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Barnaby Walters

Arranging atoms and pressurising air in a variety of manners, such as:

Pronouns: they/he

  6. “…the very act of building information technologies is also the act of creating specific moral systems”

    “Information technologists may therefore be in the business of creating moral systems whether they know it or not and whether or not they want that responsibility.”

    — Information Technology and Moral Values, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  14. demonstrates poor voter turnout not solved by fancy technology (to “engage the young people”) but by giving people a choice that they feel empowered by.

    Update: more electronic voting skepticism in this report (warning: PDF), also has interesting data on gender in voting.

  15. I love @allofbach but the website is not at all optimised for actually listening to/learning about the music. A potential redesign removes extraneous clicks and puts the focus completely on the music and performance:

    Additional possible improvements: link to wikipedia article, IMSLP page (e.g. BWV243)

  19. Eating inaugural new-apartment hot chocolate out of a jar, exhibits interesting elasticity gradient from near-liquid at the top to properly gelled at the bottom — possibly a result of the heat conducting properties of glass vs ceramic?