"‘It wasn’t so much that Dawkins was so convincing, or interesting even,’ Yanky told me between short sips of beer. ‘It was just, I was sitting there with this whole group of people who were having this one viewpoint.’ He experienced for the first time what religion looked like from the outside, a series of often ridiculous and always questionable ideas shattering its absolute hold on his psyche." Aeon
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This is good throughout
"Here’s the thing though: if she had been thinking “intersectionally” enough, she would have known that had the policewomen been sufficiently provoked, it is not her, a white woman, who would have been hauled off to jail and kept there. It is not her, a British citizen, who would have been asked to leave the country. It is not her name and her face which would have made headlines the next day. Corralled between police officers with the authority to arrest us and white anarchists with little personally at stake if they did, my enthusiasm about participating in a public queer event for the first time gave way to unease and insecurity." Autostraddle
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Correcting some misconceptions about medieval Europe iO9
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Hatred of the homeless is so intense that it's in some ways immune to parody.
"Sculptor Fabian Brunsing brought a satirical eye to the issue by creating the “pay bench”, an art installation of a park bench that retracts its metal spikes for a limited time when the prospective sitter feeds it a coin. Chinese officials, completely missing the joke, thought that this was a great idea and installed similar benches in Yantai Park of the Shangdong province." Guardian
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"More and more, however, we are being asked to suppress our judgment in favor of that of an artificial intelligence... It will be alienating in some ways. We won’t feel that comfortable with it. We’ll get a lot of better results, but it won’t feel like utopia." Marginal Revolution
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"A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today." Guardian
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The Jihad for an erection must be fought by all means available
"The Isis men seem to be sex-mad. They are always confiscating Viagra from pharmacies, which people think they use themselves." Guardian
(In seriousness, I'm sure much of the appeal of IS for young men arises from the "crisis of masculinity" and the promise of claiming a status as patriarchs in a patriarchal society)
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This is good throughout
"Here’s the thing though: if she had been thinking “intersectionally” enough, she would have known that had the policewomen been sufficiently provoked, it is not her, a white woman, who would have been hauled off to jail and kept there. It is not her, a British citizen, who would have been asked to leave the country. It is not her name and her face which would have made headlines the next day. Corralled between police officers with the authority to arrest us and white anarchists with little personally at stake if they did, my enthusiasm about participating in a public queer event for the first time gave way to unease and insecurity." Autostraddle
>>><<<
Correcting some misconceptions about medieval Europe iO9
>>><<<
Hatred of the homeless is so intense that it's in some ways immune to parody.
"Sculptor Fabian Brunsing brought a satirical eye to the issue by creating the “pay bench”, an art installation of a park bench that retracts its metal spikes for a limited time when the prospective sitter feeds it a coin. Chinese officials, completely missing the joke, thought that this was a great idea and installed similar benches in Yantai Park of the Shangdong province." Guardian
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"More and more, however, we are being asked to suppress our judgment in favor of that of an artificial intelligence... It will be alienating in some ways. We won’t feel that comfortable with it. We’ll get a lot of better results, but it won’t feel like utopia." Marginal Revolution
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"A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today." Guardian
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The Jihad for an erection must be fought by all means available
"The Isis men seem to be sex-mad. They are always confiscating Viagra from pharmacies, which people think they use themselves." Guardian
(In seriousness, I'm sure much of the appeal of IS for young men arises from the "crisis of masculinity" and the promise of claiming a status as patriarchs in a patriarchal society)
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