Aileena Machina · Berlin

I build things in code, write about why they break, and DJ while they keep running.

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ViewpointEvery Woman in Tech Has a #MeToo StoryAt a Monad Foundation event in Singapore, alone, someone came up behind me and squeezed my shoulder — deliberately, threatening, with senior people watching and saying nothing. It always comes from someone you know. Harassment is not impulsive — it is a calculated assertion of power over someone who cannot easily push back. Recognizing the patterns: supervisory coercion, retaliation threats, bystander silence, and what to do when they come for your job.magazinenewsinvestingwoman in tech archive →kiln

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Doors.

Sound, shelf, book club, writing, tools — each one a labeled way in. Tap through; the rooms live on their own pages.

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The glass I fired belongs here too — colour, powder, heat, patience.

On the glass — how powder becomes density →
Rolling out the clay

rolling the clay

Clay shapes drying on plaster bats

cutting shapes

Two-part plaster moulds drying on the bench

the plaster mould

Coloured glass frit packed into the moulds

glass, by colour