“Delete any app that makes money off your attention.”
Reflections on treating a smartphone as a tool and removing apps whose business depends on capturing attention.
Culture
Consume media outside one’s bubble?
Questioning advice to read across political divides when doing so treats unreliable reporting as equivalent to factual journalism.
A letter to Jerry Brown
A letter urging California Governor Jerry Brown to authorize further DNA testing in Kevin Cooper’s case.
Stalin, Trump, and the cult of personality
Reflections on the cult of personality surrounding Trump, drawing comparisons with the adoration cultivated around Stalin.
Not always what it seems
A Soviet propaganda image and its translated message thanking Stalin for a happy childhood.
They’re just paid protesters
A critique of claims that protesters are paid, examining the inconsistent treatment of money and legitimacy in politics.
My month without news
What I learned from a month without routine news consumption and with strict limits on social media.
Helping the helpers
A brief appeal to support the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the Southern Poverty Law Center after the 2016 election.
Well that has a familiar ring to it
A critique of the familiar response to American mass shootings and the failure to address their interacting causes.
Stop Facebook tracking
The browser tools and privacy settings I used to limit Facebook tracking and other forms of online behavioural advertising.