January 17, 2019
Facebook’s ’10 Year Challenge’ Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right? Nothing Facebook does is harmless because it’s run by a sociopath in an immoral and unjust economy.
Are We Living Through Climate Change’s Worst-Case Scenario? “We’re a lot closer than we should be,” one Stanford scientist warned. Even the most-plausible best case is very bad indeed, it should be noted.
New study finds evidence of changing seasons, rain on Titan’s north pole. The rain is methane, by the way, not water.
Among children and adolescents ages 2 to 19, about 1 in 6 (17.2 percent) were considered to have obesity, about 1 in 17 (6 percent) were considered to have extreme obesity. Depending on age group, 2-4x as high in children as 1980. Terrible.
January 16, 2019
Rise of the Golden Jackal. This is not about Trump.
Habitable planets around red dwarf stars might not get enough photons to support plant life. The fact that low-mass stars are much more prone to high-rad flares is likely more determinative than this.
January 15, 2019
The financial crisis was Obama’s moment of truth, and he sided with the establishment. Now, the 2020 field must contend with an uncomfortable question: was Obama a bad president? Obama was a terrible, mendacious, bankster-coddling, piece of shit president.
Windows 7 enters its final year of free support. Still better than any Microsoft OS that came after.
January 14, 2019
Grass-fed Beef — The Most Vegan Item In The Supermarket. Needs an editor (badly), but not wrong.
Adorable snowshoe hares found to routinely feast on their own dead: study. The University of Alberta study adds to a growing scientific realization that herbivores actually love meat, they’re just bad at finding it. Chickens will eat anything they can get hold of, too.
January 13, 2019
It is popular to demand that Facebook better police content, but no amount of vigilance against “fake news” or banned neo-Nazis will ameliorate the function it serves for Boomers as a place to feed off of one another’s bottomless rage. This article blames too much on Facebook (ignores or minimizes the contribution of Fox News and AM radio) but is not wrong.
January 12, 2019
Windows 10 will chew up another 7GB of disk space to make sure it can update. What a coprolitic OS.
The Millions Was the Last Great Indie Book Blog.. The internet that was worth a damn is dying, and nearly dead.
The Exaggerated Promise of So-Called Unbiased Data Mining. Ya’ll need some philosophy and epistemology studyin’.
The Internet Is A Privacy Disaster. But We Still Don’t Know How To Talk About It. As a result of extensive corporate propaganda.
The Real Split. I agree that no one, not even AOC, is engaging with capitalism as it is, and as it has changed.
January 11, 2019
People Older Than 65 Share the Most Fake News, Study Find. Shocking no one; it’s the Fox crowd.
January 10, 2019
Cory Booker, Kamala Harris talk to Wall Street about possible 2020 campaign. The people who really decide who wins are being consulted.
The Enduring Teen Legacy of ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail.’ Quoting the movie was pre-meme meme culture. Had a friend in high school who basically spoke in Monty Python quotes. He was a bit annoying.
How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution. This is not new, but sexual selection became rejected because some scientists did not want to apply it to humans. (It does.)
January 9, 2019
The New War on Marijuana Will Be Extremely Dumb. How did Malcolm Gladwell manage to screw this up so badly? Because it’s Malcolm Gladwell. It’s what he does.
U.S. Health Care Spending Highest Among Developed Countries. Americans on average continue to spend much more for health care—while getting less care—than people in other developed countries. But according to prominent economists, we are secretly super-rich, and want to spend double our money for nothing! Sure, makes total sense.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is A Perfect Foil For The Pro-Trump Media. Indeed. She’s the only one who seems to understand how the tools of discourse have changed.