Category: Blog
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Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
This book is very dense and very wonky. I wouldn’t recommend this to everyone. If you’re interested in power and politics, then this is a good book for you. The central thesis of the book is two-fold. Klein argues that polarization is different from sorting or categorization because of homophilies. If I know how you…
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Burning Chrome by William Gibson
This is easily one of my favorite books. This was my first time reading it, and I found that I had to take breaks to reflect, and often reread chapters before moving on. Very excellent work by Gibson. I can see the way his thoughts moved in the direction of Neuromancer towards the end and…
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Raised Bed Gardens and Water Distribution
Given the many weeks of isolation in quarantine, I decided to move home rather than continue to pay bay area prices to be in quarantine indefinitely. It was nice to spend time with family, and we decided to remodel the house to keep ourselves busy. My project was the new garden. I decided to build…
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
In the 1970s, Michel Foucault was working on something unrelated and discovered an important memoir. Herculine Barbin had lived a short and noteworthy life as an intersex and transgender person in the mid-1800s. Foucault translated and published the memoir. It spread far and wide and impacted many people around the world. Jeffrey Eugenides was one…
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Set Up A Raspberry Pi Home Web Development Server
Initial Setup First download the latest full version of raspbian. Next, use win32diskimager to write it to your sd card. [Optional] Headless Setup This step means we will be able to just turn on the pi and SSH into it, without hooking up a screen, keyboard, and mouse. Then create a blank file called “ssh”…
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Why does a latte cost so much? Where does all that money go?
CJ Trowbridge Urban Studies 401G 2020-04-24 Social Justice Essay: Final Draft Why does a latte cost so much? Where does all that money go? Capitalism is the enemy of markets, where vampires suck the wealth out of the supply chain in order to get fat on the work of others. Kyriarchy is the enemy of…
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Web Application Server Setup 2020
After apportioning the server, and creating a DNS entry with your registrar for the FQDN, connect via SSH. Now update the server apt-get update && apt-get upgrade First let’s install fail2ban to prevent repeated login attempts apt-get install fail2ban Install Apache 2, PHP 7.4, and SSL Next install Apache apt-get install apache2 Get ready to…
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Demographic Signage
Read more about advertising companies using screens with integrated demographics vision-analysis and putting them in bathrooms or bus stops. This is kind of scary but maybe potentially a way to bring people together?