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How the word ‘queer’ was adopted by the LGBTQ community
Last week, we talked about how “geek” had become almost a cool term for a computer savvy, but perhaps socially inept person. That happened with little input from the “geeks” themselves. The same thing cannot be said of “queer.” Originally a derogatory name for a homosexual, “queer” has been embraced by some in the nonheterosexual...
Encryption efforts in Colorado challenge crime reporters, transparency
Colorado journalists on the crime beat are increasingly in the dark. More than two-dozen law enforcement agencies statewide have encrypted all of their radio communications, not just those related to surveillance or a special or sensitive operation. That means journalists and others can’t listen in using a scanner or smartphone app to learn about routine...
Patrick Radden Keefe on Northern Ireland’s Troubles
In 2013, Patrick Radden Keefe, a staff writer for The New Yorker, read an obituary in The New York Times of Dolours Price. Price, who died at 61, had been a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army during the period of Northern Irish history known as the Troubles. It was a bitter, 30-year sectarian...
Tim Cook doth protest too much about privacy
In Time magazine's latest issue, which is devoted to the theme of this year's Davos conference—"Navigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution"—Apple CEO Tim Cook has an essay about one of his favorite subjects, online privacy. It's a topic he has returned to again and again over the past few years, and the message is almost always...
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