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* https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-cars-divide-america - [[car wars]] | * https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-cars-divide-america - [[car wars]] | ||
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| + | ** "Policy is often driven by exceptional events, like the FBI's desire to break the encryption on the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone. (The [[PATRIOT Act]] is the most egregious example I can think of.)" | ||
| + | ** Policy is very slow to respond to technological change. "It's like tortoises and hummingbirds." | ||
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Revision as of 18:15, 21 February 2020
January
01/01 (Wed)
01/02 (Thu)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-war-game-that-could-have-ended-the-world - another almost-war that happened right after Petrov Day; Able Archer
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/everyone-hates-open-offices-here-s-why-they-still-exist
- https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2020/01/new-civil-fosta-lawsuits-push-expansive-legal-theories-against-unexpected-defendants-guest-blog-post.htm
- 2015-03-17 Pulling Back the Curtain on Airport Security: Can a Weapon Get Past TSA?
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/after-turbotax-shenanigans-irs-floats-possibility-of-offering-rival-service/
AU fire crisis
- Australia bushfires: Traffic jam as thousands flee "tourist leave zone" - but I guess we're not supposed to call it a "climate emergency" because that might hurt the conservatives' feelings
- one comment:
How dumb are you people?
It is NOT global warming that caused this. It was the green activists who made it law for Australians not to be allowed to clear the overburden of dry wood that builds up every year. A man started this fire, he has been arrested.. he was trying to ‘protect his marijuana plants’ by burning 5000 acres and then when the wind picked up it was unstoppable.
You people are delusional.
- a little research finds that "According to Scientific American, the link between the 2019 extreme bushfire season and anthropogenic climate change is scientifically undisputable."
- 2019-12-31 Australia’s Angry Summer: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like
- 2019-11-12 Factcheck: Is there really a green conspiracy to stop bushfire hazard reduction? - No.
- "Blaming 'greenies' for stopping these important measures is a familiar, populist, but basically untrue claim." - Greg Mullins, former NSW fire and rescue commissioner
- The Greens have never been in power, so how could they have set policy?
- The Greens support what the claim says they oppose.
- NSW government has an entire web site about climate change, Understand climate change: "Temperature and rainfall fluctuate greatly, with large variability in seasonal and regional climatic conditions bringing heatwaves, storms, droughts, floods and bushfires, which can have devastating effects on the environment, human life and property."
- The propaganda:
- 2019-11-12 Barnaby Joyce defends comments that fire victims were likely Greens voters
- 2019-03-05 Green ideology, not climate change, makes bushfires worse - but they don't link to any sources, or even provide any quotes, for "green ideology"
- is that VFFD even real? The two known VFDs for NSW are Template:L/mw and Fire and Rescue NSW
01/03 (Fri)
- Holograms, Lasers & Boredom; the CED's march towards eventual invention: an example of how large endeavors go awry because people can't agree on things -- even without disinformation being injected
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/03/i-thought-the-soy-boy-nonsense-had-run-its-course/
- https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/baghdad-airport-strike-live-intl-hnk/h_3615c6d58cbd56d14338a9358d1d8900
01/04 (Sat)
01/05 (Sun)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-surprising-reason-people-change-their-minds - implications for InstaGov
- https://www.vox.com/world/2020/1/3/21047989/iran-general-killed-qassem-soleimani-world-war-3
- https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/education/magnet-schools-college-admissions-scandal-booker-t-dallas/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/4/1909418/-Mike-Pence-demonstrates-vividly-just-how-much-contempt-he-holds-for-the-American-public - includes a bit of 9/11 non-trivia
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/4/1909376/-Trump-was-presented-multiple-options-in-Iraq-He-chose-them-all-including-the-worst
- https://twitter.com/tommchenry/status/1203425292188041216 - "proud to honor" cartoon, authoritarian followership
- Man gets history lesson after moaning about a woman fighting with a sword in The Witcher - Andrew Klavan
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/4/1909410/-Putin-is-Not-Happy-With-His-Puppet
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/5/1909531/-Top-Iranian-adviser-says-Iran-will-respond-militarily-to-death-of-Soleimani-calls-this-a-war
