When I visited Lyft HQ when it first opened, they had a large mural timeline of their origin story that went something like this: In 2006 Logan Green went to Zimbabwe and observed a system of crowd-sourced carpool networks. He came back to America and made a copy he called Zimride (Zimbabwe Ride). I’ll never … Continue reading Is Lyft Based on Apartheid’s “Lift System”?
Confederate memorials in prominent areas are a form of domestic terror tactics, like racist graffiti denigrating the American landscape. They are akin to someone putting up a statue of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, or naming the streets after them, right in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Who would … Continue reading Confederate Names Erase History: Removing Them is a Restoration Project
Honored to be a part of the Inrupt mission as profiled by Andrew Sears on All Tech is Human (ATIH) CHANGEMAKERS. Here’s a full text version of my interview: Davi Ottenheimer is the Vice President of Trust and Digital Ethics at Inrupt, a company striving to restore the power of balance on the web through … Continue reading CHANGEMAKERS: Data Ethics and How to Save the Web
The numbers are expected to go even higher, but for now the NYT has said it’s reasonable to assume 20,000 people in NYC were killed in just 30 days. Part of the reason for the revised count has been COVID-19 visualizations that compare current death rates against historic ones. The empire state building looking thing … Continue reading Over 20K Dead in NYC: 30 Days of COVID-19