January 2012
89 posts
“The rhetoric of class and inequality is back in force, and Massachusetts Senate...”
– Elizabeth Warren Says She’s Not In The 1%
Shame on BuzzFeed for the misleading headline—Warren denied owning stock portfolios, not that she was in the 1%. But shame on Warren for trying to clarify the mess above by stating that she owned only “mutual funds” and not a “broad portfolio of stocks,”...
Sometimes I think being professional is way too...
oldtobegin:
I’m having a really hard time curating, developing, and maintaining the Second Self you need to utilize professionally. I feel totally destabilized and unsure of everything, especially my own identity.
Please get out of my head kthx.
“There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may...”
– Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice - Yahoo! News (via brooklynmutt)
Well, no. Let’s not use the same logic that tried to say black people were dumb because of their population IQ scores. This is bad analysis for the same reason The Bell Curve was. Just a roundup:
1. IQ does not...
Cognitive Dissonance: Rick Santorum on religion... →
aggressiveretreat:
cognitivedissonance:
Rick Santorum: The Constitution is the how for the US, Christianity is the why. The US is the only country where rights come from God. If the government gives you rights, the government can take them away.
Fuck…
Is this a direct quote?…
I’ll just leave this here.
“The fact of the matter is, I think people would have been happy to have a...”
– New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie, explaining his intention to veto any marriage equality bill that reaches his desk because of how he believes that the way that the broad population feels about a historically small, marginalized, oft discriminated against minority should dictate whether that...
barebackobama:
I just watched ten minutes of the Big Bang Theory while eating my dinner
Do you want to know how many times I laughed?
Once.
Do you want to know what a laughed at?
A commercial
Validation!
Is this real? →
I guess it wouldn’t surprise me..
For the first time in more than a decade, I didn't...
how-to-kiss-distinctly-american:
And I couldn’t be happier.
This is exactly how I feel.
“AMMURIKAH! FUCK YEAH”
– Mitt Romney re: everything, ever.
“As the nation watches the Tucson Unified School District’s spiral into disarray,...”
– Students Step Up Tucson Walkouts: Protest School District Folly and Mexican American Studies Banishment, AlterNet 1/23/12
I’m supposed to be signed off and just posting fluff but TUSD students are consistently the most bad fucking ass kids in the united states. (via sexartandpolitics)
Fortune's top 100 list all LGBT-inclusive →
gaywrites:
For the very first time, every single company on Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For list protect their gay and lesbian employees from discrimination.
All 100 of the firms have some kind of non-discrimination policy that includes sexual orientation; last year, the number was 99. It’s a small change that makes a big difference - it’s huge to say that every single one of the best...
jakke: apparently it's totally cool to ramrod... →
ayiman:
and I do mean dangerous and unwelcome
but that’s cool because jobs*
*no mention of how any of this would actually benefit the people whose land this pipeline will be travelling through, or how having supertankers negotiating the intricate coastline of…
Now that I am in the world of ~~*business*~~
My least favorite jargonism thingy is “bandwidth.”
Do you have enough bandwidth to take on this client? Fuck no but I might have enough time. Or energy. Or even resources.
But not bandwidth. I will never have enough bandwidth for anything.
“After Wikipedia blackrout, somewhere, a student today is doing original research...”
– Jonathan Lamy, RIAA’s Senior Vice President of Communications, regarding Wikipedia’s blackout in protest of SOPA and PIPA. He later deleted the tweet. (via officialssay)
DOUCHE.
Will We Need Teachers Or Algorithms? →
singularitarian:
In my last post, I argued that software will take over many of the tasks doctors do today. And what of education? We find a very similar story of what the popular – and incredibly funny! – TED speaker Sir Ken Robinson calls “a crisis of human resources” (Click here for the RSA talk from the same speaker which has been animated in a highly educational fashion). At the TED 2010...
Flexing Muscle, Baghdad Detains U.S. Contractors →
Just after the last American troops left in December, the Iraqis stopped issuing and renewing many weapons licenses and other authorizations. The restrictions created a sequence of events in which contractors were being detained for having expired documents that the government would not renew.
The Iraqi authorities have also imposed new limitations on visas. In some recent cases,...
DAYUM. →