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Against the Police 19 Jun 2013 | 09:00 am
What I'm about to say may surprise you, but I assure you it's the honest truth: in my personal experience, cops are overwhelmingly decent folks. They almost always conduct themselves "professionally" ...
The Banality of Privacy 13 Jun 2013 | 09:00 am
The collective responses to the dramatic revelations of NSA mass surveillance feel like the well-worn plot of a classic movie. The story reminds me of the government's admission a few years back that ...
Julian Assange, the Left-Anarch 19 Apr 2013 | 09:00 am
This passage from the interview of Julian Assange by Google CEO Eric Schmidt exemplifies the kind of radicalism I most admire. Notice the lack of a clean, rationalist philosophy or any sanctimonious u...
Closing the Gender Gap From the Bottom Up 27 Mar 2013 | 08:00 am
I have wanted to write about the issue of "women in tech" for a long time, and now donglegate has elevated the matter to a level I can no longer ignore. It's like a train wreck from which you can't lo...
Depression is the healthy response 30 Jan 2013 | 10:00 am
This article by Bruce Levine argues that many if not most diagnoses of depression, ADHD, ODD, etc. are actually the psychopathologization of anti-authoritarians. This excerpt really rings true to me: ...
Cowed to Be an American 29 Jan 2013 | 10:00 am
I thought this up on the car ride to Asheville, when I was trying to keep myself awake.
Embedding users in accounts with Devise and Mongoid 4 Jan 2013 | 10:00 am
This gist referred to by the Devise wiki is no longer accurate as far as I can tell. So I wanted to share my approach for how to use devise in a situation where user documents are embedded in account ...
Some unions are more collusive than others 17 Dec 2012 | 10:00 am
I often hear defenders of "Right to Work" (RTW) laws say that unions are collusive and extortive in a way that is simply unfair to employers. Neither workers nor management should be forced to negotia...
Tela McKelvey-Weiland 29 Nov 2012 | 10:00 am
A few minutes ago Tasha and I said our tearful goodbyes to our friend and companion for the last twelve years, our beagle Tela. Tela wasn't just a wonderful, cheerful, cuddly dog whom we doted on; her...
The revolution will not be phenomenal 10 Oct 2012 | 09:00 am
The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, by Peter Weiss, Athenium. 1965
