» 2016 » September Epicene Cyborg

Most Americans who screen positive for depression don’t receive treatment, a study finds, while most who did receive treatment don’t appear to have the disorder. Alrighty then.

How Dropbox hacks your Mac. Not hacking my Mac. I keep NSA spying garbage far away.

Why ‘Hamilton’ Isn’t As Subversive As You May Think. Only numbskulls thought this was subversive.

When Detectives Dismiss Rape Reports Before Investigating Them.

What African-American Cookbooks Tell Us About Our Culinary History.

It’s impossible to talk about acting without talking about culture. The relationship between cultural performance and professional performance is symbiotic.

Analog: The Last Defense Against DRM.

Certificate authorities.

Appalachian voters know perfectly well the candidate [Trump] is dangerous. But they’re desperate for change. Increasing alpha if in a losing position is better than status quo even if downside risk is high.

No, Apple, killing your headphone jack is not ‘courage.’

Why do women leave science?

The Marines wouldn’t take him. So Levi Shirley went to war on his own.

The Great Recession continues — for less skilled men.

Proofreading Marks.

Trudeau’s just a prettier, slightly kinder face on standard neoliberal policies. Repubs: Push you in front of the bus and laugh. Dems: Push you in front of the bus and say, “So very sorry, I had to do that.”

Traders, banks, risk management all use mathematical models that have as an assumption continuous liquid markets. Quant BS blows up world economy: act the thousandth.

Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Employees For Creating Millions of Phony Accounts.

The Privacy Wars Are About to Get A Whole Lot Worse.

The game is up: Shakespeare’s language not as original as dictionaries think. I realized this when I was about 15.

The pilot who stole a secret Soviet fighter jet.

Amazing ‘Nesting Doll’ Fossil Reveals Bug in Lizard in Snake.

The tide of globalisation is turning. The wars as a result of global warming will mostly end it.

Life at the Nowhere Office.

Stealing login credentials from a locked PC or Mac just got easier.

Diabetics.

The Geography of U.S. Inequality.

To Launch a Nuclear Strike, Clinton or Trump Would Follow These Steps.

Evidence Rebuts Chomsky’s Theory of Language Learning.

Pluralism Is Needed In Economics.

Horrible Facebook Algorithm Accident Results In Exposure To New Ideas. This is a masterpiece.

It is endlessly fascinating how so many Americans can create for themselves ghastly, fundamentally unlovable living spaces and then wonder why nobody – themselves included – loves them. Nearly any European city’s new, cheap construction is better than America’s “expensive” equivalents.

Brown dwarfs hiding in plain sight in our solar neighborhood.

No More Lesser-Evilism.

New York City Passed Paid Sick Leave, and Guess What? It Didn’t Kill Any Jobs. Shocking only economists and other similar morons.

Early cognitive ability has more effect on achievement than either deliberate practice or environmental factors such as socio-economic status.

The Unrelenting Pundit-Led Effort to Delegitimize All Negative Reporting About Hillary Clinton.

Yosemite announces biggest expansion in 70 years, adding new meadows and forest land.

One of frustrations of medias focus on Trump voters is continued narrative that racism is mostly just a southern thing.

Police unions are a public enemy.

Why Freshwater Fish Are Awesome.

Our parents discovered leisure. We killed it.

Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues explained visually.

Earth’s carbon points to planetary smashup. I C.

How Companies Are Using Technology to Make Workers ‘Happy’ in Their Crappy Jobs.

Traffic fumes go to your head. Tiny specks of metal in exhaust gases seem to fly up our noses and travel into our brains, where they may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.

Who *really* is important.

Why the Deeply Held Ideas of the Nation’s Most Elite Economists Were Direct Causes of Extreme Inequality.

Solar Power Does Work, Even Better Than Expected. In 20 years, solar should be about 1/4 the price of coal/oil, not even counting externalities.

Robot Macroeconomics: What can theory and several centuries of economic history teach us? Disagree with about 60% of this, but still interesting.

Silicon’s Valley’s Brutal Ageism. True of all tech to a great extent, but like most things worse in Silicon Valley.

Deborah Cowen and Nemoy Lewis – Anti-blackness and urban geopolitical economy: Reflections on Ferguson and the suburbanization of the ‘internal colony.’

Double anonymous review helps women.

Palo Alto: The Land of Too Many Jobs.

Walking upside down.

In Bayesian regression, it’s easy to account for measurement error.

Secession in Appalachia by county, 1861.

Here’s the salary you have to earn to buy a home in the biggest US cities.

Can the U.S. Control the Forces of Globalization? A Lesson From a Tiny Town.

Big data and the limits of social engineering.

Saving the 78s.

The Terrorism Tax hits Europe.

Fed Vice-Chairman Admits Fed Sponsors Wealth Inequality.

Triggers are real. Avoiding them won’t help.

The Game of War versus the Game of Life.

Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts.

Casey Weldon.

The elites seem to have missed the part about how an astroturf candidate might be weak in the general election. Clinton very lucky to run against Trump. No chance against anyone else.

Researchers Confront an Epidemic of Loneliness.

This Labor Day, let’s acknowledge why our job-creation machine is broken.

How Shrinking Occupations Could Explain Rising Economic Anxiety.

Low-income shoppers are in worse shape than you thought.

What is Education for?

You’re How Old? We’ll Be in Touch.

“The board has denied your application for plantings in your front yard because our HOA is not a desert and succulents and cactus are not approved for primary front yard focal points.” In LA which, you guessed it, is a desert.

McMansions 101: Roofs.

A Sea of Glistening Solar Panels Photographed at the Nevada SolarReserve.

UMass-Amherst preparing to abolish Labor Center. The few academics doing non-neolib-friendly work have careers not long for this earth.

When Exchanges Collapse, ObamaCare Penalizes You Even If Coverage Is Unaffordable. Yes, that is what complete successes look like.

Cosmological Inflation and Other Limits To Our Knowledge of the Universe.

Placenta in females, muscle mass in males: Dual heritage of a virus.

Discrimination By Design.

Meet the parents who won’t let their children study literature. Forcing college kids to ignore the liberal arts won’t help them in a competitive economy. Will actually harm them greatly.

Blairite neoliberalism, like Clintonianism, is the policy regime that lets rich and upper class people feel good about themselves. They get most of the benefits of neoliberalism without having to watch a boot stomping a face over and over again, as under Cameron.

How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone.

This volcano erupts in ice instead of molten rock.

Microsoft’s new business model for Windows 10: Pay to play.

Suggestions.

Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun. Scientists’ warnings that the rise of the sea would eventually imperil the United States’ coastline are no longer theoretical.

How can bankers live with themselves?

Star-Spangled Confederates: How Southern Sympathizers Decided Our National Anthem.

How education and military spending compare. When people say it’s absolutely impossible for college to be free, show them this.

Bizarre ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker.

What’s up with the Beep driver in Windows 7?

“Having it all” is impossible: What women really need is balance, fairness and respect.

The Tenuous Nature of Online Archives.

The real reason for privatization and charter schools.

Human and Artificial Intelligence May Be Equally Impossible to Understand. Problem is any model needs to be effectively as complex as the subject being modeled.

Why we should get three-day weekends – all the time.

Terrorists Vs. Chairs: An Outlier Story. Chance of nuclear terrorism over one-century time frame is about 100%.

Workplace wellness programs are a sham.