Miniver Cheevy

The Wild Hunt asked for a quote. I got carried away. My patron god is Hermes, god of communication, magic, and the agora, who sin...

Sam Theilman's essay You're Asking The Wrong Questions does some deep digging into the principle of free speech , looking at som...

I am fascinated with Thomas Jefferson. I love him. He is my favorite of the Founders. The first reason is the Declaration of Independe...

At the time, I tweeted a kind word about Meryl Streep's speech referencing the (then forthcoming) Trump administration, though I had...

So a while back I spat out this story on Facebook and now I'm posting it here. There's this skinny young guy I run into on an irr...

Because I am that kind of geek, I have constructed a sort of EDC solution for tabletop roleplaying games. For a long time, my only...

If you have the good fortune to not know who Milo Yiannopoulos is, you have my envy ... and my apologies for ending your innocence. He i...

Since so many people seem to be confused on this point: free speech is the right to express ideas without coercion We must p...

Since well before the current crisis I have been worried that too many people don’t know the difference between No Platform and Not My Me...

In the face of the forthcoming Trump administration, there is a lot of work to be done. Protecting people and necessary institutions wh...

Jonathan Chait's article Jill Stein's Plan To Stop Trump By Electing Him is making the rounds all over my feed, so I guess I hav...

I just succumbed to a Kickstarter for simple little abstract strategy game called Tak, meant to be the incarnation of a game referenced ...

I wind up looking this up a few times a year, and I've never found a sufficiently legible version to satisfy me, so I'm cooking ...

Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day

The Nation : North Carolina’s new voter ID law goes into effect for the first time during the March 15 primary, and 218,000 registere...

Donald Trump, answering a question at last night's debate: Mr. Trump, just yesterday, almost 100 foreign policy experts signed on...

This is the post that made me pro-choice. Glad to see it still circulating. Keeping the link handy. I'm sure to need it someti...

So it was just pointed out to me that Canada makes an effort to honor treaties made with Indians through annuity payments. Isn't tha...

So today I saw yet another of these stories where “ Politician X calls for a new Manhattan Project to Do Some Impossible Thing ”. I...

Neal Stephenson, in his epic article on computers in China for Wired magazine (back when it was still cool), In the Kingdom of Mao Bell ...

I gotta assemble an index of David Brooks takedowns. I've blogged a bunch of them, but it's handier to have them together like I ...

I waited a couple of years to pick up the iPhone and, as an interaction designer, I regretted my hesitation. I had been an early adopter ...