Great response. Part of what I’m teaching them in this class is a healthy sense of skepticism, including the idea that if the product is free, you’re the product. We have a whole unit on fake news where I’d project different articles and they’d race to debunk them, demonstrate it was paid or opinion, or confirm the…

It’s a class on information security and privacy issues for kids. We talk about freedom and privacy, learn about corporate and government surveillance, do modern crypto (public/private key), I teach them to use things like Ghostery, VPNs, and Tor, and otherwise prepare them for a lifetime of evil wizards.

I’m going to assign this article to my 7th/8th grade Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Thanks!

That’s the opposite of correct. Fewer is for countable, less is for mass nouns.

You: “I’m a white man and I don’t know what oppression feels like!”

Nah. Fuck this guy. I hope he rots in prison.

It bums me out to hear that Pleasant Plains/Park View has these MAGA shitheads wandering around. Stay away, children. That neighborhood isn’t for you.

Nice! You didn’t have to interact with poor people at all! And when you’ve completely gentrified the Mission, the Tenderloin, and the Richmond, you’ll never have to see them at all!

White people are terrified of riding MUNI (San Francisco city buses). Look at the comments here and you will see lots of wealthy elites talking about how dirty and awful the bus is. It’s fine, though. It goes everywhere. You can get a $73 monthly pass. It serves a city with a terrible wealth gap and people with mental…

The newer ones are a nightmare to get apart. It’s full of magnets and you have to precisely hold the (heavy) panels apart so they don’t fall down and tear out data ribbons off the motherboard as they go. I’ve successfully replaced the display in one of them, but the only thing keeping me from yelling obscenities is…

Gamergate was a movement about attacking and harassing women online. It had nothing to do with ethics in journalism. If you’ve said hateful things online, they will come back to haunt you. I’m an educator, myself. If I had (for example) been busy on the alt-right Internet, and my employer found it, and there were…

Man, isn’t it terrible when your choices have consequences? If only you could post on redpill and incel and coontown and fatpeoplehate and not have anybody ever call you out on it!

Assuming you want to dress like a 14 year old and not a grownup, sure.

Assuming you want to dress like a 14 year old and not a grownup, sure.

This is true, but you could also use that kind of time to volunteer at a homeless shelter, or teach yourself to play guitar.

Red herrings are a classic part of LucasArts games!

Word of advice: don’t buy CK2 without getting bundled DLC too. You will definitely find yourself wanting the Charlemagne start, Way of Life, and several other expansions, and they remain pricey when there’s not a sale going. It’s a wonderful game but worth doing your homework on which DLC is worth it.

Word of advice: don’t buy CK2 without getting bundled DLC too. You will definitely find yourself wanting the…

Wait, I shouldn’t be upset when people plagiarize my ideas? That’s an interesting attitude. Basically the same concept as “she was asking for it by wearing a short skirt!”

Once (playing with some high school nerds you may remember, Cecilia!) I played a magic sword with a demon trapped inside that could possess the bearer. We worked out a system where the sword itself had sorcerer abilities that would get stronger with play, but mostly relied on the class of the wielder. The idea was…

I had a similar reaction to the brass band in the park in Assassin’s Creed: