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• Media Circus: Five More Sleeps Edition

  By tigtog on 2013-09-02 • ( 14 )

  

  That’s 5 more sleeps until polling day…

  What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

• For my birthday you could, if you like, donate to the Ada Initiative

  By tigtog on 2013-08-29 • ( 10 )

  

  This week I turned 50. Various nice people are doing nice things for me, which is nice.

  If you too would like to do something that will make me feel warm and fuzzy …

• Media Circus: Wikileaks Party Implodes Edition

  By tigtog on 2013-08-22 • ( 20 )

  

  Resignations everywhere. Whee!

  What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

• Storify CEO enables a stalker and thinks it’s no big deal

  By tigtog on 2013-08-16 • ( 3 )

  

  “There is no plausible way that Xavier Damman doesn’t know that he alerted a stalker to a conversation [taking] place about him. There is no plausible way that Xavier Damman doesn’t know that he sent a list of people who care about online stalking to a known online stalker.”

• Rifts getting riftier: naming and shaming the harassers

  By tigtog on 2013-08-08 • ( 9 )

  

  Well, this got interesting fast. The floodgates appear to be opening in the atheoskeptosphere with regard to people deciding that keeping names out of the we-need-anti-harassment-policies discussion wasn’t doing much good for effecting change.

  While we’re talking about workplace and convention harassment incidents (particularly amongst the groups for which conventions are also workplaces), I’ve been meaning to link to this excellent post from last month about why conventions are harassment hotspots (there’s Science! on this).

• Media Circus: The Vote Compass Edition

  By tigtog on 2013-08-05 • ( 21 )

  

  What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

• Obligatory 12th Doctor Thread

  By tigtog on 2013-08-05 • ( 45 )

  

  If you’re the sort of person who prefers to be surprised, do not click on this thread!

• Media Circus: What A Drag Edition

  By tigtog on 2013-08-01 • ( 12 )

  

  What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

• The War On Drugs & the War On Terror both make the world a far worse place

  By tigtog on 2013-07-29

  It’s become unfashionable to talk about The System as a mechanism for oppression, but let’s ask ourselves the ever-relevant question made famous by Cicero: cui bono?

• Gratuitous Awesome: Nothing to Prove – Geek Girls & The Doubleclicks

  By tigtog on 2013-07-24 • ( 3 )

  

  This video was sourced from amazing geek girls around the world, as well as from some awesome Geeks – you can submit your own sign at the tumblr.