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Stepping back from awe.sm 13 Aug 2013 | 10:04 pm
I'm not a big believer in euphemisms, nor in burying the lead[1], so let me begin by saying that I no longer work at awe.sm on a day-to-day basis. The parting, while solely my idea, was completely ami...
An open letter to Mac Fingall, in response to “Abnormal Behaviour” 13 Aug 2013 | 09:17 pm
(Reposted from my tumblog) Hi Mac - I was recently linked to your article "Abnormal Behaviour" and was deeply offended, as a gay Caribbean citizen, by the ignorance and hatred you showed therein. Sin...
Eight things that are bigger threats to our civil liberties and democracy than PRISM 2 Jul 2013 | 03:56 am
I continue to believe we are paying way too much attention to PRISM, and that PRISM is not that big a deal, and the government can keep doing it if it wants to, though I don't believe it's particularl...
On Internet surveillance and the role of the state 8 Jun 2013 | 12:46 am
I kicked up a non-trivial shitstorm on Twitter yesterday and early today by, essentially, defending the government's PRISM program. I originally had two main points to make: The existence of PRISM sh...
A very brief history of US government Internet surveillance programs 7 Jun 2013 | 11:42 pm
COINTELPRO Not Internet surveillance per se, but the grandaddy of government surveillance programs, this ran from 1956 to 1971 and included HTLINGUAL, a program that opened and read people's physical...
The origins of life 27 Mar 2013 | 11:49 am
A common question from juveniles is "where do we come from?" The answer included in your primary education is, as far as it goes, accurate: the coordinates of the system of a star called Sol, from whi...
Tumblr will kill RSS 14 Mar 2013 | 07:00 am
Google's shuttering of Reader is a failure to find a business model for RSS. Back in 2001 or so, when RSS started getting really popular, my first question was: why would any ad-supported site do thi...
Why all Americans should be in favor of immigration reform 29 Nov 2012 | 12:05 pm
I got my green card last Saturday. It's been a long wait -- my first application for a work visa to the US was in November of 2006, and started applying for a green card in 2008. Since I got it, I've ...
Blue-collar knowledge workers will save the economy 30 Aug 2012 | 08:17 pm
I got into a conversation on tumblr about unemployment in the US, and how to fix it. Jakke's conclusion was pretty bleak: So the way things are going right now it looks like skilled workers (especial...
Blue-collar knowledge workers will save the economy 30 Aug 2012 | 08:17 pm
I got into a conversation on tumblr about unemployment in the US, and how to fix it. Jakke's conclusion was pretty bleak: So the way things are going right now it looks like skilled workers (especial...
