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No More Stupidity Amplification
Like that title? It’s my riff on Doctorow’s “platform decay” concept. Even before the Internet evolved beyond Web 2.0 into social media, people were already having second thoughts. Social media platforms make money off your unpaid content generation, personal data … Continue reading
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My Return to the World Wide Web
It’s been some minutes, hasn’t it? Neglecting my website for eight years as the planet continued to slide into the fascist grift. But having about ten or twenty years left in my life, as I watch server farms consume all … Continue reading
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World’s End Foreshadowed Brexit (Spoilers obviously!)
I didn’t notice this until tonight–and I kinda wish it occurred to me two years ago–but Pegg and Wright’s, 2013 movie, World’s End can be viewed as a metaphor for the Brexit referendum. The galactic network of alien robot overlords … Continue reading
The Unexpected Intersectionality of The Who
It’s so hard to get a diverse bunch of people to make common cause. Especially when there is a tiny elite (Some of which aren’t flesh and blood human beings even if legally they they are.) with huge amounts of … Continue reading
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What Is to Be Done?
What’s happening to my generation’s children, the Millennials, is similar but also worse than what happened to my generation, Generation X. At least my generation had a lot of terrible, entry level jobs in the service sector to start in. … Continue reading
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How to Prevent Demagogues in the United States
First, fix the Electoral College. Many people still view the EC as some brilliant move of statesmanship worked out by our supernally wise founders back 1787. This is not supported by history. The founders of this country weren’t superhuman and … Continue reading
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The Business Equivalent of Skynet.
This didn’t come from a dream but I had a great idea for a science fiction story! It’s about a small Seattle, union owned, coffee cart workers coop, I’ve tentatively dubbed Silly Crab Coffee, that uses open source expert systems … Continue reading
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Science Reporting and Lazy Language
Deep philosophical questions about the nature of God and the meaning of existence aside, I can point to many religious scientists who have no trouble accepting and refining our understanding of evolution by natural selection, abiogenesis, cosmology and the Big … Continue reading
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See, I’ve got records on y’all now!
Since doing the clean install of my site on the 19th, my security has noted that my first spambot attack came from IP blocks in Malaysia, Poland and California at three in the morning, Seattle time. These were searching for … Continue reading
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Education Stinks, Part III
About two years ago I wrote a brief update on a longer essay I wrote back in 2005, titled “Education Stinks.” The gist is that despite all the new forms of technology and multimedia we dumped on students over the … Continue reading
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