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  Dear Ms. Day:   Hi. I'm Anna. You may know me as the partner of the person Jim Sterling kept calling a "feminazi slut" two years ago – until you said something to him.   Hello.   A couple of days ago, a woman game developer attempted suicide on a live video stream...

I have driven myself mad over my marks.   When I was in high school, I deluded myself into believing that although I was doing poorly in most subjects,...

What would happen if American History teachers started instructing their students that George Washington sailed over the ocean blue, in 1492? What about...

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is grossly over-reaching. But that doesn’t make the allegation Reuters Deputy Social Media Editor Matthew Keys...

As the saying goes, “by the time you read this I’ll be dead.” Caitlin has probably posted it by my request, or it’s been posted as part of a dead-man...

(via Occupy.com) We can all stop wringing our hands about “the next Occupy.” Whatever our reasons for doing so—worrying that it might sweep...

There has been a flurry of discussion around process in OWS of late. This can only be a good thing. Atrophy and complacency are the death of movements....

Somehow, I managed to create an app that some people seemed to like. With some odd stroke of luck, an investor in the U.S saw the app, and saw something...

To whom it may concern: Dear brothers and sisters,   The collective will fail if everyone doesn’t stop all this petty “in-fighting.”...

Since the inception of Occupy Wall Street in 2011, most public assemblies and working or affinity group meetings have adopted a formal or modified consensus...