Miniver Cheevy

This is a school of magic for characters in Unknown Armies , “an occult game about broken people conspiring to fix the world”, which is m...

For now I want to directly lift a Twitter thread by astute leftist Margaret Killjoy : I’m going to define some terms, because most of...

It is hard to name the good-ness of good UXD. Intuitive? People outside the field often say that they want a user experience which ...

I understand the confusion of people surprised to see many tech “libertarians” have been making a turn toward far right authoritarianism....

Numbskull conservatives grumbling about Star Trek “going woke” can go to hell; anyone paying attention knows they don’t understand Trek ....

Returning to an old theme , I was recently asked about whether it was “appropriate” to place a trans woman convicted of multiple rapes ...

One sees this bullshit around a lot: Historian Bret Deveraux calls shenanigans briefly in Foreign Policy and at length on his...

I know that civilians complain that Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of The Lord Of The Rings spends half an hour delivering a succession...

For many years I have hosted an irreverent-but-ritually-correct seder for Pesach with my BFF. Inspired by Ira Steingroot’s book Keeping P...

Posts on this subject are obviously fraught, so first: I keep an index of resources the moral question is simpl...