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Alan Kay of Apple Computer, when prompted to talk about science education in computers in 1995, wrote a statement: Powerful Ideas Need Lo...

The question of trans people participating in athletic competition is the one area where opponents of trans liberation make arguments whi...

A New American Manifesto , from one of my favorite Twitter commentators, is a plain English rendition of my favorite political manifest...

The good folks at PolicyViz have some comments on challenges and approaches in bringing a racial equity sensibility to information visua...

I need to spend some more time with these deeply-considered Command Line Interface Guidelines Yet with its creaky, decades-old constr...

Netflix's new Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey is pretty much exactly the movie it wants to be. It is enthusiastically and di...

A clarifying observation from my secret cousin @ Politigoth : By their nature, authoritarians respect authoritarian action. Their wor...

Pew Research have an interesting typology for breaking Americans into political tendencies which attempts to be more sophisticated t...

So I wrote this message and attached it to the support tickets for a product which broke. I write this in sympathy for the person who ...

The TLDR : It is a charming trifle made for teenagers, with a bit of interesting cultural politics. If you love the exuberantly hokey ori...

We must use must use these terms precisely. They are not simply the same. Authoritarianism Totalitiarianism Fasc...

Proper non-violence understands that violence is justified but believes that it is unwise. Non-violence means facing violence without r...