01/06 (Mon)
- https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/01/what-caused-opioid-epidemic/604330/ - seems likely it's both job-loss and pharma-driven overprescription
- https://www.newsweek.com/nathan-pyle-abortion-controversy-strange-planet-comic-twitter-tweet-alien-1392353 - this seems to have the most info on the whole Nathan-Pyle-pro-life drama
- https://myasstodon.xyz/@Bashabez/103437131467067408 - comments on a Bernie Sanders town hall & native Americans
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/6/1909714/-Pelosi-announces-war-powers-resolution-as-Trump-tries-to-bypass-Congress-and-start-war-with-Iran
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/3/1909069/-Virginia-governor-asks-legislature-to-remove-traitor-s-statue-from-U-S-Capitol
- https://therealnews.com/stories/iraqi-protesters-storm-the-american-embassy-in-baghdad-but-theres-more-to-the-story
- https://therealnews.com/columns/soleimanis-assassination-brings-us-closer-to-war-with-iran
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/6/1909740/-Republicans-try-to-use-Trump-s-Iran-conflict-to-derail-impeachment-because-of-course
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/5/1909619/-Pompeo-Awaiting-the-Rapture-Pushed-Trump-to-Strike-Iranian-General-Soleimani
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/6/1909746/-Defense-Secretary-s-chief-of-staff-tenders-resignation-as-Trump-team-moves-towards-war
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/06/us-allies-trump-suleimani-killing-reaction-response
- https://twitter.com/paulmcleary/status/1214297036566253571 - us troop withdrawal announcement was a clerical error
- https://twitter.com/rhinosoros/status/1214246027127119872 - private equity and the coming crash
- http://www.thehofellerfiles.com/
01/07 (Tue)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/01/04/1909360/-What-Would-Our-World-Be-Like-Today-If-Exxon-Had-Told-The-TruthA-Case-Of-Failed-Leadership
- https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/us-iran-soleimani-tensions-intl-01-07-20
01/08 (Wed)
- 2020 Iranian attack on U.S. forces in Iraq
- https://splinternews.com/meet-the-woke-misogynist-1793859082
- https://twitter.com/RayBoomhower/status/1212691781680283648 “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” Isaac Asimov
- https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/05/alarming-iranian-americans-reportedly-detained-asked-about-political-views-us-border
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/7/1910005/-Elizabeth-Warren-shuts-down-Meghan-McCain-s-whiny-Republican-talking-point-nonsense
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/7/1910019/-Donald-Trump-talked-with-Saudi-officials-about-Iran-and-why-didn-t-we-know-that
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/7/1909976/-Assassinating-Soleimani-was-illogical-and-will-of-course-backfire-on-America
01/09 (Thu)
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-disability-benefits_n_5e14b935c5b6c7b859d17b97
- https://threader.app/thread/1214891868451938304 - a very plausible theory about what's going on, and how to fight it
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/disinformation-for-hire-black-pr-firms - disinformation
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/8/1910217/-Why-Trump-s-revealing-that-the-United-States-is-developing-hypersonic-missiles-is-a-very-big-deal
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/8/1910265/-After-insulting-briefing-at-least-two-Republican-senators-to-vote-to-limit-Trump-s-Iran-actions
- https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/02/amazon-threatens-to-fire-employees-who-speak-out-on-climate-change.html - more suppression of climate speech
- http://www.startribune.com/for-tech-weary-midwest-farmers-40-year-old-tractors-now-a-hot-commodity/566737082/ - capitalist "innovation" is parasitical
- https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-01-07/major-union-launches-campaign-to-organize-video-game-and-tech-workers
- List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
- https://www.outsports.com/2019/12/18/21028032/new-hampshire-washington-georgia-tennessee-missouri-restrict-transgender-athletes-sports
01/10 (Fri)
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/misleading-political-ads-are-the-users-problem-to-avoid-facebook-says/ - errorism by Facebook & the Trump administration: "Our ads are always accurate, so it's good that Facebook won't limit political messages." If their ads are always accurate, they would want inaccurate ads from their competition to be checked. (Also, note the co-opting of liberal terminology: "more involved in the process", "voter suppression", "uneven playing field".)
- https://twitter.com/fodderfigure/status/1215641761902747649 - actual autistic people do not overwhelmingly prefer "person-first language", though a few do prefer it. Workers should ask what the individual prefers.
