America loves women like Hillary Clinton–as long as they’re not asking for a promotion - Quartz
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It’s hard to remember these days, but just a few years ago, everybody loved Hillary Rodham Clinton. When she stepped down as US secretary of state in January 2013 after four years in office, her approval rating stood at what the Wall Street Journal described as an “eye-popping” 69%. via Pocket
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How Mark Zuckerberg Should Give Away $45 Billion - The Huffington Post
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Percentage of the biggest philanthropic donations that came from people under 50. via Pocket
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Brutalist architecture of Sydney: The buildings many love to hate - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
10 days ago
Brutalist buildings — you either love them or hate them, though the number of people that fall in the former category is increasing, according to an architecture writer. via Pocket
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Single Women Are Our Most Potent Political Force -- The Cut
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By the time I walked down the aisle — or rather, into a judge’s chambers — in 2010, at the age of 35, I had lived 14 independent, early-adult years that my mother had spent married. via Pocket
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Cancer cons, phoney accidents and fake deaths: meet the internet hoax buster | Rachel Monroe | Technology | The Guardian
11 days ago
After Taryn Wright exposed an elaborate fake tragedy on Facebook, she found herself leading a squad of online detectives – but on the internet, it doesn’t take long for a crowd to become a mob 00.59 EST Last modified on Thursday 18 February 2016 05. via Pocket
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11 days ago
How Zano Raised Millions on Kickstarter and Left Most Backers with Nothing — Kickstarter — Medium
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Kickstarter tasked me, a freelance reporter, to find out why a highly funded crowdfunding campaign for a palm-sized drone flamed out in order to give backers the full story, and provide lessons for itself and others. My report follows. via Pocket
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13 days ago
The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels - The New Yorker
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“He said things that I could never have thought, or at least said, with the same assurance, and he said them in a strong engaging Italian. via Pocket
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13 days ago
Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?
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Howard University fights to join the tech boom. Photographs by Christopher Gregory From Legand Burge, the chair of Howard University's computer science department. In the fall of 2013 a young software engineer named Charles Pratt arrived on Howard University’s campus in Washington. via Pocket
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13 days ago
Inside Harvey Levin’s TMZ - The New Yorker
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In the early-morning hours of February 15, 2014, Ray Rice and his fiancée, Janay Palmer, stepped into an elevator at the Revel hotel and casino, in Atlantic City. Palmer and Rice, a running back for the Baltimore Ravens, were arguing as the doors slid shut. via Pocket
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16 days ago
Philosophical Disquisitions: The Value of Deep Work and How to Prioritise It
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My life is filled with trivial, time-wasting tasks. As an academic, teaching and research are the most valuable* activities I perform. And yet as I progress in my career I find myself constantly drawn away from these two things to focus on administrative tasks. via Pocket
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17 days ago
Beware of the angry white male public intellectual - Quartz
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Richard Dawkins is a bestselling author and atheist pundit who’s been credited with “redefining the role of the public intellectual in Western culture.” As recent events have shown, he’s also part of a largely unacknowledged problem with online harassers. via Pocket
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17 days ago
The Good Enough Parent Is the Best Parent | Psychology Today
17 days ago
If we define parenting as caregiving to one’s child, then the best parent is not the one who parents most, and certainly not the one who parents least, but the one who parents just the right amount. via Pocket
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17 days ago
Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them - The New Yorker
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Just over a billion years ago, many millions of galaxies from here, a pair of black holes collided. They had been circling each other for aeons, in a sort of mating dance, gathering pace with each orbit, hurtling closer and closer. via Pocket
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17 days ago
The chips are down for Moore’s law : Nature News & Comment
17 days ago
Next month, the worldwide semiconductor industry will formally acknowledge what has become increasingly obvious to everyone involved: Moore's law, the principle that has powered the information-technology revolution since the 1960s, is nearing its end. via Pocket
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How Smart Do You Have to Be to Raise a Child? -- The Cut
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The state said a 19-year-old with an intellectual disability wasn’t equipped to look after her baby and whisked the newborn off to another family just after birth—a decision the mother was ready to fight. via Pocket
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24 days ago
Gatekeepers: The Nerd/Jock False Division - Uncanny Magazine
24 days ago
