Blaise Alleyne

We aren’t laughing with Leonard, Sheldon, Raj and Howard. We’re laughing at them. Chuck Lorre has given us four exceptionally intelligent, nerdy main characters and he’s positioned us as an audience against them. When I watch Big Bang it becomes more and more obvious that I’m not supposed to relate to the guys (or more recently Amy Farrah-Fowler). I’m expected to relate to Penny. You only need to pay attention to the audience laughter to realise that TBBT relies on positioning us as an outsider to the nerds, as someone like Penny who doesn’t understand their references, their science, their vocabulary even, and who doesn’t care to learn. - Blaise Alleyne

But the question of when personhood begins is much bigger than the issue of abortion, and as important as that is, it’s not the only ethical question that matters today. In the realm of ethics, it’s a bad idea to avoid a question simply because you’re afraid of where the answer might take you. No matter how much this discussion scares us, we can’t skate around it much longer. - Blaise Alleyne

But the question of when personhood begins is much bigger than the issue of abortion, and as important as that is, it’s not the only ethical question that matters today. In the realm of ethics, it’s a bad idea to avoid a question simply because you’re afraid of where the answer might take you. No matter how much this discussion scares us, we can’t skate around it much longer. - Blaise Alleyne

Keep things: electronic, available (URL), asynchronous, lock-free; enable learning by lurking; opting into open source project constraints creates the possibility of cooperation without coordination. - Blaise Alleyne

Keep things: electronic, available (URL), asynchronous, lock-free; enable learning by lurking; opting into open source project constraints creates the possibility of cooperation without coordination. - Blaise Alleyne