- https://twitter.com/MAGAIsDead/status/1214709952775892993 - Trump regret
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/9/1910433/-Former-Trump-housekeeper-slams-Ivanka-Trump-s-pro-immigrant-talk-Like-her-father-she-is-a-liar
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/9/1910465/-Governor-under-fire-after-predicting-a-black-senator-will-launch-a-thousand-years-of-darkness
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/9/1910459/-Pete-Buttigieg-s-race-problems-are-a-lot-worse-than-anyone-outside-South-Bend-thought
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/10/1910517/-AZ-s-own-Republican-snowflake-wages-war-on-sex-education-and-the-word-homosexuality
01/11 (Sat)
- https://www.pinterest.com/pin/629659591639136706/ "Kaylen Ward has reportedly raised more than $700,000 in just two days after she asked fans to give $10 to charity in exchange for nudes"
- me on Facebook:
CNN, Jan 10: "Instagram and its parent company Facebook are removing posts that voice support for slain Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani..." https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/tech/instagram-iran-soleimani-posts/index.html
Me, Jan. 7: The US attack on General Soleimani disgusts me. We are a rogue nation now, and deserve any retaliation we get. Unfortunately, the troops are bearing the brunt and they largely do not deserve to have been put in the position they're in, following the orders of our insane leader. https://twitter.com/Woozalia/status/1214723434942533633
(Once again, the Right's silence on this proves that they only care about "free speech" when it's *their* speech being suppressed. #errorism)
- https://twitter.com/shava23/status/1215825286744330240 - false claim against AOC debunked
- https://www.quora.com/q/gmxbrurjysxqbumi - South Africa, pollution, Eskom, coal power
- https://www.propublica.org/article/how-trump-trade-war-is-making-lobbyists-rich-and-slamming-small-businesses - more Trump regret
- https://www.georgetakei.com/bruce-griffey-trans-sports-bill-2644666240.html - transmisia, errorism
01/12 (Sun)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/10/1910796/-Rachel-Maddow-Rips-NY-Times-on-Hillary-Coverage
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/college-wealth-premium-collapsed/604579/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/tax-patriarchy/601864/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/why-financial-confessionals-viral/600358/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/cancel-billionaires/599587/ - "A growing body of economic and political-science research demonstrates that Gilded Age–type inequality does not just mean having too many with too little. It is warping the very social fabric of the country, stifling mobility, innovation, investment, and growth, and putting the country at political risk." "Wealth inequality, in other words, is an anti-democratic force."
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/17/1644618/-The-photo-of-a-regretful-Trump-supporter-is-going-viral-on-Twitter-on-Donald-s-own-playing-field - more Trump regret
- http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html - global warming/effects/expected
- https://twitter.com/xenophrenia/status/1216812707535577088 - Elizabeth Warren smears Bernie Sanders?
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY-HOYTz-rs - climate denialism in Erik the Viking
01/14 (Tue)
- https://longreads.com/2020/01/10/the-price-of-dominionist-theology/
- https://boingboing.net/2020/01/14/dead-on-arrival-2.html
- https://marker.medium.com/the-man-whos-spending-1-billion-to-own-every-pop-song-75df0024155b
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-forgotten-life-of-einstein-s-first-wife - erasure of women
01/15 (Wed)
- https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/796329598/cancelling-student-debt-is-easier-than-it-sounds
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/15/1910907/-Australian-fires-may-have-opened-the-gates-of-hell-by-changing-the-globe-s-climate-patterns
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/14/1911575/-I-Wrote-My-Senator-Requesting-a-Fair-Impeachment-Trail-with-Witnesses-etc-Here-s-his-reply
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/2/1908694/-It-s-degenerative-dementia-as-well-as-malignant-narcissism-And-the-public-tipping-point-is-coming -- actually, I don't think he is changing the subject; he just started on one rote thing and then realized it was inappropriate and segued to a related rote topic. This doesn't prove he's demented; he just doesn't care about coming across as sane.
- That said, the preponderance of small bits of supporting evidence is starting to make a good case.
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/15/1911693/-Kentucky-mom-says-Christian-school-expelled-daughter-over-photo-with-rainbow-cake-and-sweater - yes, Virginia, homomisia is still a thing
01/16 (Thu)
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/15/warren-sanders-debate-audio-transcript
- https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/01/12/iran-middle-eastern-problem-soleimani-figured-out-097350
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911841/-Wisconsin-Court-of-Appeals-reverses-course-on-voter-purge
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/15/1911539/-Democrats-file-ethics-complaint-over-Republican-trackers-roaming-House-halls
- https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/02/the-costs-of-inequality-increasingly-its-the-rich-and-the-rest/
- https://twitter.com/ToddVierling/status/1210269371928580096 - homomisia is still a thing
- https://twitter.com/ToddVierling/status/1209200245181222912 - good criticism of UBI
- https://twitter.com/ToddVierling/status/1197721567708536833 - anti-transition bill in SC
- https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/12/politics/oregon-joins-national-popular-vote-compact/index.html
- https://www.businessinsider.com/what-us-cities-looked-like-before-epa-regulated-pollution-2019-8?
