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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella)

@kanarinka.bsky.social
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Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano

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Cambridge Day @cambridgeday.com · 07/10/2026
MIT professors bedazzle cameras to protest expanding surveillance network Tenured faculty are using rhinestones and googly eyes to demonstrate against 500-plus new cameras and plans to potentially implement AI capabilities....
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MIT professors bedazzle cameras to protest expanding surveillance network
Tenured faculty are using rhinestones and googly eyes to demonstrate against 500-plus new cameras and plans to potentially implement AI capabilities.
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Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Join us for the second event from ➡️ Technofascism, Feminism & Democracy ⬅️ , our open, free learning community! This month, Dr. Jeanelle K. Hope and Dr. Bill Mullen will be exploring fascism with an emphasis on the Black Radical Tradition. 🩵Event is on Oct. 20, 12pm ET🩵 JOIN: lnkd.in/gJVwRx3U
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Data by Design @dataxdesign.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We are two weeks away from our Oct. 20 pub date with @mitpress.bsky.social! Come celebrate with us and @kanarinka.bsky.social at Charis Books and More in Atlanta for the first of our three book launch events! charisbooksandmore.com/event/2026-1...
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🤣🤣🤣
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Political Economy Lab, the Data + Feminism Lab, and the Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production are thrilled to sponsor this book talk by @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine. You can join online or in person! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
PolicyViz was one of the first podcasts where @kanarinka.bsky.social and I were able to share our work on DATA FEMINISM, so it felt very full-circle to talk with Jon again as I prepare to release DATA BY DESIGN 🎧 Listen here: zencastr.com/z/RUuQCK0I 📺 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?si=PdI...
Flyer announcing a new episode of the PolicyViz podcast with Lauren Klein and Jon Schwabish, featuring their headshots
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
😂😂😂
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes 100% - we have a reference to exactly that in our piece
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
yesssss bedazzle themmmmmmm
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Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
👀👀👀👀 fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...
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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...
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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thrilled to welcome @kanarinka.bsky.social to Atlanta to launch DATA BY DESIGN into the world!
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Can’t wait for this!!!
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We will be uploading the recordings to the learning platform so you can catch up on what you missed!
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thanks for letting me know Maëlle!
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Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Catherine has a new book out on fighting technofascism - the alliance between big tech and global authoritarianism - and is offering an open, free course this coming year that looks like a must for activists in this space.
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Amazing - looking forward to see you
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is a collaboration with my brilliant colleagues @beccalew.bsky.social @eriksandelin.bsky.social and Alessandra Jungs de Almeida
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Some details: * The program runs Sept 15 - May 31 * It's free and open * We meet online once a month for 2 hours * We have exciting guest lectures * Lectures will have live interpretation into Spanish * Between sessions, we read 1-2 readings and discuss them in an old-school online forum (Moodle)
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Join our open, free learning community 📣 Technofascism, Feminism and Democracy 📣 to explore: the rise of global authoritarianism; Big Tech, AI, & the billionaire class; how feminist & grassroots movements are proposing alternative democratic futures. technofascism.dataplusfeminism.mit.edu
Image depicts a bundle of cables (referencing the origin of the word "fasces" which means bundle in Italian) along with the head of an ax protruding from them. The text reads Technofascism, Feminism, Democracy and a smaller text invites you to join the open learning community with a QR code.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Why Bernie Sanders is wrong - and nationalizing AI is a bad idea "AI is, above all else, a weapon of class war from above. Whether it’s the state that wields it or corporations does little to change that fact."
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The Socialist Case Against Nationalizing AI
AI is not a neutral technology whose benefits need to be redistributed. It is a weapon of class war from above, designed to cheapen labor and concentrate power. Nationalizing it does nothing to change...
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Kids: 1 KIDS Act: 0
Reddit post in r/teenager showing an ID for Ramses II and claiming they used it to evade age-verification
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I'm so proud to have contributed to this transnational, feminist labor of love!
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Proposed rule OMB-2026–0034 will devastate US science and destroy the scientific talent pipeline in the country. Here is the comment I submitted about the rule: medium.com/data-feminis... You can make public comments until Mon, Jul 13th. Please do it and reach out to your colleagues to do the same!
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Stop the Attack on US Science: Comment to the OMB about proposed rule OMB-2026–0034
The US government is attempting to modify how it allocates federal research dollars through a new proposed rule: “Regulation for Federal…
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Feel free to DM me here with questions.
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The ideal candidate has a background in Human Computer Interaction, experience with both software development and participatory design, and is capable of leading interdisciplinary research with community partners. Due to budget constraints I'm sorry that we cannot support visas/work authorization.
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The MIT Data + Feminism Lab is hiring a one year postdoc! We are working with Andrea Parker (GA Tech) and Brooke Foucault-Welles (Northeastern) on a project related to youth as co-designers of civic technologies to support neighborhood community wellness. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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Postdoctoral Associate
MIT - Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"If this rule change goes forward, science in the US “will stop,” says Colette Delawalla, the founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science. “It won’t exist anymore.”"
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Extra bonus! Preorder from B&N before Friday and get 25% off AND a bookplate (which you will be able to stick in the front of the book once it arrives) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/data-by-de...
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Data by Design: Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science
Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
You can pre-order DATA BY DESIGN now and also get a beautiful bookplate in the mail! 😍
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The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
CITR just submitted a request to intervene on behalf of technology researchers in the X v. European Commission case to explain the importance of the DSA’s data access rules to the CJEU. (⅓) independenttechresearch.org/citr-members...
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CITR Members Intervene in DSA Court Case to uphold Data Access for Public Interest Research - Coalition for Independent Technology Research
Members of the Coalition for Independent Technology Research today requested leave to intervene in X v. European Commission. X’s Digital Services Act violations have prevented researchers from using p...
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 23/06/2026
‼️ Bad Internet Bills, disguised as “kids safety” bills, are moving through Congress again ‼️ It's time to get those phones in Congress ringing off the hooks again w/ one simple message: we refuse any bill that age restricts, censors & surveils the Internet. : www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Lawmakers cement bipartisan deal for kids online safety package
The new package complicates a separate push for a kids safety bill coming from the Senate.
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CCC @ccc.de · 15/06/2026
We call for AI tech companies to refrain from entering into or fulfilling contracts with military agencies or armed groups that commit possible violations of international law www.accessnow.org/press-releas...
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Access Now - Joint statement on AI in warfare
We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are deeply alarmed by the rapid militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. AI systems embedded into military kill chains are…
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 05/06/2026
anthropic: we have no way of controlling our fully autonomous, "recursively self-improving" model hidden gig workers, RLHF annotators, and seemingly invisible coders & academics that are *actually* improving the model: hold my beer africa.businessinsider.com/news/inside-...
 Inside the unseen operation to turbocharge Claude Code

