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fits posted:long, but a good into weinstien's behind the scenes machinations to keep up with his systemic abuses On a similar note, this is going to give me a lot of food for thought because toxic masculinity has been big in my head all year. It's not graphic but to me it's emotionally intense. https://longreads.com/2017/10/23/weinstein-women-and-the-language-of-lunacy/
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Solid read about the Mirai botnet and how DDoS attacks are linked to Minecraft: https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-botnet-minecraft-scam-brought-down-the-internet/
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Dec 14, 2017 02:14
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The longform that caused a Kentucky state representative to shoot himself last night: http://longcon.kycir.org/ quote:Long ago, Johnson fashioned an identity as a modern-day American patriot. Pro-gun, pro-God, pro-life. He talked in 2013 about making America great again. He lamented the lack of God in everyone’s lives. He wept over the country’s future. AP story on the suicide: https://apnews.com/6e4609918fea4cef81b1052540e346d7
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Tech Bro Guru: Inside the Sedona Cult of Bentinho Massaroquote:Sedona, AZ has been infiltrated by a polyamorous tech bro cult leader with a massive following. His devotees are everywhere. They believe he can control the weather with his mind. He talks about aliens & government conspiracies, sleeps with and verbally abuses students and believes he is an awakened God not responsible for his actions. He loves expensive scotch and has a sweet spot for cigars, but not Cubans. I spent one month embedded in his group under the alias “Shakti Hunter.” This is my report.
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Generation Screwed Why does hopelessness seem like a universal constant among America’s youth? How did this happen? What can be done? All this and more, with those tasty numbers and citations you crave.
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Vanity Fair - Inside Trump’s Cruel Campaign Against the U.S.D.A.’s Scientistsquote:One day in his new job he was handed the budget for the Department of Agriculture. “I was like, Oh yeah, the U.S.D.A.—they give money to farmers to grow stuff.” For the first time he looked closely at what this arm of the United States government actually does. Its very name is seriously misleading—most of what it does has little to do with agriculture. It runs 193 million acres of national forest and grasslands, for instance. It is charged with inspecting almost all the animals people eat, including the nine billion birds a year. Buried inside it is a massive science program; a bank with $220 billion in assets; plus a large fleet of aircraft for firefighting. It monitors catfish farms. It maintains a shooting range inside its D.C. headquarters. It keeps an apiary on its roof, to study bee-colony collapse. So naturally, it must be destroyed.
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Dec 27, 2017 06:11
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The Guardian's long read section put out their favourite 20 things they published in 2017.
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http://mountainjournal.org/twilight-of-the-yellowstone-winterkeeperquote:Steven Fuller welcomed his 45th consecutive New Year’s morning in Yellowstone by skiing into a whirl of falling graupel and trees jangling like wind chimes. With fumaroles billowing geothermal steam around him, he glided solo into the far "back side" of Hayden Valley at -20 degrees, his silhouette quickly fading into diaphanous light.
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The New York Times had an article calling Ben Shapiro the "cool kids philosopher" and the CS postgrads in my lab sing his praises. Anyway this is a long article rebuffing a lot of that. https://static.currentaffairs.org/2017/12/the-cool-kids-philosopher
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EmmyOk posted:The New York Times had an article calling Ben Shapiro the "cool kids philosopher" and the CS postgrads in my lab sing his praises. Anyway this is a long article rebuffing a lot of that. All philosophers should be at least 60. I want my wise men and women to have seen some poo poo.
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The search for Jackie Wallace:quote:After a brief pause, he said, “You ought to do a story about me.” http://www.nola.com/living/index.ssf/2018/02/jackie_wallace_ted_jackson.html
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Randaconda posted:All philosophers should be at least 60. I want my wise men and women to have seen some poo poo.
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-white-darkness I really enjoy stories about polar exploration but the past tense made it hard to get through 
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EmmyOk posted:The New York Times had an article calling Ben Shapiro the "cool kids philosopher" and the CS postgrads in my lab sing his praises. Anyway this is a long article rebuffing a lot of that. I've been following Ben Shapiro's career since we were both in high school and he was being praised as some kind of conservative wunderkind. He's still the exact same dickhead.
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RNG posted:I've been following Ben Shapiro's career since we were both in high school and he was being praised as some kind of conservative wunderkind. He's still the exact same dickhead. If you have an embarrassing story about him to pass on, now's the time to pass it on the general public
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El Gallinero Gros posted:If you have an embarrassing story about him to pass on, now's the time to pass it on the general public Oh, nah, I mean we're the same age, not the same high school.
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if you are in a good mood, and want to be instead in a sad mood https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/964329035223445505 quote:The Bardens had already tried to change America’s gun laws by studying the Second Amendment and meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office. They had spoken at tea party rallies, posed for People magazine and grieved on TV with Katie Couric. They had taken advice from a public relations firm, learning to say “magazine limits” and not “magazine bans,” to say “gun responsibility” and never “gun control.” When none of that worked, they had walked the halls of Congress with a bag of 200 glossy pictures and beseeched lawmakers to look at their son: his auburn hair curling at the ears, his front teeth sacrificed to a soccer collision, his arms wrapped around Ninja Cat, the stuffed animal that had traveled with him everywhere, including into the hearse and underground. this may help
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I just read something fascinating about the absolute chaos that was the Third Reich's military organization. It's a game developer diary, not a longform article as such, but it contains loads of information I never knew before.
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woo, stoked that i found this thread! The Unchecked Influence of NRA Lobbyist Marion Hammer It’s wild how much money can skew politics in America. This is a deep dive on one of the many ways that this can happen, and it happens to be in Florida where there has been a bunch of major consequences.
