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[j44ke]

Social media is the neutron bomb of the current era.

Confusing Facebook and the Internet is the Perfect Storm for Fake News

[CJones]

What Happened to No Fear? The Rise and Fall of a SoCal Empire, An Oral History
by Steve Matthes
Racer X Magazine

What Happened To No Fear? The Rise and Fall of a SoCal Empire - Racer X Online

[davids]

A slight subject: Evan Dando Knows He’s Lucky - The New York Times.

The article is pitched pretty nicely, describing an equivocal minor celebrity well past his expiration date, still kinda the same guy and still kinda interesting and kinda talented.

Plus it inspired me to listen to the wonderful It's a Shame About Ray and now Hey Babe so there's that to recommend it.

[72gmc]

^^^ these last two posts--yes. thank you.

(thank you too, jorn, but i need to think about something else for a bit)

[htwoopup]

This was the toughest article for me to read ever.

I don't know if it is illuminating in the classic way this thread is meant (other than it is about an issue that I had never thought of and now see so many problems that need fixing/ is another place the US medical system fails relative to other nations).

That said, I think it is an important article.

I just warn you that it will likely rip at your heart and ruin your day.


Where Should a Child Die? Hospice Homes Help Families With the Unimaginable - The New York Times

[marley]

I could not bring myself to open the article when I came across it on the homepage, got teary just looking at the picture. I am getting more emotional as I age and it seems everything I am reading is ripping my heart out these days or making me want to vomit if it's political.

[thollandpe]

A slight subject: Evan Dando Knows He’s Lucky - The New York Times.

The article is pitched pretty nicely, describing an equivocal minor celebrity well past his expiration date, still kinda the same guy and still kinda interesting and kinda talented.

Plus it inspired me to listen to the wonderful It's a Shame About Ray and now Hey Babe so there's that to recommend it.

Evan Dando in an interview with Jasmin Lütz:

I think when you're in a band, you prove that you did everything right when you get insulted. I remember, there was this fanzine "Die Dando Die", and from then I knew, I did everything right.

I wish I could apply this to engineering.

TH

[guido]

Deutsche Bank Staff Saw Suspicious Activity in Trump and Kushner Accounts - The New York Times

[jclay]

Internal emails reveal how the chemical lobby fights regulation | US news | The Guardian

[ides1056]

fight regulation? hah, they write it through ALEC

a local issue is groundwater contamination by PFOA's and PFOS's, the safe level of which is in single parts per trillion, which means to me that Zero is safe

government is of, for, and by corporations, QED

[theflashunc]

John Walker Lindh is about to leave prison. And the war drags on and on....

John Walker Lindh, Known as the ‘American Taliban,’ Is Set to Leave Federal Prison This Week - The New York Times

[j44ke]

Unbelievable toughness.

She Had Stage 4 Lung Cancer, and a Mountain to Climb - The New York Times

[BBB]

Lost in the Jihad | The New Yorker

The comments in the NY Times article made reference to this article, that was well written.

I honestly don't understand religon, much less religious extremism. If there happens to be a diety out there, he/she/it would be shaking their head (if they have one) at the stupid humans.

[jclay]

The point is that protective regulations are undermined. And yes regulatory agencies are increasingly being run by and for industries. That's the point and we need to change it. It wasn't always that way or at least not to the extent that it is now.

[ides1056]

I agree. Just ranting. I happened to get a ride into SF from the airport with a woman who'd spent her life working at the EPA.

What she shared was not encouraging.

[guido]

Bicycle Diaries: Two Centuries of New York City History - The New York Times

[guido]

This Boutique Bike Shop Shows How Trump’s Tariffs Can Hit the Little Guy - The New York Times

[guido]

Opinion | Robert De Niro: Robert Mueller, We Need to Hear More - The New York Times

[prcrstn8]

Susan Sontag: Notes On "Camp"

Too intellectual for me; it's like homework. But there is humor here, and anyway I know I'm going to the Camp exhibit at The Met sometime soon so it seemed like a good idea to read this.

It does make me wonder if "can we talk to you about Camp" was code for something else when I was approached as a high school sophomore by two upper classwomen in 1964.

[thollandpe]

Frederick Douglass said:

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh, had I the ability, and could reach the nation's ear, I would, today, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against god and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

Alexandra Petri has a pretty good bite.

William Barr: Death is inevitable, legacies are meaningless