In 2015 the first picture of woman you got when serching the term "CEO" in Google Images, was a picture of Barbie in a suit. That is almost 8 years ago and the problems with biases in technology has not improved. Instead it has become a problem especially for minority groups.

Remember the worst year ever? Apparently 2016 was 'the worst year ever'.. Syria, the Nice attack, Brussels, Brexit, Trump, record-hot temperatures, Berlin, the Dallas shooting, the loss of Cohen, Carrie Fischer, Bowie, Prince and George Michael dying on Christmas..

15 YEARS AGO BRITNEY WALKED INTO ESTHER'S HAIR SALON AND SHAVED HER HEAD, THE IPHONE AND THE FIRST KARDASHIAN EPISODE LAUNCHED.

“On Instagram, I post an update from my gender transition every Thursday. The question is: When will Instagram ban my nipples? It’s not just about nipples; it’s about when I have the shady pleasure of being censored, because I go from being categorized as a man, to being categorized as a woman and so being excluded from the community.” Ada Ada Ada

National selfie day

FIVE FAVE/ PARIS / JULY 2022

Period apps, ovulation tracking or cycle monitoring are popular. There are hundreds of these cycle-monitoring apps for the purpose of either conceiving or avoiding pregnancy. In the wake of Roe v. Wade decision in the US concerns about abortion surveillance has given rise to a debate and Americans are now deleting their period apps.

Planet City, Liam Young (2021) on display at Plásmata: Boodies, Dreams, and Data.

ART, TECH, CULTURE & CRISIS… THE YEAR IN BOOKS: A PICK OF FAVORITES

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELFIES

“It is very similar to climate change – people feel an individualised responsibility to fix something that is a collective action problem. The harm occurs collectively not individually – that is one of the problems that countered the way that my story has over-influenced the individual at the expense of articulating the collective harm and over-complicates this, like the duty of the individual to solve these problems in the same way – as though your consumer choices are going to save the world. No! As an individual, you cannot do that. Like the privacy and the data abuse and children and digital media – it is the same: you, as a parent, can do what you can for your kid, but you can’t solve these problems in your family.”