This took me a while to read: not because i didn’t like it, but because there were some parts that enraged me (in a productive way), so I couldn’t trust myself to read it before bed for fear of getting too wound up to sleep.

I appreciated the book’s straightforward approach to laying out problems with American democracy and its optimism that we can do something about it. This year, I’ve been wanting to think—and engage—more in politics, and I think I’ll find the last chapter of this book particularly helpful for giving me the motivation to do so.

Lexington just installed plate readers on a trial basis, so this hits particularly hard right now. It’s scary and it needs to stop.

Doing transcription yourself sucks. It’s long and tedious, and the final product never feels worth all the effort you put into it. For all that, though, this is exactly why services like Otter have never sat well with me.

Quite enjoyed this read. Appreciated Spiegelman’s take that Maus got pushback because there’s not a satisfying ending. It’s true of Maus, but maybe that’s a feature, not a bug. Hat tip to Boing Boing for pointing me to this.

This story is so, so much to take in. I saw it from the Massachusetts Pirate Party with a comment about implants needing to be open sourced. I agree, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Disappointed to see more legislation like this under consideration.

Glad to hear this—and glad my state rep seems to me a voice of reason here.

Yes for more transportation funding, but not if it’s all going to cars.

This continues to be a dumb and worrying story.

Why are dress codes so often so gross?

Surveillance is a bigger problem than we think.

This is unjustifiable.

Ugh ugh ugh.

The first line is a powerful one. Libraries ought to be a constant reference point (and beneficiary) when liberalizing IP.

But is it ed tech?

This would really change things up!

I am just now learning about this and am glad for the article, but I’m not sure it hits all the deeper issues here.

I’ve been interested in the idea of running for office since I was in high school, and as I’ve become more politically aware and engaged over the past five years, I’ve thought a lot in particular about eventually running for local office.

I picked this book up with a stack of others a couple of months ago during a particular rush of civic inspiration and since I got a notice that I needed to return it, I blazed through it in a couple of days.

This whole situation sucks.

I strongly believe in nuclear disarmament, but it’s still hard not to have some sympathy for this point of view.

This is why I want a U.S. Pirate Party

Some of the scariest news I’ve read this week.

Who thought this was a good idea???

Intellectual property is important, but overreach is a real problem. We should be liberalizing IP, not cracking down on it.

Surveillance is not going to help kids.