November 30, 2019
November 29, 2019
The Biggest Threat to Financial Stability Is the Climate. Well, yes, because that is the biggest threat to everything.
November 28, 2019
Virtual Education. We’ve still barely tapped the power of computers as we’ve tried to cram them into old paradigms.
Transport Canada Official Says 737 MAX MCAS System ‘Has To Go’. Then the entire plane has to go, as it can’t fly without it.
Blue Whale Hearts May Beat Only Twice a Minute During a Dive. I would be pretty blue if my heart beat only twice a minute. (The anoxia, you know.)
November 27, 2019
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac will soon let borrowers take out mortgages over $500K. That’s gonna end well.
November 26, 2019
U of G study says moms, not dads, more likely to perpetuate certain gender stereotypes. Does not surprise me.
Will There Ever Be a Me Too–Style Movement for Bad Bosses? No, because people only care about sex, not really any other form of often even-worse abuse.
Russian Trolls Aren’t Actually Persuading Americans on Twitter, Study Finds. Exactly what I already done said.
A Lot of Medical Providers Think They ‘Know When Y’all Are Faking.’ That has a lot to do with why women of color and transgender women don’t get the care they need. Or just women in general, and increasingly everyone else, too.
November 25, 2019
An Oral History of LimeWire: The Little App That Changed the Music Industry Forever. Loss of Napster, LimeWire, a lot of BitTorrent sites, was like the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
November 24, 2019
The Captured City. The “smart city” makes infrastructure and surveillance indistinguishable. Nothing good is possible under corporate hegemony.
November 23, 2019