- https://www.facebook.com/dasmith88/posts/10218622104637458 - pro-Trump denialism in the comments
- https://www.commondreams.org/views/2011/08/06/30-years-ago-day-middle-class-died
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911814/-As-the-far-right-prepares-for-a-Boogaloo-Virginia-governor-declares-emergency
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911747/-Racist-dog-whistle-sounded-to-justify-having-homeless-moms-stormed-evicted-from-vacant-Oakland-home
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911941/-David-Attenborough-Warns-We-Have-Reached-Moment-of-Crisis-on-Global-Warming
- https://slate.com/technology/2020/01/evil-list-tech-companies-dangerous-amazon-facebook-google-palantir.html
- https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-plus-history-death/283685/ -- repeats the "Google+ is an identity service" lie
01/17 (Fri)
- https://twitter.com/catdana2/status/1215617610840268800 -- ad requesting fake supporters for Trump rally
- https://abcnews.go.com/Health/single-payer-save-country-money-health-care-costs/story - we already knew this, but here it is again
01/18 (Sat)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/18/only-stupid-hurtful-memes-about-trans-people-are-allowed/ - the whole "Identify as an Attack Helicopter" fiction kerfuffle
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/17/1912205/-Do-not-adjust-your-radio-We-are-controlling-transmission-Russian-propaganda-buys-hours-of-time - "conservatism" is now literally rebroadcasting Russian propaganda
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/17/1912142/-I-just-read-Leonnig-and-Rucker-s-Wash-Post-article-four-times-and-I-wish-all-of-you-could-read-it
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/17/1912176/-New-info-emerges-explaining-why-Tillerson-called-Trump-a-f-ing-moron
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/trump-remorseless-advocate-crimes-against-humanity.html
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/america-home-of-the-transactional-marriage
- https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780465042333 "Losing Ground (by Charles Murray) argues that the ambitious social programs of the1960s and 1970s actually made matters worse for its supposed beneficiaries, the poor and minorities."
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-doomsday-glacier
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/13/1910718/-Not-OK-Racists-cynically-market-hate-by-hijacking-mainstream-symbolism
01/20 (Mon)
- https://twitter.com/voodoo_soviet/status/1218610820197834752/photo/1 - violent eviction in Palm Beach
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911926/-Rand-Paul-threatens-fellow-Republicans-if-they-vote-against-an-impeachment-trial-cover-up
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/20/flying-homosexual-chemtrail-fire-ants/ - insane right-wing site
- https://mastodon.cloud/@FerdiZ/103518231663076977 - legality is not a good guide to morality
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/extinction-rebellion-greenpeace-cnd-counter-terror-prevent-document-a9289476.html
01/21 (Tue)
- https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/41
- https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/500m-People-Worldwide-Struggle-to-Find-Adequate-Paid-Work-Study-20200120-0008.html
- https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/01/15/the-myth-of-self-reliance/ - self-reliance
- https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1ZK1CT
- https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-48885846 - NO/prison system (aka Norwegian prison system)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/exit-interview-i-was-a-black-female-thru-hiker-on-the-appalachian-trail - racism: still not dead
01/22 (Wed)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/22/now-im-physically-incapable-of-seeing-richard-jewell-because-of-all-the-projectile-vomiting/ - George Zimmerman, American Thinker
- https://www.burnsfordurham.com/
- Native Americans did not make large-scale changes to environment prior to European contact
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/21/1913060/-Lindsey-Graham-s-2020-opponent-releases-impeachment-statement-using-Lindsey-Graham-s-own-exact-quote - Republican hypocrisy (again), Lindsey Graham
01/23 (Thu)
- https://news.sky.com/story/simon-pegg-tax-millionaires-more-to-tackle-inequality-11915551 - the rich are saying "please tax us" in increasing numbers
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/23/wwii-was-comprehensible-as-adaptations-of-the-lineages-in-question-christ/ - Darwinian reductionism
- Prison time for Insys bosses puts opioid makers on notice
- https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/23/health/transgender-puberty-blockers-suicide-study/index.html
- https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/23/21078903/podcast-house-antitrust-chairman-cicilline-tech-monopoly-vergecast
01/24 (Fri)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913562/-Ocasio-Cortez-dismisses-calls-for-civility-I-feel-a-need-for-all-of-us-to-breathe-fire
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913482/-Indiana-Legislators-Propose-Making-Abortion-Murder-Arresting-Judges-Who-Strike-Down-Law - Curt Nisly
- "The proposed new law, in an apparent attempt to thwart any constitutional challenges, proclaims that the state will ignore any federal rulings striking down the law."
- "under the new law, the very act of trying to undermine the legislation now becomes a crime."
- So much for free speech under the GOP.
