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“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by...

The Guardian : Just 100 companies have been the source of more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988, according to...

This is a great idea, to which I will append the two added notions that branches of the public bank should be located, among other places, ...

After brunch at our usual greasy spoon on Piedmont Avenue and then a walk to the Morcome Amphitheater of Roses (one of my favorite places o...

Had to order new trousers for work for the fourth time in less than a year -- the first purchase, last February, replaced a 42-inch waist p...

My mood, captured in a snippet from private correspondence: The passage of time is very strange. It happened Wednesday and yet here it is W...

Our beloved cat Sarah died yesterday in my lap, her little face cradled in my hand. She was never a large cat, even when she fluffed out fo...

The lie of the tech sector is that it is up to much of anything new at all. "Technology" discourse has always mostly been the re...

Adapted and Upgraded from a comment in the Moot: Robot Gods, genetic enhancement and longevity, artificial meat, immersive virtuality, techn...

Pro-tip: Don't let the toxic mixture of fear and laziness fuck with your goals, ambition and productivity. — Katya (@katya_zamo) July 14...

Nothing that is being called "AI" these days is actual AI -- which is not to deny how dangerous what passes for AI these days ha...

Fifty-two today.

HUMN-237-01 | Fall 2017 Peace in Pieces: Histories, Theories, and Practices of Nonviolent Politics Instructor: Dale Carrico; e-mail: ...

The following is excerpted from a history of teaching and statement of teaching philosophy requested as part of a dossier summarizing my po...

Summer 2017  Rhet 166: DIGITAL DEMOCRATIZATION & ANTIDEMOCRATIZATION UNDER THE LAW Instructor: Dale Carrico: dcarrico@sfai.edu,...

"[T]he point is to call for an equally livable life that is also enacted by those who make the call, and that requires the egalitaria...

1 NO MONOLITH There is no such thing as technology in general. There are a plurality of artifacts, techniques, performances, research pro...

Our first union negotiated contract was overwhelmingly ratified by the membership yesterday. Come what may, I have acquired a host of ben...