Joe Hand

A few minutes of brief, intense exercise may be as effective, or more effective, for incinerating body fat than walking, jogging, swimming or cycling for lengthier periods.

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It's Monday, the dreadful countdown has started. You're already thinking about the end of the week, and it barely started. As the days go by, you are fixated on Friday 5pm.

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I remember when I first realized I didn t really like Bernie Sanders, which felt different from when I first realized that I didn t always like his politics.

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At the end of the 19th century, New York City stank. One hundred fifty thousand horses ferried people and goods through the streets of Manhattan, producing 45,000 tons tons! of manure a month.

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Cannabis users are told there are differences between sativa and indica strains. Scientists say it s a lot of nonsense.

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You might think that the impact of aging on the brain is something you can t do much about. After all, isn t it an inevitability?

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At some point and usually it s early on every free and open source software enthusiast bumps up against a big problem. You believe in the principles of FOSS, but the world still essentially runs on proprietary software. Maybe it s your employer. Your family and friends. Your bank.

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Goodbye Big FiveReporter Kashmir Hill spent six weeks blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from getting her money, data, and attention, using a custom-built VPN. Here s what happened.

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So now you know: Throwing all your recycling into a single bin ain t all it s cracked up to be. Single-stream recycling may be more convenient, but, as we reported last week, it s also to blame for a huge increase in contamination that makes your recycling unrecyclable.

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Once, I read an essay written by someone who was struggling with depression. He didn t want to work out, do anything productive, or even write the story. He just wanted to lay on the couch and stare into space.

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Person 1: Did you know that 60% of restaurants close within three years of opening? Person 2: Oh no! We should change the fundamental definition of food . That will fix it.

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What would modern life be without our addictions? We binge eat and binge drink. Binge shopping turns into a show you can binge watch. (It's called Hoarders, and it's gloriously horrible. You re welcome/I m sorry.) Don't worry though.

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I couldn t figure out why small, straightforward tasks on my to-do list felt so impossible. The answer is both more complex and far simpler than I expected.

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It s six in the morning of the shortest day of the year. The sky is dark. When the sun finally rises it will disappear behind leaden gray clouds and tall gray buildings streaked with rust.

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My first-year Bucknell University students were nervous about their assignment: Interview someone in your family about climate change. Only one rule: It had to be someone 50 or older. It had to be intergenerational. If I could, I d give everyone the same homework assignment this holiday season.

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It was around Thanksgiving that I noticed that all I wanted to do was sleep. And it wasn t the leftover turkey. My mind felt bruised to a livid purple welt. Just thinking felt disturbingly

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When economists write, they can decide among three possible voices to convey their message. The choice is crucial, because it affects how readers receive their work. The first voice might be called the textbook authority. Here, economists act as ambassadors for their profession.

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In 2006, Jeffrey Hammerbacher, then a recent Harvard graduate in math, became an early employee at a budding company founded by another Harvard student named Mark Zuckerberg. After building Facebook s data team, Hammerbacher left the company in 2008.

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Brandy Jensen, The Outline s associate editor, has made a lot of mistakes in her life. Has she learned from them and become a wiser person as a result? Hahaha oh gosh no. But it does leave her uniquely qualified to tell you what not to do because she s probably done it.

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Let s start with some possible institutional failures in mainstream philanthropy. Many foundations have large staffs, and so a proposal must go through several layers of approval before it can receive support or even reach the desk of the final decision-maker.

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Frederick Douglass wasn t exaggerating: Power really does concede nothing without a demand not even a plan to make a plan to prevent the powerful s own grandkids from perishing in the end-times.

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Occupational guilds have been observed for thousands of years in many economies: ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome; medieval and early modern India, Japan, Persia, Byzantium, and Europe; and nineteenth-century China, Latin America, and the Ottoman Empire. Guilds were most prevalent in manufacturing.

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The short version: we should stop focusing on how to protect the revenue models of open source companies, and instead focus on how to create sustainable communities. Both because it leads to better software, but also because it s better for business.

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The article, published in the journal Science, was a neo-Malthusian jeremiad about uncontrolled population growth. But it is remembered for the image that the title conjures up and for the anecdotes that Hardin used.

