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The Librarian of Congress has issued new exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as part of a triennial review, and one of them grants people access to parts of the computer software running their cars. While you’ve always been allowed to tinker with your car’s engine or change the oil and rotate the…
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This Is Not a Game: How SXSW Turned GamerGate Abuse Into a Spectator Sport
This Is Not a Game: How SXSW Turned GamerGate Abuse Into a Spectator Sport to read…
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The smart home’s problem is its best product is terrible and made by a bankrupt company
The smart home’s problem is its best product is terrible and made by a bankrupt company
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Milton and the Machine
Milton and the Machine “I wanted to measure Milton’s surprise: his wrong-way cyclists. But in order to do that, I needed to know his structure. We know what people see when they look at a video: light, colors, motion. But what do we hear when we listen to Milton? Far, far more—the words, yes, their…
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apatosaurus: obsessionfull: shorterexcerpts: peterwknox: poldberg: A late night interpretation of Jesus’ thoughts about rich people by Sensitive Mark. Not enough notes on this post. But as a Sunday School graduate, I enjoyed this. Also pretty sure “give it away” does not mean “to your already spoiled children” but $2 says at least one asshole will call…
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From Beowulf to Tolkien, to countless formulaic fantasy movies at a multiplex near you, the genre generates two-dimensional Manichaean struggles between Good and Evil, in which morality’s shades of grey are reduced to one black and one white. The real world, as most of us know (if not all presidents and prime ministers), is rarely…
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Aboriginal children express pain differently from non-Aboriginal children, and therefore may not receive the same levels of health care when they seek help…“Because they are very stoic about pain, health practitioners often don’t pick it up,” explains Dr. Latimer. “Aboriginal children will sit quietly in an emergency room for hours, and others will be seen…
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Finding What’s Lost in a Video Game Inspired by Haruki Murakami
Finding What’s Lost in a Video Game Inspired by Haruki Murakami
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nobrocomputing: Women weaving software core memory by hand for the Apollo mission. I’m teaching my Social Life of Innovation seminar this quarter (which is sort of like live action nobrocomputing). So more action here will follow, I hope. (Source: http://nobrocomputing.tumblr.com/)
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Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself
Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself “It might surprise today’s software makers that one of the founding fathers of their boys’ club was, in fact, a mother—and that should give them pause as they consider why the gender inequality of the Mad Men era persists”