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The Facebook data breach wasn’t a hack. It was a wake-up call. Yep. Nothing was hacked. Cambridge Analytica did nothing illegal. It was all the entire *purpose* of Facebook — and the exact reason I have never used it and will never use it.

Don’t Fix Facebook. Replace It.

Police officer who went undercover in prison leaves the force to sell cars after his experience.

What makes a tree a tree? Species: tree.

Prescription Drug Prices Often Spike When This Duo Shows Up.

The Class Politics of Teeth.

The Meaning of American Factories.

Architecture That Serves A Social Purpose — Social Housing That Looks & Feels Like Luxury Housing.

How do blind people experience psychedelic drugs?

In what kinds of physical systems can cognition be realized?

In 83 Million Eviction Records, a Sweeping and Intimate New Look at Housing in America.

Supreme Court Says Shooting A Non-Threatening Person Without Warning Is Just Good Police Work.

and this is why they expect the younger generation to simply “get a job.”

A density cusp of quiescent X-ray binaries in the central parsec of the Galaxy. Academic writing makes me laugh. Translation: A fuckton of black holes near the big honkin’ black hole in the center of of our galaxy.

Mainstream media sees “Russian bots” everywhere: It’s a lazy and largely false narrative. I too am a Russian bot. Beep beep boop boop.

In Killing Eve, Two Women Are Fed Up and Dangerous.

Signs installed to slow down drivers removed after complaints that they slow down drivers.

Economists and the foreign policy establishment assure us that this globalization is an unqualified good thing – a “win-win” for all parties. That is, of course, absurd.

Why we need social housing in the US.

As Maya Angelou says: “When people show you who they are, believe them.”

Yellen gets post-Fed payday in private meetings with Wall St. elite.

The rule in computing is everything gets worse and worse until only the stupidest people are attracted to using it.

Withdrawal.

The Myth of the Feminist Hijab.

One of the odd things about modern progressivism, ostensibly based on universalist and humanistic ideals, is just how much energy it expends in trying to prevent individuals from interacting as individuals.

Black Father Gives Son The Talk About Holding Literally Any Object.

Everyone Got The Pulse Massacre Story Completely Wrong.

How Women See How Male Authors See Them. Many men write terrible female characters, but I’ve also seen the assertion recently that no man can write a good female character, which is just absurd identitarian garbage.

Restricting Abortion Access Is Class Warfare.

Victorian Liberal.

America’s job-search paradox: The people who really need jobs get the worst offers. Yep. I get jobs falling in my lap all the time. I don’t need eight job offers a month. Someone else surely does.

Even insured Americans are avoiding the doctor due to high health care costs.

You Can’t Clean Up a Data Spill.

Sex Workers Fear for Their Future: How SESTA Is Putting Many Prostitutes in Peril.

Why Does Microsoft Charge $100 for Encryption When Everyone Else Gives It Away?

Scammy phone company Centurylink: “No one can sue us because we don’t have any customers.”

Where Have The Riots Gone?

Guns are now responsible for 75% of killings in America.

Only a dolt would use Facebook without assuming that every single thing on the site is collected, sifted, and sold. Most people are dolts, ergo….

Why U.S. Carmakers Could End Up Wishing They Never Asked For Weaker Fuel Economy Standards.

Images of protoplanetary disks around stars.

The number of birds in agricultural areas of France has crashed by a third in just 15 years, with some species being almost eradicated. The collapse in the bird population mirrors the discovery last October that more than three quarters of all flying insects in Germany have vanished in just three decades.

Forced to choose between paying bills and having health coverage, many Americans are risking it and going without.

Self-help millionaire Tim Ferriss is a fraud. But his success says a lot about modern capitalism and its discontents.

Limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius will not prevent destructive and deadly climate impacts, as once hoped, dozens of experts concluded in a score of scientific studies released Monday..

An ancient species of monitor lizard that went extinct some 34 million years ago had four eyes, according to new research. It’s the first time that scientists have ever seen such a thing in a jawed terrestrial animal.

What Happened To The Cultural Elites: Changes in the Conditions of Production.

Missing From #MeToo — Sex Workers.

This Is Why You Don’t See People-Size Salmon Anymore.

Boring patients with boring diseases.

The public doesn’t really know what it wants when it comes to specific design decisions about the built environment. We have revealed preferences, certainly, but it’s folly to argue that those preferences add up to some sort of coherent collective vision, even within small, like-minded communities.

A comparison of the sizes of various microorganisms, cells, and viruses.

Stop scapegoating and alienating vulnerable people.

We Once Saw Technology As Liberating. I remember how it felt getting on a BBS for the first time. Compare and contrast to how it feels on the internet today.

Politically-focused intrusive thoughts and associated ritualistic behaviors in a community sample.

Cultural Appropriation: Whose culture is it anyway, and what about hybridity? Cultural appropriation crying is 95% white savior complex, 5% a real complaint.

Two-thirds of working millennials have nothing saved for retirement.

The Sun Is Spitting Out Strange Patterns of Gamma Rays–and No One Knows Why.

Can Islamic and European Civilizations Coexist? No. To think otherwise is liberal fantasy. (And no, this doesn’t mean I support the neocon project of bombing brown people into oblivion.)

A Guide to Properly Hating Old Movies. This template works for more than just movies.

There’s nothing wrong with a census question about citizenship.

Sexual freedom is at risk from these damning new bills passed by Congress. At heart, Americans in general are as prudish as those in many Muslim countries (yep, even liberals).

The Person in the Ape.

Land of the Lawless.

Good-looking people are more likely to believe that life is fair. Attractive people get the benefit of the doubt always (especially if white). Unattractive people get the opposite.

Time to talk about why so many postgrads have poor mental health.

In recent decades, university administrators have sought, like all entrepreneurial institutions, to maximize their revenues, but they have sought above all to maximize their unrestricted revenues—and have even been willing to sacrifice state funding in order to bring in more tuition. And as Newfield observes, as administrators made tuition increasingly central in their budgets, state governments have been more and more willing to cut university funding.

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