Michael MacTaggert articles - 32 total
The Filibuster in the United States Senate
Our slow descent into the red-hot gravity well.
the last great american plagiarist
When a plagiarist makes it, it's all poetry.
5 Books to Fight Technopoly
Humans do not exist to serve technology or Technopolists.
The Citation of Matters Called Ideas
Citation is one of the best understood branches of rent-seeking.
What is Plagiarism?
Plagiarism is Unattributed Copying
Creative Commons Zero-ShareAlike 2.0 Univiral License (CC0-SA)
Make the public domain go viral.
How to Speed Up Netflix Without Installing Anything
document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 2;
Copyright Holders Are Landlords and it's Not OK
OK, Landlord? No. Abolish Landlords.
Happy Juneteenth—Now Hire Some Black Folks
Celebrate emancipation by dismantling white-supremacist hiring.
King Google's Song
Let's schedule your next technical interview!
Academic Property Corrupts Academically
The concept of property in ideas only promotes inequality.
Entrepreneurs Don't Take Financial Risks
Entrepreneurs risk social status.
Designing Against Disagreement at the Start of the Decade
"The new decade starts at 0" but about system design philosophy.
Who Made My Phone Do THIS?!
These features do not exist for my benefit.
The Academic Bates Motel
The teacher introduced a six-year-old to plagiarism through public humiliation.
The Good Meditations
What little Marcus Aurelius that's worth reading
Uploading to the Internet Archive with Python
Contribute to their record of humankind!
Invisible Projects
I finished a project and nobody will see it.
What They Really Mean When They Say "We Don't Give Interview Feedback To Avoid Lawsuits"
A comprehensive dissection.
ELI5 and Hate Computer Science: P = NP
Can a human run a mile in less than four seconds?
Why Uber and Lyft Are Bad For the World
lethargilistic, black pill me on why Uber and Lyft are bad.
5 Sources for Talks That Matter
Where the spicy takes are waiting for you.
New Blood Solves Old Problems
New learners are where the new ideas come from.
Roundabout Thoughts on Community and Codes of Conduct
How do we respond when the Internet changes what a community is?
This Facebook Security Breach was "Intended Functionality"
Facebook buried this security breach to avoid a bug bounty.
You Deserve to be a Software Developer
Don't tell junior developers to be "thankful" for their jobs.
whiletruefm 0017: RE:Open Source Has Not Failed
Responses to racism, selfish human natures, software copyrights, and the shareholder value myth.
Have you gotten advice against something and then done that thing all the time?
He said "don't flip the bozo bit," so now I think of the bozo bit every time I flip it...
Open Source Has Not Failed. Don't Cover Up Corporate Abuse of Open Source
Open source's free licensing does not drive inequality. Corporate's lack of support for open source does drive inequality.