3 ISPs Have Spent $572 Million to Kill Net Neutrality Since 2008.
July 13, 2017
July 12, 2017
I grew up well versed in the facial expressions of those who looked down on us. Been there, know that look.
July 11, 2017
Over many objections, W3C approves DRM for HTML5. Contentious feature is added, without mandate to protect security researchers. What about protecting me, my fucking culture? DRM is pure evil.
Ethereum And Bitcoin Energy Consumption Surpasses Entire Countries’. Cryptocurrencies are asinine in so many ways.
July 10, 2017
“New atheist” Sam Harris — still deeply wrong on Islamic extremism and terrorism. Liberals like to pretend that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism. Harris likes to pretend that politics does not. Both are equally wrong.
Racism Is Everywhere, So Why Not Move South? Can easily double or quadruple your effective spending power/standard of living by moving from expensive cities like NYC, Seattle, etc.
This great-grandmother wants to end ‘the dirty little secret of nursing.’ It’s a rare doctor or nurse that hasn’t been assaulted by a patient or their family multiple times.
Facebook is building a new campus that includes 1,500 apartments and a grocery store. The return of the company town.
July 9, 2017
But that’s how neoliberalism acts. It kills politics by erasing real political differences and putting fake ones in their place. No government, no political solidarity, just the freedom to sell and be sold that knows no physical or symbolic borders or constraints. And it’s very effective for an ideology according to many Dems does not exist.
One Woman’s Slide From Middle Class to Medicaid. Not only could it happen to you, it is likely.
Mind Games. This person did not understand large parts of the movie, such as that Nathan is making fun of Caleb when Caleb spouts his cliches because Caleb is not all that bright and Nathan chose him because he thinks in aphorisms and cliches.
July 8, 2017
July 7, 2017
No matter how many hours of Orphan Black you watch, and no matter how aware you are of the behind-the-scenes machinations that allow one performer to interact with multiple versions of herself, there are still stretches when you forget that almost every clone on the show is played by the same actress. If I hadn’t read about the show in advance, I wouldn’t have realized this for a while.
July 6, 2017
Phylogenomics reveals rapid, simultaneous diversification of three major clades of Gondwanan frogs at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary. Asteroid go boom, frog evolution go zoom.
July 5, 2017
Car buyers stretch loan payments to record lengths to get in pricier vehicles. That will end well.
Acting is amazing. Emilia Clarke is said to be a bad actress, but Daenerys is supposed to be repressed, closed off, in control — and that’s exactly how she plays it. See how different she is when not being Daenerys?