Unlock door. Open door. Go outside.
The lock meant to keep a child safe might be the very thing keeping them unsafe.
All posts filed under: Musings
Because everyone is entitled to my opinion.
On Snowballs, Napoleons, and sharks
A new podcast series has reminded me how open source community meetups saved so many people, including me, from business networking hell.
2022’s best reads
The year's best books, articles, podcasts, and leisure reading too.
I did a thing
From this past June until December, I took a much-needed pause from side projects and advocacy work to go back to school. Sort of.
For 2023, no predictions, but a wish.
In lieu of policy predictions for 2023, here's a reminder of what the best of the open Internet looks like.
Good editors and how to spot them
If you’ve been reading my book, and it hasn’t made you lose the will to live, you can thank Owen Gregory for that.
November housekeeping
Something something Twitter Mastodon blah. Sigh.
Online harms are hard. Meet a woman who is harder.
Meet my friend Mika, whose four-year ordeal at the hands of a deranged and unaccountable stalker has influenced some of my thinking on policy. It should influence yours too.
A little story about my book and a troublemaker who tried to derail it, as you do
When I say "these things only happen to me", this is what I mean.
The week the open web won
No, I didn't destroy the Online Safety Bill with this blog. I did something even better.
The war on my screen and in my head and in my heart
A very personal post about the war on Ukraine.
The speculative fiction novel I want to read this year
Something I read in the news inspired this prompt for a story about open source communities and the game of politics. Perhaps you'll be the one to write it. Or stop it from ever happening.