The Intersection of Things

A podcast about how technology is changing our lives, from an intersectional feminist perspective. 🎧 By @nesient & @undazedandsuch 🌵💜

[The Intersection of Things @thingsintersect]

Just a little note to say that The Intersection of Things pod is on hiatus for a while. 🛌Thank you to everyone who supported us making this. 💚

In the meantime there are 28 episodes of lovingly made audio for you whenever you're in the mood 🎧
https://t.co/mxokHZtDW4

[Julia Keseru @jkeserue]

Love having @zeynep back from her (crucial) pandemic-focused thought leadership!

"Telling people to not use these powerful platforms if they don’t want to be unreasonably surveilled is blaming the victim."
https://t.co/XtqdfYe0vo

[The Intersection of Things @thingsintersect]

An interesting read by @WorkPrayCode that touches on some of the conversations we had about tech culture in our Ritual episode -
"Today, the theocracy of work... is hollowing out our faith communities and civic associations" https://t.co/HdVLy9n9E7

[The Intersection of Things @thingsintersect]

In our latest pod episode we talked about people changing faces & bodies at the altar of "The Algorithm".
And that's not the only way filters change us.

To avoid angering the almighty algorithm, people are creating a new vocabulary - @TaylorLorenz
https://t.co/4ufUipy0gv

[The Intersection of Things @thingsintersect]

You can read the article here, and we have all the footnotes for our episode on the site above.
#CitationsAreSolidarity
https://t.co/osqmMZy4HM

[The Intersection of Things @thingsintersect]

In New Celebrity we take inspiration from many places including @jaz_off and @helveticade brilliant piece on “aesthetic flattening”, and share why this is the vibe of the pandemic and the tone of too many tiktoks -
https://t.co/UQegvyBVTN

[The Intersection of Things @thingsintersect]

"we have to question what it means when new faces, new bodies, new politics always seem to come with the same type of selling" - @aliciakennedy

This is a great piece, especially on✨content making✨, many similar themes to our recent New Celebrity ep.
https://t.co/JLF2T9KUud

[tèmítópé @temikeita]

will add 2 this thread as a sort of live digital archive of phd thoughts

currently reading @SPonzanesi & nodding furiously 2 their argument re necessity of postcolonial critique to mitigate neocolonial discourse in internet/media studies — smtg i note occurs in #digitalrights

[The Intersection of Things @thingsintersect]

Taking disaster capitalism and greenwashing and just smooshing them together into a gross exploitation of tragedy -

[Privacy International @privacyint]

You may have heard that Clearview AI announced it will offer its surveillance tech to Ukraine.

It seems no human tragedy is off-limits to surveillance companies looking to sanitise their image. 🧵⬇️

https://t.co/q1g3GT60x9

[The Intersection of Things @thingsintersect]

"For many influencers, deception is lucrative, and becoming increasingly extreme. There are some feigning their wealth, their followers and even their ethnicity while hawking dubious products to their followers." -

https://t.co/PYY0n2nxzg

[The Intersection of Things @thingsintersect]

Enjoyed our episode on new celebrity? This article is a great follow on read
@facilitymartin speaks to @symeonbrown about new book “Get Rich or Lie Trying” -
(which is just a *chef kiss* title)
https://t.co/CVihBm7a0H

[Ruth Coustick-Deal @Nesient]

🌟New @thingsintersect pod out🌟
We talk about the faces that rise to the top on TikTok, how Instagram algorithms encourage stealing facial structures, and why “aesthetic flattening” has been the vibe of the pandemic -
https://t.co/sCt6KVA2jv

[The Intersection of Things @thingsintersect]

In this episode Ruth & Marianela discuss what @jiatolentino calls the “rootless exoticism” of #InstagramFace, the “algorithmic tendency to flatten everything” - and how the pandemic has exaggerated them both -
https://t.co/UQegvykkvd

[The Intersection of Things @thingsintersect]

New Episode! ⏰We go from new celebrities to reflections 🪞 and talk about mirror-selves, mirror-verses, and mirror cutters.

It’s all about whose faces the algorithms love and reward -
https://t.co/cauWJfGtRA

[The Intersection of Things @thingsintersect]

"Beyond false positives or false negatives is something even more important—the right not to use biometric technology at all, regardless of its accuracy" - @jovialjoy

https://t.co/COmqh2DdNh

[The Intersection of Things @thingsintersect]

If, like us, you're not a fan of NFTs or the massive energy waste that is Bitcoin, you might enjoy going back to episode 10 - Money. 🪙🪙🪙
We looked at cryoto scams, colonialism & more -
https://t.co/N3y7GsCOwv

[The Intersection of Things @thingsintersect]

After sharing that great article on inclusive spellings from @DIVAmagazine the other day, this beautifully designed piece by @MinamiFunakoshi & Samuel Granados on recognising the spectrum of genders across languages is a brilliant next read -

https://t.co/zK5Tm6fAb4

[The Intersection of Things @thingsintersect]

You can hear our conversation about it on the money episode https://t.co/N3y7GsCOwv
and of course just read it below -
https://t.co/Y19hS99pcF

[Terry Pratchett @terryandrob]

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example…

1/5

[The Intersection of Things @thingsintersect]

This looks amazing. Remember when we read out the whole Pratchett Vimes Boot Economics on our podcast?

Terry Pratchett estate backs Jack Monroe’s idea for ‘Vimes Boots’ poverty index https://t.co/GF82OQiHQ0

[The Intersection of Things @thingsintersect]

Sex With An X: The Perils Of Performative Spelling https://t.co/qS0OKZzm44 via @autostraddle