Miniver Cheevy

A couple of years ago I did some politics-adjacent field research. I talked to a lot of different kinds of people. I saw something about a...

For convenient reference later: Princeton's US Crisis Monitor provides a detailed survey of Demonstrations & Political Violenc...

Talking about “Antifa” makes one Not Even Wrong. Antifa-with-a-capital-A does not exist. Saying “member of Antifa” reads like “member o...

I read Joel Garreau's Wired article Edgier Cities when it was new, twenty-five years ago, and it has stuck with me. I have long tho...

Via Christian Alden Jacobs on Twitter, I learn of the crisp and helpful reflection What Do Executives Do, Anyway? To paraphrase the...

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...