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I am not an Idleword Macropatron

Anil Dash

Mar 25, 2005 • 1 min read

Sorry, Maciej, but I am unable to assist in your Macropatronage effort. Fortunately, I have a very good excuse.

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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

Cooperative Overlap

One of the biggest sources of miscommunication is people having different styles of communication, or different norms about the right way to express emotion or context even if there's agreement on more straightforward aspects of verbal communication. Things like "ask vs. guess" cultures are one common manifestation of this, and

Sep 25, 2021 • 4 min read

The Spreadsheet of Prince Recordings

Recently, a motivated Prince fan created a spreadsheet that attempts to catalog the entirety of Prince's thousands of recordings over the course of his career. Beginning in 1973 as a then-15-year-old Prince taped his first few tracks, and going through (so far) the end of the 80s, it's a remarkable

Sep 17, 2021 • 5 min read

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