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I love her. I still want her in the Senate.

That is a lot of franchises.

Pretty clear argument that separate bathrooms are rooted in very old ideas about women as the vulnerable sex, and campaigns against gender-neutral bathrooms are using this to amplify fears of sexual predators.

I really liked the Party Line one. Weird proto Kermit too.

Amazing work. I'll have to read the full paper. I'd love to see an estimate of computational time.

"if you’re going to govern a country, you should know its history" I wasn't familiar with the term Dunning School, and my one interest in the Civil War was very light on Reconstruction.

Love this language based analysis. Reveals the sort of problems that might not be immediately obvious, but have an impact.

"Flint is old, so this is normal."

Never once has the EPA decided there was discrimination??

Interesting fan film. Kinda darker.

Hah.

Definitely makes him more interesting than he comes across in the debates. I like that he's younger, too. Older profile from before he started campaigning.

"And so many of our kids just stare at you because they just don't have hope. They have no hope." All they would have needed was $100/day for corrosion control chemicals.

The first 26 minutes of this are a really awesome explanation of all the effects work on The Force Awakens. I love that they spent so much time with the original Falcon model, or did so much of their fully digital shots based on photographs of the real filming locations. I think that's what helped keep very heavy effects shots feeling real or as they say "in camera".

Great explanation of how key exchange with Elliptic Curves works, and why we must resist all attempts at government backdoors in our communications.

Damning. But unlike him I think it is about race.

Good points about what sorts of UBI would work. I come in from the post-work side, with the assumption that increasing automation will eliminate most jobs.

Very interesting. Illustrative of how no species can avoid the impact of the Anthropocene. I did wince at the guy calling them "noble savage animals" though.

Good wondering why Bernie is okay with socialism but not considering reparations.

I think this clarifies why a more drastic drop is bad, not good, as spending takes a downturn.

They want to keep not paying the true cost of their business.

I do a lot of people watching in line, and I'm more interested in how bad people are at following all the stupid rules.

Good points on bad "creative" use of axes.

Huh. I would have thought they last longer. Also not surprised to see they're not recyclable (I've always just tossed because of food bits). I have been glad not to get excessive handfuls of them anymore.

Fascinating. And a great example of the serendipity you get when everyone has access to the world's collective knowledge.

Great trivia, and good points about rejecting "inauthentic" food.

It strikes me that a lot of the people to whom Bitcoin appeals are also the kind of people who don't play well with others. Fascinating (if one-sided) take on the looming problems (technical and social) with the cryptocurrency.

So US train projects are budgeted high by a factor of 20.

Nocebo! Don't need to worry about MSG, yay.