Once again I will be at Penguicon and hosting a party for all friends of this blog. This coming Friday evening, room number not yet known, it will be posted at the con. Those of you who participated in the design of the Great Beast may be interested to know that I expect to receive… Continue reading Friends of Armed & Dangerous 2019
Month: April 2019
Spotting the wild Fascist
The term “fascist” gets thrown around a lot by people who have no actual clue what Fascism was about. I know what it was about because when I was about 11 or 12 I read Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of of the Third Reich and became fascinated by the question which has driven my… Continue reading Spotting the wild Fascist
Gun voodoo and intentionality
There’s a recent article about gun violence in Haiti that features the following quotes: But the anthropological lesson from Haiti is that the truth is more complex. It isn’t just the technological lethality of guns that makes them dangerous: They also exert a power on human agency. They change us. It is both the technology… Continue reading Gun voodoo and intentionality
My microblogging has moved to MeWe
I should have announced this here sooner. Following the demise of G+, my microblogging has moved to MeWe. Find me at https://mewe.com/profile/5a66494451ee975004c3cdf8 Why MeWe? Technically I would have preferred a Federation platform, but MeWe had an importer for my G+ content. It lost the video links, alas, but text and still links from G+ are… Continue reading My microblogging has moved to MeWe
Contributor agreements considered harmful
Yesterday I got email from a project asking me to wear my tribal-elder hat, looking for advice on how to re-invent its governance structure. I’m not going to name the project because they haven’t given me permission to air their problems in public, but I need to write about something that came up during the… Continue reading Contributor agreements considered harmful