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Nothing To Hide: why you actually should care about NSA spying

One of the biggest and most far-reaching revelations of the week has been the confirmation that the NSA has been collecting and storing vast amounts of data from telephone and internet service providers. The sheer scale…

Occupied by Occupy Wall Street

The Occupy Wall Street movement has been moving (at long last) to the forefront of mainstream news, and it’s been interesting for me to see the reactions from people across the political spectrum. By and large, I see conservative Republican types dismissing it as…

Things I Suspect I May Have Learned In College

As I write this, I’m in that narrow pocket of time between the submission of my last required work as an undergraduate student, and the commencement ceremony that will more or less mark the end of my years of being somewhat sheltered from the…

Voter Fraud and Where to Find It

As usual, the truth is somewhere in the middle of two extremes.

Thanksgiving in Thailand

At the end of an absolutely amazing trip, I’ve been reflecting on the parts of my life in the US that I so often…

My Security Mishap

Well guys, for the first time ever, my online identity has been compromised. Don’t worry, this is me making this post. I just wanted to use it both as a lesson and a warning to be cautious when receiving communications that purport to be from me. Here’s how it happened, and how you can avoid…

Just How Bad Is The Adobe Hack?

In case you haven’t heard, Adobe’s servers were hacked. Just how bad was it? Here’s a mediocre infographic I created, with more details beneath it.

Israel vs. Palestine (part 1)

This post originally started out as a way for me to answer what I thought was a simple question: “what caused the most recent conflict in Gaza between Israelis and Palestinians?” Traditional wisdom in America generally follows the same logic time and time again — namely, that…