Category: Blog
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Choking Someone is Felony Assault and Attempted Homicide
There have been several high-profile cases in the news this week about people choking people. I wanted to bring it up and talk about some important facts. Consent must be talked about before-hand. Non-consensual choking, even during consensual sex, is strangulation. It is felony assault and it is attempted homicide; with a mandatory prison sentence.…
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Deviance and Justice Quote
“Individuals who fight to change the established social order sometimes face the possibility of being labeled deviant—and even mentally ill. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, for instance, women in Britain who demonstrated for women’s right to vote were widely viewed to be mentally ill. When a person’s or a group’s behavior challenges…
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Saunt Augustine on Duty and Praise
“In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.” -Saint Augustine
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A New Subtitle; A New Chapter
I put a great deal of thought into the subtitles I use on my website, blog, github, linkedin, etc. The backdrop for this decision is that I have been going through a period of great change in my life. I left a dead-end software engineering job and decided to go back to school in order…
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We need a better abstraction of digital workspaces.
When you run a software application on any modern device, you get some kind of window with the content of what it’s doing, and some number of processes in the background which perform the work. Virtualization tools like VirtualBox allow you to run programs in a completely enclosed environment which look and feel just like…
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The Relationship Between Stress and Submissiveness
Super interesting research into stress related to dominance versus submission in social rank and lots of research about specific health consequences. One of the strangest things I would not have expected is a connection between social submissiveness and the amount of body fat specific to the abdomen. Social submissiveness is also directly connected to very…
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The First Run: 140 Care Packages For People Who Are Homeless
We liked the idea of having something other than cash to hand out to people who are homeless in order to be more helpful with less money. We also wanted to start conversations around the project which helped to humanize people who are homeless. This comes in the face of intense prejudice in our communities…
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Gender and Altruism
“Women are more likely than men to help when the context involves existing interpersonal relationships or nurturing, such as volunteering time to help a child with a personal problem (Eagly, 2009). Men, on the other hand, are more likely to help in situations in which a perceived danger is present (for instance, picking up a…
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How To Tell If Facebook Hides Your Posts
I challenge everyone to look at their profile and see whether Facebook shows your posts to anyone, or if you’re just sharing things with the wall behind you. Look back at your Facebook posts on your profile and see how many of them have no likes or comments. If they do, it means Facebook’s algorithm…
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Broken Angels by Richard K Morgan
Broken Angels is a worthy successor to Altered Carbon. The only common factor is the story’s subject; Takeshi Kovacs. We find him on a new world with new people around him at the center of an entirely new conflict. It does a good job of escalating the story in an artful way. If you liked…