August 25, 2022
Matter of fact it's all shark
Surviving recession: tips from a pro
Macron sounds gloomy. The founder of Huawei sounds a bit doom-y. In these trying, potentially recessionary times, the Daily Beast's Cherie DeVille offers advice in A Porn Star’s Guide to Surviving the Recession. "Whether you’re a porn star, a secretary, or a freelance copyeditor, diversify now. Nobody will have a safety net to catch you besides yourself. Diversification is your safety net." [more inside]
#CloudflareProtectsTerrorists
With the announcement by transgender activist Clara Sorrenti that she is leaving Canada in response to a coordinated abuse campaign directed at her by the notorious alt-right forum Kiwi Farms, there is now a call out for online DDOS protection service and web host CloudFlare to drop Kiwi Farms as a client.
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“Why is there an America?”
For those three decades, planet China revolved around a mysterious sun — the United States. Cunning, baffling and powerful, America as an idea (much more than as an actual place) allowed Chinese to redefine themselves and their expectations of life .... Capitalism, on the other hand, has changed the country utterly, down to every city, town, village and family. Shanghai has always been the capital of that revolution — the altar where prayers to the power of global wealth and enlightenment were cast off in the direction of distant America. With a certain vision of Shanghai vanishing, what’s next for the country? from The Rise And Fall Of Chimerica by Jacob Dreyer [Noema]
Africa’s Cold Rush and the Promise of Refrigeration
Misogyny and gun violence
"There’s a large piece missing to many of the conversations around gun violence ... We are not sufficiently talking about the role that misogyny — and, often, its collision with white supremacy — plays in gun violence."
CW: domestic violence, guns
Less Bricks More Limbs, or, Ong's Tiny Lego Hat
In the first half of the 2000's, LEGO created two experimental toy lines. One saved it. That was Bionicle. The other almost bankrupted it. That was Galidor. (Documentary video, 26m39s) And here's the complete experimental 26-episode TV series from the creator of Alex Mack. [more inside]
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