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OKDG Discussion โ Developers and designers as ethical gatekeepers
Photo c/o Shane Austin These are the resources for the discussion at OKDG tonight: codingfreedom.com by Gabriella Coleman IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black Adversarial Design by Carl DiSalvo The Real Privacy Problem by Evgeny Morozov How Designers Destroyed the…
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Never played a wizard โ a review of Of Dice and Men
Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It by David Ewalt Although he warns old timer D&D players (and grognards) not to get bound up in the rules because this is a story…
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Quarterly review: FY14Q3
Below are links to all the off-the-cuff reviews of books and film from this quarter. I didn’t add to my list of more in depth reviews. During 2013Q3 I did not read as many books, but read a few comics and…
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Rides
You can sure find some interesting rides at the Armstrong Fair every year. There is a midway, but that is boring. This year my wife and I took a helicopter tour. Last year my daughter and I rode a camel: Wonder…
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Towards an information-centric political philosophy
It took about 100 years of the Industrial Age before Karl Marx introduced a revolutionary new political philosophy centered on the most important issue affecting citizens of the day: labour. One hundred and fifty years later, nearly a half century into…
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Quarterly review: FY2013Q2
Below are links to all the off-the-cuff reviews of books and film from this quarter, besides my more in depth reviews. During 2013Q2 my family spent 7 weeks in Japan, so there was quite a spike in my media consumption. I…
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4 more horsemen โ a review of Cypherpunks
Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet by Andy Greenberg NOTE: Originally posted on Medium. This book is really a footnoted conversation between Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Mรผller-Maguhn and Jรฉrรฉmie Zimmermann, some big names in the internet/activist/anarchist/online security communities.…
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Unbridled optimism โ a review of Abundance
Abundance: The future is better than you think by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler Abundance is a book of two parts, with a sprinkling of Singularity University and XPRIZE promotion and some nice little autobiographical tidbits. The first part introduces the…
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The New Banality โ a review of The New Digital Age
The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen Since I read This Machine Kills Secrets first, this book seems particularly dangerous to the web as a whole. Universal User Registration? A…
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สษฅษษนษuษoสdสษนษ โ a review of This Machine Kills Secrets
This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World’s Information by Andy Greenberg NOTE: Originally posted on Medium. “Hacker culture” is often characterized by curiosity, meritocracy, independence and self-reliance. It is no wonder that libertarianism enjoys…
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