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Starting with some social news, a student has started a class action lawsuit against Facebook. As you might expect, it is a European lawsuit to protect privacy. But also read I Killed Facebook and Left Its Body in the Woods. For those of you ambivalent about leaving Facebook, I've been gone 6 years and I'm okay.
Anyone who knows me knows I am a frequent critic of technology culture. I thought I'd post something which makes technologists more human. TechCrunch interviewed several startup founders about depression in the tech industry. It's worth reading and worth considering that the source of their depression is often some misguided quest for success. Add in the idea that nobody else is dealing with similar problems and you have a lot of isolation. Is it any wonder that the pressure cooker that is startup culture breeds mental illness?
TechCrunch also recently profiled the duo behind the @Hiddencash twitter account. I guess the idea that you're going to limit the giveaway to people already connected to the internet, already having a twitter account, and already living in wealthy areas of San Francisco makes your generosity seem less generous. Maybe I'm wrong. Also a good reminder that giving is often just as much about the giver as the recipient.
This picture just sold for $90,000 on eBay. It came from 4chan.
Medium asks, Why Are Drug Addicted Disgraced Doctors Running Our Drug Trials? Why indeed.
Vox makes a nifty chart showing that healthcare is the new manufacturing.
People newly insured by Obamacare are facing a tough learning curve. I have seen some of this firsthand. People who got insurance through Kynect (Obamacare) still come to the ER for the majority of their treatment. It's pretty much on the staff to explain the concept of a primary care physician. The ER is doubling as a referral center. Also, health insurance is super complicated:
In one sign of widespread confusion, a recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey of programs that helped people apply for marketplace coverage found that 90 percent had already been re-contacted by consumers with post-enrollment questions.Storyline finds an economics lesson in Toledo's inability to provide clean water to it's citizens. Here's that lesson presented by Bender:
In order to tackle climate change we need to shatter myths about it. Good luck with that.
A hypothetical conversation with someone who assumes that capitalism is a moral framework.
Our entire notion of freedom is founded on the existence of slavery. And there are good Melville references to boot!
Slate's Mark Stern thinks that religious morality tales are bad for children and he has the research to prove it.
Battle Tested is a book about women in combat. That's important because we almost never hear about them unless their rescue is being fabricated by the Bush administration.
Good news male gamers, nobody is coming to take your man games away! That you ever thought they were shows just how far down the rabbit hole you'd gone. I think sometimes people think that a call for something different is a call for replacing everything with that different something.
Lessons from behind the counter of a comic book store. See my comment above. Thor can be a woman. The. End.
Apparently white male writers have a really tough time reading about women, gays, non-whites, etc.
Todd VanDerWerff argues that Lucy is a feminist film afraid of its own feminism. This is what happens when you let women's blood flow to the uterus get diverted to the brain. Patriarchy falls.
Finally, there's this moment in the film Aliens that has been driving fans crazy for years. You see, the marines have apparently encountered aliens before but also have never encountered aliens before. I think fans are giving James Cameron too much credit. Either way, the linked fan site int he article is a great way to waste a lot of time today.
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