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The Getting-It-Done Party. Obama was and is a fraud; only interested in becoming a billionaire and being the smartest person in the room.

Most efforts to control traffic don’t work. Here are four things that do.

Cambridge Analytica dismantled for good? Nope: It just changed its name to Emerdata.

Self-described “incels” are unreliable narrators of their own predicament.

Segregation map: America’s cities 50 years after the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

Can a Male Artist Still Paint a Female Nude?

The ‘deplorables’ canard is especially offensive given the role of liberal economists in engineering the economic facts that racism and xenophobia are being exploited to explain.

Secret Windows Hotkey Restarts Your Graphics Card Drivers. A Windows tip I didn’t know. That hasn’t happened in a really long time.

Drug made famous by Shkreli’s 5,000% price hike is still $750 a pill.

Study: Publishers sell books written by women for less than those written by men.

Facebook, Twitter, and Google Would Like to Be the Gatekeepers of Democracy Without the Responsibility.

No, a Study Didn’t Just Prove That Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer.

All migrants in caravan seeking asylum have crossed into the U.S.. Good. I am not anti-immigration or anti-immigrant; I am tired of the clueless Left and malicious Right using immigrants as labor-breakers and ideological pawns.

Soo Sunny Park | Unwoven Light — Rice Gallery.

Remember the Past & Captain Kirk Accurately. Kirk was actually kind of nerdy, and his main quarrel with Spock is that emotion is helfpul, not harmful.

Bridgemanian space constancy as a precursor to extended cognition.

Dwight McCarter: The Tracker. During his thirty years tracking lost souls through the Smokies and beyond McCarter rescued twenty-six people, many of them children. These days he’s still in the mountains, often thinking about those he found—and the few he didn’t.

America’s Polarization Has Nothing To Do With Ideology.

High housing costs are driving out lower-income Californians.

‘Unfuckable’ Women Don’t Go on Killing Sprees.

Anonymous Owner, L.L.C.: Why It Has Become So Easy to Hide in the Housing Market. If I were interested in committing massive fraud and/or money laundering, I’d do it in housing. It’s dead easy and getting easier.

WHO: 7 million people a year die from air pollution.

By severing cause from effect, psychiatry removed mental distress from the realm of science. From then on, a mental illness would be anything the psychiatric profession chose to identify as a mental illness.

The Baby-Formula Crime Ring. It’s pricey, it’s portable, its users need it constantly, and retailers love to buy it at a discount. All of which makes it a perfect product to steal.

Airbnb Is a Tax on Everyone.

Home prices won’t slow down, stumping the experts and shutting out buyers.

Remainers claim that Brexit will be an economic apocalypse. But it provides the opportunity for a radical break with neoliberalism.

Most “High Performers” Are Just Better Parasites.

Installation costs so much that it’s better to use expensive solar panels.

What the Flat-Earth Movement Tells Us.

The Square Kilometre Array: How the world’s biggest telescope will revolutionize astronomy.

This is what a payload fairing looks like as it returns from space.

Stone Age Economics.

Silicon Valley’s Rigged Game of Life.

Why Cities Are So Damn Loud (It’s Not Just Honking And Sirens). City noise is the absolute bane of my existence.

How to beat the NIMBYs without handing over cities to developers.

Policing Backpage and the Backpages.

Technology turns our cities into spies for ICE, whether we like it or not.

Already, a jobs-guarantee idea polls pretty well.

The Internet Women Made. Claire L. Evans’s new book is a bittersweet reminder that the internet used to be freer and more fun.

The Wall Street Journal is upset about having to interact with poor people at the airport.

Dependent Developers. It’s very possible that in the not-too-distant future, there will be no OS in which productivity is possible.

The Opioid that Made a Fortune for Its Maker — and for Its Prescribers.

Amazon threatens to suspend Signal’s AWS account over censorship circumvention.

I really feel like we’ve lost about ten years of innovation. I feel like this last decade has been pretty boring for the web. Agreed. Smartphone crapplications are mostly a dead end. Google and Facebook are anti-innovation.

Creepy or Not? Your Privacy Concerns Probably Reflect Your Politics. A new study on surveillance finds that Republicans tend to feel pleased about tracking, both online and in real life, while Democrats often feel bad about it.

Robert E. Rubin: Philosophy Prepared Me for a Career in Finance and Government.

The Enduring Heroism of Margaret Schlegel.

The media closed shop.

Doing What the Market Can’t.

To live (much) longer, don’t smoke, don’t drink to excess, eat right, exercise regularly, and don’t be obese. (In other words, HAES is utter bullshit.)

Why Hate the Good Guy? Antisocial Punishment of High Cooperators Is Greater When People Compete to Be Chosen.

Americans Are A Lonely Lot, And Young People Bear The Heaviest Burden.

SCOTUS Provides Sweeping Protection To Human Rights Violating Corporations.

Deixis.

When a regulatory burden is a competitive boon.

‘Little Woods’: Tessa Thompson Shines In This Empathetic Modern-Day Western.

#MeToo feminists may not realize it, but their other target is sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. I don’t agree with 90% of this article, but at least it acknowledges that culture has vastly, vastly changed several times in a very short time period.

Hanson’s argument is nuts, yes. But let’s not pretend that this is a problem that progressives take seriously. On the contrary, progressive opinions on sexual inequality are marked by open contempt.

Early p-hacking investments substantially boost adult publication record. Cheating pays off.

Technology isn’t an industry, it’s a method of transforming the culture and economics of existing systems and institutions. Yes, that about Marx the spot.

At the Fed, the Scene Is Being Set for Financial Disaster.

Archaeologists investigate what life was like after dark in the ancient world and how the saturation of artificial light has changed our relationship with the night.

Neta Snook.

Sex and Shame: What Incels and Jihadists Have in Common. Modern Islam is (largely) how it’d look if you converted “incel” whining into a religion.

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