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The Great Game.

To a certain Beltway mindset, it is the height of seriousness not to take political ideas so seriously that you attach life-or-death significance to them. For the “Pod Save America” hosts and for most...

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Hot Tips For Writing Tech in Fic

RFID RFID tags are not GPS devices. Most of them (passive RFID, i.e. the sort in your credit cards and pets) don’t “broadcast” per se and require a nearby reader to operate. Powered RFIDs require a...

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Amazon.com is bad, actually.

I generally don’t use Amazon.com, originally out of a single-person boycott and more lately because as soon as they opened a regional operation they because useless, but every now and again I do end up...

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Advocates.

Interesting look at the emerging role of the “Intimacy Coordinator” as a way of ensuring the comfort and safety of actors filming sex scenes.

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Internet freedoms.

Let me give away the punchline here: if your definition of freedom includes not just freedom from harassment and subjugation but from the possibility of harassment and subjugation, then software...

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