Anil Dash

… the name. We needed to look focused — but be flexible too. Thus we landed on the overline. Or the “dash,” or “eyebrow.” A diacritical mark so simple it can be reappropriated for future applications—see b…

…olent behaviors. Rather, the defense focused on his value as a token representation of his culture. Nowhere in the defense of Ansari are Muslim-American women or Indian-American women considered. It definitely does not include Muslim-Americans or Indian-Americans who are LGBTQ+ or gender non-c…

…e cave on Krait is the first time since A New Hope that we hear Williams’ score for the trench run (unless you count its appearance in the old LucasArts game Dark Forces) and I gave a little internal cheer when I heard it pop up. Leia and Han’s love theme from Empire S…

…olorful fashion with function, and people who want to talk about the new Miguel album AND Firebase (by the way, the new Miguel album is great.)

Everybody Loves Dashes

The second is the levels of exploitation, not of children because they are children but of children because they are powerless. Automated reward systems like YouTube algorithms necessitate exploitation in the same way that capitalism necessitates exploitation, and if you’re someone who bristles at the second half of that equation then maybe this should be what convinces you of its truth. Exploitation is encoded into the systems we are building, making it harder to see, harder to think and explain, harder to counter and defend against. Not in a future of AI overlords and robots in the factories, but right here, now, on your screen, i…

But I don’t even have kids and right now I just want to burn the whole thing down.

…another session, and saw him knit observations from two talks I’d been at into his closing remarks. If Obama can make time to listen this carefully, respectfully and closely, so can I.