Interesting Links for 16-02-2018
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andrewducker- Satire editor wearily hits “Repost” on mass shooting article again
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- Not so fast: why you should think twice before restricting your diet
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- The NY Times Fires Tech Writer Quinn Norton, and It’s Complicated
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- IRS struggles to convert 50-year-old assembly language to Java
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- Undiagnosed adult ADHD could cost UK billions a year
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- Review of The Tyranny of Metrics
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- Transgender woman breastfeeds baby in first recorded case, study says
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- Every Single Word: edited down popular movies to only the words spoken by people of color.
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- Things Corbyn has said, done or written re: foreign policy
- There are a few of these where I actually agree (Although I might not have phrased it that way). But many where I really don't.
(tags: Labour politics ) - Why gun control works and drugs control doesn't. (In the UK)
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- One year ago: Trump Signs Bill Revoking Obama-Era Gun Checks for People With Mental Illnesses
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- My employee insinuated I was having an affair … with my husband
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- The entirely unnecessary demise of Barnes & Noble (appalling, appalling management and terrible business decisions they don't understand how people work)
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- HMRC wins tax case against BBC presenter
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- Remarkable secrets of ketamine's antidepressant effect unlocked by scientists
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- Why "gun training" is not the answer
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- Twitter Says Impersonating A Journalist During A Mass Shooting Doesn't Violate Its Rules
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- See a baby learn in real time
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- Britain's bus coverage hits 28-year low
- I wonder how much urbanisation is affecting this
(tags: buses transport uk ) - Isaac Asimov's 1964 predictions of 2014
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- Sinn Fein claims released documents show DUP walked out on deal to restore Northern Ireland government
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- The Alt-Right Is Killing People
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- While the Media Panicked About Campus Leftists, the Far Right Surged
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- Inequality in British society is the biggest Issue that we face
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Date: 2018-02-16 12:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-16 06:03 pm (UTC)I have seen/heard nothing from her to indicate that she's a white supremacist or neo-nazi sympathizer (although absence of evidence is not evidence of absence).
I do think she's a complex cultural critic and she has of necessity hung out with and reported on fringe people, some of whom are now identified as neo-nazis (although I note that when Weev first showed up on my radar — or Vox Day, for that matter — neither of them were forthright racists: either they radicalized some time in the past five years, or they hid it well until recently).
The NYT is worse off for not having the benefit of her reporting, although given the shit-storm that hit when they announced her hiring I can quite see why they didn't want to continue down that path (and I think she handled the fallout wisely, i.e. by STFU, because there is no good way to declare war on the internet).
NB: I stand ready to eat this comment if it subsequently turns out that I've had the wool pulled over my eyes.
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Date: 2018-02-18 12:00 pm (UTC)