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913522/-Bank-calls-police-on-black-man-trying-to-deposit-checks-from-racial-discrimination-settlement - but racism is over
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913555/-Update-Navajos-Apaches-Working-to-Deny-Trump-Arizona-s-11-Electoral-Votes
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913532/-Trump-regime-finalizes-move-allowing-pollution-and-destruction-of-wetlands-protected-by-Obama-rule
- https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/23/21078828/report-saudi-arabia-hack-jeff-bezos-phone-fti-consulting
01/25 (Sat)
- https://www.propublica.org/article/9-11-investigation-saudi-connections-operation-encore-fbi - investigation of the 9-11/Saudi Arabia connection
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/25/goodbye-facebook-friends-up-yours-facebook/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/25/rainbows-are-so-wicked-and-perverted/ - but we shouldn't be afraid of religion, and also the Right supports free speech
- https://theintercept.com/2020/01/18/ozone-layer-epa-united-states-pollution/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/25/1913264/--Home-Now-Somali-refugees-forge-new-lives-and-transform-a-dying-Maine-town
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/24/1913821/-Mike-Pompeo-got-backed-into-a-corner-about-Marie-Yovanovitch-during-NPR-interview
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/24/1913880/-Evangelical-Christian-s-song-about-the-betrayal-he-feels-from-evangelical-Trump-support-goes-viral
01/26 (Sun)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/25/1913622/-Evangelical-scammers-praise-Trump-for-hastening-the-end-of-the-world-Well-they-re-not-wrong
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/24/1913752/--Right-matters-and-the-truth-matters-Read-Adam-Schiff-s-history-making-impeachment-trial-speech
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/25/1914023/-Pompeo-responds-to-reports-of-rage-filled-tirade-against-reporter-with-lie-filled-statement
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/03/19/1750281/-Former-congressman-says-hes-had-enough,-publicly-resigns-from-the-Republican-party-over-Trump
- https://www.sfgate.com/business/technology/article/Nonprofits-worry-sale-of-dot-org-universe-will-15000509.php "They said in a statement that prices will remain low, the registry's managers will stay in place and the infusion of capital will ensure the long-term growth of dot-org."
01/27 (Mon)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/26/1914292/-Trump-s-Inner-Mob-Boss-Emerges-with-Alarming-New-Threats-to-Politicians-and-the-Press
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914375/-The-Big-Dog-Problem -- the "big dog" metaphor for handling unwanted privilege in a kind way
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation
- https://blob.cat/objects/c4d90bdd-c1ea-46d7-9342-ea31efb65ebd - "Reminder that Switzerland dominates world pharmaceuticals because they didn't implement a patent system for medicine while everyone around them did."
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914492/-Washington-Post-suspends-reporter-for-pointing-out-that-Kobe-Bryant-was-not-a-god - WaPo silencing of discussion of rape
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914384/-Why-I-left-Team-Warren-and-why-I-am-back
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914475/--Get-your-facts-straight-Chris-Wallace-gets-testy-with-Fox-News-pundit-s-spin-on-Bolton
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914444/--I-am-now-proudly-a-registered-Democrat-standing-with-the-Constitution-ILeftTheGOP-goes-viral
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-grim-conclusions-of-the-largest-ever-study-of-fake-news
01/28 (Tue)
- temporarily embarrassed millionaires:
- https://jacobinmag.com/2018/05/americans-class-politics-piston
- http://www.temporarilyembarrassedmillionaires.org/ - quote is actually somewhat misattributed -- it's similar to something Steinbeck once wrote, but what's quoted is a paraphrasing of that by someone else in 2004
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/28/china-a-major-polluter-of-the-scientific-literature/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913517/-Anti-trans-bill-that-hurts-both-patients-and-doctors-passes-committee-vote-8-5-in-South-Dakota
- The bill, known as HB 1057, makes it a misdemeanor crime for physicians (though not nurses or medical assistants) to perform these medical procedures on people under 16 years old. The stakes are high, as the bill argues for the punishment of up to a year in jail and a fine not exceeding $2,000 for doctors, reports The Washington Post. An earlier version of this bill wanted to make it a felony.
- Mind you, a new study in the medical journal Pediatrics just came out today on the topic of transgender youth and puberty blockers. The findings? Transgender youth who are able to access puberty blockers report lower levels of mental health issues, including suicidal ideation.
- Republican Rep. Fred Deutsch, who sponsored the bill, incorrectly suggests such treatments are "harmful" for youth. He also took to Twitter to suggest this is all about "protecting children."
