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Though these may be efforts to erase us, one truth stands firm: we are part of what it means to be human, and eradication is a futile pursuit. Even if every last one of us was removed from this Earth, we would still be here, born anew to every generation.

Entertainment CD-ROMs were a thing in the 1990s. Ask your parents.

Well it is an 80-bit long key. [But] if it had 80 bits of entropy, it wouldn’t be exportable.

It turned out there were two types of Reader users: the completionists, who go through every unread item they have, and the folks who just scroll around until they find something. Both sides think the other is bonkers.

Systems where nobody takes responsibility do not lead to good outcomes.

Using the term “masculinity” to talk about male supremacy or male privilege is undeniably a bad idea; it normalizes patriarchy, framing political power and the abuse thereof as a “natural,” inevitable form of gender expression.

Specifically, they mean how well a man fills his role in patriarchy by (a) rejecting any trace of “femininity” or womanliness, so as to be the exact polar opposite of a woman, and (b) keeping women and queer people down.