Shubhangi Goel
01 June 2026 05:02 AM

An Anthropic project is using feedback from about 1,000 human software engineers to improve the performance of Claude Code,the AI coding tool whose recent advancements have disrupted the vibe-coding industry.
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 26/05/2026
BIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism
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Data Feminism for Data Visualization
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😈™ @cooltimesonline.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
So, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes a brilliant (as usual) op-ed about genAI and some tech bro attempts to ridicule it. The guy, Mike Solana, is probably not worth my time but it seems he's gay and as a Gay, I am unduly annoyed by evil gays. Also, I'm bored. So here's my debunking of this guy.
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Receipts are receipts — Chad M. Topaz
A response to Pirate Wires on Tressie McMillan Cottom. Solana mocked her NYT column on celebrity AI promotion without disclosing that his employer Founders Fund is invested in the companies she critiq...
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
congrats!!!
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 12/05/2026
"As crises get stacked, we are in need of new forms to address them." Patti Duncan, editor of Feminist Formations, discusses the proliferation of genres and methods in response to the current moment. Read or listen at the link!
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Feminist Scholarly Writing under Authoritarianism, a Conversation with Debjani Chakravarty, Patti Duncan, and Jennifer C. Nash
Editors of the interdisciplinary journals Feminist Studies, Feminist Formations, Frontiers, and Signs discuss the second Trump administration’s attacks on women’s and gender studies.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/05/2026
The investigation into Smith College began because Rachel Levine gave the commencement address last year. Smith College has had male commencement speakers before but it's having a trans speaker that caused the Trump admin to go after them. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/04/m...
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Trump probe into Smith College transgender policy was sparked by choice of commencement speaker - The Boston Globe
After Smith awarded an honorary degree to Admiral Rachel L. Levine, a transgender woman and former Biden official, a conservative watchdog group filed a federal complaint.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/05/2026
It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Cover for Gil Duran's forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy." Red background with computer circuitry, words in black and white letters.
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This is a helpful analysis - donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
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Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto
The problems with our tech philosopher kings
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
whoa.
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Brilliant! Everyone buy bell hooks' book Communion on June 16th! (the release date of JD Vance's book Communion).
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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We've upped the ante—this time @sellars.bsky.social and I represented organizations and attorneys with more than 575 years of 1A practice experience explaining why the law firms should win and DOJ should lose in the D.C. Circuit case about the executive orders. theintercept.com/2026/04/02/p...
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The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund Leads Cohort Fighting Trump’s Unconstitutional Media Attacks
A cohort of 42 media and press freedom advocates, led by The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund, filed an amicus brief opposing Trump's attempts to censor the press.
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 30/03/2026
2/2 Four or five weeks from today we'll launch 'Feminist Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social, which I'm editing right now. You're going to enjoy this one a lot. openvisualizationacademy.org On April 15 we'll announce 10+ more instructors and courses.
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Open Visualization Academy
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/03/2026
The NYT purposefully mischaracterized the position of the AMA to make it seem like they changed policy and opposed gender affirming care on trans youth. It appears they have rejected efforts by the AMA to correct the record.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I spoke with @rollingstone.com about the Trump administration's new AI framework. At a moment when a majority of Americans are asking for AI guardrails, this proposal moves in the opposite direction. Rather that constrain companies, it releases them from accountability. 🧵 www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/03/2026
I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/
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The Ratchet
In 2015, state legislatures across the United States considered 75 anti-LGBTQ bills, of which 27 targeted gender identity.1 In 2025, that total reached 1,059—with 851 of the current-session bills targ...
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