For too long, people have used these words to hurt each other, to divide themselves into meaningless tribes. One tribe the gatekeepers of tech, comics, and calculators, bending the intangible to their will. via Pocket
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24 days ago
A Social Scientist’s Guide to Diversity Strategy — Multi Forum — Medium
24 days ago
Evidence, evidence, evidence, evidence, evidence, evidence. Where’s the evidence? It’s an exciting time to be working on diversity in tech. The challenges are acute: lack of diversity is well documented and uniquely bad. via Pocket
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24 days ago
Twitter's UX and 'bullying'
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The longer you've been on Twitter, the more likely it is that you've seen, been part of, or been on the receiving end of what I would politely term a Twitter Clusterfuck. Someone, somewhere has said something controversial. It might be something mean. It might be something offensive. via Pocket
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28 days ago
How a lone hacker shredded the myth of crowdsourcing — Backchannel — Medium
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Meet Adam. He’s a mid-level engineer at a mid-level software company in a cookie-cutter California office park. He can code a handful of languages, has a penchant for computer vision and enjoys soccer and skiing. via Pocket
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4 weeks ago
Developer Interviews are Broken, and You Can't Fix It — Gayle Laakmann McDowell
4 weeks ago
The "Google-style" interviews is the one people love to hate. It's broken, good candidates fail, bad candidates just memorize the answers, yadda yadda yadda. That's all true. via Pocket
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4 weeks ago
Anthem of Freedom: How Whitney Houston Remade “The Star-Spangled Banner” - The New Yorker
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Fans and admirers of the late singer Whitney Houston are in for a difficult year. A memoir by her ex-husband, the R. & B. via Pocket
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gimpled: It's Time to Have a Conversation
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Warning: ableist language discussed.
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gimpled: Damien Little and Geoff Hunt were not 'good blokes'. But who are the perpetrators we are NOT talking about?
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Warning: violence against disabled children discussed.
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Let’s End the False War Between Free Speech and Hate Speech | Re/code
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As I write this, the lizard part of my brain is trying to predict exactly how much nasty blowback I am going to get online for what I am about to say. via Pocket
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It's extreme masculinity – not love or despair – that drives a father to kill his children
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Sometimes you could be forgiven for thinking that the most loving fathers are those who slaughter their children in the most horrific way possible. Quiet men, ordinary men, men of whom one would never expected such an act of devotion. via Pocket
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6 weeks ago
The Tennis Racket
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Secret files exposing evidence of widespread match-fixing by players at the upper level of world tennis can today be revealed by BuzzFeed News and the BBC. via Pocket
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6 weeks ago
fully autonomous, self-driving cars and disability | Life as an Extreme Sport
6 weeks ago
Ah, driving cars. If I had a dollar for every time someone told me that I’m going to get my freedom back,1 I’d retire to Barbados and sip delightful rum drinks all the rest of my days. via Pocket
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6 weeks ago
When Fun Isn’t: A Guide to Type II Fun | Backcountry.com
6 weeks ago
When a grizzled Austrian offers you a tent/sleeping bag/sleeping pad combo for 30 Euros, you don’t waste time wondering if it’s a good purchase; you get three, pass them out to your friends, and head out for some seat-of-the-pants backpacking. via Pocket
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6 weeks ago
The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment — Medium
7 weeks ago
I’ve spent more than 5 years being a Bitcoin developer. The software I’ve written has been used by millions of users, hundreds of developers, and the talks I’ve given have led directly to the creation of several startups. I’ve talked about Bitcoin on Sky TV and BBC News. via Pocket
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7 weeks ago
I was a poster child for Alcoholics Anonymous. Then I realized I’m not an alcoholic. - Vox
7 weeks ago
The first time I went to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, I was 13 years old. It was 1989 and the apogee of the 12-Step Movement: AA Everywhere. The underlying philosophy was all problems stemmed from drug addiction and alcoholism. via Pocket
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7 weeks ago
Reconciling David Bowie’s genius with rape | Dr. Rebecca Hains
7 weeks ago
Today, on the day of David Bowie’s death, people have been discussing an upsetting issue: Early in his career, David Bowie statutorily raped young teen girls—the “baby groupies” who were an open secret in the rock scene of the 1970s. via Pocket
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7 weeks ago
The Lie Guy | SAS Confidential
7 weeks ago
You’d think I’d get used to being called a liar. After all, I’ve written a candid, semiautobiographical novel about being a scam artist, been interviewed in the media about my former life of lying, cheating, and drinking, even edited a prominent philosophical collection on deception. via Pocket
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7 weeks ago
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7 weeks ago
They were two pretty young women in search of pork ribs for a barbecue later that day, a Saturday in the summer of 2013. Janeth Páez suggested that they stop by a grocery store not far from where her friend Laura Vega Garzón lived in northern Bogotá. via Pocket
