Feel Train was a technology cooperative co-founded by Courtney Stanton and Darius Kazemi and based in Portland, Oregon. It closed at the end of 2019.[1]
Structure
Feel Train was a worker-owned cooperative. Stanton and Kazemi were its first two worker-owners, and the organization was chartered to allow a maximum of eight employees, each with equal salary, equal share in the company and equal firing power over others, including the founders.[2]
Projects
Feel Train projects included the Stay Woke Bot,[3][4] a Twitter bot developed in collaboration with activists DeRay Mckesson and Samuel Sinyangwe,[5] and Shortcut, an app developed with radio program This American Life to facilitate sharing audio clips across social media, similar to the way gifs allow video clips to be shared.[6] Feel Train is also developing a Twitter bot based on the Obama Social Media Archive called Relive 44, which beginning in May 2017 will repost, eight years later, every tweet from President Barack Obama (whose first tweet came in May 2009.)[7]
References
- ↑ Kazemi, Darius (March 2, 2021). "GOODBYE FEEL TRAIN". Feel Train.
- ↑ Velocci, Carli (October 7, 2015). "The Creator of 'Ethical Ad Blocker' Is Trying to Build an Ethical Tech Business". Motherboard. Vice. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
- ↑ Chiel, Ethan (August 15, 2016). "Twitter Bot That Helps You "stay Woke" Is Building an Activist Infrastructure". Fusion. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
- ↑ O'Connell, Ainsley (4 August 2016). "Stay Woke--With Help From A Bot". Fast Company. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
- ↑ Dewey, Caitlin (11 August 2016). "The next frontier of online activism is 'woke' chatbots". The Washington Post. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
- ↑ Shavin, Naomi (October 11, 2016). "A New Tool From This American Life Will Make Audio as Sharable as Gifs". Smithsonian. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
- ↑ Machkovech, Sam (January 5, 2017). "Obama White House social media, Trump campaign receive expansive archives". Ars Technica. Retrieved 24 January 2017.