by Diane Tate

Communal, Multimodal Resistance

A ray of light amidst the jarring fascist takeover of the nation last year? Consistent, weekly protests at the 1000 Van Ness St Tesla in San Francisco (and at Teslas everywhere). While the horrors of DOGE are at least less in our face or the news at the moment, the horrors of the current anti-democratic regime persist.

This Saturday, my endorphins spiked yet again from the honking cars whizzing by. And I finally realized just why protesting alongside a busy street is so energizing: it invites literal passersby who, for whatever reason — time constraints, lack of awareness, etc. — to easily engage in the protest as well.

Multimedia communal protest

by Diane Tate

Terrifying, Exhilarating and Amazing

That’s how I described my first IGNITE talk experience on LinkedIn. I left out “tons of thought, work and practice” as IGNITE founder Brady Forrest made himself available tirelessly to help birth our individual talks (me while visiting my mom in 110-degree Tucson — thanks for giving me feedback as I practiced with you mom! <3).

p.s. how awesome is Club Fugazi

by Diane Tate

Data Update from 2019

In the Fall of 2019 I moderated a panel on crowdsourcing:


“Our closing point was:  if you get others’ data, use it only for the intended use case. And as Megan reminds us, “be sure the intended use case is clear; “consent” doesn’t mean anything if people don’t understand what they’re opting into. And if it changes, that’s okay! Just let people know and require them to consent again.”

And now from the July 12, 2023 Insider:

The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed by Clarkson Law Firm in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday, accused Google, AI sister company DeepMind, and parent company Alphabet of taking people’s data without their knowledge or consent.

“Google has taken all our personal and professional information, our creative and copywritten works, our photographs, and even our emails — virtually the entirety of our digital footprint” to build its AI products, the lawsuit claims.