Thread by @TheTattooedProf

I'm really excited to hear @ruha9's talk. DPL2019 is off to a great start! #digped #feedyourhead

There is a theory of power that is well evidenced today, but we can--must-- conceive of alternative theories of power, @ruha9 challenges us

#digped @ruha9: don't let the conversation plateau at just "diversity in tech." Plantations were diverse places too, she notes. We have to confront *power*

#digped if some people are being underserved, that means others are being overserved. How do we turn the lens onto that place? @ruha9 asks

Online will not save us.

Racism is not an abberation, but rather innovative, productive. It constructs! It's not just "a construction." #digped

#digped "most people are forced to live in someone else's imagination"--the underside of elites' fantasies. What a powerful way to see it.

"what could possibly go wrong?"

#digped @ruha9 discussing "techno-corrections," which seems more palatable than caging, but brings a whole new range of oppression. A "carceral continuum"

#digped @ruha9's powerful formulation of "the New Jim Code": new carceral/technical regimes that encode and expand oppression.

#digped Here is our work: to subvert and oppose this regime

#digped @ruha9: "innovation breeds containment"

#digped "techno-benevolence"--AI employed to make "data driven talent decisions" to eliminate bias. But wait! Not so fast--there are no "magical social justice bots," @ruha9 says

#digped but there are also examples of community based tech initiatives that push back against these larger trends, and seek to bring data justice & accountability

https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1158491270177800194/photo/1

Also...

Now this is a crime prevention algorithm I can get behind #digped. Of course, @ruha9 says, it's only comical because it's drawn completely from current practices targeting communities of color.

#digped OK, y'all. Here's our work.

Thank you so much, @ruha9, for sharing your time, research, energy, and perspective with us.