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January
1/2 (Tue)
- http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/08/the-rosewood-massacre-of-1923/ - Florida, racial hatred, injustice
1/3 (Wed)
- http://www.openculture.com/2015/12/simple-sabotage-field-manual.html - cautionary lessons for InstaGov
- http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/go-fund-yourself-health-care-popularity-contest/
- http://www.newsweek.com/neo-nazi-andrew-weev-auernheimer-daily-stormer-jewish-descent-768805
- http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/28/1727966/-A-Jewish-journalist-made-a-Twitter-bot-to-call-out-Nazis-trolls-The-bot-was-banned-Nazis-remain
1/4 (Thu)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/01/04/weve-been-building-kook-magnets/ - anti-science, Nazis
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/01/04/a-few-things-i-expect-you-to-know-if-you-want-to-talk-about-evolution/
1/5 (Fri)
1/6 (Sat)
- https://www.dhs.gov/publication/border-searches-electronic-devices
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/01/06/skeptic-magazine-rots-from-the-head/ - good example of a double-wrong argument
- https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5765923 "...the dismantling of the Communist system has removed old certainties and safety nets provided by the state; support networks have disappeared as people travel farther afield to find work..."
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/22/the-daily-mail-snopes-story-and-fact-checking-the-fact-checkers/#653e93fb227f
- via comment here: https://plus.google.com/+AlexMcGibany/posts/AzwdBFfiEBQ
1/7 (Sun)
- https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631&w=2 - BSD was complaining about the Intel bug over a decade ago
1/8 (Mon)
- http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2046 - arguments that are basically about definitions
- (note that one way out of the "All Cretans are liars" paradox hinges on the definition of "liar"
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/7/1730552/-CNN-host-apologizes-to-viewers-cuts-Trump-advisor-s-mic-after-steady-stream-of-propaganda-baloney
- http://rall.com/2018/01/08/jeff-bezos-washington-post-censorship-the-post-movie
- https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/james-damore-just-filed-a-class-action-lawsuit-against-google-saying-it-discriminates-against-white-male-conservatives/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/01/08/i-have-a-serious-question-for-kansas-republicans/ - says clearly racist things, but #notARacist
1/9 (Tue)
- https://www.shareable.net/blog/fork-the-economy
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/01/09/i-know-were-not-supposed-to-have-heroes-but-some-teachers-deserve-the-title/ - right-wing speech suppression
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-carolina-gerrymandering_us_5a5547abe4b03417e873209f
- https://www.avclub.com/milo-yiannopoulos-will-represent-himself-in-simon-sch-1821884767
1/10 (Wed)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/01/09/if-you-ever-doubted-that-steven-pinkers-sympathies-lie-with-the-alt-right/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/8/1730817/-Fired-teacher-Hitler-did-nothing-wrong-Whites-have-a-right-to-their-own-countries?detail=emailLL
1/11 (Thu)
- https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjy7ez/social-media-threatens-global-democracy - this is actually more about commercial social media
1/13 (Sat)
- https://thenib.com/the-good-war - 9/11 BS, Dubya fascism
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/engineer-says-he-quit-google-after-order-to-stop-pro-diversity-posts/
- https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/12/26/mary-somerville-scientist/ - erasure of women
1/14 (Sun)
- https://www.facebook.com/dasmith88/posts/10213114650154538 - Paul McCartney, "Blackbird", and civil rights
1/15 (Mon)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/01/15/erasing-women-from-media/ - erasure of women
- https://shadowproof.com/2018/01/11/operation-push-movement-against-prison-slavery-florida/
- https://theintercept.com/2018/01/14/facebook-warrant-pipeline-protest-whatcom-county-justice-department/
1/16 (Tue)
- Aziz Ansari
- https://babe.net/2018/01/13/aziz-ansari-28355 - the reality
- https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/the-humiliation-of-aziz-ansari/550541/ - same story, not sure if text is the same
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/15/opinion/aziz-ansari-babe-sexual-harassment.html - a defense
- http://theweek.com/articles/748849/aziz-ansari-takedown-setback-metoo-movement - another defense
- https://babe.net/2018/01/13/aziz-ansari-28355 - the reality
- http://transadvocate.com/arsonist-terf-thinks-trans-women-are-immoral-should-be-beaten_n_21510.htm
1/17 (Wed)
- https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/01/13/1030223/is-finlands-universal-basic-income-trial-too-good-to-be-true
- https://mastodon.social/@Altruest/99365170298526315 - another definitional argument: does a straw have one hole or two? (see also: Cretans, trees falling, one hand clapping)
1/18 (Thu)
- https://itsgoingdown.org/neo-nazis-4chan-ready-new-poster-campaign-target-womens-studies-departments-campus-january-21st/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/01/18/yet-more-legal-expenses-arising/ - Richard Carrier
- http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/how-darknet-sellers-build-trust
- https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2018/01/18/hhs-ocr-announces-new-conscience-and-religious-freedom-division.html - what happened to separation of church and state?
1/19 (Fri)
- http://www.stonewall.org.uk/comeoutforLGBT/lgbt-britain-trans-report "Based on the experiences of more than 800 trans and non-binary people who took part in our research with YouGov"
- http://www.canyoucopyrightatweet.com/
- https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/952796082764791813 - MLK on "being divisive"
1/22 (Mon)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/01/22/what-being-a-man-means-to-andrew-sullivan/ - Andrew Sullivan, gender essentialism, feminism...
- https://feministire.com/2018/01/22/an-open-letter-to-the-organisers-of-the-we-need-to-talk-tour-from-a-group-of-feminists-in-ireland/
- Factory model school - it was done deliberately
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/01/22/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes/
- http://governor.mt.gov/Newsroom/governor-bullock-protects-net-neutrality-in-montana - net neutrality
- Fundamental human needs
1/23 (Tue)
1/24 (Wed)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/01/24/what-is-the-point-of-an-apology/
- https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/7xeyvg/how-valves-hands-off-approach-allowed-the-homophobic-gay-world-on-steam
- https://twitter.com/petercoffin/status/956287619071082497 - on the attacks on Chelsea Manning
1/25 (Thu)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/01/25/who-has-the-snake-filled-head/ - why feminism is still necessary
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/01/25/such-wonders-you-can-observe-in-the-21st-century/ - political correctness and "un-PC"
- https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/01/24/1555258/nsa-deletes-honesty-and-openness-from-core-values - life under Mein Drumpf
- https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2018/01/25/Hawaii-judge-orders-arrest-of-man-who-spoke-Hawaiian-language-in-court/8471516857580/ - news from colonized Hawaii
1/28 (Sun)
- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/charles-mann-can-planet-earth-feed-10-billion-people/550928/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/01/28/all-my-life-the-republicans-have-been-evil-stooges/
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/28/jeremy-corbyn-announces-labour-will-buy-every-homeless-person/
1/29 (Mon)
- https://blog.coralproject.net/the-real-name-fallacy/
- https://www.propublica.org/article/california-murder-suspect-atomwaffen-division-extremist-hate-group
- https://medium.com/humane-tech/the-immortal-myths-about-online-abuse-a156e3370aee
1/31 (Wed)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/01/31/i-had-to-check-the-bottom-of-my-office-chair/ - more modern-day slavery
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/donald-trump-just-asked-congress-to-end-the-rule-of-law.html
February
2/3 (Sat)
- https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/1/24/16925444/aziz-ansari-me-too-feminism-consent
- http://www.inquisitr.com/386068/republican-nevada-woman-vote-twice/
2/4 (Sun)
- https://www.npr.org/2018/01/30/580378279/trumps-state-of-the-union-address-annotated
