The man is pushing for the right to unlock our mobile phones once their contract is up. I’m with Franken: WE WANT THE FREEDOM TO UNLOCK OUR MOBILE PHONES!.
Category Archive: Technology
Apr 09 2013
Here comes the transhumanist hate mail!
My talk at Skeptech is now available on youtube. I am not kind to Transhumanism.
Apr 07 2013
Good ideas and bad ideas
Hey, gang, sorry I’ve been neglecting the blog this weekend, but I’ve been off at Skeptech, and this has been a very busy conference…maybe a little too busy. The roster of talks and panels started at 9am, and Friday and Saturday they went on until 10pm, and it was maybe a little too densely packed …
Mar 29 2013
Reddit: working hard to bury their reputation ever deeper in the slime
A new tasteless meme is spreading across Reddit: good girl college liberal. As usual, I think you can guess what makes someone a “good” girl: it’s the willingness to do anything the guy with a copy of photoshop wants her to do. And what makes her a “college liberal”? She’s topless. I’ve never known that …
Mar 27 2013
Here I Stand; I Can Do No Other
I weigh in on Google Glass at KCET. The gist: Some of us come out to the desert to escape the Panopticon that life in the city already is, increasingly. In Los Angeles, Google Glass might be just one more increment of invasion in a landscape already thoroughly colonized by surveillance cameras, red light cameras, random private …
Mar 18 2013
Nightmare fuel
It’s morning here, so it’s probably safe to post this now. I read this article just before bed last night, and then I had a nightmare. I dreamt that I walked into my classroom, and 50 pairs of eyes all turned to me, and they were all wearing Google Glass, and there were all these …
Mar 17 2013
I, for one, welcome the Internet surveillance state
Well, not really, but I figure I better say so. Google is listening. Something to consider: the convictions in Steubenville were obtained with the assistance of the flood of data from cell phones. Bruce Schneier considers the implications of constant technological monitoring. So, we’re done. Welcome to a world where Google knows exactly what sort …
Mar 16 2013
I support the #tooFEW project
Hey, we all know what atheists, gamers, tech people, and scientists have in common: underrepresentation of minority viewpoints and the presence of indignant white male gatekeepers. Now we get to add another category: wikipedia editors. In that great common resource that gets used all over the place as a quick entry to basic concepts, only …
Mar 12 2013
Brilliant! A positive story from the gamer community
This is very nice: a fellow hacked Donkey Kong for his daughter — he swapped the characters so that Pauline is rescuing Mario. This would have been so easy for Nintendo to have done, it’s rather revealing that they didn’t. Oh, and the gamer who did this generally got accolades from the community…but don’t read …
Mar 12 2013
Reddit could be excellent
Rebecca Watson has a very good summary of her SXSW panel on Reddit. Reddit has an introspection problem (they don’t) and a criticism problem (they don’t accept it, even when they have a serious problem that needs correcting). The panel then moved on to discussing where Reddit came from, how it differed from other forums …
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