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November 30, 2018December 7, 2018

New Writing, 2017-2018 Edition

It’s been a minute. I’ve published loads of writing since I last posted. Most of this writing is available for free online, or can be found on my Academia.edu account. If you want a copy, don’t hesitate to email me. Fiction Last year, I had a short story called “The Girl Who Almost Became a … Continue reading New Writing, 2017-2018 Edition

December 10, 2015December 10, 2015

The (Tyrannical) Lives of Algorithms

This is the text of a very short story I read at a New America Foundation event, “The Tyranny of Algorithms.” I spoke during a fifteen-minute session called “What our algorithms will know in 2100.” I stole the form of my story from J. M. Coetzee’s 1997 Tanner Lectures on Human Values, which were collected … Continue reading The (Tyrannical) Lives of Algorithms