![]() Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet ![]() * At age 25, kids in the longest-running study of same-sex parenting are doing just fine. * America’s racism is (still) making basic democracy impossible. * Humans Show Racial Bias Towards Robots of Different Colors: Study. And, perhaps more significantly, the study represents a step forward in developing a test for the disease in the living. * But the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease published a study Tuesday that helps broaden the understanding of who is potentially affected by CTE to include military personnel. ![]() * Narwhals Are Real, and They Could Be in Real Trouble. * What Climate Change Looks Like In 2018. And in remedial science news: What’s Really Warming the World? It extends to other fandoms as well of course: Star Wars fandom has been roiled for decades by the question of whether Empire is paradigmatic of what Star Wars is, or an exception to it… * Watching the Best Episodes of Star Trek Makes It Feel as Dark as Black Mirror. I think this is an interesting phenomenon that might have some real explanatory power as to why Star Trek reception/fandom is so screwed up, especially when you factor in the various way(s) Trek is rewatched by its most devoted fans. And then something happened that threatened to take it all away. In his room, online, as a combatant in an endless culture war, Lane found what had eluded him everywhere else in life: a sense of purpose. I discovered that his life leading up to the killing - isolated, dependent, resentful, and ruled by the perverse incentives of internet content production - has much to tell us about the kind of man for whom the new fringes of American life are most dangerous. * I went to try to find some answers about Lane. * Meanwhile, in the UK: Why do black male graduates earn £7,000 less per year than their white peers? * Amazon Warehouse Strike in Spain Reportedly Results in Police Clashes, Arrests. * America Can Never Sort Out Whether ‘Socialism’ Is Marginal or Rising. * The “do what you want” theory of politics: Why embracing “Abolish ICE” and Medicare-for-all won’t doom the Democrats. * Elon Musk and the Cult of the Celebrity Savior. Sanders had invited the executives to participate in the discussion, but none had agreed. The workers sat on one side of the stage, while on the other idled five empty chairs, each emblazoned with the name of an absent CEO. * On Monday night, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders hosted a live-streamed town hall with five low-wage workers - one each from Amazon, American Airlines, Disney, McDonald’s, and Walmart. Yes, the pee tape is real, but what's even realer is that sense of existential desolation that tells you, with total certainty, that it doesn't matter Russiagate Is Far Wider Than Trump and His Inner Circle. From the Start, Trump Has Muddied a Clear Message: Putin Interfered. * Maria Butina, NRA-linked Russian, pleads not guilty to being Kremlin foreign agent. And from April: Inside the Decade-Long Russian Campaign to Infiltrate the NRA and Help Elect Trump. It might also, like the word peculiar itself, be a strange and particular combination of both. * If it’s peculiar that we drink poison, as a society, then there are one of two choices: either it’s a strange and inexplicable practice, or it’s what makes us who we are. * Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees. Instead of where you're born or where you live, why not base citizenship on relevant factors, like tax bracket, Amazon Prime membership status, or your credit rating? We need new, disruptive models of citizenship for a challenging new era.
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