The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won.
August 16, 2018
Researchers Discover The Tiny Brains of Bees And Wasps Can Recognise Faces. The photo at the top is almost certainly not how a wasp or bee sees the world.
The media is owned by very rich people. The journalists who work for the media serve the interests of those very rich people. It takes a special sort of stupidity to think that the media is immune from the rule that people who hire people expect their employees to serve their interests and make sure that they do. Most news is fake news, just not the way Trump claims.
25 Highest Paying Jobs in America. Note that these figures are highly skewed still by far more people with high salaries living in cities like San Francisco and Seattle, though it is indeed median. (In other words, making $90,000 a year in Kansas City is better than making $150,000 a year in SF.)
Astronomers Directly Detect Iron and Titanium on an Exoplanet for the First Time. We need better spaceships. I’m angry I didn’t get to live when interstellar travel is possible (if it is ever).
The Problem Of Private Ambulance Services. The problem of private health care altogether.
August 15, 2018
How Does File Compression Work? Very good basic overview. Nothing new to me, but well-written, so linked.
It’s worse to be middle class in the U.S. than in Europe. Wait, the US has a middle class? I see no evidence of that.
I give up. Air conditioning is a necessity now. Ah, moronic liberals realizing something anyone south of Washington D.C. has known since ever. AC is hated because it’s pleasurable — the same reason that anything that tastes good is seen as “bad.” Nothing more.
200+ newspapers will write pro-journalism editorials. Will they also listen? That’d be a big no.
August 14, 2018
Dumber birds survived for longer in the wild. Intelligence might be an evolutionary mistake of sorts.
Parents Break Teen Out Of Mayo Clinic. So now hospitals are basically holding patients under duress to siphon money off? Great.
August 13, 2018
USPS blames financial instability on government. And they are absolutely correct in that.
If You’re a Seller, Sell Now. If You’re a Buyer, Wait. This is about private equity, but does not bode well for the next downturn.
The JPEG Committee is “exploring Blockchain” — to put DRM into JPEG. Just what we absolutely do not need.
August 12, 2018
Friendly fox genomes help us understand the genetics of behavior. The left is going to be sorely disappointed when we better understand the genetics of human behavior.
Workplace Wellness Programs Don’t Work Well. Why Some Studies Show Otherwise. But they increase surveillance, their actual reason.
You Can’t Have It All, but You Can Have Most of What Matters. The future will look more like this for a lot of people. Well, those who survive.
August 11, 2018
“What Have We Done?”: Silicon Valley Engineers Fear They’ve Created a Monster. A little late now, boyos.
Why is age so important in human mating? Evolved age preferences and their influences on multiple mating behaviors. All the lib crying in the world will fail to change human nature (much).
The Inmate I Took Under My Wing Didn’t Survive Prison. It’s amazing that we can send people to prison for theft but can’t seem to do anything about a woman being repeatedly raped by a family member.
Go Ahead, Speak for Yourself. Not every opinion needs to be underwritten by your race or gender or other social identity. Perhaps some sanity is slowly returning to the discourse.
It’s easy to become obese in America. These 7 charts explain why. Wow, women have gotten a lot fatter a lot more quickly than men in the US. That really does explain why when you travel to a country where this has not occurred, the women seem just shockingly attractive.
August 10, 2018
If We Silence Hate Speech, Will We Silence Resistance? “Hate” is a dangerously elastic label. And it has long been used to demonize unpopular expression, particularly among people of color. I know so-called liberals don’t want to hear it, but that’ll be the outcome, yes.
The Big, Dangerous Bubble in Corporate Debt. If I had to hazard a guess, next major crash/crisis will be in corporate debt which then cascades into personal debt (student loans, etc).
August 9, 2018
China Doesn’t Want to Play by the World’s Rules. Mercantilism works.
Inside the triumphant Alex Jones banned everywhere story is a worrying nuance about free speech and platform dominance. I know “liberals” are in paroxysms of joy right now about Alex Jones (and he is an execrable assclown) being censored, but next it’ll be you they come for….
12% of music industry revenues go to musicians. Should be ~90%.
August 8, 2018
Ten Years After the Crash, We Are Still Living in the World It Brutally Remade. Kevin Drum and his ilk should read this.
To understand population growth, culture matters. Some more of that humanities stuff that doesn’t matter mattering.
Murder on the Appalachian Trail. I do not usually care for true crime stuff, but this is incredibly well-written. Really, bravo to the writer. Felt like I knew Geoff and Molly.