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Clergy: Official Business

Anil Dash

Sep 26, 2002 • 1 min read

Just another one of those great things about living in the Village:

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On "inventing NFTs" and how we don't have any good way to talk about tech

I've been blogging here for more than 20 years, and the only organizing principle behind what I write here, if anything, is a fascination about how we make culture, and especially how we make culture around, and with, technology. Nothing has exemplified the complexity of that conversation more than my

Nov 14, 2021 • 7 min read

What to know about the 2021 M1 MacBook Pro

I've spent a couple weeks using a new 14" Apple MacBook Pro daily (as a replacement for my last machine, which was a similar, but rather terrible, 2016 MacBook Pro) and thought it might be valuable to share a few observations that might help you assess whether it's a useful

Nov 11, 2021 • 5 min read

Burners, Pollution, Control & Privacy By A Thousand Cuts

The key to protecting people's privacy on the internet isn't in trying to stop users' data from being sent to different services, it's in poisoning the well by having user data be so inconsistent, disconnected, spurious or expensive to collect that today's surveillance infrastructures (often referred to as "ad tech"

Sep 29, 2021 • 6 min read

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