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Elm Town 90 – Wonder: Contorting yourself with Ari Schlesinger

Elm Town 90 – Wonder: Contorting yourself with Ari Schlesinger

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Ari Schlesinger illuminates a unique path of social responsibility carved through the tech world, using feminism as a guide while bearing attacks, criticism, and contortion. That trail led Ari to ask how programming languages shape society and, eventually, to research Elm—the compiler, error messages, and community. Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com. Music by Jesse Moore. Edited by Toni Cañete. Recording date: 2025.06.06 Guest Ari Schlesinger Show notes [00:00:25] Sponsored by Logistically [00:02:27] Introduction (for real) University of GeorgiaSocially Responsible Tech Lab"A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design", co-authored with Felienne HermansAddressing Computing's Discrimination Problem: A Framework for Anti-Discriminatory Computing by Ari SchlesingerElm Town 88 – Wonder: Unconscious bias with Felienne Hermans [00:04:57] Origin story FemTechNetAlex JuhaszProgrammed Visions: Software and Memory by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun [00:14:33] Why Did School Suck? [00:20:41] A little thing called Y Combinator and 4chan happened HASTAC (Cathy Davidson)"A Cyborg Manifesto" by Donna Haraway [00:30:43] Anti-discriminatory framework "Good intentions are not enough: how informatics interventions can worsen inequality" by Tiffany C. Veinot, Hannah Mitchell, and Jessica S. AnckerGood Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy [00:43:00] Language shapes reality Sapir-Whorf hypothesis [00:49:22] Glaciology "Glaciers, gender, and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research" by Mark Carey, M. Jackson, Alessandro Antonello, and Jaclyn Rushing [00:58:11] Relation of Ari's research to Elm Strange LoopPapers We Love Conf"The Hard Parts of Open Source" by Evan Czaplicki at Strange Loop 2018Propaganda by Edward BernaysThe Last Whole Earth Catalog [01:04:32] Elm error messages [01:20:36] Slackbot / Feminism bell hooks - Feminism is for Everybody [01:29:22] Why study Elm? "The Economics of Programming Languages" by Evan Czaplicki at Strange Loop 2023 [01:32:14] Contorting yourself "When We Have Never Been Human, What Is to Be Done?: Interview with Donna Haraway" by Nicholas Gane in Theory, Culture & SocietyThe Good PlaceWeb Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) [01:43:00] Picks Ari's picks Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict by William UryFrieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV series)Programmed Visions: Software and Memory by Wendy Hui Kyong ChunFeminism Confronts Technology by Judy WajcmanTechnoFeminism by Judy WajcmanACM TechBrief: Advancing Accessibility in the Digital WorldPBS / Sesame StreetTaskmasterThe Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Jared's picks "Queer Theory for Lichens" (archive) by David Griffiths https://jayjinsing.github.io/files/QueerTheoryLichens.pdf (PDF)Entangled Life by Merlin SheldrakeThe Rehearsal on Max by Nathan FielderDeschooling Society by Ivan Illich
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