Results for: be the change
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Into the Woods: Apps for Camping
How can I resist the plethora of outdoorsy camping apps out there? I can’t. I can’t resist.
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Will Uber’s Very Public Sexual Harassment Debacle Actually Change Things For Women in Tech?
Are we finally moving past the storytelling phase and into doing real things to combat sexism in the technology industry, or is this Uber fiasco more of the same?
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Four More Tech Tools to Help You Get Involved, Call for Change, and Resist Trump
Four more apps for resisting Donald Trump. Calls, kittens and boycotts.
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Does Project Ara Signal a Sea Change?
Google’s open hardware platform for creating modular smartphones is back, but it’s different.
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This Is The Last Queer Your Tech
It’s been a pleasure writing your technology column for the past half a decade. Keep it nerdy, queermos.
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3 Apps to Help You Make the World Better
Three more apps made for the Resistance as we continue to rail against the corrupt white nationalist regime that has taken hold in the U.S.
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5 Technologies I Wish I Had Known About Before I Started This Move
LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES.
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What Data Dumps Are Doing to Journalism
Got information that’s significant to the public? Here’s why you should leak to a journalist and not a faceless mob.
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Phishing’s No Phun; Here’s How To Resist The Bait
You may have heard about the big Google-Docs impersonating phishing scam this week, and there are a lot more out there. Here’s how to protect yourself.
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11 Women Gamers Who Let You Watch Along on YouTube and Twitch
You never have to watch a cis white dude play video games again.
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Step Up Your Infosec In The Era of Trump and Throw Yourself a Password Party
Now I recognize that the following things I’m going to suggest that you do are, in fact, a pain in the ass. That’s why I recommend getting a group of friends together at a dining room table and doing this all together. Don’t share your passwords or passphrases, but do share snacks and beverages and a sense of accomplishment.
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GOP Approves Fine for Streaming Video of Protests, Makes Government Less Transparent
To be clear, photography on the House floor is already disallowed. They’ve just added a fine for it. So it’s not really unprecedented, nor is it unconstitutional, to enforce a rule that already exists. But I still think it’s wrong. Here’s why.
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5 Tech Tools for Resistance to Find Purpose With This Week
I’m having trouble staying positive about technology, so here are five things that are keeping it positive and productive in this, the year of our trashfire 2016.
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Apps For How We’re Working in 2017, The Year of Limited Bandwidth
The name of the game is clean and distraction-free. Apps that are especially good for working in these distracting times.
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Recurring Electronic Donations: Create a Subscription Service to Your Rights
How to use the technology of recurring monthly payments to build a subscription service to all the rights they’re gonna try to take from us.
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How To Use The Internet To Contact Your Representatives (Even When the Phone Lines Are Jammed)
Not all of us have 12 hours to redial and redial and redial every single phone number for every single district office for every single one of our representatives, so here’s some advice that might help you get your message through to your representatives.
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Here’s What’s On Fire: A Tech News Roundup
Trump’s tech summit is cause for alarm in a dozen ways. Tom Wheeler steps down to give the GOP control over the FCC. And California’s governor is ready to fight the Republican party to save the earth.
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How to Secure Your Info In The Time of Voldemort: Some Handy Guides
It’s scary when evil wizards rise to power, especially if your texting isn’t encrypted.
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Acknowledge Your Universal Truth In This New Jane Austen MMO
No one who had ever seen MMOs in their infancy would have supposed them to be taken over by Janeites.
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This Was The Best Ever Lesbians Who Tech Summit
Politics, Black Lives Matter, Flawed Data, Weed—all were discussed at Lesbians Who Tech, proving that there’s no other technology conference like it.