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A small wooden shelf in the sidewalk with mementos on it. A kind of neighborhood shrine.

If you think you are the chicken and not the pig, you are wrong.

Sunset, looking out from Emeryville at the San Francisco Bay.
Colorful stairs in Medellín.

Must read on populism’s playbook from someone who lived through it.

Orbán’s power grab program runs on two components that you can think of as hardware and software. The populist hardware consists of hijacked institutions. The software is made up of populist discourses and narratives that are used to create and enlist the consent of the ruled.

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I am so pleased about this hometown news.

Better happens incrementally. The first steps aren’t dramatic, and in fact, might even be less effective than what came before. But small steps repeated again and again transform our culture when no one is looking.

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The most interesting part of statistics for me has often been trying to make sense of what is happening at the edges of the technical solutions, where some yet unformalized judgment has to come in and make it work.

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Conversations about privacy and security often focus on technology and give scant attention to the human, non-technological factors that affect personal privacy and security. This post covers a range of concrete steps we can all take to regain control over what, when, and with whom we share.

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Remember, even with privacy settings in place, your data belongs to the platform owner, not you. This is a critical point to understand in any digital space, regardless of ownership or whether it is centralized or decentralized.

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