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Who Writes Wikipedia?
Part 1: Wikimedia at the Crossroads Part 2: Who Writes Wikipedia? Part 3: Who Runs Wikipedia? Part 4: Making More Wikipedians Part 5: Making More Wikipedias Part 6: Code, and Other Laws
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Society, Policy & Culture
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Your Most Improbable Life
Your life’s goal should be to become the most improbable person you can be.
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Don't Fly During Ramadan (2013)
A couple of weeks ago, I tried to fly from New York (JFK) to Los Angeles on JetBlue. I was racially profiled, detained, and interrogated for hours.
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Getting Steve Jobs Wrong
On Malcolm Gladwell’s argument that Jobs was a “tweaker” and not a “large-scale innovator”.
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I’m so sorry for psychology’s loss, whatever it is
The plane crashed and nobody checked the bodies
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Prove you are not an evil corporate person
Google Is Quietly Providing AI Technology for Drone Strike Targeting Project Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones
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Privacy Protects Bothersome People (2013)
We need to support privacy, not for those of us who have "nothing to hide", but for bothersome people like investigative journalists and activists, without which our democracy would crumble
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Notes on the Ivory Coast
I spent about ten days in the Ivory Coast, mostly in Abidjan, but also Yamoussoukro, Man, and Grand Bassam. (Note – The Ivory Coast is so French in culture and temperament that it insists on offici…
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Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media
A Social Transition Last week, I wrote a blog post emphasizing the distinction between the social internet and social media. The former describes the internet’s ... Read more
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The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism
I am the Computer Troubleshooter. I offer computer repair, data recovery and information technology services to the public of Santa Rosa, California and it's surrounding areas.
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Notes on running a single-person Mastodon server
Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server
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The Best Magazine Articles Ever (2012)
The following are suggestions for the best magazine articles (in English) ever. Stars denote how many times a correspondent has suggested it. Submitter comments are in italics. For a great way to read long-form magazine articles on a tablet device see my review of LongForm and Instapaper here .
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Stealing everything you've ever typed on your Windows Recall PC is now possible
Recall is a new feature in Windows 11 which takes a screenshot every few seconds, runs local device OCR on it and stores the resulting text in a SQLite database. …
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A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union
In May 1991 a Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyev was sent into space. At the end of the year he was still circling around the Earth waiting for a spaceship to bring him back. He had left a Soviet Union that was still a superpower but would return to a world where there was no Soviet Union any more. The Soviet empire…
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Tragedy of return to hostile offices
Don't suffer and merely survive, aided by your noise cancelling headphones. Optimising for individual happiness can result in less of the joy that people find in teams that achieve great things together.
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I guess I kinda get why people hate AI
I’m sitting on a lānai in a hotel in Waikiki beach, writing this article, and wondering if the job I am starting nine days from now will be my last.This is a...
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Your Organization should run its own Mastodon server
Run your own Mastodon server to control your social media presence
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The Minimum Wage Machine
Minimum Wage Machine (Work in Progress) (2008-2010) Custom electronics, change sorter, wood, plexiglas, motor, misc. hardware, pennies. (approx. 15 x 19 x 72 inches) The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 4.00 seconds, for $9.00 an hour, or NY…
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New numbers on music consumption
And it's not just the dominance of old songs—the whole creative culture is losing its ability to innovate. But why?
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Rethinking 'Fuck You' money
Now that I’ve stepped down from RescueTime, I’m pondering my next thing (whether it’s a product role at a very early stage startup or spinning up my own for the 3rd time). I figure it’s a good time to be introspective and consider my motivations. Why do startups? For me, it’s more about having the choice to work on…
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Post-apocalyptic life in American health care
Experiences navigating disintegrating American health care institutions, and what they might imply for life in 2037
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NYC tech catching up to Silicon Valley, while Seattle flails
The startup world is an interesting place. As cities around the US work to establish their own Silicon XYZ, the variables required to build…
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$2.5T has been wiped from US stocks
The Nasdaq wiped out roughly $2.5 trillion in market cap on Thursday, officially pushing the index into correction territory.