The quality of Google results appears to be going rapidly downhill. What’s going wrong with Search?
Can someone please explain why Google Search has suddenly turned useless?
Category: technology
‘But no women applied for the position!’
Lots of dudes like to claim that they don’t have women on their teams because there weren’t any available to hire. Here’s why this is wrong.
Why would you trust the tech industry?
Don’t trust the woke tech industry to be your saviour, because it doesn’t have a good track record on the subject.
Resistance: Don’t tweet, call
Well-meaning activists often encourage people to use social media to reach elected officials. This is a bad and ineffective idea.
Make your social media more enjoyable with the unfollow button
People use social media in lots of different ways. If you don’t like the way someone you’re following uses it, there’s a very easy solution to your problem.
Trumping the tech industry
The tech industry needs to accept its ethical responsibility in light of growing government oppression.
Real names policies don’t work, so stop proposing them
Periodically, the ghost of real names policies rises again in discussions about online abuse. Such policies do not work, so why do people keep promoting them?
Enough with the unnecessary tech innovations
What if you build it and they don’t come? Not all technical innovations are needed, or even particularly welcome, so how can the tech industry learn to do the most good?
Why aren’t more of us working from home?
In an era of growing connectivity, why do so many workplaces still insist on demanding that people report for work in person?
Therapy in the internet age
Are psychologists and counselors keeping pace with online culture? Should they be?