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Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia.

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It is rarely helpful to tell a shy person to just be yourself! Riffing on that frustrating exchange, clinical psychologist Ellen Hendriksen has written a book that she hopes will answer the question the anxious person usually asks in return: How?

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I was a vegetarian for ten years. When I was twelve, I read something on the internet about how poorly animals were treated on factory farms, and I decided that it was unethical for me to continue eating meat.

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Not since Dilbert has truth been spoken to power in soulless work settings. But the cartoon character s successor may be David Graeber.

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It s a pretty bad time for climate change and democracy. Brazil s right-wing populist candidate for president could be disastrous for the Amazon rainforest.

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I ve recently had several conversations with projects about software foundations, so I figured I should type up my thoughts here. The term foundation is associated with a lot of warm fuzzy things, like nonprofits and giving.

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Lots of tech projects these days, especially crypto-networks, aspire to decentralization. Or their evangelists say they do, because they feel they need to. Decentralization is the new disruption the thing everything worth its salt (and a huge ICO) is supposed to be doing.

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I m not sure when I decided to make the leap, and I didn t think the decision was all that crazy at the time. I d always been a skinny guy, hovering around 145 pounds throughout high school and college.

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The two biggest obstacles to doing meaningful work are familiar to many of us: Burden & complaint : The work feels like a burden (difficult, overwhelming, annoying) you might do the task but you rush through it or mentally complain about it, not wanting to do it.

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The menstrual taboo that we talk about today usually refers to the societal fear of talking about periods.

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We re currently touring through the US, meeting with activists: from urban neighbourhood organisers, to black bloc anarchists, back-to-the-land communalists, and progressive mega-campaigners. So much of the lefty US political discourse is focussed on a huge scale.

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Marketers are not your friends. Brands are not people. There is no such thing as a consumer-led initiative. And, most importantly, the revolution will not be marketed. Many people would have you believe otherwise, though.

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Dudes like me ain t supposed to talk about this type of stuff. I m about to tell you some real shit. Things I haven t told anybody. But first, we gotta go back in time. We gotta go back to when the NBA was still the NBA. Way back when I had the pager with the two-way alert.

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Within a 15 minutes drive in any direction from the palm-fringed Greek Revival rotunda of California s State Capitol, the road dead-ends in a verdant field of crops. Virtually every variety of fruit and vegetable consumed in the U.S.

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This is the first in a series inspired by MongoDB s Server Side Public License and ensuing debate. What does the Open Source Definition have to say about how strong copyleft licenses can be? As it turns out, not much that s helpful, and quite a bit that s not.

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I was engaged recently in a passionate conversation ignited by a simple comment: "A team has to be managed." The comment made me think I wasn't on the same page as my interlocutor.

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The more things change, the more they stay the same. Consider how changed a world we live in today when The Economist openly questions the bulk behavior of capitalists as evil bureaucratic rent-seekers and suggests that perhaps Karl Marx has something to teach after all.

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Capitalism is defined as an economic system in which a country s trade, industry, and profits are controlled by private companies, instead of by the people whose time and labor powers those companies.

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Ayn Rand is my hero, yet another student tells me during office hours. Her writings freed me. They taught me to rely on no one but myself.

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I was boarding an airplane today, and the woman ahead of me had a huge travel pillow, a blanket, and a few other items designed to give her maximum comfort on the flight.

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Sometimes a word gets stretched and appropriated to fit so many uses that it loses its meaning. Innovation is one such word.

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At age twenty-two, I spent two weeks drafting a list of all the things I wanted to accomplish before I turned thirty. I called it my Eight-Year Plan. At the time I was lonely, socially awkward, and dissatisfied, and the list was meant to be a cure for my problems.

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From my early teenage years into my early 20s, every social event I attended was held together by an alcoholic glue. I really loved getting drunk it quelled my social anxiety, muted my inhibitions, and distracted me from the agony of existence.

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It's hard to escape the gravity of internet giants like Facebook and Google. Not only do they offer an ever-growing number of apps and services that are hard to live without, many other popular websites and applications incorporate code written by these companies.

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Optimism about self-driving cars has sustained a fever pitch for so many years, at this point, that some die-hard boosters of the concept would still insist it s an inevitability.

