Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Activism

  • The Luddites were brave

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    3 min read

    The way we refer to technophobic people as luddites isn’t just wrong. It is doing the work of the people the luddites fought against.

  • Gamergate and making the world safe for bullying

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    5 min read

    I think I figured out what has been bothering me about ‪#‎gamergate‬. Here’s what I know in an oversimplified narrative: 1. Several journalist gamers (virtually all women) were victims of doxing and bullying online for writing about video games as if it were the mature, mainstream medium that it has become over the last 20 years.…

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  • Killing the Wisdom of Youth

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    4 min read

    Think back to your junior year of high school.  Remember the things that made your blood boil: what you really cared about.  Have it?  Now write down some words that come to mind.  Just take about 2 minutes to do this exercise. Now look at the list.  What do you notice?  Who are you now…

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