Yesterday I was surprised to see widespread headlines that Wikipedia's "first edit" was being auctioned as a NFT. That wasn't right, and I wondered what …
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“Which organized geeks should I talk to?”
Though people have always hacked their lives (e.g., Ben Franklin is claimed as an early example), the birth of “life hacking” is dated as …
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The officiousness of Wikipedia (my bio still sucks)
[Update: on 2020-Aug-092 Wikipedian Biogeographist improved my biography.]
My English Wikipedia bio has sucked for as long as it’s existed. (Sometimes it doesn’t …
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Digital Complicity
Earlier this year I posted a summary of Lepora and Goodin’s (2013) framework for complicity; I now have a draft making use of that …
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Lepora and Goodin on Complicity
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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The Geek Syndrome, Brains, and Gender
The Google Memo
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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FOMO Interview
Nerd vs. ‘bro’: Geek privilege, triumphalism, and idiosyncrasy