Society

Big tech criticism, ethics, politics, social implications of technology, regulation, inequality, digital rights, surveillance, corporate accountability, and social media harms.

2025-09-12	Searching for Closure
2025-07-16	Books For a Talk
2024-12-28	Being a Great Teacher
2024-12-03	Software Engineering Management Books
2024-10-14	Case Studies in Open X
2024-06-14	Narconomics and Big Tech
2023-12-29	Reading List
2023-11-01	How to Reach the Unconverted?
2023-08-27	The Weizenbaum Test
2023-07-05	The Carpentries at 25
2023-02-13	Soup, Then Prayers
2023-01-08	Somewhere Between Hobbes and Wishful Thinking
2022-08-25	Thoughts on the Hippocratic License
2019-12-30	Method, Motive, and Opportunity
2019-10-30	First Do No Harm
2019-08-04	No Support for Hate
2019-07-07	Deskilling Learning
2018-09-16	What Works for Women at Work
2017-06-12	Say Their Names
2017-04-30	Still Waiting
2017-01-25	Stand with Government Scientists
2016-04-01	Zen and the Art of Assignment Operators
2016-01-15	18 Months of Progress
2015-11-15	Miscellaneous Projects
2015-06-14	Routinely Unique
2015-06-10	Ursula Le Guin on Capitalism
2015-03-15	Teaching Tips
2015-02-12	Online Scientific Collaboration: The Sequel
2014-12-02	What About MOOCs?
2014-10-22	Massuni Kickstarter Has Launched
2013-11-29	WiSE Bootcamp at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2013-11-17	Thanks from Woods Hole
2013-06-07	Is There Only Room for One Utopia?
2013-05-01	Merging is the Real Revolution
2013-04-19	Spreadsheets, Retractions, and Bias
2013-03-05	First Round at Lawrence Berkeley
2012-12-26	Why I Didn't Like 'The Dark Knight Rises'
2012-01-20	By Any Means Necessary
2011-07-24	My OSCON'11 Hall of Fame
2011-04-18	Holding Up a Mirror
2011-03-09	Who's Cribbing Who?
2010-12-29	Tagging and Debugging
2010-12-29	More Musings on the Value of a PhD
2010-06-28	Rich, Famous, and Popular
2010-06-16	A Voice from the Back of the Room
2010-06-10	The Big Picture (version 3)
2010-04-01	Simon Singh Wins (and So Does Science)
2010-02-24	Twitter Makes Rhinos Of Us All
2010-01-28	About Time
2009-12-15	The Next Fifty Years in Politics
2009-11-01	Our Target Audience
2009-10-13	A Less Frequent World
2009-09-01	My Mac Knows That My Thoughts Are Straying
2009-08-25	Climate Change (Literally) on Trial
2009-07-29	DemoCamp 21
2009-06-17	Subsistence Farmers With Cellphones
2009-04-23	The Penalty For Dishonesty Is Often Borne By Others
2009-04-14	Jon Udell on Computational Thinking
2009-02-12	How Dare They Hold Us Accountable?
2009-02-11	Science in the Open
2008-12-23	Post-Mortem on This Term's Work
2008-12-08	Monkeys, Bananas, and a Fire Hose
2008-11-05	I Honestly Didn't Think I'd Live to See the Day
2008-02-19	Six Books for a Canadian Winter
2008-02-04	You're Not Allowed To Use What You Learn In This Book
2008-01-28	First Figure Out What You Want to Change
2007-11-08	File Under 'Still Not Getting It'
2007-10-12	Gini Coefficients as a Measure of Team Effort
2007-10-10	Citizen Lab Guide to Bypassing Censorship
2007-10-09	Amazon Gets an SLA (But I Still Can't Use It)
2007-09-25	Another Sighting of Software Carpentry
2007-09-10	Russian and Korean
2007-06-26	Software Carpentry at LLNL
2007-06-17	Two Books of a Different Kind
2007-05-05	Computational Scientists Still Don't Get It
2007-02-16	Toronto Technology Week May 28 - June 1
2006-08-20	Rome In Its Later Days
2006-04-09	Mesh: Good News and Bad
2005-12-21	Choosing Sides
2005-11-04	One in Forty Five Isn't Good Enough
2005-03-13	Reading the Fine Print
2005-02-08	Trusting Your Customers
2004-09-06	They're All Eighth Bolts