by Marta | Feb 10, 2022 | Newsletter
The last frontier of digital welfare dystopia is facial recognition. In an article on The Atlantic, Joey Boulamwini, founder of Algorithmic Justice League, turns the spotlight on the increasing number of services in the US demanding biometric data to be accessed....
by Marta | Apr 2, 2021 | Newsletter
Imagine. You are a proud avant-gardist who invested the amount of a flight to an exotic country (a good as luxurious as three villas, these days) in a JPEG of an Elon Musk-themed “Moon Ticket” stored somewhere on the internet. The NTF wave rang at your...
by Marta | Jan 8, 2021 | Newsletter
The year started with an in-real-life memes invasion of US Capitol, a brutal call to reality for the hopes that the calendar’s turn would be the salvific dawn of a new era. In War and Peace, Tolstoj wrote that a real general never finds himself “at the beginning of...
by Marta | Dec 3, 2020 | Newsletter
2020 ratified the end of linear planning. The idea of programming as a reassuring navigation exercise between signposts – a certain revenue threshold, clients, project calendars, but also personal calendars, holidays, celebrations, wrecked. Think of 2020 as an...
by Marta | Oct 1, 2020 | Newsletter
Coinbase is a cryptocurrency exchange platform which mission statement is “to use cryptocurrency to bring economic freedom to people all over the world” (🤦🏻♀️#BlockchainTaMère). This week, its CEO Brian Armstrong pointed out in a statement that the company doesn’t...
by Marta | Sep 2, 2020 | Newsletter
I can’t get rid of the feeling that the new year starts in promising September instead of depressive January. So, I took advantage of Summer to refresh my website and get a proper visual identity. Let me know your thoughts! I am the lead author of the...