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Sneak Consensus

In 2011 I first understood something I’ve always know: consensus. In normal people’s term it means “being cool with something”. You’ve experienced consensus if you’ve ever ordered a pizza with friends....

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Thoughts on the Business of doing good

I’ve been thinking about how I can do good in a sustainable way. 2012 was an amazing year for me as a person and activist. I threw my heart over the wall and chased after it. 2012 was also a year out...

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FireFox OS – Phones and Freedom

I love free and open source tools. I love Firefox and Mozilla. I recently came across Mozilla’s announcement of their developer preview phone for Firefox OS. I’d like to quickly explain why the Firefox...

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Data Anywhere – distributed data storage and sharing solution

At this weekend’s #OccupyDataNYC hack I worked on the Data Anywhere project presented by Gloria W of NYC Python Meetup. This project seems to have a lot of promise for solving the data management...

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Racism, brought to you by the Dr Pepper Snapple Group

I just watched some problematic shit on the internet. Amazing, I know. In a post titled Dirty Laundry, the greatest justice video i have seen with 2126 points (the product of upvotes minus...

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In Defence of Occupy Money: a Rant for Radicals

If #OCCUPYWALLSTREET is anything it’s anti-capitalist. Which, of course, conveniently leaves out many self identified “occupiers” who aren’t self identified anti-capitalists. While the mainstream...

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In Defence of the Rabble Rousers

Last night I got a Facebook message from a comrade regarding yesterday’s post defending the Occupy Money project. I want to take a quick moment to clarify a few things based on what was said to me in...

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John Kerry: Syria’s use of chemical weapons ‘undeniable’

So I haven’t been following the news very closely as of late. Turns out the US is running a media campaign to build support for their plans to attack Syria.   I’m sure they’re doing the right thing,...

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We are all nomads now. What

We are all nomads now. What do we own? The car is leased, apartment rented. The institutions that lend to us have only one motivation, money. After the powerful take their cut we are left with never...

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My appearance on GWOB Cast

Someone I was able to make time to participate in this Geeks Without Bounds hangout where I spoke about the non-organization called Occupy Sandy. I’ll start it when I get in, you can see the post on...

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