botwerks

on privacy invasions through private spies, unix terminal standards, harmful sunscreen chemicals, and twitter's transformation

reflections on the ten-year anniversary of snowden's leaks and how little has fundamentally changed despite more encryption

on retconning sci-fi plotlines and the absurd chemical-soaked american lawn obsession

mcsweeney's perfectly captures the absurd caricatures the right creates about educators

surprising economics of how cyclists pay more than their fair share for street infrastructure

the rich winning the war on poverty, nyc's vacant buildings, and how twitter's debt influences who gets silenced

thoughts on minnesota's minimum wage requirements for uber and lyft drivers and the evolving gig economy

appreciating the beauty of 'worse is better' engineering and the brilliance of internet architecture's deliberate flexibility

reflections on cisco's early 2000s bubble, worthless stock options, and the 800-pound gorilla's continued inertia

on the cognitive dissonance in cryptocurrency communities and parallels to doomsday cult psychology when predictions fail