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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://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/11/im-not-a-big-fan-of-the-lobsterians/ - Jordan Peterson, evolution, dominance hierarchies
- 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://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/06/04/the-message-of-feminism-is-what/ - fake feminism, Cathy Young, Jordan Peterson
- https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/100146851126003610
- bell hooks: "feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression."
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/08/26/there-are-such-things-as-stupid-questions/ - more about feminism from 2014
- 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."