NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology

Occidental stands to profit off both its oil business and the pollution that it creates by building massive carbon removal projects in Texas.

Link to the Source: https://hi.switchy.io/B5EP

Meta, Twitter, and Stripe engineers wanted: Laid-off tech workers have a job opportunity in climate tech

Source: Protocol

Link to the Article: https://hi.switchy.io/B5EO

Tech companies have committed to carbon dioxide removal, investing in measures to achieve net zero emissions.

Now, philanthropists are following suit.

The nonprofit group Terraset wants to bridge the gap between private philanthropy and startups that need capital to ramp up carbon removal projects.

Link to the News: https://hi.switchy.io/carbon-dioxide-removal-tech-donations

Sweeney, head of the Public Interest Technology Lab, is helping to better understand how technology can cause social harms as well as serve the common good.

Link to the Blog: https://hi.switchy.io/PITLabExploringClashes

Social media are important sources of news for most Americans in 2022, but they also could be a fertile ground for spreading misinformation.

Major social media platforms announced plans for dealing with misinformation in the 2022 US midterm elections, but experts noted that they are not very different from their 2020 plans.

Link to the News: https://hi.switchy.io/MidtermElections

When technology reinforces inequality, it’s not just a glitch—it’s a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world.

The word “glitch” implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify.

But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren’t just bugs in mostly functional machinery—they’re coded into the system itself?

In More Than a Glitch, Meredith Broussard demonstrates how technological neutrality is a myth and why algorithms need to be held accountable.

Link to the Publication: https://hi.switchy.io/MoreThanAGlitch

This week's Podcast Showcase: "The Black Engineers Who Opened Up The Computer Revolution" by McIlwain

Listen Now: https://hi.switchy.io/black-software

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Our newsletter v13.0 features Meta accusing the Wire of publishing false information, and the two sides being locked in an ugly public battle.

Journalists behind the stories are speaking out; claiming that they haven't been hoaxed and that their information is reliable.

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https://hi.switchy.io/newsletterv13

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