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/04/david-brooks-rides-again/
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/the-many-lives-of-pauli-murray - Pauli Murray
- https://plus.google.com/+BobbySealePowerToThePeople/posts/N2MxTo7a7uv - Black Panther history: Ericka Huggins
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/this-is-why-uma-thurman-is-angry.html
2/5 (Mon)
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/04/neo-nazi-holocaust-denier-art-jones-illinois-republicans
- https://thedailybanter.com/2017/12/paul-nehlen-anti-semitism/
- https://medium.com/@browneyedgirl65/authoritarianism-jan-28-feb-3-eea447c3b815 - gives a fairly clear picture of a government that is dissolving the rule of law
- https://www.lawfareblog.com/i-hope-instance-fake-news-fbi-messages-show-bureaus-real-reaction-trump-firing-james-comey
- http://www.raederle.com/2012/11/land-feed-person-overpopulation-green.html#.Wnjg0uZOmhc - fodder for eventual overpopulation/carrying-capacity debate
2/6 (Tue)
- http://www.blackpast.org/1965-bayard-rustin-protest-politics-future-civil-rights-movement-0
- Tax cuts don't improve the economy:
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-29/trump-s-tax-promises-undercut-by-ceo-plans-to-reward-investors
- http://www.epi.org/blog/international-evidence-shows-that-low-corporate-tax-rates-are-not-strongly-associated-with-stronger-investment/
- http://www.epi.org/publication/competitive-distractions-cutting-corporate-tax-rates-will-not-create-jobs-or-boost-incomes-for-the-vast-majority-of-american-families/
2/7 (Wed)
2/8 (Thu)
2/9 (Fri)
2/10 (Sat)
2/11 (Sun)
- http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/n-y-teamsters-form-sanctuary-union-fight-ice-agents-article-1.3813201#Not1More
- https://medium.com/@Boringstein/a-style-guide-for-writing-about-the-rich-11d3c6c9ca19 - Elon Musk
2/12 (Mon)
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/02/11/the-trump-administration-wants-to-turn-the-international-space-station-into-a-commercially-run-venture/
- of course they do... but then again, I think de-orbiting was the original plan under Obama; this isn't exactly worse
- https://niu.moe/@Pasty/99512398920247071
2/13 (Tue)
2/14 (Wed)
2/15 (Thu)
2/16 (Fri)
- https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/871420302571524096 - people on the Right (in this case Jack Posobiec) can make up shit, but the Left won't let them get away with it
- https://wonkette.com/629807/of-course-florida-school-shooter-was-a-girl-hating-white-supremacist-of-course-i-am-tired-of-writing-this-article
- https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/16/politics/mueller-russia-indictments-election-interference/index.html
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/02/15/australia-hasnt-had-fatal-mass-shooting-since-1996-heres-what-did/340345002/
2/18 (Sun)
- http://www.philly2philly.com/politics_community/politics_community_articles/2009/6/29/4854/fox_news_wins_lawsuit_misinform_public
- http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-gun-research-funding-20160614-snap-story.html
- https://www.themaven.net/beingliberal/room/show-the-body-bags-show-the-carnage-that-made-the-change-for-vietnam-Ic5uUOHf4UmYEaxS4LWzWg
- http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/02/13/mormons_and_transgender_elder_dallin_h_oaks_says_the_lds_church_is_open.html
- https://anarchism.space/@Jehu/99541492174070500 -- tootstorm about a book about Marx's Das Kapital (I think)
- http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/170998286748/males-are-vastly-overrepresented-in-almost-every - a car metaphor
2/19 (Mon)
- https://medium.com/@browneyedgirl65/authoritarianism-feb-11-feb-17-3d4adc0682dc
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/19/how-come-when-republicans-talk-about-free-speech-its-always-about-silencing-me/ - free speech trolling, right-wing hypocrisy
2/20 (Tue)
2/21 (Wed)
2/22 (Thu)
- https://twitter.com/delaneytarr -- apparently a survivor of the Parkland massacre
- http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/374812-texas-school-district-threatens-to-suspend-students-who-protest
- https://twitter.com/sarahemclaugh/status/966334241587056640 "Texas school district says it will suspend all students who take part in "any type of protest or awareness” in aftermath of the Parkland school shooting"
- http://groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2017-12-10-csu.html - fake scientist, fake university
- https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/healthcare/reports/2018/02/22/447095/medicare-extra-for-all/ - proposed improvement
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/22/i-guess-i-just-cant-be-happy-with-bad-data/ - Steven Pinker not good
- https://futurism.com/basic-income-part-time-work/ -- unconditional income
2/24 (Sat)
- https://plus.google.com/+BobbySealePowerToThePeople/posts/EgKHwKr2uEo - more Black Panther Party history
- https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/24/billy-graham-evangelical-decline-franklin-graham-217077
- https://pando.com/2018/02/23/bears-lair-untold-story-systemic-gender-discrimination-inside-uc-berkeleys-it-department/
- https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/02/bill-making-legal-ban-gays-lesbians-adopting-passes-georgia/
- https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/02/24/1939255/new-tech-industry-lobbying-group-argues-right-to-repair-laws-endanger-consumers - war on terror, digital phase
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cognitive-ability-and-vulnerability-to-fake-news/ - we are not all equally vulnerable to cognitive bias
- http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/09/07/your-brain-on-politics-the-cognitive-neuroscience-of-liberals-and-conservatives/ - related to above
2/25 (Sun)
- https://www.sit.ac.nz/Home/About-Us/News/Articles/ID/372/Invercargills-Southern-Institute-of-Technology-offers-free-accomodation
- via comment here: https://plus.google.com/+WoozleHypertwin/posts/C4C8to8WJie
March
3/1 (Thu)
3/3 (Sat)
3/4 (Sun)
3/5 (Mon)
- https://zenit.org/articles/transcript-of-popes-dialogue-with-polish-bishops/ Pope Francis: "Today children, children are taught this in school that one can choose one’s sex! And why do they teach this? Because the books are those of individuals and institutions that give money. They are ideological colonizations, supported also by very influential countries. And this is terrible. Speaking with Pope Benedict, who is well and has clear thinking, he said to me: “Holiness, this is the time of the sin against God the Creator!” He is intelligent! God has created man and woman; God created the world thus, and thus, and thus…, and we are doing the opposite."
3/6 (Tue)
3/9 (Fri)
- https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/3/5/17071792/broad-band-claire-evans-interview-women-internet - erasure of women
3/11 (Sun)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/03/11/so-atheism-is-becoming-a-refuge-for-people-who-learned-biology-in-kindergarten/ - gender essentialism
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/03/11/oh-no-ive-been-doing-twitter-wrong/ - "Tweetdecking" (gaming Twitter metrics for fun & profit)
3/15 (Thu)
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-celebrity-scientist-albert-einstein-used-fame-denounce-american-racism-180962356/
- http://usdakotawar.org/history/aftermath/trials-hanging - American dishonor
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/03/14/cultural-marxism-is-nothing-but-a-conspiracy-theory-rooted-in-anti-semitism/
- https://boingboing.net/2018/03/14/brief-history-of-class-war.html - Stephen Hawking's final post, on automation and wealth redistribution
3/16 (Fri)
3/17 (Sat)
3/18 (Sun)
3/19 (Mon)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/03/19/maybe-the-alt-right-is-non-binary/ - more sensible centrism
- https://www.avclub.com/john-oliver-hijacks-homophobe-mike-pences-bunny-book-wi-1823879129 - lots of damning stuff about Mike Pence, in case anyone is confused
3/21 (Wed)
3/23 (Fri)
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-lone-dnc-hacker-guccifer-20-slipped-up-and-revealed-he-was-a-russian-intelligence-officer
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what-mentally-strong-people-dont-do/201708/how-deal-workplace-psychopath
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/attorney-says-roy-moore-supporters-offered-him-10000-to-drop-client-who-accused-the-senate-candidate-of-sexual-impropriety/2018/03/23/6d875f2c-02e3-11e8-93f5-53a3a47824e8_story.html
3/24 (Sat)
- http://www.universalhub.com/2018/tens-thousands-march-rally-gun-control-against-nra?nocache=1
- There were also marches in Raleigh (B and M attended) and Durham (M attended).