- https://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/we-re-nearing-a-tipping-point-for-renewable-energy-legislators/article_aa524556-7677-5207-9e42-f1e2d3655027.html via"South Carolina state [Republican] Sen. Tom Davis urged the nonprofit groups Conservatives for Clean Energy and Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy to consider what the two states might accomplish in tandem [...] noting that goals would include "breaking down territorial monopolies"..." -- thing to watch for: arguments that regulation causes monopolies, therefore we need less regulation so there can be more competition
- https://www.ncwarn.org/2020/01/big-fight-over-duke-monopoly/
- https://www.ncwarn.org/2020/01/lawmakers-utility-reform-plans-would-target-duke-energy-dominion-monopolies/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/28/dishing-out-all-the-dirt/ - Richard Carrier, speech suppression, Lawrence Lessig
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914511/-UH-OH-Trump-s-Favorite-FOX-News-Shills-Admit-He-Extorted-Ukraine-to-Smear-Joe-Biden
01/29 (Wed)
01/30 (Thu)
- https://twitter.com/ThePoke/status/1222828964890189825 - snark about the Brexit bus
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/29/1914970/-Kamala-has-Trump-s-Access-Hollywood-comment-read-into-Impeachment-record-by-Chief-Justice-Roberts
01/31 (Fri)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/30/1915083/-Alan-Dershowitz-jumps-in-to-attack-the-ridiculous-theories-of-legal-muttonhead-Alan-Dershowitz
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/30/1915171/-Rand-Paul-continues-his-efforts-to-get-the-Ukraine-whistleblower-killed
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/30/1915127/-Why-has-this-not-made-news-Protestors-swarm-the-Senate-Capitol
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/31/1915456/-Murkowski-embraces-the-cover-up-In-her-own-words-There-will-be-no-fair-trial-in-the-Senate
- https://www.vox.com/2018/10/22/18009020/transgender-children-teens-transition-detransition-puberty-blocking-medication
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/congress-must-stop-graham-blumenthal-anti-security-bill
- https://mastodon.social/@eff/103580605055036930
- https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/31/earn-it-act-bill-would-limit-encryption/
- https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/31/21116788/earn-it-act-section-230-lindsey-graham-draft-bill-encryption
- https://www.macobserver.com/link/lindsey-graham-draft-bill-encryption/
- https://it.slashdot.org/story/20/01/31/210255/a-new-bill-could-punish-web-platforms-for-using-end-to-end-encryption
- https://pressfrom.info/us/news/science-and-technology/-385091-draft-bill-could-penalize-companies-for-using-end-to-end-encryption.html
February
02/01 (Sat)
- https://www.gem.wiki/Main_Page - Global Energy Monitor wiki (offshoot of SourceWatch)
02/03 (Mon)
02/05 (Wed)
02/06 (Thu)
02/07 (Fri)
- https://darkest-timeline.com/@paranoid/102885848775657342 - cartoon explaining how profit is theft
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/06/gitlab_sales_women/ - GitLab being problematic again
- https://twitter.com/degendering/status/1225551116101918720 - joingiggle.com uses problematic gender-determination software
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-03/climate-models-are-running-red-hot-and-scientists-don-t-know-why -- this article keeps talking about temperature-rise projections but never mentions what the time-frame is
02/08 (Sat)
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/technology-51413724 - Apple caught slowing down old iPhones
- https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/12/20/16800058/apple-iphone-slow-fix-battery-life-capacity - this is a bit more HTYPish, but related
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/6/1917311/-Racist-website-lays-off-staff-because-no-one-wants-to-give-it-money
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/tulsi-gabbard-votes-present-trump-impeachment-articles-n1104301 - Tulsi Gabbard did not vote to impeach
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/7/1917330/--He-broke-America-the-meme-about-Mitch-McConnell-s-tombstone-that-keeps-grasping-social-media
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/7/1917461/-Susan-Collins-now-a-national-laughingstock-has-concerns
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/7/1917546/-GOP-sending-out-fake-Census-mailers-to-trick-Americans-into-handing-over-their-money-data
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-04/no-city-hates-its-landlords-like-berlin-does - why is landlording even a thing in the first place? (...aside from feudalism, I mean)
- https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/02/07/Second-Raid-Wetsuweten/ - pipelines over people again
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2020-candidate-pete-buttigieg-troubled-by-clemency-for-chelsea-manning/ - Buttigieg doesn't support whistleblowing
- https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/yes-free-will-exists/ - presumably the cited items have definitions of free will in them, somewhere?
