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This blog is going on hiatus until December 14. All ya’ll come back then for your daily dose of tomfoolery, monkeyshines and occasional scholarship.

Mozilla Is Flailing When the Internet Needs It the Most. Wired writing two non-braindead articles in a day? Holy shit.

Today, however, the only people who can avoid the Internet are the privileged, the people with a trust fund. To scrape together a living in a knowledge-based economy, you pretty much have to participate.

Man’s hoard of nearly 5,000 guns shows ease of amassing firearms in the US.

Google is Spying on School Kids, Claims EFF.

Moral Character of Cryptographic Work.

In the hunt for new antibiotics, the genius of simplicity.

How Mark Zuckerberg’s Altruism Helps Himself.

Rich nations’ fossil fuel subsidies ‘exceed climate aid 40 to 1.’

In Japan, where gun homicides are even rarer, the likelihood of dying this way is about the same as an American’s chance of being killed by lightning — roughly one in 10 million.

The Signal To Noise Ratio Of Blood Flow To One’s Genitals.

How the Drug War Accelerated the AIDS Epidemic in Black Communities.

Big Recessions Are Good For Right-Wing Politics.

Morrissey Writes The Worst Sex Scene Of The Year. No. That is not how sex works.

If Gun Massacres Are the Price of Liberty, We Need to Reconsider What Liberty Means.

A lot of Americans have been off the rails for so long that their thought processes are now completely fact free, having self-selected an alternate universe of politics, history, religion, and news that tells them exactly what they want to hear to the exclusion of all else.

From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much.

Between making news as the home of the largest organized harassment campaign the world has known and being tied to a tech industry pressured to release their demographics and improve their practices, the topic of diversity has become mainly a PR platform rather than taking on an ideology.

This is an issue fairy tales don’t address. Once Cinderella and Prince Charming defeat all obstacles and are at last together, married, and alone, how on earth do they relate to each other?

Is peer review slowing down science and technology?

Why does NRA allow guns for terrorists?

Pentagon Will Open All Combat Roles to Women.

How air conditioning remade modern America.

Study suggests Type 2 diabetes “can be cured” by weight loss. HAES ain’t lookin’ so hot.

Epigenetic differences between children with obese fathers and those with lean ones. So much for being fat doesn’t hurt anyone else.

Enceladus and Saturn’s rings.

Strong job growth is really a sign of weakness.

People who are more susceptible to bullshit score lower for verbal and fluid intelligence, are more prone to conspiratorial ideation, and more likely to endorse complementary and alternative medicine.

Leaked Documents Reveal Dothan Police Department Planted Drugs on Young Black Men For Years. The chances that this is unique to Dothan: zero.

Members Of Twisted Sister Now Willing To Take It.

Failing phytoplankton, failing oxygen: Global warming disaster could suffocate life on planet Earth.

The Most Ambitious Emissions Pledges on the Table in Paris Would Still Result in Catastrophic Warming. Even if the more than 180 countries’ voluntary pledges are implemented, global temperatures would still rise to 2.7 to 3.5 C above the pre-industrial level.

Equating Mental Illness with Violence Harms Us All.

Theory of ‘smart’ plants may explain the evolution of global ecosystems.

WD Is Now Shipping World’s First Helium-Filled 10TB PMR HDD.

Drone Pilots have Bank Accounts and Credit Cards Frozen by Feds for Exposing US Murder.

Climate Change and Apocalypticism: A Hope Indistinguishable from Nihilism.

PayPal, Square and big banking’s war on the sex industry.

Vocal comping.

Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks’ Corporate Sponsors.

We know nearly nothing about nutrition. Most nutrition “science” is pseudo- or only applicable in very constrained situations.

Non-bee insects just as important as bees for world’s crops.

The Perpetually Frustrating Conversation About Sex Differences.

Final C-17 leaves Boeing’s factory in California. I participated in jump trials for this plane. Impressive aircraft.

The biggest flaw in the logic of ordinary people as armed vigilantes: the inability to accurately identify the target.

Frustrated Gunman Can’t Believe How Far He Has To Drive To Find Nearest Planned Parenthood Clinic.

Water Quality Trading.

Being Lonely Can Warp Your Health And Your Genes.

‘My father had one job in his life, I’ve had six in mine, my kids will have six at the same time.’ And will still be poor. Read the article as satire.

The Beggar CEO and Sucker Culture.

You Are More Than 7 Times As Likely To Be Killed By A Right-Wing Extremist Than By Muslim Terrorists.

“You Don’t Get What You Deserve. You Get What You Negotiate.”

Gecko superpowers.

This free online encyclopedia has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream of.

Bacteria on the Brain.

Tempo rubato.

Crusader Chic.

A Two-Miles-per-Hour World.

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