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I'm a little worried about legacy thinking kicking in already. Also consulting with Spielberg on "narrative" feeds into fevered stereotypes of "Hollywood liberals". I do think he can do good as a speaker, writer, fundraiser, etc. Someone Carter-esque.

It can't happen, right?

Brief overview of how Quinn has fought 🎮🐊, and highlights women developers and students.

These stories are pretty much all the same. Assume it's fine because too expensive to do anything about it.

Depressing failure by the EPA or its contractors - but of course the underlying problem is that no one but the government inherited responsibility for the mine. I'm glad Rio Tinto is cleaning up near Holden.

This is the pragmatic Prof. Obama I like to see. Peace is good.

Heh.

Good points tying American exceptionalism to cops murdering black citizens.

It's probably worse than we think. The weather recently certainly feels amplified. I would not go as far as saying I'm worried about Theo, though I will teach him to conserve.

I didn't get wrapped up in these outrages, but I see why they are easy.

I need to remember how privileged I am to have only the debt on the house we own.

Damning review of the political uphill battle against housing that's affordable even for middle class.

It comes down to a choice about how the web should be paid for. Unfortunately consumers expect free, and give up performance.

Good points about web developers refusing to use crappy tech for ads.

Good communication points, all.

A good summary I think of Jon Stewart's rise and burden.

Still sounds like he's picking a fight, thought maturity points for admitting the major areas where he was wrong.

Might have something to do with graduating into the worst economy in a generation.

Great points all.

"Fixing the world with software is like giving yourself a haircut with a lawn mower." Great points; I love the plain design metaphor. While I was lured into the Singularity camp briefly in high school, I grew out of it.

Fascinating market specialization on her part. On the one hand, redemption! And it's hard to say that the process didn't fail these men too, even if they did fail at consent... But it also smacks of opportunism and rape apologism, plus the whole privilege factor of rich kids affording her services and feeling like their life is over if they don't graduate from the right college.

Sherlock remains my favorite role for him.

Great follow-up on her piece on gendered language and assumptions about assertive speech.

"Exclusion is the only language they speak." I identify as a gamer and while I check the EOP demographic boxes I hope I wasn't particularly exclusionary (and I certainly am not now). It seems like we're on a slow reactionary burn now. Some great amusing terms in this like "enemy of progress" and "weaselfart".

"Violence, goes the logic, is what makes a game masculine—and, by extension, being masculine is what makes a video game a video game." I am certainly tired of this. Even my sim games feature a lot of it as a core mechanic when I just want to build stuff.

A funny little side story from the atomic testing era.

Interesting that it's coopted from non-white sources and then used to avoid the suburban mom stereotype.

Interesting, especially as someone who uses a lot of qualifiers in his speech.

Awesome thoughts on function of sarcasm in text. I especially love the coinage "disemvowelled".

Interesting perspective from someone who can "pass".