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Julia Stewart Lowndes studied metre-long Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas), tagging them to track their dives, as a graduate student at Stanford University in California in 2011. When she wrote up her dissertation, she had data on five animals.

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Germany was supposed to be a model for solving global warming. In 2007, the country s government announced that it would reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by the year 2020. This was the kind of bold, aggressive climate goal scientists said was needed in all developed countries.

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How should the Internet be governed? How should we manage the information, media, software, politics, and communities of the Web? Though early crypto-anarchists imagined the Internet as ungovernable, anarchy does not describe the Internet we know today.

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Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

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After years of working in tech startups, which strive to transform underdog status into competitive advantage, I dove into the nonprofit world. The contrast was striking: Too few nonprofits use the advantages of their nonprofit status. In doing so, they miss out on a huge opportunity.

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As I went through last month s decluttering challenge, I realized I had a bunch of books I want to read, but that I don t actually set aside time to read them. What if we decided to set aside time each day for one of these aspirations?

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Two people wrote to me recently (a stranger and a good friend) who are going through some pretty turbulent times in their lives. The stranger is going through family chaos and health issues, just barely keeping their head above water, just trying to survive.

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Last week, I dropped in on this event being organized by a Twitter friend who is an amazing science researcher doing work in the scholarly communication space with a particular focus on social justice and anti-oppression.

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I was looking at a four gigabyte website dump. There was no documentation. There was no version control. Just thousands of php files in dozens of directories, plus a sprawling MySQL database. What had I gotten myself into?

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You cannot base a public good on a normalised systemic violation of human rights. Mariana Mazzucato1 has an article in MIT Technology Review titled Let s make private data into a public good.

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Before he ventures into the depths of the Belgian-colonized Congo in Joseph Conrad s Heart of Darkness, the novel s narrator, English sailor Charles Marlow, visits a doctor who is only meant to declare him fit for travel. But the doctor has other interests namely insanity.

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The managerialist logic that has permeated universities has had a clear impact on academic work. To Senia Kalfa, Adrian Wilkinson and Paul J.

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On Tuesday, the first daughter announced that she was shuttering her fashion line. In an official statement, she explained that it was because she wanted to focus on her role as an adviser in her father s administration.

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The only thing worse than being lied to is not knowing you re being lied to. It s true that plastic pollution is a huge problem, of planetary proportions. And it s true we could all do more to reduce our plastic footprint.

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In 1974, computers were oppressive devices in far-off air-conditioned places. Now you can be oppressed by computers in your own living room.

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In more than twenty years of running diversity-training and cultural-competency workshops for American companies, the academic and educator Robin DiAngelo has noticed that white people are sensationally, histrionically bad at discussing racism.

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It seems like Token Curated-Registries (TCRs) are all the rage right now and virtually every crypto startup is incorporating them into their protocols. To summarize, TCRs are supposed to offer a way to create decentralized, crowdsourced lists.

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The world of linked data is built on shaky foundations that prevent a true data commons from emerging. The problem isn t with the data, but with the way data is linked. Specifically, the way links are addressed. An address is a uniform, shorthand way of referring to things.

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When I wrote about owning and controlling my own content, I talked about trying to keep my content in its canonical location on my site, and then syndicating it to social networks and other sites.

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A lot of people are interested in measuring the health and velocity of open source projects. After digging through the current research landscape, I d like to summarize the most common approaches I ve seen, and my conclusions here.

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Suddenly at midlife, the gut instinct I had long relied on to make important life decisions left me. Here s how I learned to get it back. Earlier this year, I wondered if my husband and I were going to separate.

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January 2006 by Fred von Lohmann Senior Intellectual Property Attorney Electronic Frontier Foundation [email protected] I. What this is, and who should read it. The future of peer-to-peer file-sharing is entwined, for better or worse, with copyright law.

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No one ever became a programmer so they could mange open-source licenses. But, that's what many developers must do these days.

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Former MS product manager Joel Spolsky s 20021 Strategy Letter V: The Economics of Open Source (./; HN) discusses a pattern he sees in technology companies and software in particular (emphasis in original, most links added): Every product in the marketplace has substitutes and complements.

