@openlab

Journalism, Technology, and the Arts

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined October 2015
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New & very exciting —> The Field Guide to Security Training in the Newsroom, written by an incredible team. It’s for anyone looking to train newsroom colleagues on security literacy. source.opennews.org/articles…

Introducing the Field Guide to Security Training in the Newsroom

A collaboratively written guide that helps trainers train their colleagues

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Anyway, shout out to @openlab and @obtusatum buzzfeed.com/loganwilliams/l…

We Built A Fake Cell Phone To Track Clandestine Surveillance

IMSI catchers, or “Stingrays,” are increasingly being used to surveil private citizens in public. The Open Lab recently deployed a device for detecting these fake cell towers in use. You can build...

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‘Tis the night before Christmas And Santa is prowling We know that he’s close ‘Cause the wolves are all howling!
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Open Lab@openlab27 Oct 2017
8 Electronic And Hardware Components Worth Scavenging bzfd.it/2yS79vC

8 Electronic And Hardware Components Worth Scavenging

And what you could maybe, probably, most-likely do with them

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Lessons In Civic Prototyping bzfd.it/2hnZPhr

Lessons In Civic Prototyping

My thought process in building tools for civic spaces.

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Better Freaking Documentation bzfd.it/2yWuIDI

Better Freaking Documentation

It’s Important, ya know?

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A Recap Of Year Two, In Print. bzfd.it/2hsviPN

We Made A Zine (also, Thank You!)

The Open Lab closed out our second year with a hand drawn zine. ✍️?✏️

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Get a fortune or new music by texting these phone numbers, courtesy of @cthydng @openlab
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Many thanks to @Blavity for including me in their tech series, #Unicorns. Check out my interview where I discuss the work I've been doing @openlab for the past year. bit.ly/2wwesVL xitter.cf/Blavity/status/9153998…
Blavity@Blavity4 Oct 2017
Meet Jamica El, an engineer/DJ, changing the way we tell first-person stories with an accessible, open source tool. bit.ly/2wwesVL
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Practicing those A-frame skills #webVR #aframe @openlab
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Hello SF! Stoked for VR beyond Video workshop & Voxhop demo at @openlab tonight with @amandabee, reporters, technologists, students & more.
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🚨 WE'RE HIRING 🚨 It you're a dazzling data journalist, apply! grnh.se/ba3git1 You'll get to work with the amazing @jsvine
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We asked @reveal listeners to leave us voicemails with their thoughts on Charlottesville. Here's what we heard: revealnews.org/blog/whats-yo…

What’s your take on Charlottesville? Hear what Reveal listeners say - Reveal

We hear from our listeners about how the Charlottesville protest may have affected your thoughts about race, the way we treat history and free speech.

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Before thermometers: philosophers mocked the idea of temperature ever being measurable, with all its nuance, complexity and subjectivity
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Here’s How BuzzFeed News Trained A Computer To Search For Hidden Spy Planes buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/hi…

Here’s How BuzzFeed News Trained A Computer To Search For Hidden Spy Planes

From planes tracking drug traffickers to those testing new spying technology, US airspace is buzzing with surveillance aircraft operated for law enforcement and the military.

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Listeners: we want to know about your dreams that involve politics...not your hopes and wishes, your actual dreams. Call us at 212 433 9692
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Share your outrageous gender discrimination stories anonymously at @hesaid_whaaat hesaidwhaaat.com/ #changetheratio #diversity
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here's a scrappy explanation of how twilio works, in case you also find terms like "cloud platform" & "API" meaningless/confusing 😛 xitter.cf/Meg_Cramer/status/8888…
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Plz help me get the word out about this grant to women/of color doing science/engineering/tech. Email the link & nudge people to apply. xitter.cf/arielwaldman/status/88…
Ariel Waldman@arielwaldman17 Jul 2017
NASA is offering funding to visionary ideas that can be applied to transforming the future of space & aeronautics: niacfellows.org/
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have you experienced harassment? are you wary of speaking up publicly? share your story anonymously: buzzfeed.com/cathydeng/haras… (pls RT!)
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