Data and Humanity (with Mimi Onuoha and Lam Thuy Vo)

And so I did that over the course of the summer, and as I said, the whole point of this was to really change the way that I felt was to be able to have a kind of response if someone cat called me that I didn't just think about it, I was like here, take this phone number, and then I could watch this strange interaction play out between the things that I had programmed and whatever the strangers wer. [...] And so when it comes to this like idea of being collected about, right, like a lot of it is this ominous machine that kind of just follows you around the internet, and then the other part of like what that social currency of a like of a data point that you produce is now. [...] And you kind of make the argument that the universal us ignores the complex histories and messiness that comes with being human and I think kind of what Lam and you are both saying here is that people use social media and the internet to kind of perform an identity of themselves, right? And so I think that is already like telling us that there is no universal us online, but I'd be curious if you c. [...] So, that is never, this thing that we talk about where there is the artifact in data, and then the context that it is produced in, with something that is spoken, the context and the thing that is produced, the thing that is said, they are always tied together, you have to, you know, you are with the person. [...] It is not a question of what is better, it's a question of what does it means that this focus on the documentation, on the artifact, is overrepresented and is now made to be a value that the whole world in the same coloniality sense is now pulled into and so that creates these rifts and I think there is a violence to that that Lam is describing really nicely.