{"id":19658,"date":"2015-03-26T23:43:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T06:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19658"},"modified":"2015-03-27T05:30:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T12:30:37","slug":"link-farm-and-open-thread-enacted-rules-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19658","title":{"rendered":"Link Farm and Open Thread: Enacted Rules Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. This is why there are things we don\u2019t say about race (even when they are true) | Joseph Harker | Comment is free | The Guardian<\/a> Really excellent take-down of some very common racist arguments, such as the risible claim that the Rotherham rapes were allowed to take place because police are afraid of enforcing laws on minorities. (Via).<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. After a few months of hiatus, A Feminist Challenging Transphobia<\/a> has returned to active blogging. Huzzah!<\/li>\n
  3. Alito Joins Court Majority to Protect Pregnant Workers From Discrimination<\/a> (I think G&W posted about this case in comments.)<\/li>\n
  4. Ex-Prosecutor Apologizes to Wrongfully Convicted Glenn Ford After 30 Years on Death Row \u2014 The Atlantic<\/a> “I end with the hope that providence will have more mercy for me than I showed Glenn Ford. But, I am also sobered by the realization that I certainly am not deserving of it.”<\/li>\n
  5. \u2018To the man who has been taking my Wall Street Journal\u2019 | Berkeleyside<\/a> And be sure to read the followup article<\/a> as well.<\/li>\n
  6. Courageous Trans Teen Stands Up For Her Bathroom Rights And Finds Community Support.<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. French Mailman Spends 33 Years Building Epic Palace From Pebbles Collected On His 18-Mile Mail Route | Bored Panda<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Call-Centring to Dispose of Sealions<\/a>. This cracked me up.<\/li>\n
  9. How to utterly ruin the game “20 Questions.” – Ozy<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. How drug testing could actually reduce racial disparities in the workplace – Vox<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. France Says New Roofs Must Be Covered In Plants Or Solar Panels | ThinkProgress<\/a> Sounds like a potentially excellent idea, although I imagine some problems could be created by the regulations making new buildings more expensive to construct, although this could be mitigated by a tax deduction for spending on new eco-roofs.<\/li>\n
  12. A conservative judge’s devastating take on why voter ID laws are evil – LA Times<\/a> It’s Judge Posner, unsurprisingly. His entire dissent can be read here (pdf link<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  13. Unplanned pregnancies cost taxpayers $21 billion each year – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. How to save Star Trek: Make it the True Detective of science fiction – Vox<\/a> This sounds like a wonderful idea, but I doubt they’d do it with Star Trek. I’d love to see a “anthology” sci-fi TV show, though, exploring a consistent science fiction universe from different perspectives each season.<\/li>\n
  15. Closing the TV-Guest Gender Gap \u2014 The Atlantic<\/a> A fascinating article about the enormous effort involved in creating a 50\/50 gender split of guests on a talk show.<\/li>\n
  16. A Note on Call-Out Culture \u2013 Briarpatch Magazine<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. The Supreme Court is about to tackle online threats for the first time | The Verge<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. “Continuous rules” and “Immediate rules” in role playing games.<\/a> An interesting analysis of RPG rules by game designer Ben Lehman, who sometimes comments here at “Alas.” (Although I think “Enacted rules” would have been a better term than “Immediate rules.”)<\/li>\n
  19. Sweeping ‘New Motor Voter’ bill clears Oregon Legislature on partisan vote | OregonLive.com<\/a> So from now on, anyone who gets a driver’s license in Oregon will, by default, be registered to vote at the same time (or when they turn 18), unless they actively opt out. Republicans are against this, although I’m unclear on what the rationalization is this time.<\/li>\n
  20. It’s 2050 And Feminism Has Finally Won<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. The adult sympathies of The Breakfast Club \/ The Dissolve<\/a><\/li>\n
  22. \u2018The Birth of a Nation\u2019: The racist movie everyone should watch – The Washington Post<\/a> A good illustration of how racism in art is not just a moral flaw, but an artistic <\/em>flaw.<\/li>\n
  23. A $10,169 blood test is everything wrong with American health care – Vox<\/a> Total market failure.<\/li>\n
  24. Prison and White People \u00ab The Hooded Utilitarian<\/a> How white people given unjustly long sentences are victims of anti-black racism.<\/li>\n
  25. Do You Have to Be Japanese to Make Manga? (with images, tweets) \u00b7 debaoki \u00b7 Storify<\/a><\/li>\n
  26. The Benevolent Stalker.<\/a> An interesting slash terrifying post by a stalker explaining how what he does is benevolent and not like the thing those evil bad stalkers do. After getting a lot of horrified responses, he quit stalking the woman, got psychological help, and wrote two follow-up posts: A Re-Evaluation of Romance<\/a> and Stalking Seminar<\/a>. What I find most fascinating is the way he created an imaginary reality for himself to live in.<\/li>\n
  27. Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers<\/a> asks on her Facebook for people to post their Obamacare horror stories, and thousands of people (including me) responded with personal stories of how Obamacare has helped them.<\/li>\n
  28. Decades of human waste have made Mount Everest a \u2018fecal time bomb\u2019 – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  29. Slender Man defendants: Trying 12-year-olds as adults is illogical and barbaric.<\/a><\/li>\n
  30. Some Speculation About the Google Truth Machine – Windypundit<\/a><\/li>\n
  31. Woman held in psychiatric ward after (correctly) saying Obama follows her on Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n
  32. “Organisers of a national disability conference in Melbourne have come under fire after a speaker had to be carried onto the stage because it was not wheelchair accessible.”<\/a> It’s even worse than that sounds.<\/li>\n
  33. Is it time to stop reading books by white men?<\/a> Good review essay. (This and the prior two links via Skepchick<\/a>.)<\/li>\n
  34. Shtetl-Optimized \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb \u201cCould a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?\u201d<\/a> I found this very <\/em>interesting, although there were parts of it I couldn’t fully follow. When I started reading it I was confused over what the words “decoherence” and “classical” mean in this context, and I found that reading this lecture<\/a> through the end of the section entitled “Story #1” clarified those terms enormously.<\/li>\n
  35. Fair Process, Not Criminal Process, Is the Right Way to Address Campus Sexual Assault<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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