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/7/1917643/-Carville-gets-it-right - James Carville on the 2020 election
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/5/1916988/-Romney-made-history-He-also-changed-the-news-cycle-and-the-anti-GOP-ads-to-come-in-2020
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/1/1915676/-Why-Jonathan-Turley-isn-t-just-wrong-about-the-House-impeachment-but-dangerously-wrong
02/09 (Sun)
- https://www.quora.com/Why-do-evangelicals-like-President-Trump/answer/Ryan-Overbeek-1 - what happened to evangelism in the 1980s/90s, and why they seem to ignore the New Testament
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2020/02/03/eco-anxiety-is-overwhelming-kids-wheres-line-between-education-alarmism - there's some kind of blame-shifting or subject-shifting going on here, but I'm not exactly sure what. global warming eco-anxiety
02/10 (Mon)
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51449739 - more US domestic atrocities
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/10/1917480/-Why-birth-strikes-aren-t-the-right-way-to-end-the-climate-crisis - at least the idea is finally being talked about
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/people-s-fears-about-vaccines-aren-t-just-about-vaccines - (unread) hopefully this makes my point about lack of transparency, accountability, & patient agency in the medical practice
02/11 (Tue)
- https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51446463 - UK Post Office corruption
- https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/11/high-court-rules-aboriginal-australians-are-not-aliens-under-the-constitution-and-cannot-be-deported - the fact that this was even a question... :rageface:
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/10/1918326/-Mike-Bloomberg-secret-racist-tape-worse-than-you-think
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/10/1917534/-For-shame-Washington-Post-and-all-the-other-reputable-newsgroups-that-misled-the-public-last-week - WaPo badly misrepresents what happened
02/12 (Wed)
- https://www.quora.com/Would-you-allow-your-14-year-old-to-have-a-sleepover-with-their-significant-other-Why/answer/Mel-Kartmazov - how abstinence-based education and other parental attempts to prevent teen sex can backfire
- https://www.liberationnews.org/los-angeles-palestineans-and-supporters-reject-trump-and-netanyahus-joke-of-the-century/
- https://fox59.com/2018/07/31/no-more-snow-days-school-district-replaces-wintry-days-off-with-online-classes/ (region-locked; archive) - this is half a good idea. What do students with no internet do when a storm unexpectedly closes school?
- for CWRE: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MythsAboutGenderRoles
- https://github.com/shinigami-eyes/shinigami-eyes/issues/18 -- good example of a discussion crying out for InstaGov
- https://twitter.com/NightinGem/status/1227738708306055168 "shin/igami eyes is owned/operated by laurelai bailey..." which is a valid conflict-of-interest point, but then it goes straight into ad hominem
02/13 (Thu)
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-man-blocked-uk-home-office-passport-brussels-a9332311.html
- https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/13/senate-passes-war-powers-resolution-stop-trump-launching-illegal-attack-iran
02/14 (Fri)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/13/1919101/-Warren-shreds-Bloomberg-s-economic-mythology - Mike Bloomberg blamed the 2008 economic crisis on the end of redlining
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/14/1919211/-9-Senate-Democrats-call-on-Barr-to-resign-over-clear-violation-of-your-duty
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/8/1917821/-I-am-a-Black-woman-Trump-and-his-supporters-are-right-Democrats-are-destroying-America - the "America" they're destroying is kinda awful
02/15 (Sat)
- https://stopevictions.network/
- https://twitter.com/secondshelfbks/status/1228336805638000642 - feminist bookshop explains what they do and why trans women are women
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/us/Border-Patrol-ICE-Sanctuary-Cities.html
- https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/25/18225011/amy-klobuchar-president-prosecutor-criminal-justice-record
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/15/the-electability-business-is-bernie-sanders-americas-corbyn - Corbyn maybe-accidentally endorsed some anti-Jewish groups [1] [2], but Sanders actually is Jewish and presumably would be too aware to make that kind of mistake (and also can't as easily be accused of anti-Semitism).
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/14/1919145/-Oil-flowing-Bible-exposed-as-a-fraud -- "it comes from the Bible" is apparently valid evidence even when the "it" in question is mineral oil
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/appeals-court-seems-poised-to-reverse-landmark-qualcomm-antitrust-ruling/
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/15/xi-critic-professor-this-may-be-last-piece-i-write-words-ring-true
- http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/pdf.html - Anarchism FAQ book, in PDF (multiple documents)
02/16 (Sun)
- http://rc3.org/2014/08/25/the-difficulty-of-tracking-police-violence/
- http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/richard-feynman-creates-a-simple-method-for-telling-science-from-pseudoscience-1966.html - another method for solving the science/demarcation problem besides falsifiability: the jargonless explanation
02/17 (Mon)
- https://myunwantedexistenceblog.wordpress.com/ Trans woman dealing with unsuccessful transition commits suicide by jumping in front of train - this was her suicide note
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/16/1919697/-The-Unforgivable-Sins-of-Elizabeth-Warren
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/16/1919687/-Documentarian-Ken-Burns-warned-Trump-s-rise-would-be-Hitler-esque-here-s-what-else-he-predicted
- https://twitter.com/systemantix/status/1229458023925604352 - school is prison
- Fraud Case in Charleston, S.C., Shines Light on Web’s Dark Corners - sounds like all he did was sell VPNs, and he needed a way to get more IPv4 addresses...
