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"Thousands of Hong Kong citizens protested across the city on Monday, blocking roads and prompting the closure of banks and schools, as they stepped up their calls for democracy." Guardian
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"There are a growing number of studies that look at people's widening definition of what constitutes sex. What they all show, and this is the same for whatever subgroup – gay or straight, across all territories – people are more likely to say that oral sex is sex, that any genital contact is sex. We've definitely been aware of an increase in other types of non-vaginal intercourse. There's been a real rise in heterosexual anal sex … the message that comes through is that there's been a genuine widening of people's repertoire." Guardian
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"When I interviewed the Abu Said family in the southern city of Rafah, I found more evidence of the wanton targeting of Palestinian civilians who spoke Hebrew. Nineteen-year-old Mahmoud Abu Said told me when Israeli soldiers arrived at his family’s home on the city’s eastern outskirts, they immediately inquired if anyone spoke Hebrew. When his father, Abdul Hadi Abu Said, answered in the affirmative, they shot him in the chest (he miraculously survived).
In Khuza’a, just east of Khan Younis, where the most grisly massacres of the war occurred, numerous witnesses told me about a similar incident in which Israeli soldiers gathered male residents in the center of town and asked if anyone spoke Hebrew. I was told by these multiple witnesses that when a middle-aged man stepped forward and answered that he did, he was shot in the chest and killed. These atrocities form a chilling pattern" Alternet
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"It is simply too early to tell which direction these protests will go. Although early indications suggest that thousands of residents began joining the students in protest on Sunday, it's not clear if this will grow significantly larger, as is probably necessary to force change, or will fizzle out under police pressure. However it resolves, though, this is a potentially decisive moment for Hong Kong and the uncertainty that has hung over its future ever since 1997." Vox
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"We call this the “polygamy hypocrisy gap” ; and the biggest gap among the countries surveyed is Swaziland, where the divergence was nearly 30 percentage points—94.1% of married Swazi men say they are monogamous, but just 66% of married women say they are not sharing their husbands, suggesting that nearly three in ten married Swazi men are “secretly polygamous”." M&G Africa
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"I have never met a white person who decided to take on anti-racism work because of the negative effects of racism on white people. Literally, never. And I don’t think I’ve ever met a man who genuinely supports feminist ideals because of the ways they benefit men first. If I did know people like this, I wouldn’t like them. I’d question why the often brutal oppression of people of color and women and especially women of color wasn’t enough to get them interested, but having an epiphany about the ways men and/or white people are kinda also hurt by these constructs because “something something society and also men should be able to cry, too” made them jump right on board." Black Girl Dangerous
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[TW: Graphic descriptions of sexual violence]
"Her study Male Rape and Human Rights notes incidents of male sexual violence as a weapon of wartime or political aggression in countries such as Chile, Greece, Croatia, Iran, Kuwait, the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia." Guardian
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Very soon Bruges will boast an underground pipeline carrying beer...
"Instead of making the three-mile drive in one of dozens of tankers that traverse town each day, the award-winning beer will flow through a 1.8-mile polyethylene pipeline, making the trip in 15 to 20 minutes. The pipeline will move 6,000 liters of beer every hour," Slate
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As always, Cracked has a talent for ruining interesting source material with gratuitous use of the word "crazy" and its cognates, but this is nevertheless worth a read (listen to the audio of a Khoisan "click language" speaker!) Cracked
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"Nutt ... says the justification for banning LSD and hallucinogens was a "concoction of lies" about their health impacts, combined with a denial of their potential as research tools and treatments." Guardian
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"Fukuyama cites figures showing the worldwide middle class expanding from 1.8 billion people in 2009 to a projected 4.9 billion in 2030. As their incomes rise, he argues, they demand rule of law to protect their property and then demand political participation to safeguard their social standing. They do so not just to defend their economic interests but also for moral reasons. Beyond a certain level of status and income, people become insulted when authoritarian systems of rule treat them as disobedient children." Atlantic
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This is probably the stupidest argument I've seen in a long time. Yes, human error can cause problems when automation fails. But there probably would have been lots more human error if there had been less automation!
"Carr takes a look at two commercial airline crashes in 2009 that cost the lives of nearly 300 people. Both were blamed on pilot error. Each highly automated plane had experienced a significant but manageable malfunction. But each flight crew had reacted in exactly the wrong way — as if they’d forgotten how to fly. Excessive reliance on automation may have taken a deadly toll." Boston Globe
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Guardian piece on the porn industry in Britain. Predictably, they get many more quotes from Object and other such hand-wringers than they do from actual performers.
