Game studios are now purposefully designing bad systems and mechanics, hoping that people will be willing to pay to get past the poorly-made parts of the service: when microtransactions are the sole source of income, we start to build our entire product around that model.

One must consider if this pressure is put on creators specifically to see them fail.

We are conditioned to reason about economic vulnerability in terms of individual merit, instead of as systemic failure.

Configuring tools as a mode of straightforward escape from oppression, be it poverty or unfulfilling work, risks ignoring existing material practices and organizations that hold us to systems of inequity.

Sex workers have long driven major revolutions in technology. They have also been at the forefront of innovating new business models for content, communications, and services themselves.

The changing faces and storefronts reveal another chapter in the long ugly history of race and power.

Giving access to a tool as powerful as code creates social change and spurs economic mobility for those who have not shared equally in the rewards of the technological renaissance.

Should industry be allowed to dictate our school curriculums?

There’s little to no evidence that more technology or more data-mining will “fix” education.

Every step along the way, exclusionary hurdles are introduced to limit the candidate pool.