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2014 Civic Media Conference

How to Social Engineer Your Child through Minecraft

presented by Marie Gilot

Today I want to talk to you about how you too can social engi­neer your child through Minecraft. First off, this is not a pre­sen­ta­tion for any kind of par­ents. There are some par­ents that are not going to be inter­est­ed in this, for instance if you want your child to be hap­py and you’re fine with that.

The ​“Essence of Sandwichness,” Including the Official New York Definition of a Sandwich

presented by Noah Veltman

I love read­ing gov­ern­ment mem­os because the world is an unclas­si­fi­able place, but the peo­ple that write these mem­os have to try to clas­si­fy it any­way, and the results get weird. You get these clas­si­fi­ca­tion odd­i­ties, these reg­u­la­to­ry platypuses. 

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