• Operating a Kindle without Amazon (sort of)

    I suppose the title gives it away. After the untimely (only 13 years of use!) death of my 2011 Kindle Touch, I’d been in the market for a replacement. I’ve been trying to buy most (re- or non-programmable) tech products used, that I either feel confident I can fully wipe or don’t have to worry…

  • SEA/SAW 2024

    Curious about DataWorks? Here’s an article and a podcast about the organization. And the critical data literacy curriculum is available here. Poster: “Calculating the cost of data refusal” Abstract: How does data refusal fit into the economic structure of a pro-social data work enterprise? If data is seen as “the new oil,” how can we…

  • Datasets are eggs

    This excerpt is premised on the differences between eggs at American and European grocery stores. Eggs in the US are pasteurized (cleaned) before they can be sold, resulting in a bleached shell that must be refrigerated. Eggs sold in Europe (and some US farm-to-table situations) are more commonly unpasteurized and therefore maintain the dirt and…