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/17/reality-winner-nsa-whistleblower-russian-hacking-report-petition-clemency
- https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1229054383540887555
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/17/1919814/-Ted-Cruz-commits-vasectomy-related-epic-self-own
- The logic of the trolling is iffy -- but it seems telling that the "pro-life" side didn't come back with a firm statement of principle (i.e. they might be against unwanted pregnancies, at least in theory, but they're not in favor of mandatory sterilization)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/17/1919814/-Ted-Cruz-commits-vasectomy-related-epic-self-own
- Medicare for All
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/16/1919769/-John-Oliver-DESTROYED-every-argument-against-M4A-tonight
02/18 (Tue)
- Sustainalytics chief: 'We are past the time of voluntary disclosures'
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4270282/Sydney-200-000-homes-foreign-investors-blamed.html - empty homes + homelessness
- https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/community/community-support/homelessness/street-count
- https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/thousands-of-empty-homes-adding-to-sydneys-housing-crisis-experts-say-20160323-gnpc52.html
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-11/sydney-apartment-market-hit-by-ghost-tower-phenomenon/11193132
- https://www.nhsforsale.info/
- https://myasstodon.xyz/@emsenn/103680258808761541 - voter intimidation
- Supreme Inequality – behind the unjust agenda of America’s highest court: book review
- http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html - advertising is a cancer on society
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/18/1920090/-Evening-Shade-We-Still-Have-a-Koch-Problem - Koch-related front groups
- federal judge intervention:
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/17/1919899/-For-Republicans-in-Trump-s-cover-up-it-wasn-t-about-heads-on-pikes-it-was-all-about-the-money
- https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/02/banning-the-ability-to-evict-tenants-without-reason-could-be-final-straw-for-landlords-real-estate-institute-of-new-zealand.html - gee, maybe housing shouldn't be a for-profit business in the first place.
- https://twitter.com/CorRaven/status/1229644582473715712 "If I spent one night as a patient in the hospitals I send my patients to; I'd be financially ruined."
02/19 (Wed)
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/18/fix-primaries-let-elites-decide/ - argues that primaries should let elites decide the vote
- https://twitter.com/Portaldrop/status/1229877780164177922 - Catholic student sit-in protesting firing of LGBT teachers
- https://www.upworthy.com/former-president-jimmy-carter-built-a-solar-farm-in-his-hometown-and-now-it-powers-half-of-the-city
- https://theslot.jezebel.com/maybe-we-shouldnt-nominate-a-billionaire-who-describes-1841778055 “If you go to the middle of the country, people would say, ‘If your conversation during a presidential election is about some guy wearing a dress and whether he, she, or it can go to the locker room with their daughter, that’s not a winning formula for most people,’” Bloomberg says in the video. “They care about healthcare, they care about education, they care about safety, and all those kinds of things.”
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/immigration-therapy-reports-ice/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/technology/kickstarter-union.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/18/uk-to-close-door-to-non-english-speakers-and-unskilled-workers
- https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/feb/19/donald-trump-offered-julian-assange-pardon-russia-hack-wikileaks
- https://filtermag.org/overdose-prosecution-indiana-naloxone-hancock/ - how not to handle drug addiction
- https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/18/21142306/patreon-capital-loans-jack-conte-cash-advances
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190212034828/https://www.dykehousecollege.com/file/dykehouse/8-531-net-behaviour-policy-2017-18.pdf - what fresh hell is this? Northern Education Trust, disciplinarianism (see p.41 for "Consequences Room Rules")
- US Election 2020: Meet the voters behind Bloomberg's surge
- Are economically inactive people the answer to staff shortages?
- https://twitter.com/imrankhan/status/1230193712199802882 - Uber leasing scheme
02/21 (Fri)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/02/20/kavin-senapathy-fired-by-cfi/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-cars-divide-america - car wars
- https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/02/policy_vs_techn.html
- "Technologists don't try to consider all of the use cases of a given technology. We tend to build something for the uses we envision, and hope that others can figure out new and innovative ways to extend what we created" .. "Policy doesn't work that way; it's specifically focused on use."
- "Policy is often driven by exceptional events, like the FBI's desire to break the encryption on the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone. (The PATRIOT Act is the most egregious example I can think of.)"
- Policy is very slow to respond to technological change. "It's like tortoises and hummingbirds."
- https://social.seattle.wa.us/@pnathan/103698061981382016