Notes on Chapter 5 Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice, Race After Technology, Ruha Benjamin
The New Jim Crow, 2010 by Michelle Alexander "is a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status—denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights Movement." - About The New Jim Crow
A New Jim Code? Featuring Ruha Benjamin and Jasmine McNealy
Notes on Chapter 5 Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice, Race After Technology, Ruha Benjamin
Palantir, (9/27) $9.20, now 9.60
Named after a set of magical stones in Lord of the Rings, the secretive Colorado-based company was founded 17 years ago by Peter Thiel and CEO Alex Karp, among others. It specializes in data analysis to help organizations spot patterns and identify threats through two products: Gotham and Foundry, which offer clients various flavors of data integration and analytics on a large scale. It has a small but select customer base, primarily in the public sector, including work for the US Department of Defense and the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK. The board includes Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Stephen Cohen and Adam Ross
Snowflake Inc. (9/16) $120, now $250
Cloud-based data-warehousing company that was founded in 2012. It has raised more than $1.4 billion in venture capital, and is based in San Mateo, California. Snowflake went public on September 16, 2020. The IPO price range was between $100 to $110 a share, having increased from the initial price range of $75 to $85. It is currently valued (overvalued) at about $250. Snowflake Board
Other cloud storage data center company - Iron Mountain
Robinhood, founded by (Vladimir Tenev; Baiju Bhatt) provides free stock, options, ETF and cryptocurrency trades, and its account minimum is $0, too. "Of course, apps like Robinhood don’t force users to trade, and they can be used responsibly. But critics say Robinhood gamifies investing, sending regular push notifications to users about their individual stock positions. When a user makes their first trade, digital confetti “falls” in the app; it also includes a “watch list” of stocks for users to track. Those behavioral nudges can encourage investors to act with only their short-term interests in mind" - Trading apps like Robinhood are having a moment. But users should be careful
Board of Directors include: John Griffin, Chair,
Dina Powell McCormick, Vice Chair, 
Jacklyn Bezos, 
Scott Bommer... Robinhood Board of Directors
Notes on Chapter 5 Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice, Race After Technology, Ruha Benjamin
BAIL BLOC IS A CRYPTOCURRENCY SCHEME AGAINST BAIL - BAIL BLOC by Dark Inquiry - "Rhetorical software must be functioning software, i.e. it must “work.” The critique is not merely speculative or performative; the software actually enacts its proposal."
MyBlockNYC.com (2011-2013) was a ground breaking, one-of-a-kind user-generated video map of New York City. Hyper-local videos uploaded by the public allowed visitors to both define and explore a moving city from the human perspective rather than the satellite perspective. The MyBlock Education Program which continues today, is making the increasingly important opportunity of an introductory video literacy program available to students by providing a powerful video communications curriculum to schools all over New York City.
Greenland Is Melting
Related to the New Jim Code - Who owns our data?
On the California 2020 ballot is Proposition 24, Consumer Personal Information Law and Agency Initiative. A “yes” vote supports this ballot initiative to expand the state’s consumer data privacy laws, including provisions to allow consumers to direct businesses to not share their personal information; remove the time period in which businesses can fix violations before being penalized; and create the Privacy Protection Agency to enforce the state’s consumer data privacy laws.