February 20, 2020

The Senseless Danger of the Military’s New “Low-Yield” Nuclear Warhead.



Fruit Drops and Packet Drops.



American journalism is dying. Its survival requires public funds.



Court: Florida can’t bar felons from vote over fines, fees.



Hashtag Feminism and Global Solidarity.



Historical wealth: How to compare Croesus and Bezos.



The Great Google Revolt. Some of its employees tried to stop their company from doing work they saw as unethical. It blew up in their faces.



My $145,000 Surprise Medical Bill. What my brief glimpse into the financial abyss taught me about the American health care system.



Punic Wars.



Why Do People Hate Socialism But Love Bernie Sanders?



Leaked Document Shows How Big Companies Buy Credit Card Data On Millions of Americans.



February 19, 2020

This One Chart Explains Why Young Voters Back Bernie Sanders.



Why Amazon knows so much about you.



So I learned of an amusing bug today: Docker for Windows won’t run if you have the Razer Synapse driver management tool running.



Stagnation and Scientific Incentives.



“Sunlight on the Garden” by Louis Macneice.



Dozens of studies find remote workers happy and productive. Why not let them be?



Obama: ‘I Have No Memory Of Anyone Named Joe Biden.’



Pediatric obesity treatment improves self‐esteem and body image in the short and medium term. These findings may underpin improvements in other psychological outcomes.



This study did not detect any effect of daily caffeine intake on sleep duration, implying that habitual use of caffeine in real life may not coincide with laboratory findings.



February 18, 2020

Verlan.



Barbara Newhall Follett.



Alternative Browser ‘Waterfox’ Acquired By System1. No good browsers left. Only drool enablers.



The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.



What makes Bernie Sanders so threatening to the Democratic establishment is that he stands for what millions of Democrats thought their party stood for all along.



How Corporations Are Forcing Their Way Into America’s Public Schools.



Don’t touch my clipboard.



City sues drug manufacture over ’97,500% price increase’ for seizure medicine.



February 17, 2020

The unethical experiment of Canadian pharmacare.



The complex origins of our species in Africa.



On Design Thinking.



Did the Early Internet Activists Blow It? I’ve fought for a free internet for 30 years. Here’s where I think we went wrong, and right.



‘Every Single Person Is Losing Money’: Shipt Is the Latest Gig Platform to Screw Its Workers.



Why Is College in America So Expensive? The outrageous price of a U.S. degree is unique in the world. But according to “centrists,” anything else is impossible.



The Status Quo Is Not Natural.



An Adulterer, a Gang Member, a Dystopian Teacher: 3 Novels of American Womanhood.



February 16, 2020

New Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows Sanders’s strength going head-to-head with rivals.



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A measure of how far-reaching the homelessness crisis has become in California. The evicted are doing the evicting.



Democrats’ Annoying Electability Obsession Will Be Their Demise.



Opinion: Reproducibility failures are essential to scientific inquiry.



Gold and Dross.



Can Democrats reclaim rural America? Jane Kleeb says yes — and wants to show them how.



How ultra-processed food took over your shopping basket.



Dinosaur art evolves with new discoveries in paleontology.



The Dangerous Denial of Sex. Transgender ideology harms women, gays—and especially feminine boys and masculine girls. Yes. Fuck transgender ideology. Cancel me all you want. IDGAF.



Two Bad Ideas of the Morally (Self) Righteous.



American health care system costs four times more than Canada’s single-payer system. And outcomes are worse and many go bankrupt as a result.



Chief Executive Offenders.



Christina Koch and Jessica Weir: The Stellar Women of the ISS.



February 15, 2020

What is wealth?



Study uncovers new electronic state of matter.



A Republican Plutocrat Tries To Buy The Democratic Nomination.



New image shows Betelgeuse isn’t dimming evenly. The enormous star is looking oddly lopsided.



NASA signals interest in Venus and volcanoes for next science missions.



Never Mind the Internet. Here’s What’s Killing Malls. Yes, the internet has changed the way we shop. But taken together, other factors have caused greater harm to traditional retail stores, an economist says.



Eliminative materialism.



The Horrifically Dystopian World of Software Engineering Interviews.



The Map of Mathematics.



February 14, 2020

Cost Cutting Algorithms Are Making Your Job Search a Living Hell. More companies are using automated job screening systems to vet candidates, forcing jobseekers to learn new and absurd tricks to have their résumés seen by a human.



North Sea megaengineering.



Afraid of appearing partisan, the Obama administration looked the other way when it came to prosecuting war criminals and torturers. The lack of confrontation is coming back to haunt us.



Democrats can’t win until they recognize how bad Obama’s financial policies were.



Unmasking the secret landlords buying up America.



Congress Finally Starts to Fix Its USPS Mess.



Nearly 1 in 3 American workers run out of money before payday.



From Factional Candidate to Nominee.



Why Must Systems Be Operated?



You May Not Even Know You’re Spreading Lies. Most people have no clue, nor do they really care.



Gender Equality Paradox Monkey Business: Or, How to Tell Spurious Causal Stories about Nation-Level Achievement by Women in STEM.



Electric Cars Are Better For The Environment Than A 50 MPG Gasoline Car: Report. Shocking only utter morons.



February 13, 2020

Subprime Auto Loans Explode, “Serious Delinquencies” Spike to Record. But There’s No Jobs Crisis, These Are the Good Times.



Universal Coverage Is Not Only Realistic, It’s a Better System.



The coming IP war over facts derived from books.



You’re Not Listening. Here’s Why. There’s an unconscious tendency to tune out people you feel close to because you think you already know what they are going to say.



America Must Not Become Socialist, Lest We Abandon What Makes Our Country Awful. Great satire.



U.N. report warns that runaway inequality is destabilizing the world’s democracies.



The Failure of Democratic Opposition. The Democratic party establishment have shown they are incapable of taking on Trump. They are assuring his reelection.



It’s Not a Clinic It’s a Caste System.



How the oil industry pumped Americans full of fake news.



The Other as Noise.



It’s not thanks to capitalism that we’re living longer, but progressive politics.



Spring Is Here… But It’s Still Winter. Could it be…climate change? (Yes.)



Huge bacteria-eating viruses close gap between life and non-life.



February 12, 2020

Big oil’s profits since 1990 total nearly $2tn.



The Golden Age of White Collar Crime.



The White Working Class and Voter Turnout in U.S. Presidential Elections, 2004 to 2016.



Applied Thinking for Intelligence Analysis.



Conservatives and liberals have similar physiological responses to threats. So, contradictory to previous “findings.”



Rare and Amazing Pics Capture Irish Life From the Late 19th Century.



Office365 Pro Plus won’t hijack your search engine after all. Sysadmin blood pressures—and projected support call volumes—decreased sharply.



How to Remove Windows 10’s Annoying Ads Masquerading as ‘Suggestions.’



This Democratic field is so flawed that even Biden still has a chance.



The problem with the brand-friendly feminism of Lizzo and Meghan Trainor.



Boeing’s got bigger problems than the 737 Max.



Why does the “BernieBro” myth persist? Because pundits don’t understand how the internet works. And because of false aggrievedness of white feminists still crying over Clinton’s deserved loss.



February 11, 2020

The reasons why women’s voices are deeper today.



Half of Us Face Obesity, Dire Projections Show.



Reversibility: Baudrillard’s “One Great Thought.”



The Resurgence of the Monstrous Feminine.