3/25 (Sun)
- https://boingboing.net/2018/03/24/fox-news-explains-why-mr-roge.html - title seems misleading
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/self-taught-rocket-scientist-finally-blasts-california-sky-n859801 - note that he implies at one point that if he could see a spherical earth from orbit, he would change his mind
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/03/25/mad-mike-hughes-actually-did-it/ - PZ gets it wrong, though: Hughes never (according to the article) claimed that this was to prove anything about the shape of the earth (though perhaps he has claimed it elsewhere)
- https://www.buzzfeed.com/talalansari/people-are-sharing-a-fake-picture-of-a-parkland-survivor?utm_term=.awgg3Qd4y#.vb4Amo2J5
3/26 (Mon)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/03/26/new-professorial-challenges-for-those-teaching-philosophy/ - more anti-science
- https://theintercept.com/2018/03/26/facebook-data-ice-immigration/
3/27 (Tue)
- https://witches.town/@packetcharmer/99753817481731924 - Fresno CA Planned Parenthood mishandled a trans woman's HRT; this should probably be a need-to-know link, tho
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/03/27/it-was-the-worst-of-times-it-was-the-worst-of-times/ - the Atlantic hires murderous right-wing ideologue Kevin Williamson
3/28 (Wed)
- https://exposingtheinvisible.org/resources/revolving-door-google
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/03/28/it-takes-a-villageto-make-a-toxic-atmosphere/
3/29 (Thu)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/03/29/i-guess-i-oppose-them-in-everything/ - Focus on the Family etc.
3/30 (Fri)
- http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/denying-genetics-isnt-shutting-down-racism-its-fueling-it.html - put forth by Sam Harris, may be related to Ezra Klein / Bell Curve stuff
April
4/2 (Mon)
4/5 (Thu)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/04/05/good-news-everyone-2/ - Stormfront
- https://9to5google.com/2018/03/20/telegram-encryption-security/ (from Tessa) - I also posted on G+...
- http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/04/05/little-free-libraries-are-turning-into-ground-zero-for-religious-proselytizing/
- https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/981619214426525696/video/1 - MLK makes some points that we're only now re-figuring out
4/14 (Sat)
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/04/gmail-com-redesign-includes-self-destructing-e-mails/#p3 - embrace, extend, and extinguish
4/17 (Tue)
4/18 (Wed)
- https://www.facebook.com/colbertlateshow/videos/1381471541997593/ - Colbert interviews James Comey; among other things, he explains his odd handling of the Clinton investigation
4/22 (Sun)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/04/22/how-to-deal-with-a-shermer-attack/ - Michael Shermer
4/23 (Mon)
4/25 (Wed)
4/26 (Thu)
4/27 (Fri)
- https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/04/25/207227/appliance-companies-are-lobbying-to-protect-their-drm-fueled-repair-monopolies - Dyson, LG, and Wahl
4/30 (Mon)
- https://anticapitalist.party/@mooncake/99884059379093391 - why cops are a social problem
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/04/30/nra-draws-fire-banning-guns-event-featuring-vice-president-mike-pence/563873002/ - NRA bans guns at its own events, again
5/02 (Wed)
- https://www.metafilter.com/173881/UYA-notices-and-face-saving-in-moderation-systems#inline-7389802
- http://www.bbc.com/news/education-43956001 - accountability in mass media (can we do more of this?)
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-43957874 - assisted suicide
- https://boingboing.net/2018/05/02/transparent-ploy.html - Cambridge Analytica ties to Blackwater
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/04/15/irreduciblablabla-complexidoozits/ -- irreducible complexity
- https://japantoday.com/category/national/okayama-buses-strike-by-continuing-to-run-and-refusing-to-take-anyone%E2%80%99s-money
5/03 (Thu)
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/991417346349821953.html - metaphor for closed religions
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-04-25/fight-grows-over-who-owns-real-estate-drowned-by-climate-change - the rich fight to exclude themselves from the rules, and a court backs them up (a problem created by global warming, which the rich have also been fighting against doing anything about)
5/04 (Fri)
5/06 (Sun)
5/07 (Mon)
- https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/all-american-nazis-fascist-youth-united-states-w519651
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/4/1762045/-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar
5/08 (Tue)
- Durham election, 2018-05-08:
- https://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/for-durham-public-schools-the-indy-endorses-mike-lee-matt-sears-and-natalie-beyer/Content?oid=13460548
- http://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/counties/durham-county/article199959384.html
- https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/SampleBallot?CountyID=32&ElectionID=95&BallotStyle=D004 - our ballot
- http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/durham-county/article210596544.html
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/8/1762551/-Trump-s-Approval-Rating-Makes-Me-Hopeful-For-Our-Country-Tuesday-s-Good-News
5/10 (Thu)
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_founder/
- https://toot.cat/@eryn/99862215880957167 - representation (3 links)
- https://represent.us/action/theproblem-3/ - the rich control elections
- http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/05/medium-abruptly-cancels-the-membership-programs-of-its-21-remaining-publisher-partners/
5/12 (Sat)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/05/12/anti-immigration-paranoia-is-just-another-form-of-racism/
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/05/11/what-we-found-facebook-ads-russians-accused-election-meddling/602319002/
- https://twitter.com/JaneLytv/status/995031028753313792 - source of much info on FB accidentally revealed
5/14 (Mon)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/05/14/science-lesson-what-you-want-to-be-true-aint-necessarily-so/ - evolutionary psychology
5/15 (Tue)
- https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-city-council-votes-9-0-for-scaled-down-head-tax-on-large-employers/ - example of "job creator" rhetoric
- I mean, omg, $500/year was too much?
5/16 (Wed)
- https://libcom.org/news/hamilton-corporate-suits-fail-intimidate-rent-strikers-16052018
- https://medium.com/assembly-four/my-six-week-rollercoaster-ride-172eb58ba80e
5/19 (Sat)
5/20 (Sun)
- https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/20/donald-trump-onion-stories-597809
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/05/20/is-the-first-rule-of-science-communication-be-mealy-mouthed/ - "THERE IS NO PROOF IN SCIENCE"
5/22 (Tue)
- The Coming Collapse by Chris Hedges
5/23 (Wed)
- http://kimchicuddles.com/post/54999684527/white-history-month - white history month
5/24 (Thu)
- https://dragon.style/@mysidia/100083420334598068 - misconceptions about religion
- https://colet.space/about/ - collective in Brooklyn
- https://postmeritocracy.org/
- https://gdprexplained.eu/ - GDPR
5/25 (Fri)
- https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/100090008218039111 - life in Nazi Germany
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/05/25/ireland-repeals-the-prohibition-against-abortion/
5/26 (Sat)
5/27 (Sun)
- https://www.vox.com/2018/5/24/17389388/elon-musk-twitter-pravda - this will probably ruin InstaGov
- https://medium.com/@browneyedgirl65/authoritarianism-may-20-26-c828c3b6b68c
- https://www.ecowatch.com/national-park-service-climate-change-2571033658.html - National Parks Sevice report on global warming effects
- https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=613655708 - a bit of gender-discrimination history
5/28 (Mon)
- https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/18/05/28/0739244/increasing-similarity-of-billboard-songs
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ellicott-city-maryland-floods-officials-assess-destruction-missing-man/ - anecdotal evidence of global warming
- https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.4.20180523a/full/ - Mercury 13, gender discrimination
5/29 (Tue)
- https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/100114762598386098 -- another powerful asshole finally being held accountable for abuse
5/30 (Wed)
- https://www.facebook.com/HuffPostPerspectives/videos/1736026096465014/ - another escapee from the far Right
- https://octodon.social/@kensanata/100117602037948858 - life in a dictatorship
5/31 (Thu)
June
6/1 (Fri)
- https://thinkprogress.org/resist-marxism-front-for-far-right-organizing-9bd959325ae1/
- http://nationalpost.com/news/world/israel-middle-east/tktktktktk
- https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018644143/a-transwoman-on-losing-male-privilege
6/2 (Sat)
- https://icosahedron.website/@bstacey/100130452215349742
- https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/americas-brand-of-capitalism-is-incompatible-with-democracy.html
- https://gdprexplained.eu/
- https://postmeritocracy.org/
- https://www.autistici.org/who/telltale
- http://www.necsi.edu/research/economics/feb18report - likelihood of a stock panic soon
6/3 (Sun)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/06/03/when-the-mask-slips/ - Niall Ferguson, freeze peach, Hoover Institute, Turning Point USA "The goal isn’t to vindicate the abstract right to free speech but to assert the right’s power and influence over campus discourse — to force the campus mainstream into a choice between allowing vile ideas to spread or looking hostile to free speech." Trying to undercut someone's credibility rather than addressing their concerns is the opposite of supporting free speech.
