Activities For The Civic Geek: Promote Accessibility
Access to geeky pursuits can be challenging for some people; but you can help with access for people and even do more! We take it for granted that people can enjoy the same geeky stuff we do. It’s out...
View ArticleActivities For The Civic Geek: Support The Troops
Being in the military is challenging, as many people know. Support the geek troops by supporting your mutual interests! Being stationed away from home and loved ones, moving around when required,...
View ArticleActivities For The Civic Geek: Electronic Recycling
Most geeks love their electronics. Electronic waste and disposal presents quite an environmental problem – and ignores how other people can use technology others casually throw away. Getting into...
View ArticleActivities For The Civic Geek: Free Speech
Free Speech isn’t just talk – it’s a real life issue, and one that’s often misunderstood. Do something real about free speech issues in an intelligent way. There’s two problems with Free Speech –...
View ArticleActivities For the Civic Geek: Diversity In Geekdom
Geekdom is about enthusiasm, intelligent, and imagination. Those things are better when we have a broad community that supports different people – and it’s the right thing to do. Geekdom, that grand...
View ArticleAmerican Trump: Not Pretending About Religion
Something seems to be missing from the Republican candidates’ campaign. Wits may figure such things include “dignity”, “good taste”, and “not humiliating your family.” But what’s missing is Christian...
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Straight White Male
This is the blog post that has been months in coming. Not because it’s good, but because I kept finding other things to write, and because I kept rephrasing it. What got it to finally be written was...
View ArticleTechnology, Humanity: Values And What We Value
OK let me wade into the Paul Graham clusterbumble. For those who haven’t kept up, Graham made a rather bizarre post about economic inequality that pretty much got him roasted like nuts by various...
View ArticleStar Wars – The Force Awakens: Fear Of Another Blackness And Another Femininity
Few of us who are geeks on the internet (perhaps I repeat myself) are unaware that some people are offended at “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” – over racial and gender issues. It’s not hard to find...
View ArticleThe Inevitable Bowie Post
I wanted to say something about David Bowie. I really did. Let’s face it, it’s hard to shut me up. But basically, his work and its impact stands on its own. So go and watch one of his films you …...
View ArticleAn Experiment in Citizenship – March 2016
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr) Anil Dash tweeted out some suggestions on political engagement awhile ago that got me thinking. And, yes I lost the links and am too...
View ArticleWho Owns Geek Culture? Not The Gatekeepers
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr) The trailer for Star Wars: Rogue One dropped while ago. Much to my surprise it intrigued me – a Star Wars heist movie. Just as I...
View ArticleChanging Tech Culture’s Attitude Towards Women
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com Steve’s Tumblr) Management consultant Erwin Van Der Koogh wrote an essay on tech and how women are treated, “This industry and living life on the lowest...
View ArticleJob Skills For The Future – Culture Knowledge
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com Steve’s Tumblr) As noted last week, I decided it’s time to put on my Geek Job Guru Hat again and discuss the job skills people are going to need in the...
View ArticleResources To Support Female Geeks
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com Steve’s Tumblr) After posting about chanting tech culture’s attitude towards women, I wanted to list the resources I found to support female geeks while...
View ArticleOn Truth, Connection, and Disconnection
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr) In an age of propaganda and post-truth politics, we face people believing outlandish falsehoods and obvious propaganda and acting upon...
View ArticleCreativity And Freedom
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com, www.SeventhSanctum.com, and Steve’s Tumblr) Creativity cannot be separated from Freedom; it is the source of it and the result of it. Share it,...
View ArticleFalse Work and False Leisure
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr) I was reading this depressingly brilliant Cracked article on BS inspirational stories. Short form many of them are about people in...
View ArticleNot Buying This Immortality Thing
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr) As you’ve probably heard, immortality is again under discussion thanks to Nectome, which promises to preserve your brain in such...
View ArticleThoughts On Fandom Pathology
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) I recently read a great Tumblr post (yes, I use Tumblr, where else can I get snarky Overwatch memes)...
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