Dual-Venomed Assassin Bugs Store Their Chemical Arms Separately.
April 20, 2018
Don’t expect Apple to combine macOS and iOS anytime soon. That would mean I could no longer use MacOS so good on Tim Cook for not killing anything useful of Apple’s right away.
Palantir Knows Everything About You. Palantir makes Facebook look like small potatoes.
April 19, 2018
Restaurant noise levels are climbing. Here’s how to fight back. I will never understand the loud restaurant trend. A friend and I once were in a restaurant where we were literally shouting to one another to be heard, and couldn’t. Poor design, and I never return to those restaurants.
April 18, 2018
Women Who Watched “The X-Files” Pursued More Careers In STEM. Doesn’t help that photo of Gillian Anderson is so Photoshopped that she doesn’t even look human.
Someone’s Making Handmaid’s Tale-Inspired Lingerie Which Seems Like a Very Bad Idea Indeed. There have been worse ideas, but I am hard-pressed to think of them.
Mary Tyler Moore was the first woman on a sitcom to wear pants. And people tell me art and entertainment doesn’t matter and is irrelevant.
Gotta Keep Baby Formula Behind the Counter. Yet he can’t seem to connect this with all the economic fictions and claptrap he posts.
April 17, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg Does Not Like Personal Privacy. And that’s a bit of an understatement.
Seven Days of Heroin. This is what an epidemic looks like. Pulitzer Prize winner.
April 16, 2018
April 15, 2018
Can We Please Stop Talking About Generations as if They Are a Thing? The problem is that generations are a thing, it’s just that scientists do as they often do — define something in a way that no one else ever defines it, then declare it does not exist.
April 14, 2018
Majority of Americans—Including 74% of Democrats—Now Support Single-Payer. Something something BernieBros.
Zillow Launches Home-Flipping Program in Phoenix and Las Vegas. Well, that is a good sign. Like financial crises? Just wait a bit.
Why Are Grad Students Depressed? Grad school, especially in N. America, takes way too long. Should be 2-4 years at most, not 5-12.
Colleges Recruit at Richer, Whiter High Schools. Colleges tout their commitment to diversity, but their recruitment practices tell a different story. “Diversity” is just branding; colleges are like bank robbers: they go where the money is.
April 13, 2018
There Are Apparently Zero Scientifically-Proven Benefits to Open Plan Offices. Executives who implement open plan offices are behaving like climate-change deniers and anti-vaxxers. Benefits are spreadsheet appearances and control/power. Profit isn’t the top motive to most people/businesses, contrary to popular belief.
Ideology Is a Choice. This is not well-supported by the science. Sounds nice, but is (mostly) false.
If Western Europe finds it so difficult even to confront something as straightforward as FGM, it seems unlikely it will ever be able to defend some of its subtler values in the years ahead…. Agreed. However, I disagree with a lot of the piece linked — but do concur that Europe is in for a rough road ahead due to excessive migration.
Peterson appears to have read widely, which is to say: not deeply. Many academic bullshit merchants have done queasy work jamming thinly understood Big Concepts into stocking-stuffer books, but never have they tried to force Charles Darwin, Carl Jung, Jesus Christ, Goethe, Dante, Erich Neumann, Yeats, and literally hundreds of others into a fucking Huffington Post listicle. That might be one of the best sentences ever written.
April 12, 2018
The share of Americans age 25-29 living with parents is the highest in 75 years. It is a very different world now than when I graduated high school in 1994. People tell me it isn’t, but it very much is.
Westworld‘s meta storytelling is what makes it so thematically rich and narratively engaging. Yep. It takes the show from “ok” to great. (And 90% of reviewers miss that it’s even happening.)
April 11, 2018
Federal Budget Deficit Projected to Soar to Over $1 Trillion in 2020. Re-written more accurate headline: Government Owes Itself $1 Trillion. Fortunately, Owns Printing Press.
Censorship machines are coming: It’s time for the free software community to discover its political clout. Already here, just getting worse.
Amazon spent nearly $23 billion on R&D last year — more than any other U.S. company. Yep. Hate them or love them, they are heavy on R&D, and it shows.
April 10, 2018