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Here's a good read about a guy who legally games the lottery using a loophole, and forms a company to buy hundreds of thousands of tickets with investors. http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/
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8 Ball posted:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-white-darkness
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pookel posted:I'm confused about how else you think it should have been written. Past tense is pretty much the standard for ... well, everything. Maybe it's like when you watch a documentary or read an article like this and you realize that there isn't anything new or one of the person's is notably absent for present-day questions or anecdotes and you realize they die at some point during the events that the article/documentary are depicting. Once that hits you it's a sad slow burn to finding out how they died. It Happened to me while watching the documentary about the National Lampoon magazine. I had absolutely no prior information so finding out what actually happened was sad.
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If you were a fan of Sierra adventure games, there is a fascinating article about how the company moved away from the charming King’s Quest to make a terrible LAPD game with former chief Daryl Gates: https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/a3n8ea/how-sierra-and-a-disgraced-cop-made-the-most-reactionary-game-of-the-90s
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A good read about Ichiro and his childhood http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/22624561/ichiro-suzuki-return-seattle-mariners-resolve-internal-battle
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I'd never read the esquire piece on Mr. Rogers before but I did last night and choked up: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a27134/can-you-say-hero-esq1198/ It's really good. quote:Margy couldn't stop them, and she couldn't stop him. "Oh, Mister Rogers, thank you for my childhood." "Oh, Mister Rogers, you're the father I never had." "Oh, Mister Rogers, would you please just hug me?" After a while, Margy just rolled her eyes and gave up, because it's always like this with Mister Rogers, because the thing that people don't understand about him is that he's greedy for this—greedy for the grace that people offer him. What is grace? He doesn't even know. He can't define it. This is a man who loves the simplifying force of definitions, and yet all he knows of grace is how he gets it; all he knows is that he gets it from God, through man. And so in Penn Station, where he was surrounded by men and women and children, he had this power, like a comic-book superhero who absorbs the energy of others until he bursts out of his shirt. poo poo. Danger has a new favorite as of 00:31 on Mar 22, 2018 |
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Danger posted:I'd never read the esquire piece on Mr. Rogers before but I did last night and choked up:  Content: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/11/pearlman200711 Randaconda has a new favorite as of 21:52 on Mar 21, 2018 |
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Fred Rogers was a loving saint. Though being a Presbyterian minister, he'd probably prefer you not call him that. But I forget who's for/against saints -- Catholics love 'em, Baptists call 'em idolatry, idk the Presbyterian stance on the issue.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Delivery McGee posted:Fred Rogers was a loving saint. Though being a Presbyterian minister, he'd probably prefer you not call him that. But I forget who's for/against saints -- Catholics love 'em, Baptists call 'em idolatry, idk the Presbyterian stance on the issue. I suspect that Fred Rogers was the 29th Buddha and we just never realized it.
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Delivery McGee posted:Fred Rogers was a loving saint. Though being a Presbyterian minister, he'd probably prefer you not call him that. But I forget who's for/against saints -- Catholics love 'em, Baptists call 'em idolatry, idk the Presbyterian stance on the issue. Did you read the article? He's ok with being called Mr. loving Rodgers by the New Yorkers. I read the Mr. Rodgers one and then the Lou Pearlman one in succession and drat that was a huge tonal shift. The article doesn't say, but I'm 90% sure Rich Cronin (LFO) passed away too. Dude was really cool and loved talking about those days and dating Jennifer love-hewitt. Good for him that he never let Lou Pearlman do hosed up poo poo to him.
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Shout to Mr.Rogers for not only never sullying his legacy of making kids happy, but being an even better man in real life then he was on TV. Dude singlehandledy fought off congress trying to defund PBS. Plus the bad rear end urban legend of having to wear the sweater all the time to cover up his tattoos from his time in the millitary as a sniper, thus giving way to a million folks who read that imagining him looking through his scope and saying "Well hello there, neighbour". It isn't true, but it'd be loving incredible if it were.
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Fred Rogers never took a life and I won’t hear otherwise.
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fruit on the bottom posted:Fred Rogers never took a life and I won’t hear otherwise. Not even if someone gave it to him? Think about this, the riddle of Make Believe, as your writhe on the Streetcar of Woe.
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Just rewrite all of the ancient koans, but with Mr. Rogers as the zen master.
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Barudak posted:Not even if someone gave it to him? Think about this, the riddle of Make Believe, as your writhe on the Streetcar of Woe. This is the friendliest Conan remake I can imagine.
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fruit on the bottom posted:Fred Rogers never took a life and I won’t hear otherwise. I'm pretty sure he did not, but I'm also pretty sure anyone he DID kill must have really really deserved it.
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Barudak posted:Not even if someone gave it to him? Think about this, the riddle of Make Believe, as your writhe on the Streetcar of Woe. This is sublime. Well done, man. 
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https://magazine.atavist.com/the-kalinka-affair
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Mr. Rogers was never in the military, that was Bob Ross who was a Master Sergeant in the Air Force.
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For the record, this article contains child death, murder, somewhat detailed sexual assault of adult women and underage female children, kidnapping, domestic abuse,and some other things I cannot warn for as I have no interest in finishing the article. I mention this not to one up or embarrass randaconda or anything, but to warn anyone who's survived CSA or rape that this article might be for them. Better type too much than ruin someone's day, you know? :v as it is suggested to in the op, too. (By 'somewhat detailed' I mean it briefly explains the occurrence and is more than a single sentence summary)
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value-brand cereal posted:For the record, this article contains child death, murder, somewhat detailed sexual assault of adult women and underage female children, kidnapping, domestic abuse,and some other things I cannot warn for as I have no interest in finishing the article. Lotta safe space bullshit on the forums these days. Kinda tedious. That is a great article, that father is heroic. All of the ugly details are required, or else it loses all meaning.
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