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/22/1766271/--60-Minutes-reporter-recalls-what-Trump-said-when-she-asked-why-he-relentlessly-attacks-the-media - Trump does the same thing
6/4 (Mon)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/4/1769277/-The-Supreme-Court-just-set-gay-rights-back-by-a-lifetime - and they clearly got it wrong
- https://thisweekinthetrumprussiainvestigation.blogspot.com/2018/06/trump-russia-investigation-week-in.html
- https://theintercept.com/2018/04/19/amazon-snap-subsidies-warehousing-wages/
- http://themilitant.com/ - socialist newspaper
- http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-bank-deregulation-crapo-bill-house-vote-details-2018-5 - laying the ground for another power-grab
6/5 (Tue)
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/05/feed-the-world-real-people-faceless-multinationals-monsanto-bayer
- https://rosecitycopwatch.wordpress.com/alternatives-to-police/
- https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/06/05/1525224/the-world-set-a-new-record-for-renewable-power-in-2017-but-emissions-are-still-rising
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/06/05/florida-spends-1-billion-per-year-on-miseducating-kids/ - right-wing lies
6/6 (Wed)
6/8 (Fri)
6/9 (Sat)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/06/09/describing-a-problem-isnt-an-explanation/ - another example of what's wrong with social media
- https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/05/inside-feed-facing-facts/ -- PR for Facebook's response to the social media fake news problem
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h-N2S8hKnIHdnlxvLp3oneym8c3GGzgQdUCOmMDNYMU/edit - First Congregational Church of Oakland position against state-sanctioned violence
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/02/citizenship-by-investment-passport-super-rich-nationality?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
6/10 (Sun)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/04/13/i-guess-im-an-mra-now/ - TERFs
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/6/1769895/-DC-man-destroys-restaurant-industry-s-lies-about-raising-servers-minimum-wage-on-Twitter - minimum wage myth
6/11 (Mon)
6/12 (Tue)
- https://civilization.fail/ - some good stuff about ecological collapse, albeit in slightly broken English
6/13 (Wed)
- https://anticapitalist.party/@mooncake/99884059379093391 - fundamental problems with policing
6/14 (Thu)
- http://deadstate.org/tv-evangelist-trump-is-a-born-again-christian-but-was-told-to-keep-it-secret/
- https://www.facebook.com/ELZ.H2O/posts/10215970863132086 - another way the US healthcare non-system fails
- https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/att-time-warner-merger-approved-1202840369/
6/15 (Fri)
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/06/15/an-american-editorial-cartoonist-has-been-fired-for-skewering-trump-he-likely-wont-be-the-last/ - Trump supporters are not pro-free-speech
6/17 (Sun)
- https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/06/police_acknowledges_rumored_th.html - Police acknowledge rumored threats to Portland Pride events
- https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/saveyourinternet/
- https://mastodon.social/@rysiek/100220172292620963 "Article 13 of the Copyright Directive will force internet platforms (social networks, video sites, image hosts, etc.) to install upload filters to monitor all user uploads for copyrighted content, including in images – and thus block most memes, which are usually based on copyrighted images."
- http://rys.io/en/70 - ACTA in Poland
6/18 (Mon)
6/19 (Tue)
- https://twitter.com/antoguerrera/status/1008726533832429568?s=19 - the right wing rides again in Italy
6/20 (Wed)
6/21 (Thu)
- https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2018/06/20/20732211/trumps-order-to-end-family-separation-wont-end-portland-ice-protest
- https://organizing.social/@slackz/100241407946064242
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/8so5zz/detained_migrant_children_being_held_in_portland/e11e5ef/
- https://www.npr.org/2018/06/21/622243400/ice-temporarily-closes-portland-office-amid-tumult-of-protests-across-u-s
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/20/occupy-ice-portland-protest-immigration-family-separations
- 6/26:
- https://medium.com/@chanda/we-were-promised-jetpacks-ef0e49660d3b - American dishonor
6/23 (Sat)
- Epistemological anarchism - my response:
- After reading a bit, I think I disagree with him -- though not strongly, as he has some valid points.
- The institution of science often does slip into dogmatism, especially around certain customs. The customs emerged to serve a purpose, but can too easily become shibboleths used to maintain power-structures.
- Some of the software governance ideas I'm working on are arguably re-engineering of the scientific process to reduce problems like that.
- Social ecology (should have stashed this weeks ago): "a critique of current social, political, and anti-ecological trends, it espouses a reconstructive, ecological, communitarian, and ethical approach to society. This version advocates a reconstructive and transformative outlook on social and environmental issues, and promotes a directly democratic, confederal politics." Murray Bookchin
- 2018-06-08 Copyright law could put end to net memes "Digital rights groups are campaigning against the Copyright Directive, which the European Parliament will vote on later this month."
