Other Writing
When Algorithms Give Real Students Imaginary Grades: In-person final exams were canceled for thousands of students in Spring 2020, so computers stepped in — to disastrous effect. The New York Times, September 2020
When Binary Code Won’t Accommodate Nonbinary People: The next frontier in gender rights is inside databases. Slate (The idea for this story came from talking to Jonathan Van Ness on their podcast “Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness.”)
Letting Go of Technochauvinism: how to add nuance to the way we think about technology. Public Books, June 2019
The Dirty Truth Coming for Self-Driving Cars: Who will clean autonomous taxis? Nobody. Gross. Slate
Why the Scots are such a struggle for Alexa and Siri: because technochauvinism. Scotland Herald
Self-Driving Cars Still Don’t Know How to See: Uber, Arizona, and the Limits of Driverless Cars The Atlantic, March 2018
Why broken technology hurts democracy The Atlantic, May 2017
How to think about bots Vice, February 2016
The irony of writing online about digital preservation The Atlantic, November 2015
Artificial intelligence for investigative reporting
Preserving news apps presents huge challenges
Challenges of archiving and preserving born-digital news applications