#power
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- Writing
- 20
- Book notes
- 27
- Publications
- 0
Writing
2026
- Feb 26, 2026 Beyond Zoom: Why We Took Control of Our Video Conferencing with Jitsi Meet
Why InitiatED moved from institutional Zoom to a self-hosted Jitsi server as part of a broader commitment to digital sovereignty.
- Feb 25, 2026 The Door Was Never Locked
A reflection on how default digital tools became invisible infrastructure, and why sovereignty starts by questioning what we were told to trust.
- Jan 4, 2026 The Digital Shredder: Signal Disappearing Messages
Why disappearing messages in Signal are less about secrecy and more about reducing the amount of sensitive data you have to protect.
2025
- Dec 16, 2025 Lock Your Digital Front Door: Signal Registration Lock
A practical guide to Signal Registration Lock and why one small setting can protect your account from SIM-swap style attacks.
- Dec 15, 2025 The Digital Envelope: Why Signal Is Different
Why Signal feels different from regular messaging apps, and how to explain end-to-end encryption in concrete, human terms.
- Dec 9, 2025 You Downloaded Signal. Now What?
A friendly starting point for people who downloaded Signal and want to know what to do next, and why it matters.
- Dec 7, 2025 Taking Back Control: Why Digital Sovereignty Matters
Why convenience stopped being enough, and how digital sovereignty became a more useful frame for thinking about platforms, data, and control.
- Nov 30, 2025 What Educators Should Teach Now: Digital Literacy for the Sovereign Web
What digital literacy should become in a platform-dominated web, and why educators need to teach for sovereignty, not just participation.
- Nov 29, 2025 We Don’t Need a New Internet. We Need to Leave the Silos.
Why the internet itself is not broken, and why the real task is leaving platform silos rather than inventing a whole new web.
- Nov 29, 2025 Why Digital Sovereignty Still Matters: Even If We’re All “Renting” the Internet
A response to the idea that true sovereignty online is impossible, and an argument for why partial control still matters.
- Nov 28, 2025 Privacy vs. Security in 2026: Why the Distinction Matters More Than Ever
Why the old privacy-versus-security distinction no longer goes far enough in a world of AI, surveillance, and predictive systems.
2024
- May 24, 2024 Understanding Privilege in Arguments - Principles vs Personal Opinions
How privilege can reshape arguments about social inequality and identity.
2023
- Oct 20, 2023 The Complex Role of Social Media in Protest Movements – A Review of Twitter and Tear Gas
A look at Twitter, protest, and the fragility of networked movements.
- Oct 16, 2023 Innovating for the Future: Rethinking Technology Skills Instruction for Students
Why schooling should prepare students for an uncertain future.
- Oct 6, 2023 The Power of Empathy in an Age of Division
Why empathy matters in a divided, trauma-shaped world.
- Oct 3, 2023 Noah Hawley’s Dystopian Thriller Anthem – A Review
A quick take on Noah Hawley's novel Anthem.
2018
- May 29, 2018 Identifying what we can control in our own lives
A reflection on control, influence, and where to focus your energy.
2016
- Mar 9, 2016 How to plan, present, & survive a Pecha Kucha style presentation
How to plan and deliver a concise Pecha Kucha presentation.
2013
- Aug 5, 2013 Day One at the MA New Literacies Institute – ChalkBoardMan Moving From Print to Screen
Notes from day one at the MA New Literacies Institute.
- Jul 23, 2013 Digital MacGyver: Pocket & the Ability to Read it Later
A pocket guide to the tools and tricks I use to get work done.
Book notes
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- 2025 The Unaccountability Machine
Dan Davies
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- 2025 Universality
Natasha Brown
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- 2025 Looking at Women Looking at War
Victoria Amelina
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- 2025 The Harrow
Noah Eaton
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- 2024 Autocracy, Inc.
Anne Applebaum
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- 2024 At the Edge of Empire
Edward Wong
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- 2023 Hijacked
Elizabeth Anderson
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- 2022 Nineteen Eighty-four
George Orwell
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- 2022 The Network State
Balaji Srinivasan
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- 2022 They Want to Kill Americans
Malcolm Nance
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- 2020 The Source of Self-Regard
Toni Morrison
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- 2018 Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
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- 2018 When They Call You a Terrorist
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele
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- 2017 Alt-America
David Neiwert
- 2017 Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
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- 2017 When Violence is the Answer
Tim Larkin
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- 2015 The Blade Itself
Joe Abercrombie
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- 2015 Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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- 2014 The Peripheral
William Gibson
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- 2014 Authority
Jeff VanderMeer
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- 2014 Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Michael Lewis
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- 2013 Green Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
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- 2011 The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
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- 2011 The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
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- 2008 Bad Samaritans
Ha-Joon Chang