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Don't confuse the angry, loud racists with the angry, quiet racists. I grew up in a white, working-class, rural, post-manufacturing community. Those are the districts that came out in force. The district I grew up in, was one of the...
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OP: As an American, I'm very, very sorry. I was hoping that we collectively had more sense, but we were f'ed by our milquetoast response to Republican efforts to roll back civil rights and suppress voters. Structural racism probably just...

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)