She has the right to hypersexualize herself, but Miley shouldn’t exploit others in the process.

Cyrus is hardly alone in borrowing from black artists, and cultural appropriation has become the new norm

where black artists accounted for many of the most successful songs and would bring white artists in on guest vocals to appeal to a broader audience.

“empowering other cultures.” It’s a glorified advertising campaign

Hip hop is becoming increasingly dominated by white folks,

Free cultures are cultures that leave a great deal open for others to build upon; unfree, or permission, cultures leave much less. Ours was a free culture. It is becoming much less so.

Early cartoons are filled with knockoffs—slight variations on winning themes; retellings of ancient stories. The key to success was the brilliance of the differences.

his spark of creativity, was built upon the work of others.

And it was something new!”

Code is "making" because we've figured out how to package it up into discrete units and sell it, and because it is widely perceived to be done by men.

Well, bullshit. I make stuff.” I understand this response, but I’m not going to ask people—including myself—to deform what they do so they can call themselves a "maker."

Walk through a museum. Look around a city. Almost all the artifacts that we value as a society were made by or at the order of men. But behind every one is an invisible infrastructure of labor—primarily caregiving, in its various aspects—that is mostly performed by women.

It’s not, of course, that there’s anything wrong with making (although it’s not all that clear that the world needs more stuff). The problem is the idea that the alternative to making is usually not doing nothing

I’m uncomfortable with any culture that encourages you take on an entire identity, rather than to express a facet of your own identity ("maker," rather than "someone who makes things").

When tech culture only celebrates creation, it risks ignoring those who teach, criticize, and take care of others.