I gave a talk in 2019 at WordCamp NYC about what happens when you're the target. Anyone in any form of a 'leadership' or visible role of authority in any community has had a bad day where they woke up …
ethics
Monitored Automation
One of the things I touched on in my talk at WordCamp NYC in September was the fact that automation has it's flaws. The problems we face with automated systems flagging LGBTQ videos as 'restricted' or …
Do Robots Dream of Electric Smut?
In July of 2018, I was informed by Google Adsense that specific content on my site was going to have "restricted ad serving" and I needed to go to the policy centre on Adsense to find out why. There …
Conceptualizing Privacy
I know a wonderful human named Heather Burns who cares about privacy and GDPR and has made me quite passionate about understanding what the heck I'm talking about. She's infectious, smart, and well …
I’ll Know A Duck When I See It
After I complained about the new SEO scam, someone pointedly argued it wasn't spam. And it wasn't a scam. It is and it's both. What Is Spam? By it's most basic definition, spam is an irrelevant or …
