Collaborate Disseminate
Wordle is set to make its way into the real world and onto kitchen tables, with owner The New York Times today announcing plans for a physical version of the incredibly popular digital game. The publisher is teaming up with Hasbro to bring Worldle to l… Continue reading Wordle comes to life as a $20 multiplayer board game
Most dictionaries, as well as popular culture, mistakenly define “hacker” with a malicious connotation. It’s time to change that. Continue reading We Need to Change the Dictionary Definition of ‘Hacker’
Maybe it’s the silly season of high summer, or maybe a PR bunny at a cybersecurity company has simply hit the jackpot with a story syndicated by the Press Association, but the non-tech media has been earnestly talking about a call upon the Cambridge Dictionary to remove the word “illegal” from their definition of “Hacker”. The weighty tome from the famous British university lists the word as either “a person who is skilled in the use of computer systems, often one who illegally obtains access to private computer systems:” in its learners dictionary, or as “ …read more
Continue reading Hackers Want Cambridge Dictionary to Change Their Definition
If humans want to expand beyond Earth in an optimal way, we’ll need novel language to keep pace with novel technologies. Continue reading We Need a New Vocabulary to Talk About the Human Future in Space
To a casual observer it might seem as though our community is in the news rather a lot at the moment. It’s all about hacks on our TV screens in the soap opera of Washington politics, who hacked this, whether those people over there helped that lot hack the other lot, or even whether that person’s emails could have been hacked on that server. Keeping up with it as an outsider can become a full-time job.
Of course, as we all know even if the mainstream journalists (or should I refer to them colloquially as “hacks”?) don’t, it’s not us …read more
