What is complicity? Lepora and Goodin (2013) provide the most comprehensive framework for parsing and assessing the moral blameworthiness of complicit behavior.

In their analysis …

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In a 2001 Wired article, writer Steve Silberman characterized autism as the “geek syndrome.” Given that autism is partially hereditary, Silberman asked if the concentrations …

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Earlier I reviewed the literature on whether there is a distinct geek style of thinking?. This question recently went mainstream as a consequence of James …

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I was recently interviewed by Luciana Lima for an story about FOMO in Brazil’s Você S/A (“Tudo ao mesmo tempo agora,” March 2017 …

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A few months ago I submitted my dossier for tenure and it continues on its journey up the chain of command: external reviewers, department committee …

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I’ve been working on geek meritocracy and privilege for a while now and my original draft has now been split into two. The meritocracy …

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I recently noted that datafication has a Wikipedia article. This is another term for a phenomenon I usually speak of as quantification, following Ritzer and …

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In my twenty years of using speeching recognition I’ve had a number of setups. I began at MIT’s Accessibility Lab with discrete speech …

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In the past year or so I’ve fully transitioned to editing my prose like code. I’ve been using markdown for a while now …

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A recent TEDx Talk by Will Stephen is the new “Dr. Fox Lecture.” In the 1970s researchers designed an experiment to see how a group …

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