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  • Garbage in garbage out

    May 25, 2024
    Uncategorized

    Google put a box of AI-generated text at the top of their search results. If you don’t know what that means, I’m talking about the…

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  • “Number go up” isn’t everything

    May 4, 2024
    Commentary, Internet

    I have no idea how many people read my articles. I love it. This hasn’t always been true. When I worked at a culty tech company,…

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  • The life changing magic of shutting up

    March 27, 2024
    Commentary

    Here’s a secret the people who run social media networks don’t want you to know—the one thing you can do to mess up their entire…

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  • Startup founders: hire me to be your CEO

    January 4, 2022
    Commentary

    An open letter. You should make me the CEO of your company. I promise to upset your investors in ways that are really, really, funny.…

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  • In 2020 what we need is utopia, but even Star Trek is jaded

    In 2020 what we need is utopia, but even Star Trek is jaded

    March 15, 2020
    Uncategorized

    I caught up on Star Trek: Picard. My main thought: What is the point of western civilization if even Star Trek can’t be hopeful? Star…

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  • Facebook moderators miss key directives because the news feed is terrible

    February 27, 2019
    Commentary, Internet

    Many current social problems—not all, but many—can be traced back to our collective decision to prioritize #engagement in the systems we use to communicate with…

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  • There are tiny hippos living in your house (and other thoughts)

    July 25, 2018
    Commentary, Internet

    All these years later I still think about house hippos once a month or so. Confused? So was I, as a kid, seeing this PSA…

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  • Does the decline of local journalism explain declining trust in government?

    March 5, 2018
    Commentary

    Calling the government useless only works if you take for granted all the many ways public employees make modern life possible. Officials doing their jobs…

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  • Facebook throws pocket change at local news outlets, expects gratitude

    March 1, 2018
    Commentary, Internet

    Facebook killed local newspapers by sucking up all the revenue that used to pay for the person who’d sit in on council meetings and spell…

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  • Learn from this, Canada.

    November 18, 2016
    Commentary

    Canada’s the shining beacon on a hill now, the only Western power that believes in multiculturalism.

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