- https://anticapitalist.party/@ghost/100166018547118709 - "laziness" is bunk
6/24 (Sun)
- https://www.elitereaders.com/native-americans-five-genders/?cn-reloaded=1 - links to a source for more info
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/george-will-exits-the-republican-party-over-trump/2016/06/25/2b6cdcaa-3b09-11e6-9ccd-d6005beac8b3_story.html - from July 2016, but just in case I didn't have this already
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/06/23/a-jogger-accidentally-crossed-into-the-u-s-from-canada-and-was-detained-for-two-weeks/?utm_term=.aa8177a793e0
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/21/1774246/-This-political-ad-from-a-mother-in-Texas-running-for-Congress-might-be-the-best-we-ve-EVER-seen?detail=emaildksp
- https://www.fodors.com/news/photos/fodors-no-list-2018 - US/MO now on Fodor's no-go list because of terrible laws and attitudes; US government assigns political guides to its own citizens that visit Cuba
- https://social.coop/@h/100238417333056991 - Mike Godwin says go ahead
- https://elekk.xyz/@noelle/100244638187929737 - proof that a basketball is flat
- https://ello.co/woozalia/post/bu43uwudbnvlw-b6q3spwg - turning libertarian arguments on their head to argue for unconditional income
6/26 (Tue)
- https://fair.org/home/nilay-patel-on-att-time-warner-ruling-sam-menefee-libey-on-j20-update/
- https://medium.com/@chanda/dear-asian-american-friend-5568d34deb16 - racism
- https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/apr/18/britain-destroyed-records-colonial-crimes - imperialism, colonialism
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-PvBo75PDo - how to create customs that everyone follows but nobody knows the reasons for
6/27 (Wed)
- upset socialist win in NYC:
- https://theintercept.com/2018/06/26/reality-winner-plea-deal/
6/28 (Thu)
- http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-gazette-shooting-20180628-story.html - note: police arrived quickly
- http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/06/30/multnomah-county-republican-party-approves-oath-keepers-and-three-percenters-as-private-security/
6/29 (Fri)
idk what to say anymore. it's here. every hypothetical you've ever pondered about living in nazi germany, now is the time to execute. the fascists are here, they have seized the bastions of the state, and every day they are taking steps along a playbook with which we are all terrifyingly familiar
the major difference in my mind between US fascists and the nazis is that the nazis wanted to consolidate private enterprise within the state, whereas US fascists want to dismantle the state except for the military and the police
but like, we got child prisons. we got concentration camps. we got citizens being stripped of citizenship for political reasons and non-citizens being subject to war crimes. we got openly fascist federal departments, we got fascists in office, we got churches hiding families to protect them from the police, we got blackshirt-equivalents shooting up schools and journals on the regular, and damn if we don't have an opposition party devoted to normalizing it all
6/30 (Sat)
- https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/06/woman_who_set_self_on_fire_in.html
- http://www.trumphotels.org/
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/21/japanese-worker-punished-for-starting-lunch-three-minutes-early
July
7/1 (Sun)
- https://medium.com/@DeoTasDevil/how-white-nationalism-courts-internet-nerd-culture-b4ebad07863d
- https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbqwwj/patreon-suspension-of-adult-content-creators
- http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-restaurant-trump-supporter-teahouse-1.4728720
- https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/100294290207228681 - tolerance of intolerance
- https://mastodon.social/@caraellison/100300112232117080 - windscreen wipers were invented by a woman, but she never got any royalties because the auto makers didn't start making them until the patent ran out. erasure of women
- https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/06/26/bethany-christian-services-family-separation-betsy-devos/
- http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2018/06/texas-education-board-debates-moses-as-founding-father/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/28/1776257/-During-CBS-interview-government-agents-chillingly-showed-up-to-intimidate-former-ICE-spokesman
7/2 (Mon)
- https://plus.google.com/+DonDenton/posts/F5BB5R2mQZU - why immigrants come here, really
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/2/1776743/-Cartoon-Civility - incivility
7/3 (Tue)
- https://www.wral.com/can-roblox-other-online-games-be-safe-for-kids-experts-weigh-in-after-raleigh-girl-s-roblox-avatar-sexually-assaulted/17670854/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/2/1777468/-Kentucky-s-Republican-governor-starts-shooting-hostages-in-his-Medicaid-lawsuit-tantrum
- https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/3/mexicos_leftist_president_elect_amlo_promises
- https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/02/schumer-town-hall-canceled-692200 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has not held a town hall so far this Congress, according to data maintained by the nonpartisan Legistorm database.
- https://godsandradicals.org/2018/01/11/the-democratic-party-is-not-what-you-think/ -- distractivism
- https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/federal-judge-rips-trump-administration-over-census-citizenship-question/
7/7 (Sat)
- https://splinternews.com/the-eugenicist-doctor-and-the-vast-fortune-behind-trump-1827322435 - interesting connections, but also provides fodder for "Planned Parenthood is genocide" claims
- https://slashdot.org/story/18/07/06/217222/open-offices-make-you-less-open
7/11 (Wed)
i wanna talk through this article i just linked cuz i'm blown away
a denaturalization program just started up which seeks to strip citizenship from folks, and norma borgono is their first target they want to deport her for helping her boss commit fraud. except, she never got paid for helping him beyond her basic wage, and when the cops showed up she helped put her boss behind bars > When the FBI discovered the scheme, Borgono, who as his secretary had falsified paperwork, cooperated with the prosecutors and helped their case against her former boss—who is now also being sued for denaturalization. Borgono took a plea deal and was sentenced in 2012 to a year of house arrest. According to the accounts from her trial, she never made any money beyond her normal salary during the scheme. idk, i'm honestly speechless like here's where we're at: a woman is going to a concentration camp for, uh, helping the cops? trying to make a wage?(edited)
if it weren't for the boss getting denaturalized too, i'd say this was a signal to other employers that if a worker helps you pull some illegal shit, it's on them not you
-Garbados, 2018-07-11
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dwight-and-steven-hammond-oregon-ranchers-trump-pardon-today-2018-07-10/
- https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/07/hello-full-employment/564569/
- https://medium.com/@mshannabrooks/please-admit-you-dont-like-poor-people-so-we-can-move-on-f4e964087b16 - poverty and psychology
- https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/07/10/216231/paypal-told-customer-her-death-breached-its-rules
- https://mastodon.social/@catonano/100356541982940388 - Facebook weaponization
- https://illumination.duke-energy.com/articles/busting-5-myths-about-electric-vehicles
7/12 (Thu)
7/14 (Sat)
- James Baldwin and Dick Gregory "Baldwin's Nigger" 1969 (FULL)
- https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/07/13/2319246/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week
- https://freedom.press/news/reality-and-espionage-act/ Reality Winner, whistleblower, jailed
7/15 (Sun)
- http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-06/women-outperforming-men-pay-gap-prime-minister-and-cabinet/9938440
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/10/1776319/-The-racist-origins-of-pro-life-abortion-movement-they-never-talk-about?detail=emaildksp
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/9/1779169/-Yes-Trump-is-a-narcissist-But-it-s-literally-millions-of-times-worse-than-that?detail=emaildksp
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/15/1779945/-Where-do-we-go-from-here-The-Supreme-Court-has-been-stolen
7/16 (Mon)
- Trump, Treasonous Traitor
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/15/1780770/-Fox-News-Top-former-Political-Correspondent-says-Trump-is-STILL-colluding-with-Russia
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/16/1780935/-Papa-John-s-founder-evicted-from-headquarters-after-racist-statements-Yet-he-remains-on-the-board
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/16/1780929/-Former-CIA-Director-calls-Trump-s-comments-at-Putin-press-conference-nothing-short-of-treasonous?detail=emaildkbn
7/17 (Tue)
- https://therevelator.org/poaching-akashinga/
- https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3780.html "the use of information to maximize private profit without regard to the damage inflicted by everybody doing this at once"
7/18 (Wed)
- https://politics.slashdot.org/story/18/07/12/2039225/russian-influence-campaign-sought-to-exploit-americans-trust-in-local-news
- https://theslot.jezebel.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-democratic-primary-opponent-w-1827540576
- https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Spain-Amazon-Workers-on-Strike-Attacked-by-National-Police-20180717-0012.html
- https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/07/18/0636205/eu-regulators-fine-google-record-5-billion-in-android-case
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/attorneys-general-sue-sanctuary-city-funding-trump_us_5b4f66c5e4b0b15aba8ac67f
7/19 (Thu)
- https://chaos.social/@chris/100390613629364166 - Amazon protest in NYC
- https://tooot.im/@OpenCulture/100403067025064065 - CIA guide to sabotaging organizations with simple stupidity
