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More devices for ensnaring the poor. This language of helping poor people "build credit" belies the reality of the situation. Taking away transportation is the easiest way I can think of to make sure poor people miss more payments. Also, I think this would be really funny if combined with someone working for Uber.
Ferguson is our "libertarian moment" but not in the way you think. Yeah, that whole privatize the cost of criminal justice by making the criminals pay for it thing isn't so great in practice. Sometimes I forget how diverse the libertarian policies really are.
The Telegraph, of all places, asks why the middle class isn't in open revolt.
Romney 2016? Oh FFS...
More Pew research shows just how big of a hole the GOP is in when it comes to the young. Will there even be a Republican party in a generation?
Holy crap: school district gets call form the NSA and begins a program to monitor one of its students.
That whole government created the crack cocaine epidemic thing? Maybe not as far fetched as we thought. Plus lots of other scary big brother type stuff!
The recent Shellshock mishap shows just how fragile the internet really is. I think it really points out how much of out faith in open software is, well, faith. We assume these kinds of bugs will be coughs because the code is out there for all to see but sometimes that doesn't happen in a timely or efficient manner.
New word to describe threat inflation: Threatiness. Defined as things which you really ought not be afraid of but we're going to try anyway because reasons.
Can trolling nerds make you productive? Anthony Bourdain seems to think so.
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