This article is pretty good advice. I highluy recommend.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/opinion/the-art-of-the-protest.html?_r=1&referer=

Sure, the FCC just adopted rules that would require opt in consent for this. But the rules don't go into full effect for 2 years and I don't think anyone is taking odds on the rules lasting that long.http://www

Last weekend was Chessiecon. It was a nice con. Enjoyed. For one thing, got to see gildedacorn and husband Paul (and it has been so long since I tagged him on LJ I've forgotten LJ handle) for first time there in several years.

My compliments to mneme for efforts to bring filking back to Chessiecon, which are paying off ( Read more... )

Reposting from 1 yr ago. A Reflection on the First Thanksgiving.

http://www.wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/a-reflection-on-the-first-thanksgiving/

Summary: Contrary to modern re-imagination, the First Thanksgiving ( Read more... )

Using these two numbers, identity thieves can find out pretty much anything.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/business/cellphone-number-social-security-number-10-digit-key-code-to-

So Tom Smith asked generically who had coined their own axioms. I was also asked earlier today by someone else for my various rules on advocacy. So I will take the opportunity to repost them, updated and modified. If I forget anything, let me know.

This supplants an older version I posted on LJ back in 2005.

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In a fit of a desire to do something, I've launched what I call the George Washington Pledge and am asking folks to spread it around. For more info see here ( Read more... )

For better or worse, it appears that people where more interested in election coverage than porn. But things spiked back up again once the election was called for Trump.
http://www.pornhub.com/insights/election-day

I can't pretend I predicted it, except for being prepared for it. About 2 weeks before the election, when 538.com said that we were now in Brexit territory (i.e., where polls showed the event had a reasonable probability and therefore it would take only a standard polling error to happen), I began to plan for it. At the time, it quite annoyed me ( Read more... )

I did a half hour interview for C-Span's "The Communicators" about the AT&T/TW deal. Taking the generally pro-side was Scott Wallsten, President of free market leaning think tank Technology Policy Institute. Moderating was indiustry reporter Lydia Beyoud ( Read more... )