- https://972mag.com/arabic-was-an-official-language-in-israel-for-70-years-2-months-and-5-days/136769/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/07/19/jewdy-ized-and-homosexual-ized/ - Rick Wiles, pastor
7/20 (Fri)
- https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-to-survive-americas-kill-list-699334/
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/marinaleda-spanish-communist-village-utopia
7/21 (Sat)
- https://xoxo.zone/@annika/100412555863882160 - good example of how statistics can be misinterpreted
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/19/1781931/-Father-and-son-spew-hate-at-CA-immigration-rally-after-video-goes-viral-son-loses-scholarship?detail=emaildkre - faux free speech
- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-when-it-comes-to-health-care-transphobia-persists/
7/22 (Sun)
- https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/london-heathrow-airport-sometimes-hosts-12952912 - thanks, capitalism
7/23 (Mon)
- http://nazibanning.club/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2190741/ - XY females can be fertile
7/24 (Tue)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/24/1783132/-What-s-happening-at-the-World-Science-Fiction-convention-is-important-even-if-you-don-t-like-Sci-Fi - power-concentration in the publishing industry
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/24/1783135/-Kirstjen-Nielsen-Gets-A-Kicked-in-Scathing-Resignation-Letter-You-HAVE-To-Read-It
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/21/generation-z-has-different-attitudes-says-a-new-report
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/07/02/the-walkaway-meme-is-what-happens-when-everything-is-viral-and-nothing-matters/
7/25 (Wed)
- https://plus.google.com/+BobbySealePowerToThePeople/posts/d5s3RwQxbjr - Black Panther history: Elbert "Big Man" Howard
- https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-is-this-shit-legal-1827813308 -- class warfare, vulture capitalism
- https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/07/24/CRTVs-fake-interview-with-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-went-viral-on-Facebook/220772 - more use of Facebook to manipulate public perception
- https://astralnoizeuk.com/2018/07/23/smashing-nazism-through-tolkienist-thematics-with-feminazgul/ - Nazi movement
- https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/incels-cloudfare-online-content-protection_us_5b491632e4b022fdcc597327?guccounter=1
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/07/21/feature/god-trump-and-the-meaning-of-morality/ - rather frightening glimpses of how the religious right thinks
- https://www.koin.com/news/local/multnomah-county/city-workers-cops-clean-up-occupy-ice-camp/1322476545?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_KOINNews
- https://twitter.com/kalooski/status/1022153676931051521
- https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/25/entertainment/jason-spencer-who-is-america-resigns/index.html
- https://mastodon.social/@cypnk/100437282478364476 - right-wing strategy for dividing the Left
- https://www.gq.com/story/meghan-mccain-rant-socialism-the-view
7/26 (Thu)
- https://www.facebook.com/joethenerdferraro/posts/2048306628514810 - debate mapper needed
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6JUELMO1jo&feature=youtu.be - a claim of repeated lies by Hillary Clinton
- basic ideals of a co-op:
- democratic participation
- freedom of association
- don't have to be a member to partake in product or service
- help other co-ops do what you do
- https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/us/2016-presidential-campaign-hacking-fast-facts/index.html - evidence of Russian election hacking
- https://mastodon.social/@kavbojka/100443095937278430 - "Although cooperation is unquestionably a necessary part of the solution, cooperatives by themselves are insufficient to challenge the capitalist system.” – Murray Bookchin
- https://www.icij.org/blog/2018/07/new-international-investigation-tackles-fake-science-and-its-poisonous-effects/
- https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/26/17619818/russia-claire-mccaskill-2018-midterm-hack
7/27 (Fri)
- https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article157688724.html - "Texas, three more states on California’s banned travel list" (NC already on list as of HB2)
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/third-ways-centrism-is-dead-the-left-has-already-won-the-debate-over-the-democratic-party.html
7/28 (Sat)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/07/19/ken-hams-big-wooden-box-has-been-sold/ - Ken Ham scams again
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/07/28/more-ark-park-details/
- https://toot.cat/web/statuses/100452630458139204 - discussion about trans legislation in UK
- https://post.lurk.org/@jules/100452755796774643 - ethics of genetic testing
7/29 (Sun)
- https://www.newsweek.com/russia-stole-us-presidency-claims-russian-politician-live-tv-663441
- https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/07/29/070251/boston-globe-outs-secret-tsa-tracking-program-quiet-skies-at-airports
7/30 (Mon)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/29/1784389/-Stunning-Article-From-the-New-Yorker - Trump is worse than Nixon, if that wasn't already obvious
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/28/1784147/-Meghan-McCain-s-Disgrace-Proves-the-Point-Conservatives-Are-Prone-to-Submission?detail=emaildkre - right-wingers submit to humiliation
7/31 (Tue)
- https://radiotoday.co.uk/2018/07/global-to-extend-into-lancashire-after-buying-2br/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/07/31/a-case-of-free-market-capitalism-actually-working/
- http://healthimpactnews.com/2012/british-court-throws-out-conviction-of-autismvaccine-md-andrew-wakefields-co-author-completely-exonerated/ - Andrew Wakefield exonerated
- https://draconicnoble.tumblr.com/post/176454397088/jenniferrpovey-beachgirlnikita-thememacat - Costco's attitude towards employees
- https://toot.cat/@woozle/100470904800066701 - another passport canary
- https://thinkprogress.org/michigan-court-anti-transgender-planet-fitness-ruling-11d48ac24db8/ "In ruling against Planet Fitness, Michigan court concludes trans women aren’t women"
August
8/1 (Wed)
- https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/by6chFUHRUX Morbius: truth is the antithesis of freedom
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/08/01/please-evolutionary-psychology-just-fade-away/
- http://timharford.com/2018/07/the-secret-to-happiness-after-the-robot-takeover/ "surely both of them have a point" -- uh, no.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/01/we-are-q-a-deranged-conspiracy-cult-leaps-from-the-internet-to-the-crowd-at-trumps-maga-tour/
- https://www.damemagazine.com/2018/07/30/white-women-arent-afraid-of-black-people-they-want-pretty-power/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
8/2 (Thu)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n69yleebaUc - Richard Carrier's right-wing behavior (he is clearly a liar)
- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/lisa-brennan-jobs-small-fry-steve-jobs-daughter
- https://freedom.press/projects/ - alternative to WikiLeaks
- https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/2/17644878/the-verge-new-york-times-sarah-jeong
- https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/08/02/0057255/canadas-ontario-government-ends-basic-income-project
- https://www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/the-legend-of-c-martin-croker-adult-swim-animator-and-voice-actor-162399.html
8/3 (Fri)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/world/asia/japan-medical-school-test-scores-women.html
- https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/948mfr/12_girls_schools_burnt_down_overnight_in_pakistan/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/3/1785501/-The-Kochs-turned-the-GOP-into-a-crazy-train-then-left-the-keys-where-any-idiot-could-find-them -- the current insanity is the result of deliberate manipulation
- https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/08/03/1716243/fcc-sides-with-google-fiber-over-comcast-with-new-pro-competition-rule
8/4 (Sat)
8/5 (Sun)
- https://weirder.earth/@dzuk/100498202509888162 - Proud Boys member mocked and humiliated
- https://boingboing.net/2018/08/01/fox-friends-edits-video-to-f.html - Mazie Hirono interview deceptively edited
- https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/the-british-heat-wave-and-aerial-archeology - global warming, and some interesting history about inheritance taxes
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/31/a-siege-a-bomb-48-dogs-and-the-black-commune-that-would-not-surrender
8/7 (Tue)
- Fascist attack on Bookmarks bookstore, London UK:
8/8 (Wed)
- https://twitter.com/ewg/status/1025372974730420225 - Russian-English speaker I know confirms that the translation is correct: Trump wants asbestos legal, Russian asbestos manufacturer is using his face on their products
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/georgia-defends-voting-system-despite-243-percent-turnout-in-one-precinct/
- http://digg.com/2018/compulsory-treatment-laws
8/10 (Fri)
- https://twitter.com/WorkersCarolina
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/us/politics/betsy-devos-for-profit-colleges.html
- 2018 Bangladesh road-safety protests - popular demand for more governmental regulation, quashed by governmental tyranny?
- https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/08/10/182223/some-engineers-are-turning-down-tech-recruiters-in-silicon-valley-over-concerns-about-corporate-value -- but do they have good group decisionmaking software so they can quickly reach agreement on their position?
8/11 (Sat)
- https://thinkprogress.org/tom-perez-reverse-fossil-fuel-proposal-e0675b050ec0/
- https://outline.com/hHpLRs - Can Society Scale? NUMTOTS, market urbanism...
8/15 (Wed)
8/18 (Sat)
- https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/08/16/1511251/to-catch-a-robber-the-fbi-attempted-an-unprecedented-grab-for-google-location-data -- at least Google did actually say No.
