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Mastering Online & Virtual Meetings

What Gear to Buy, How to Set It Up, & How To Look Your Best — This piece will provide you with some of the best tools and practices to help anchor your virtual meetings whether you’re a teacher, a manager, a technologist, or just a good worker bee. The goal is to set you up for success and to make you feel like you’ve mastered…

Tech

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The Future of Humanity & Technology

On Isaac Asimov, Bodily Autonomy, and What We Should All Be Discussing The Great Merge I haven’t posted on Medium for a while. Thank you for your patience. …

Tech

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How & Why To Use a VPN

Different Threats, Technology, Mobile Apps, and More. — Privacy, Not Illegality There are some people who believe that if they’re doing nothing “wrong” or “illegal” that there’s no harm in companies collecting their data. I’m not one of those people. Instead, I’m one of those people who believe that privacy is a foundational, human right, especially if we’re doing nothing “wrong”…

Tech

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World-Class Routers

The Right Reasons to Purchase the Right Gear — The Background As my readers know, when it comes to my digital life, I tend to focus on matters of security and privacy. I purchase and investigate products and services, take notes, and learn what does (and doesn’t) work best for my technology needs. …

Technology

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Managing Our Most Precious Asset

Tools to Reclaim Time in Our Digital Lives — What The New Year Brings Is… I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how much time I spend online and on all of my devices. As it’s many, many hours each day, I’ve been seeking ways — for years now — to help reduce the time I need to be on any of my devices. …

Tech

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Apr 30

Well written.

David Koff

What a pity.

What a pity. Here I tell you that your piece is well-written, informative, and passionate, and your response...? That I can't "appreciate others' beliefs or preferences". Brother, you're confusing appreciation for your article with agreeing with it. Those aren't the same things. But you're right that I don't agree with your position. As does the larger world of security, privacy, and transparency professionals. Those folks have made clear that open-source software is far superior to closed-cource code. That's especially true when it comes to guarding something as important as access to all of our usernames and passwords.

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Published in DataDrivenInvestor

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In Twenty Years: Part I

The Near Future of Energy & Transportation — The Challenge After I posted a previous article to Medium, a reader named Finn Tropy posed a fascinating question to me: He invited me to predict what the next 20 years would bring. That’s a fabulous writing assignment for any technologist, so I just couldn’t resist. I started answering Finn’s challenge and…

Tech

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Mar 7

The Russians Are Coming!!!

Well, Maybe. Maybe Not. But, If So, What Can We Do To Prepare? Fear Is the Mind Killer… An unusual number of friends and readers have been reaching out to me privately over the past two weeks, all asking the same question: “What can I do to protect my computers from the Russians?” I understand…

Russia

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Feb 9

The backlash on Whoopi's comments shows a lack of nuance and an obscene insensitivity towards the way Black people experience race in America. Whoopi may have been wrong about Jewish people not being a race, but she wasn't wrong that Black pe…

The White Privilege Jewish People Have Kind of Proves Whoopi's Point

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Allison Gaines

I'm a Jew who loved your piece, Allison.

I'm a Jew who loved your piece, Allison. And, seen through the lens of an explosion of Antisemitism and anti-Jewish hate crimes around the world, it's an important article you've written because it lays bare how the Black experience in this country is now what the Jewish experiences in other…

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Oct 7, 2021

The Ongoing Facebook Shitshow

Why NO ONE Should Be Surprised by This Week’s Events — A Steaming Bag of Shit Longtime readers of mine — both here and on my Substack newsletter — know that I’m a vocal critic of Facebook. I’ve been consistent in my warnings about Facebook in particular because they aren’t an ethical, kind, or trustworthy corporation. …

Facebook

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