"Thousands of Hong Kong citizens protested across the city on Monday, blocking roads and prompting the closure of banks and schools, as they stepped up their calls for democracy." Guardian
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"There are a growing number of studies that look at people's widening definition of what constitutes sex. What they all show, and this is the same for whatever subgroup – gay or straight, across all territories – people are more likely to say that oral sex is sex, that any genital contact is sex. We've definitely been aware of an increase in other types of non-vaginal intercourse. There's been a real rise in heterosexual anal sex … the message that comes through is that there's been a genuine widening of people's repertoire." Guardian
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"When I interviewed the Abu Said family in the southern city of Rafah, I found more evidence of the wanton targeting of Palestinian civilians who spoke Hebrew. Nineteen-year-old Mahmoud Abu Said told me when Israeli soldiers arrived at his family’s home on the city’s eastern outskirts, they immediately inquired if anyone spoke Hebrew. When his father, Abdul Hadi Abu Said, answered in the affirmative, they shot him in the chest (he miraculously survived).
In Khuza’a, just east of Khan Younis, where the most grisly massacres of the war occurred, numerous witnesses told me about a similar incident in which Israeli soldiers gathered male residents in the center of town and asked if anyone spoke Hebrew. I was told by these multiple witnesses that when a middle-aged man stepped forward and answered that he did, he was shot in the chest and killed. These atrocities form a chilling pattern" Alternet
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"It is simply too early to tell which direction these protests will go. Although early indications suggest that thousands of residents began joining the students in protest on Sunday, it's not clear if this will grow significantly larger, as is probably necessary to force change, or will fizzle out under police pressure. However it resolves, though, this is a potentially decisive moment for Hong Kong and the uncertainty that has hung over its future ever since 1997." Vox
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"We call this the “polygamy hypocrisy gap” ; and the biggest gap among the countries surveyed is Swaziland, where the divergence was nearly 30 percentage points—94.1% of married Swazi men say they are monogamous, but just 66% of married women say they are not sharing their husbands, suggesting that nearly three in ten married Swazi men are “secretly polygamous”." M&G Africa
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"I have never met a white person who decided to take on anti-racism work because of the negative effects of racism on white people. Literally, never. And I don’t think I’ve ever met a man who genuinely supports feminist ideals because of the ways they benefit men first. If I did know people like this, I wouldn’t like them. I’d question why the often brutal oppression of people of color and women and especially women of color wasn’t enough to get them interested, but having an epiphany about the ways men and/or white people are kinda also hurt by these constructs because “something something society and also men should be able to cry, too” made them jump right on board." Black Girl Dangerous
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[TW: Graphic descriptions of sexual violence]
"Her study Male Rape and Human Rights notes incidents of male sexual violence as a weapon of wartime or political aggression in countries such as Chile, Greece, Croatia, Iran, Kuwait, the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia." Guardian
>>><<<
Very soon Bruges will boast an underground pipeline carrying beer...
"Instead of making the three-mile drive in one of dozens of tankers that traverse town each day, the award-winning beer will flow through a 1.8-mile polyethylene pipeline, making the trip in 15 to 20 minutes. The pipeline will move 6,000 liters of beer every hour," Slate
>>><<<
As always, Cracked has a talent for ruining interesting source material with gratuitous use of the word "crazy" and its cognates, but this is nevertheless worth a read (listen to the audio of a Khoisan "click language" speaker!) Cracked
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"Nutt ... says the justification for banning LSD and hallucinogens was a "concoction of lies" about their health impacts, combined with a denial of their potential as research tools and treatments." Guardian
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"Fukuyama cites figures showing the worldwide middle class expanding from 1.8 billion people in 2009 to a projected 4.9 billion in 2030. As their incomes rise, he argues, they demand rule of law to protect their property and then demand political participation to safeguard their social standing. They do so not just to defend their economic interests but also for moral reasons. Beyond a certain level of status and income, people become insulted when authoritarian systems of rule treat them as disobedient children." Atlantic
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This is probably the stupidest argument I've seen in a long time. Yes, human error can cause problems when automation fails. But there probably would have been lots more human error if there had been less automation!
"Carr takes a look at two commercial airline crashes in 2009 that cost the lives of nearly 300 people. Both were blamed on pilot error. Each highly automated plane had experienced a significant but manageable malfunction. But each flight crew had reacted in exactly the wrong way — as if they’d forgotten how to fly. Excessive reliance on automation may have taken a deadly toll." Boston Globe
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Guardian piece on the porn industry in Britain. Predictably, they get many more quotes from Object and other such hand-wringers than they do from actual performers.
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