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Disneyland with the Death Penalty - William Gibson "I didn't see a single 'bad' girl in Singapore.

Why This Radical Leftist is Disillusioned by Leftist Culture - Bailey Lamon "While many of these folks are directly impacted by class inequality and do realize it, they are likely not spending their days and nights reading Karl Marx, educating themselves…

Sex & Startups - Jennifer Brandel and Mara Zepeda "Startups, like the male anatomy, are designed for liquidity events."

Maybe you should just be single - Laurie Penny "Nothing frustrates me so much as watching young women at the start of their lives wasting years in succession on lacklustre, unappreciative, boring child-men who were only ever looking for a magic girl to sh…

Snowden's Chronicler Reveals Her Own Life Under Surveillance - Andy Greenberg "'I haven't written in over a year for fear these words are not private,' are the journal's first words.

Making Peace With Violence: Camus in Algeria - Robert Zaretsky "Camus would immediately recognize the Islamic State as an enemy as loathsome and nihilistic as Nazism, and one that we must combat with violence.

From a little sketch series I'm doing.

Clojure is for type B personalities - Zach Oakes "When looking at languages through this lens, it becomes obvious that a lot of internet flamewars are predicated not on objective disagreements, but subjective personality differences."

Political Correctness is a More Dangerous Form of Totalitarianism - Slavoj Žižek "I hate this politically correct respect, oh, what is your food, what are your cultural forms.

The internet has made defensive writers of us all - Paul Chiusano "I love this notion of relying on 'the common sense and ordinary charity of readers'.

The Website Obesity Crisis - Maciej Cegłowski "Remember when Google Maps, the most sophisticated web app of its day, was thirty-five times smaller than a modern news article?"

From a little sketch series I'm doing.

ISIS is a revolution - Scott Atran "What inspires the most lethal assailants in the world today is not so much the Quran or religious teachings but rather a thrilling cause and a call to action that promises glory and esteem in the eyes of friends."

Eric Posner: The First Amendment's Nemesis - Ken White "Eric Posner is well-cast as the First Amendment's nemesis: he represents everything it stands against.

The Lessons of Bygone Free-Speech Fights - Conor Friedersdorf "The same laws or regulations used to silence bigots can be used to silence you." "20 years ago, opponents of speech codes warned that those with the impulse to suppress any speech were putting…

CINDY SHERMAN: “Untitled Film Stills” (1977-1980) - ASX RECRUITMENT 2016 - Victoria Valentine Credit: https://vimeo.com/user27228255 Discipline: Stomp Out Cynicism - Chad Fowler "Cynicism is born of laziness and fear: It's easy to complain about something…

Career Advice - Moxie Marlinspike "They are the future you.

Uncertain Journeys - Ashley Gilbertson "We should not let that terrible night in Paris diminish our sense of humanity and responsibility."

Joseph Rodriguez on Desperation, Being an 'Outsider' and Stories inside the Head (2011) "My work is very subjective, I don’t believe in that objective stuff."

Ad Blockers and the Next Chapter of the Internet - Doc Searls "This is exactly what Shoshana Zuboff's three laws (first issued in the 1980s) predicted: First, that everything that can be automated will be automated.

Librarian of Congress grants limited DRM-breaking rights for cars, games, phones, tablets, and remixers - Cory Doctorow "Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibits tampering with, weakening or removing digital locks, even when you're d…

With Elixir's recent rise from "totally unknown" to "still definitely unknown but mentioned in hushed tones", I've noticed the more-common-than-it-should-be assertion that Elixir is - or basically is - Ruby.

Oklahoma Earthquakes Are a National Security Threat - Matthew Philips "Since 2008, Oklahoma has gone from averaging fewer than two earthquakes per year that measure at least 3.0 in magnitude to surpassing California as the most seismically active state in…

Out of the Darkness - ACLU "In between the sessions, the conditions designed to assault Abu Zubaydah's senses persisted.

Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright - Eben Moglen "It's an emergent property of connected human minds that they create things for one another's pleasure and to conquer their uneasy sense of being too alone."

Haunted By Data - Maciej Cegłowski These data pipelines take on an institutional life of their own, and it doesn't help that people speak of the 'data driven organization' with the same religious fervor as a 'Christ-centered life'."

Have You Encountered the Softboy?

Welcome to the Block Party - Casey Johnston I included this piece to show how morally timid all of these advertising arguments have become.

Syria's Climate Conflict - Audrey Quinn and Jackie Roche Peopleware - Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister "If you participate in or manage a team of people who need to use their brains during the day, then workplace environment is your business. " "A disturbing

A Short Lesson in Perspective - Linds Redding "It turns out I didn't actually like my old life nearly as much as I thought I did.

Tehran’s Promise - Robin Wright "But America has crept back in, shaping everything from Iran’s self-perception to its cultural appetites and fast-food cravings."

The hacker hacked - Brett Scott "Your curiosity takes you to places where you don’t belong.

The Web We Have to Save - Hossein Derakhshan "In the past, the web was powerful and serious enough to land me in jail.

API Overview - Incanter 1.5.4 (stable) "Incanter is a Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing and graphics environment for the JVM."

Things Will Not Change "As you might have guessed from the lines above, I’m not particular happy with the current way our industry is working.