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gamesandtrips:

Developing feminist consciousness—the awareness of the sexist systems of oppression—is very difficult at first because sexist oppression is so built into culture, into life, into the most mundane and exalted things, in a word, so ubiquitous, that one is tempted to believe that this is how has…

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The tech industry isn’t the only one that’s male-dominated. Videogames suffer from this as well. In some musings with a friend of mine at the Games and Trips blog, we’ve come up with a test to determine whether a videogame at least tries to include women at all. Behold:

gamesandtrips:

To pass the Maggie test a video game must have:

1. a playable female character
2. which is available to play right away, and not as a special bonus feature

In a previous post, I alluded to this video game corollary to the Bechdel test. We talked about it a bit and my friend agreed to let me use…

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“Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin on productivity, communication, work, barriers, constraints, tools, and more.”

Merlin came by Flickr the other day and talked about meetings and how much they suck (truth). In this podcast, he calls me “a huge vim nerd”. Hmm.

Analysis: The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products.