
Of Course We Stalk You
Social Media & Surveillance: Part 1
It is self-indulgent. It is small. And it is beneath every single one of us.
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The posts that don't fit neatly into the other categories. Some opinions that I hold tightly. Others that I hold loosely.
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Social Media & Surveillance: Part 1
It is self-indulgent. It is small. And it is beneath every single one of us.
Gossip, trust, and the relationships we dissolve by talking too much.
The person who knows everything is also the person who could share anything.

Tech exceptionalism and the death of decorum.
We have made the social contract optional and called it a feature.

On being seen as a woman first and an engineer second
Competence, I am learning, is not always the only variable being evaluated.

A case for a much smaller circle of counsel.
The people who know you well are a very small group. Everyone else is just a stranger with an opinion.

Goodness and morality and friends.
Should I build disappointment into the architecture of my friendships from the outset?
The language you prompt in is doing more work than you think.
Prompting is writing. And writing in a language is not the same as writing through it.

Fragmented thoughts on the weakening of social ties.
I'm not sure we completely understood what we were trading away.
Conclusions from an existential crisis—straight from my Beli feed!
I began to understand, in my own distorted way, the concept of inherent value.

From an old university project.
A reflection on the threads of human connection that remain, against all odds, unbroken.

An old blog post that I wrote about being a woman in competitive engineering spaces.
I could feel the ghost of the struggle that women in STEM face every day.