Listener comments!
chresti:
ultradamno:
Buckaroo:
Bas NL:
Lunchbag9000:
herb.nyc:
Doug in MP:
Ken From Hyde Park:
listener james from westwood:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
ultradamno:
What Bing's comes up with twitter.com...
Jackie G:
Handy Haversack:
Bas NL:
melinda:
queems:
mr 6:
DjLorraine:
MarciB:
ultradamno:
James Akers:
Mark Hurst:
Handy Haversack:
www.wfmu.org...
Mark Hurst:
listener james from westwood:
yippie:
coelacanth∅:
Doug in MP:
Carmichael:
Doug in MP:
Handy Haversack:
Mark Hurst:
Doug in MP:
Handy Haversack:
Jackie G:
yippie:
Mark Hurst:
Mark Hurst:
Ken From Hyde Park:
Mark Hurst:
Handy Haversack:
melinda:
Handy Haversack:
Mark Hurst:
Handy Haversack:
Handy Haversack:
Sam:
lieutenant lambrusco:
melinda:
Sam:
DjLorraine:
melinda:
Sam:
ultradamno:
Mark Hurst:
Marie in Queens:
mr 6:
Mark Hurst:
mndave:
chresti:
PaulRobeson1923:
PaulRobeson1923:
melinda:
PaulRobeson1923:
Sam:
Bas NL:
coelacanth∅:
medicine, music, food cultivation, communication, transportation...
but black/white; right/wrong; good/bad ...is what the governments, via the media, has created because it weakens the masses.
the zombie world.
?:
Baja Joe:
chris in the redwoods:
i (the company i worked for at the time) was sued because a website i had created was not as accessible as it needed to be. i was tremendously grateful for the opportunity to correct my mistakes, and i learned a great deal about accessibility from the process. really good experience for me as a software goober.
Jackie G:
Mark Hurst:
Mark Hurst:
Jackie G:
Handy Haversack:
tim from washington:
Mark Hurst:
coelacanth∅:
Marie in Queens:
Mark Hurst:
coelacanth∅:
should i?! never heard of it
Jackie G:
Folsom:
Mark Hurst:
herb.nyc:
Jackie G:
Marie in Queens:
Old Dave:
I liked when she said reading a book to one's child is still acceptable behavior...
Great show, where I've had many a fine subsequent read!
Evil A.I.:
ultradamno:
chresti:
coelacanth∅:
James Akers:
ultradamno:
chresti:
PaulRobeson1923:
PaulRobeson1923:
Handy Haversack:
PaulRobeson1923:
Handy Haversack:
ultradamno:
PaulRobeson1923:
Jackie G:
Ken From Hyde Park:
?:
tim from washington:
tim from washington:
Doug in MP:
herb.nyc:
PaulRobeson1923:
neilpostman.org
coelacanth∅:
DjLorraine:
Handy Haversack:
I think what bothers me about the whole discussion (and while I wouldn't speak for Mark, what seems to have the most resonance with what we discuss here frequently) isn't the extent to which Twitter was or was not hand-in-glove with government "intelligence community" for censorship or whether Twitter censorship is now just based on the whim of an egoistic libertarian fuckwad but that we're at all surprised by any of it. Twitter does not exist for us or for any user. It has always and only been based on monetizing engagement through the manipulation of a publishing environment. The point isn't how terrible it was then because of THEM or is now because of OTHER THEM but that it is rotten to its core and cannot be redeemed and the only logical response to is abandon it entirely and let it die alone, as it deserves. Otherwise, we're just continuing to stick our hands in the fire and act shocked when we get burned.
James Akers:
ultradamno:
dale:
chresti:
chris in the redwoods:
Handy Haversack:
Zinn The Mood:
The Truth is not partisan- absolutely!
Jackie G:
DannyBoyNYC:
G:
PaulRobeson1923:
In America, if the warden says eat- you either eat or starve. Taking it off here boss
P-90:
chris in the redwoods:
Dano59:
Handy Haversack:
--Nietzsche
PaulRobeson1923:
chresti:
Bas NL:
James Akers:
James Akers:
Ken From Hyde Park:
ultradamno:
Zinn The Mood:
The only divide, as ever, is not Red/Blue but the 99% vs the 1%.
coelacanth∅:
Handy Haversack:
tim from washington:
Sam:
ultradamno:
Cletus:
Mark Hurst:
Handy Haversack:
DannyBoyNYC:
Mark Hurst:
chresti:
Hans Moleman:
Zinn The Mood:
Turn off MSNBC and Fox and talk to people. We’ve been screwed, all of us, by a corporate coup d’etat at the hands of a duopoly government who serve only their same “donors.”
Capitalism is the enabler and facilitator.
The rich win while we lose.
Chris from Brooklyn:
And ftr I’m on his mailing list because I can’t stand him.
But substack exodus?
greenwald.locals.com...
James Akers:
slowbear: