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Jarring language shift :oD.

Hilarious. Putting her words in Harry's mouth works somehow.

Creepy when you think about it, but we draw pretty arbitrary lines around food sentience, culturally.

I love the idea of a modular tablet that looks like an old IIgs... even if it's totally impractical.

So worth the read. Sitting there, holding Theo, knowing that I have and he will benefit from this sin, was hard. I reared up. I know my "patriotism a la carte" has taken form in my genealogy research - I looked for my family connections to founding fathers, but never asked which ancestors owned slaves. A small thing to do would be to support HR40 next time it comes up.

"What does it mean to be powerful in a game?" As an "explorer" gamer, I am all for "power-to", not "power-over".

A huge mess for both companies. Samsung clearly copied though.

Brief overview of the conflict between the campus group Mountain Justice and the Board of Managers. Funny this came up in my feed right after I posted about Harvard divesting.

This is just past the edge of what i understand - lots of new terms, but fascinating optimization techniques.

Amanda's controversial Art of Asking talk. Yes, she's established, but I'd rather her crowdfund than work for a label.

Great call to action and metaphor from the Internet's favorite mathematician.

Various industry veterans talk about the problems with most video game heroes.

Another compounding decision: that so many were willing to use OSS for a critical purpose without checking that it was in good health.

I liked the peace of the older cities, even though they were less convenient.

An underserved gaming community - the incarcerated.

I'm not sure I agree... but then again Cambridge has very heavy traffic so the option would only apply late at night.

It really is a shakedown.

Impressive that they managed to avoid it for so long - but I may forget how nearly ubiquitous it is in my subculture. It will be hard to introduce Theo to it without him already being shapes by opinions of it.

Good overview. I hadn't been thinking of interconnection as that different of a problem.

A lot of plots just don't work in the grim meathook future.

I love that he casually uses "bailiwick". Great points on technological culture shock.

People dislike Bo more if they know he's owned by Obama. The hell?

The best response I've seen to that Princeton kid, which takes into account his relative immaturity and that he's been used as clickbait.

Local telecom monopolies are why we need net neutrality in the form of common carrier regulation.

The data shows what a saturated peering connection looks like, and why Comcast et al don't want us to get what we pay for.

Interesting! I often dislike my quiz results and question the answer set - I wonder what that says about me? (The Tyrion angle is I think just to gin up page views using a recently popular show.)

A great point distinguishing between "oafish racism" which is today relatively easy to identify and remove or dismiss and "elegant racism" which is almost impossible to eliminate, as it is core to the structure of american society.

Parts of this ring very true. I try hard to improve code that I see, while also staying consistent to the code that's there, even if that's not always the best option.

Reuse of memory for cryptographic variables: probably bad.

Sci-fi is often a clear product of its time.