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Essays and writing about society and policy
Every link here is classified as essays and writing about society and policy.
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The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
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Lockdown – The coming war on general-purpose computing (2012)
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The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2016)
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The war to sell you a mattress
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Why I don't like smartphones
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How to Drop Out (2004)
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Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019)
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The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better
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Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (2020)
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The Moral Economy of Tech
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George W. Bush is smarter than you
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Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism
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The /bin/true Command and Copyright
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NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’
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The Unexotic Underclass
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America will collapse by 2025 (2010)
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The Stroad
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Science’s Pirate Queen
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We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won
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How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral
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EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR
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Reasons not to use Uber
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Welcome to the land that no country wants: Bir Tawil (2016)
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The declining authority of statistics and the experts who analyse them
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Wage Theft is a Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft (2014)
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Dude, you broke the future
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World War II was totally unrealistic
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Why 12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Disastrous for Safety
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Letter to the Patent Office From Professor Donald Knuth (1994)
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I hate living in my tiny house
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US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (2014)
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Why American Construction Costs Are So High
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Terrorism is not about terror
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The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales
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Man built a bunker under Hampstead Heath and lived in it for two years
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Casino-like apps have drained people of millions
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Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking
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Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This (2019)
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Silence Is a Commons by Ivan Illich (1983)
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A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign
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