Essays

Hi! Here are some essays (and other pieces) I’ve written.

Title	Summary
What’s your position on GPS?	Everyone is wrong about GPS.
Outcome	An existential fantasy.
RAWR	Modest proposal for a successor to the NRA.
Homeopathic democracy	Neither medicine nor democracy can work when too dilute.
Seems legit	Assigning scores to Supreme Court justices based on how close to unananimously they were confirmed.
Tredd: Trustless Escrow for Digital Data	Exchange data for payment securely.
Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol	The inner workings of a particular blockchain.
Porn talk	Parental advice about porn.
RMS, titanic	Recalling my interactions with Richard Stallman.
All for nothing?	Thoughts on seeing the final film in the Star Wars nonology.
Tenant isolation in hosted services	A mechanism to ensure privacy when managing data for multiple distinct users.
I have realized my DVD-streaming dreams	A combination of technologies to make ripping, storing, and streaming DVDs easy and inexpensive.
Disco-ball Earth	https://bobglickstein.medium.com/disco-ball-earth-5efb560fa44d
Third term’s the charm!	Speculative threat to the U.S. Constitution, written in a simpler time.
Your inner me	A philosophical poem.
WTF	Lamenting the attenuation of a taboo word.
Of a particular moment in time	Rambling reminiscence about the technological context needed to understand a specific scene in an 80’s movie.
Large language models and plagiarism	What AI does isn’t plagiarism exactly, but authors and other creators still have a legitimate complaint.

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