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/get-psyched/201705/how-violence-spreads-contagious-disease
- https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/15/16144070/psychology-alt-right-unite-the-right
- https://ustodaydotblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/15/paul-ryan-trump-is-simply-trolling-individuals-with-danger-to-strip-trusted-status/ - the can't you take a joke defense
- https://medium.com/@DeoTasDevil/the-rhetoric-tricks-traps-and-tactics-of-white-nationalism-b0bca3caeb84
8/19 (Sun)
- Minimization of Male Suffering: Social Perception of Victims and Perpetrators of Opposite-Sex Sexual Coercion "Studies show equal impact of sexual harassment (SH) on men and women, whereas lay perceptions are that women suffer more."
8/20 (Mon)
8/25 (Sat)
8/29 (Wed)
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich
- https://twitter.com/bornwithatail_/status/1032674364427251712 - Amazon bot army
- https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/08/29/0919244/yahoo-bucking-industry-scans-emails-for-data-to-sell-advertisers
8/31 (Fri)
- https://www.alternet.org/its-not-enough-impeach-trump-his-entire-presidency-should-be-annulled
- https://thinkprogress.org/florida-gop-gubernatorial-nominee-ron-desantis-admin-racist-anti-muslim-facebook-group-6e6d527c6fc2/
September
9/1 (Sat)
- http://inessential.com/2018/08/30/social_media_mobs
- https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/who-is-poppkinkream-the-reddit-user-fighting-for-a-fact-based-internet.html
9/4 (Tue)
- https://sleeping.town/@Zero_Democracy/100668858475348931 - argument against debate
9/5 (Wed)
- https://pdx.social/@neven/100669348040437797 - right-wing disruption of community
9/9 (Sun)
- https://anarchism.space/@b0mb/100694602185019507 - TERF->FART (Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobe)
- https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/09/08/0617219/11m-worth-of-legally-purchased-music-will-be-confiscated-from-floridas-prisoners
9/15 (Sat)
9/17 (Mon)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18004744 - examples of how deteriorating economic conditions lead to right-wing ascendance
9/18 (Tue)
9/19 (Wed)
- https://www.news10.com/news/national/doctors-group-recommends-support-for-transgender-children/1453236542 - medical community support for childhood transition
9/24 (Mon)
9/27 (Thu)
- https://theconversation.com/how-did-public-bathrooms-get-to-be-separated-by-sex-in-the-first-place-59575 - sexism gender segregation bathroom laws
9/28 (Fri)
9/30 (Sun)
- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-ford-kavanaugh-hearings-will-be-remembered-for-their-grotesque-display-of-patriarchal-resentment
- https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1764457033653272&set=a.359457910819865&type=3 - erasure of women
October
10/1 (Mon)
- https://medium.com/embrace-race/when-the-racist-is-someone-you-know-and-love-2933c7049182
- apparently I shared this on FB somewhere too
10/2 (Tue)
- https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/2/17927478/amazon-minimum-wage-15-dollars-increase-bernie-sanders
- https://hackaday.com/2018/10/01/remember-when-blockbuster-video-tried-burning-game-cartridges-on-demand/
10/6 (Sat)
- https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/10/05/0142226/apples-new-proprietary-software-locks-kill-independent-repair-on-new-macbook-pros
- https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/10/03/2215247/new-yorkers-sue-trump-and-fema-to-stop-presidential-alert
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
10/8 (Mon)
- https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/google-plus-shut-down-1202972233/
- https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/
- https://glaceon.social/@mew/100861749573256791
- https://plus.google.com/u/0/112228752403413465744/posts/iNPutmLZfDs?cfem=1
- https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112164273001338979772 - G+ Mass Migration community
- https://qz.com/1417299/google-plus-is-dead-meet-the-educators-and-gamers-in-mourning/
- https://draconicnoble.tumblr.com/post/178856980598/whyyoustabbedme-profitability-war - Amazon drops the other shoe
10/9 (Tue)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N34hehRgw9g - musical snark about how hard it is for males
10/10 (Wed)
- https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/08/google-search-losing-some-adverrtising-business-to-amazon-ad-sources.html?x
- https://www.healio.com/psychiatry/practice-management/news/online/%7Be13d5c23-0f38-49a5-a426-2397600f0715%7D/climate-change-poses-large-scale-threat-to-mental-health
- https://native-land.ca/ - map of Native American territories
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/eff-texas-ag-epson-tricked-its-customers-dangerous-fake-update
10/11 (Thu)
- http://sheisraging.tumblr.com/post/178821095194/this - good points about civility
10/15 (Mon)
10/17 (Wed)
- https://www.themarysue.com/sarah-palin-son-instagram/
- https://www.theroot.com/black-senior-citizens-in-georgia-ordered-off-bus-taking-1829809480
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-rise-of-androgyny-changed-our-passports
10/20 (Sat)
- http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-bet-final-outcome.html - denialists will never admit they've lost
- https://thinkprogress.org/mcconnell-tax-cuts-budget-deficit-debt-very-disturbing-f7d976976996/ - wants to eliminate Social Security and Medicare
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/19/georgia-governor-race-voter-suppression-brian-kemp
- https://hub.toot.cat/display/c82cfd80b6b201366c2f0218b798024d - reasonable arguments against Hillary Clinton
- https://www.metroweekly.com/2018/10/anti-transgender-group-runs-ads-attacking-democratic-candidate-nevada-governor/
- https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/20/politics/gwinnett-county-absentee-ballots/index.html
10/22 (Mon)
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/21/honduran-migrant-caravan-crosses-into-mexico-through-river
- https://www.recode.net/2018/10/16/17966102/facebook-portal-ad-targeting-data-collection
10/23 (Tue)
- Trump vs. trans rights:
- https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/22/18007978/trump-administration-lgbtq-transgender-discrimination-civil-rights
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trump-administration-considering-different-concepts-regarding-transgender-rights-with-some-pushing-back-internally/2018/10/22/0668f4da-d624-11e8-83a2-d1c3da28d6b6_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c178a714fabf
10/26 (Fri)
10/28 (Sun)
- https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/26/he-moved-to-a-jungle-in-india-to-escape-his-student-debt--and-hes-not-alone-.html - student debt
10/29 (Mon)
- https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/8mahdy/peak_trans_vii_tell_your_story_here/ - people who became TERFs (fodder for CWRE)
- https://www.reddit.com/r/GCdebatesQT/ - counterarguments
10/30 (Tue)
- https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/30/politics/donald-trump-ending-birthright-citizenship/index.html
- [1] - wanting to be a girl = being a girl
November
11/1
11/2
- https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-trump-administrations-proposed-redefinition-of-gender-is-scientifically-absurd/?fbclid=IwAR3pOqp_-b6sH4VyNyrLSQj27XykHAXVjUAXybbcKmgU8biEcPYMD0sw-gc
- https://tooot.im/@OpenCulture/100994463685236030 - female samurai warriors (erasure of women?)
