Tag: USA

YCombinator? I'll do it

21 July 2014

One day last November, I was sitting in the student cafeteria, at Stanford University in California with Josh catching up with Paul, an old friend of mine who was studying there. We'd had just ordered a coffee from Starbucks, naively answering telling the barista, "yes, we would like cream", so now we were eyeing up […]

PRISM: What you won't hear the Americans say (but what you should be very scared of).

9 June 2013

The recent revelations from whistleblower Edward Snowden about the US's PRISM program, have, in the US, mainly centered on how the NSA could be spying on American citizens which may or may not be against the constitution. The details seem to suggest that so long as the data collected is 51% or more, between non-Americans, […]

A radical experiment in empathy…

13 September 2012

Can you imagine what it would be like to someone else's shoes? Can you understand why they're there? What they feel? httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IgOVOPLTYI Sam Richards: A radical experiment in empathy Sociologist Sam Richards' TEDxPSU sets an extraordinary challenge: can you understand — not approve of, but understand — the motivations of an Iraqi insurgent? And by […]

The 5 best, anti-SOPA protest songs

17 January 2012

So with the blackout of Wikipedia, Reddit and everything, Rick Falkvinge got me thinking. If the iconic singer songwriters of the labour movements were Arlo Guthrie and Billy Bragg, who are the iconic singer songwriters of the Digital Rights movement? I'm genuinely interested if you have a suggestion. To help you consider the question, here […]

Megaupload vs the world

10 December 2011

For those of you that don't know, Megaupload is an American web service that lets you send large files across the internet Why do these services exist? XKCD explains: Sadly, but not unusually, XKCD is spot on – and that's the reason that over the past few years Megaupload has gained a large following – […]