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7 weeks ago
Clark Gable Accused Of Raping Co-Star
7 weeks ago
It’s unclear what news story, exactly, made Loretta Young — one of the most beautiful and celebrated actresses of Classic Hollywood — first wonder if she had been date-raped by one of the biggest stars of all time. via Pocket
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7 weeks ago
Birthright - The New Yorker
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The Planned Parenthood health center in Brooklyn occupies ten thousand square feet on the sixth floor of an office building across the street from a courthouse. After you get off the elevator, you have to go through a metal detector. A guard behind bulletproof glass inspects your bags. via Pocket
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7 weeks ago
Easy tax reform: axe capital gains discounts
7 weeks ago
How on earth did we come to be lumbered with a tax rule so bad it is disliked by the Treasury, the Reserve Bank, the Business Council, the Council of Social Service, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and both of Tony Abbott's most trusted business advisers? via Pocket
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7 weeks ago
A Year Of Living Comfortably — The Lighthouse — Medium
7 weeks ago
Morning. I see him clock the seat next to me, on my busy Victoria Line train, and make a beeline for it. I know before he sits that he’s going to do it. And he sits. And he does it. Spreading his legs, he presses his thigh against my thigh. via Pocket
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7 weeks ago
How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult - Vox
7 weeks ago
In the Atlantic, Julie Beck has a great new piece on "How Friendships Change in Adulthood." It will ring true for Vox readers of, uh, a certain age. Like my age, for instance. Old, is what I'm saying. I do think, however, that Beck left out an interesting piece of the puzzle. via Pocket
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7 weeks ago
What Tech Workers Can Learn From Harry Bridges
7 weeks ago
I was raised in SF & lived there until 2 months ago. I love the city and its history and miss about a million different versions of it, some of which you can still see if you squint. This is the transcript of a talk I gave about one of them. via Pocket
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7 weeks ago
Analyzing the mansplaining — Medium
7 weeks ago
When women or people of color (and especially black women) write something critical of certain ideas or people, hordes of ignorant white dudes inflict mental violence upon them without ever listening to what these people are actually saying. via Pocket
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7 weeks ago
An Unbelievable Story of Rape | The Marshall Project
8 weeks ago
No one came to court with her that day, except her public defender. She was 18 years old, charged with a gross misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail. via Pocket
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8 weeks ago
Speaker Economics
8 weeks ago
Camille Fournier tweeted earlier today asking about the economics of conferences, and how that impacts whether speakers get paid to speak. This is something I've thought about a lot over the years, so I wanted to write a few things down. via Pocket
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8 weeks ago
The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font - Quartz
9 weeks ago
The story of Chinese characters begins with, of all things, turtle bellies. The kings of the Shang Dynasty—which ruled from the 16th to the 11th centuries BC—had questions. via Pocket
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9 weeks ago
How Friendships Change Over Time - The Atlantic
9 weeks ago
In the hierarchy of relationships, friendships are at the bottom. Romantic partners, parents, children—all these come first. This is true in life, and in science, where relationship research tends to focus on couples and families. via Pocket
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9 weeks ago
The end of capitalism has begun | Books | The Guardian
9 weeks ago
The red flags and marching songs of Syriza during the Greek crisis, plus the expectation that the banks would be nationalised, revived briefly a 20th-century dream: the forced destruction of the market from above. via Pocket
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9 weeks ago
The problem with self-driving cars: who controls the code? | Technology | The Guardian
9 weeks ago
The Trolley Problem is an ethical brainteaser that’s been entertaining philosophers since it was posed by Philippa Foot in 1967: A runaway train will slaughter five innocents tied to its track unless you pull a lever to switch it to a siding on which one man, also innocent and unawares, is standi via Pocket
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9 weeks ago
Starters and Maintainers
9 weeks ago
“It’s late Friday night, my wife is already asleep, and I finally found time to go through those pull requests on that old project I put up on github last year. My daughter is getting up at 7:30 though, so I better not stay up too late. 9 new issues since I last checked. 2 new pull requests. via Pocket
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9 weeks ago
interfluidity » Home is where the cartel is
9 weeks ago
Housing is a bitch. A case can be made that divisive hot-button issues like inequality and immigration ultimately derive from housing dysfunction. Kevin Erdmann eloquently tells the tale. via Pocket
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9 weeks ago
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10 weeks ago
There are three popular explanations for the clear under-representation of women in management, namely: (1) they are not capable; (2) they are not interested; (3) they are both interested and capable but unable to break the glass-ceiling: an invisible career barrier, based on prejudiced stereotypes via Pocket
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