- https://apple.slashdot.org/story/18/11/01/185225/apple-amazon-google-and-more-than-50-other-companies-sign-letter-against-trump-administrations-proposed-gender-definition-changes
- https://twitter.com/BrianKarem/status/1058094174229147649
11/3
- https://www.thecut.com/amp/2018/11/google-walkout-organizers-explain-demands.html?__twitter_impression=true
- Kavanaugh videos:
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvyHQdSo9kFkYIhrZgiaF9g - Marsy's Law advocacy
- GOPish on Trump:
- https://saywhat-politics.tumblr.com/post/179681194313/conservatives-make-their-closing-arguments-for
- https://www.mediaite.com/tv/ex-goper-steve-schmidt-trump-didnt-mail-the-bombs-but-the-bomber-actualized-his-clear-intent/
- https://thehill.com/homenews/media/413581-scarborough-if-you-dont-vote-next-tuesday-just-keep-your-mouth-shut-about
- https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/you-can-t-be-never-trump-be-republican-why-former-ncna922966
- https://saywhat-politics.tumblr.com/post/179681194313/conservatives-make-their-closing-arguments-for
- https://vulpine.club/@slightlyflightyone/101007423997963121 - ethical issues with Picarto
11/5
- https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46055595 - slave labor trains corporate AI
- https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2011/04/a_trip_to_the_oregon_dmv.html - results of anti-immigrant fervor
11/6
- https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2018/11/05/dallas-jailers-ordered-transgenderwoman-show-genitals-lawsuit-says
- https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/failing-little-dam-in-arlington-points-to-big-dam-problems-for-texas-11323003 - problems with deregulation
11/7
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-declines-to-stop-climate-change-lawsuit-filed-by-young-activists-2018-11-03/
- https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2018-elections/2018/11/06/democratic-blue-wave-makes-landfall-dallas-county-texas-house-races
11/8
- https://politics.slashdot.org/story/18/11/06/0233208/voting-machine-manual-instructed-election-officials-to-use-weak-passwords
- https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/11/07/1444245/san-francisco-passes-a-first-of-its-kind-tax-on-big-businesses-to-help-the-homeless
11/9
- https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-trump-administrations-proposed-redefinition-of-gender-is-scientifically-absurd/
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46147137?
- https://splinternews.com/the-white-house-is-spreading-actual-fake-news-to-make-t-1830304999
- https://abc11.com/news/new-evidence-of-voter-fraud-in-nc-alleged/23005
11/10
- https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/9/18079720/trump-election-fraud-florida-senate-vote-recount
- https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/11/2/18053418/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-google-deepmind-openai
11/11
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-science-takes-so-long-catch-up-traditional-knowledge-180968216/
- Some right-wing blather:
11/12
11/13
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeP9XHE2560 - voter fraud fraud
11/14
- https://www.pslweb.org/ - Party for Socialism & Liberation
11/16
- https://enoughisenough14.org/2018/05/18/noborders-the-insanity-of-border-policing/ - refugees happen because we plunder resources; it's only fair that we should let them in to where the plundered resources are being used.
11/17
- https://splinternews.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-pushes-back-on-establishment-d-1830478181
- https://splinternews.com/house-democrats-balk-at-prospect-of-being-good-1830500527
- https://www.eff.org/takedowns/sony-finally-admits-it-doesnt-own-bach-and-it-only-took-public-pressure
- https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/11/property-tax-dark-store-theory-retail-apocalypse-walmart/574123/ -- corporate welfare
11/24
- https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/science/climate-change-threatens-worlds-coffee-supply-report-says.html - effects of global warming
11/26
11/28
- https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/401046-ocasio-cortez-medicare-for-all-not-a-pipe-dream -- good response
11/29
December
12/2
- https://grist.org/article/we-broke-down-what-climate-change-will-do-region-by-region/ - effects of climate change
12/7
- https://www.vox.com/2018/12/4/18124120/tumblr-porn-adult-content-ban-user-backlash
- http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-disease/
12/9
12/12
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/12/absentee-ballot-fraud-north-carolina-racism
- https://toot.cat/@ruby/101228777490064951
- possibly related:
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/06/north-carolina-democrat-withdraws-concession-congress
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/05/north-carolina-election-still-undecided-amid-absentee-ballot-inquiry
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/28/north-carolina-must-fix-republican-gerrymander-before-midterms
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/15/confederate-statue-toppled-in-north-carolina-during-anti-racism-rally
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/30/roy-cooper-north-carolina-governor-elect-lawsuit-powers
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/16/north-carolina-republican-party-headquarters-attack
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/26/north-carolina-judge-transgender-bathrooms-identity-choice
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/10/dolly-parton-north-carolina-bathroom-bill
12/14
- https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/kansas-lawmaker-switches-parties-over-gop-s-absurd-lgbtq-platform-n947746
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/12/14/1819258/-Federal-judge-in-Texas-strikes-down-Affordable-Care-Act
12/15
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0757-z
- "quantifying this difference and the yields at which the balance changes requires a common metric that factors in different outputs, emissions from different agricultural inputs (such as fertilizer) and the different productive potentials of land due to physical factors such as rainfall or soils."
- Note "emissions" from fertilizer -- not the effects of producing them.
- Synthetic fertilizer is made from oil.(edited)
- Sure, spending that extra energy means we can get higher yields per hectare -- but what happens when it runs out?
- RationalWiki says "Depending on the type of agriculture, organic agriculture can be more or less polluting than conventional agriculture. In the debate on how to combat global warming the debate should go beyond conventional vs. organic and start by finding specific solutions to specific problems." https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Organic_food#Global_warming(edited)
- https://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/chalmers/pressreleases/organic-food-worse-for-the-climate-2813280
- https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/a5ykty/organically_farmed_food_has_a_bigger_climate/
- Is there even such a thing as an organic pesticide?
- Organic pesticide on Wikipedia redirects to "Pesticide", and the only uses of organic I see (not doing a thorough search) are the chemical sense of "organic", meaning "containing carbon".
- It would appear that organic farming does not use organic pesticides, and the person who made that comment (who claims to be a "conservation biologist") is at best very confused.
- Is there even such a thing as an organic pesticide?
- https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/a5ykty/organically_farmed_food_has_a_bigger_climate/
- note also that we're comparing "organic farming" to "conventional farming", where advocates of the former are at least concerned about the environment, while the latter is primarily about short-term profit and therefore fundamentally anti-environment.
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479712004264 - seems to be a good summary
- I also forgot to note the soil-conservation aspect of organic -- conventional methods tend to destroy soil's fertility, and I have to wonder if the "organic is sometimes worse" studies take this into effect.
- "quantifying this difference and the yields at which the balance changes requires a common metric that factors in different outputs, emissions from different agricultural inputs (such as fertilizer) and the different productive potentials of land due to physical factors such as rainfall or soils."
12/16
- https://twitter.com/smegandhead/status/1074060533152841728 - illustrating the sharp contrast between letting trans children transition and how they used to be treated
12/18
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/13/secret-volunteers-welfare-state-biscuit-fund?
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/10/tackle-climate-or-face-financial-crash-say-worlds-biggest-investors
12/19
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/12/18/1819987/-Verizon-lays-off-close-to-7-of-their-workforce-because-winning
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-privacy.html
12/23
- https://hyperallergic.com/437361/wake-rebecca-hall-women-slave-revolts/?fbclid=IwAR1jDtxwCVJeTFLVrDAgvKhjec-yNnD0KpDE5DAcp4iHmEarmg_fysS-0XY - erasure of women
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y1xJAVZxXg - John Oliver on televangelism, Robert Tilton
12/24
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/11/google-tvc-full-time-employees-training-document
- https://awoo.space/@typhlosion/101294809964705741 - callout culture, rumor-spreading
- https://www.quora.com/How-did-society-shift-so-abruptly-to-a-politically-correct-culture-Everyone-was-saying-whatever-they-wanted-and-no-one-would-bat-an-eye-but-now-everythings-a-micro-aggression/answer/Peter-Kruger - political correctness, privilege
- https://mastodon.social/@caraellison/101222834106839436 "Society didn't change. Your awareness of it did."
12/28
- https://theweek.com/articles/789287/good-bad-ugly-englands-universal-healthcare-system
- https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/26/18156326/north-carolina-9th-district-election-voter-fraud-hearing - election fraud
- "if you want to see global capitalism at its near-worst just look up luxottica, and don't be distracted by their talk about them having the market cornered on frames. that is far from the worst practice luxottica has as a company. and now that it's merged with Essilor, the largest producer of lenses in the world, it's pretty much unstoppable. I'm pretty sure the reason no expose beyond the most superficial has been done on Luxottica is because they will carpet bomb you in court with pockets so deep you could step into them here and emerge in China."