ethics

Xi Jinping is Larry Ellison. He’s going to fail. He’s going to fall. Open source guarantees it.

Every black kid deserves the privileges I grew up with. Every kid does. This is how we’ll build the human...

The decision by LiveCode to “abandon” open source, putting their old code in an archive and building proprietary above it,...

We all overestimate what a President can do. The media treats him as magic, the final authority, the one person...

Credibility doesn’t scale. It can’t be created by an algorithm. It can only be mediated by people, who are fallible....

With impunity, all things are possible. War is possible. Lynching is possible. The Holocaust is possible. It’s impunity that Republicans...

Focus on the money. Focus on where the money comes from. Focus on what that money is trying to do,...

With so much money lying around, under the control of so few people, in instruments of questionable value, faith in...

Mitt Romney once said, “Companies are people too, my friend.” He was ridiculed for it, but tech companies consist almost...

Once you’re faculty you’re untouchable. University administrators treat tenured faculty like mayors do cops.