Politics

Posts about government policy, civic tech, science funding, digital rights, and the broader political context of technology.

2025-04-18A Dollar a Minute
2025-04-17When the Fire Comes
2025-03-12Resilience Advice
2024-12-28Being a Great Teacher
2024-12-14How It Will Be Used
2024-10-14Case Studies in Open X
2024-06-14Narconomics and Big Tech
2024-03-30Governance Revisited
2024-03-17Governing a Book
2023-01-08Somewhere Between Hobbes and Wishful Thinking
2021-04-20Scorecards
2020-07-18Good Trouble
2019-07-07Deskilling Learning
2019-04-21Contrarians
2019-04-14The People You Have
2019-03-15Christchurch and Shopify
2018-11-01Twelve Questions
2018-10-06Flake and Collins, Mark and Jack and Tobi
2017-09-18Disappearing Data
2017-07-20Hunter S. Thompson, Football, and the GOP
2017-06-12Say Their Names
2017-02-06A Moral Equivalent of the Turing Test
2017-01-25Stand with Government Scientists
2016-09-29Epistocracy as Privilege
2013-08-12Offering a New Order
2013-06-09Heroes
2013-06-07Is There Only Room for One Utopia?
2011-01-05Cognitive Dissonance
2010-12-21Compute Canada's 'Strategic' Plan Isn't
2010-07-18Jon's Notes on G20
2010-04-01Simon Singh Wins (and So Does Science)
2010-03-11Don't Ask, Don't Tell—Really
2010-01-28About Time
2010-01-12Google and China
2009-12-15The Next Fifty Years in Politics
2009-12-01Minority Rule
2009-10-21Sometimes You Can't Even Manage What You *Can* Measure
2009-08-25Climate Change (Literally) on Trial
2009-06-17Subsistence Farmers With Cellphones
2009-05-01Canada's Response
2009-04-28NSERC Should Just Give the Money Away
2009-03-18Maciej Cegłowski on Meltdowns
2009-02-12How Dare They Hold Us Accountable?
2009-02-11History Is Written By The Victors
2008-12-18Hacking the Rainforest
2008-12-18Carl Zimmer, Faces, and Letter Writing Campaigns
2008-11-05I Honestly Didn't Think I'd Live to See the Day
2008-05-16File Under 'Really Not Getting It'
2008-04-28'I Would Never Have Believed…'
2008-03-06Avenir vs. Ryerson
2008-03-04Bummer
2008-02-20Today's Politicians Lead Boring Lives
2008-02-20The Dog's Not Barking Again
2007-12-18Show Me
2007-11-29Falling Further Behind
2007-11-16Sometimes I Don't Like Our Species Very Much
2007-11-08File Under 'Still Not Getting It'
2007-09-13The Best Electoral Offer Yet
2007-09-13Ontario Votes on Voting
2007-08-29The Sunlight Foundation and Hosted Lifebits
2007-06-26A Thumb on the Scales
2007-04-12One Laptop Per Child
2007-03-22Maybe We Deserve to Go Under
2007-03-11Internet Self-Publishing as a Mirror for our Species
2007-02-27A Book That Should Be Read More Widely
2007-02-10Tomorrow is Evolution Sunday
2006-08-20Rome In Its Later Days
2006-08-16The Trouble With Normal
2006-07-31More Legislative Idiocy
2006-04-04Movie-Plot Threat Contest
2006-03-30Sea Code
2006-03-27The Real Convergence