Politics
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Understanding “RISC-y Business”
trading chips progression for chips advantage
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Pay the Fiddler
pithy wisdom from days of yore
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All Heroes, No Casualties
where are our stories of tech folks done wrong?
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Seven Ways to Say “Inequality”
a short study in the rhetoric of policy
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It’s a Trap
avoid legal structures designed to constrain you
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Platform Neutrality
we used to have a principle for this
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We Are All Internet Realists Now
web exceptionalism swings both ways
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Fake Neutrality
have it your way ‘til they can afford to have it theirs
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The Tension
panning for hope in a very angry America
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No War on Coronavirus
remembering the other way to see our problems
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Lies My Law School Told Me
in praise of bad propaganda
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Not the Type
tech exceptionalism in limp words and phrases
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Expert Failure
lawyers learning from scientists
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Programmer Power
prying open “software freedom”
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Threat Rhetoric
narrative error in policing
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Anything to Everyone
“defund the police” through the lens of “open source”
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Narrative Error
that’s my hero story, and I’m sticking to it
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Facing the Choir
reading and hearing American police unions
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Oakland Police Commission
money, gas, rubber, and “fuck”
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The March in Oakland
a flyover, firsthand account of rally and march
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Not Not Political
if software matters, it’s already political
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Untangling Tech Merit and Tech Privilege
section 230 is but one kind of subsidy
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Reduce, Reuse, Reconsider
if you wish to make a great hacker from scratch, let them reimplement the universe
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Scratch Other People’s Itches
achieve more meaning and feel less alone
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The Main Event
Amazon versus Startups and the New York Times
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Venture Capital Shill
scapegoating free software’s failures
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Heather Meeker on “Ethos Licensing”
free and open is ethos licensing, too
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Our Ethics, Not Yours
in defense of Seth Vargo and morality-first licenses