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FIFTY-NINE YEARS AGO, William Proxmire, of the now-Rust Belt state of Wisconsin, took the floor of the US Senate in support of a bill that would lower tariffs on imported goods.

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The word has become a rhetorical weapon, but it properly names the reigning ideology of our era one that venerates the logic of the market and strips away the things that make us human. By

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I wrote last week about my experience working as a freelance consultant in the nascent industry around cryptocurrencies.

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Open Science is a great concept (and recently described really nicely by Titus Brown, who said in part, scientific progress relies on the sharing of both scientific ideas and scientific methodology. ) This is a wonderful ideal, and it describes how a lot of scientists would like to act.

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It used to be that key technology came from commercial companies like IBM and Microsoft and Sun. Even when Linux started to be a significant part of IT infrastructure, businesses got it from commercial companies like Red Hat, along with an enterprise-support licence.

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A number of alternative structures for distributed ledgers have been proposed in recent years. All of these solutions offer better decentralization, faster and more numerous transactions serving a larger number of nodes. I have been skeptical of such systems for a long time.

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In a modern P2P protocol white paper, under a section titled Network Privacy, there is a section that reads: There is an inherent tradeoff in peer to peer systems of source discovery vs. user privacy. I disagree with the statement & the impact resulting design decisions have on privacy.

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Aaron Levie isn t worried about his company, Box, being regulated but he is worried about what happens if the government has to do something about Facebook.

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There comes a time when every artist can believe that the business whether it s music or writing or painting or poems is a terribly unfair place (Hunter S.

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I ve been thinking about the design principles for sustainable open online resources a lot lately, and I really like a phrase that Cory Doctorow came up with: an open source anti-Sisyphean league.

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Parking spaces are everywhere, but for some reason the perception persists that there s not enough parking. And so cities require parking in new buildings and lavishly subsidize parking garages, without ever measuring how much parking exists or how much it s used.

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There are two institutions dominating the top of the tech food chain today. On one side are big tech companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, as well as China's big three of Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent.

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The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh and the prospect of a solid conservative majority on the Supreme Court has provoked a new kind of rhetoric from many Democrats. If he proves as eager an executor of the president s bitter campaign to overturn Roe v.

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California is the future of the United States, goes the oft-cited clich . What the US is doing now, Europe will be doing in five years, goes another. Given those truthy maxims, let s examine the socioeconomics of the City by the Bay as a harbinger of what s to come.

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I sing soprano in a chorus. I know what you re thinking: What does that have to do with random dudes popping into Twitter threads and Not-All-Menning women s experiences with misogyny? Hear me out, I have a point and I will make it. So our chorus has anywhere from 80 to probably 120 voices.

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It s a one-hour portrait of the people behind some of the App Store s more popular apps. Watching it, I couldn t help but compare them to the stories of open source developers, who make the tools that everybody uses to build software today.

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Open source sustainability has been nothing short of an oxymoron. Engineers around the world pour their sweat and frankly, their hearts into these passion projects that undergird all software in the modern internet economy.

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Under the Trump administration, even naturalized citizens are now a target.

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To be human is to shape the world, to create the infrastructure of our common lives. What do we do when that infrastructure becomes a trap?

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As progressives have renewed an active engagement with the Democratic Party, few things have infuriated them more than the party hierarchy picking candidates.

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The secrets are hidden behind fortified walls in cities across the United States, inside towering, windowless skyscrapers and fortress-like concrete structures that were built to withstand earthquakes and even nuclear attack.

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This essay was guest edited by Ijeoma Oluo, a Seattle-based Writer, Speaker and Internet Yeller. Her work on social issues such as race and gender has been published in The Guardian, The Stranger, Washington Post, ELLE Magazine, NBC News and more.

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This essay was guest edited by Ijeoma Oluo, a Seattle-based Writer, Speaker and Internet Yeller. Her work on social issues such as race and gender has been published in The Guardian, The Stranger, Washington Post, ELLE Magazine, NBC News and more.

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The victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over Joe Crowley has reignited a periodic discussion pundits have about what is democratic socialism. I generally loathe discussions about what words mean. And this is no exception.

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