{"id":24031,"date":"2018-07-03T09:07:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T16:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24031"},"modified":"2018-07-03T09:07:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T16:07:59","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-babe-ruth-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24031","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm, Babe Ruth Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. This game contains absolutely no triggering material | Ben on Patreon<\/a>
    \nThis small game (written by the Ben who leaves comments on “Alas”) is fantastic. And searing.<\/li>\n
  2. Anthony Kennedy, the Trump Court and Minority Rule<\/a>
    \n“The House has a massive Republican tilt, requiring Democrats to win the national vote by six or seven points in order to secure a likely majority. The Senate has an even more pronounced tilt, overrepresenting residents of small states, which tend to be white and rural.”<\/li>\n
  3. How Social-Media Trolls Turned U.C. Berkeley Into a Free-Speech Circus | The New Yorker<\/a>
    \nI think students should have free speech, but Berkeley shouldn’t be required to spend $3 million so that Milo can come speak for fifteen minutes. Colleges should be able to set reasonable, non-partisan limits on expense without being accused of censorship.<\/li>\n
  4. Good news at last: the world isn\u2019t as horrific as you think | Hans Rosling<\/a>
    \n“But while it is easy to be aware of all the bad things happening in the world, it\u2019s harder to know about the good things. The silent miracle of human progress is too slow and too fragmented to ever qualify as news.”<\/li>\n
  5. Most Democrats Don\u2019t Take Sex Workers\u2019 Rights Seriously. That\u2019s Finally Starting To Change. | HuffPost<\/a>
    \nA few Democratic candidates for Congress are running against SESTA\/FOSTA.<\/li>\n
  6. Today\u2019s US-Mexico “border crisis” in 6 charts<\/a>
    \nOr the lack thereof.<\/li>\n
  7. Why I Am Against SESTA-FOSTA \u2014 Suraj Patel for Congress<\/a>
    \nThis campaign web page is a usefully concise summary of the case against SESTA-FOSTA.<\/li>\n
  8. Body Positivity Is a Scam – Racked<\/a>
    \n“There\u2019s nothing capitalism can\u2019t alchemize into a business opportunity, but for it to be a useful tool for marketers, body positivity needed to be decoupled from fatness and political advocacy, sanitized, and neatly repackaged into something that begins and ends with images.”<\/li>\n
  9. Police attacked me for stealing a car. It was my own. – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs, fast | TechCrunch<\/a>
    \n“One sad note though is how much the world of video is increasingly closed to startups. When companies like Netflix, which today closed with a market cap of almost $158 billion, can\u2019t necessarily get enough negotiating power to ensure that consumers have direct access to them, no startup can ever hope to compete.”<\/li>\n
  11. From flat-pack coffins to water cremation: how to have an eco-friendly death | World news | The Guardian<\/a>
    \n“At a packed funeral expo in a church in Amsterdam last weekend, exhibitors included a flat-pack coffin that you construct and decorate yourself…”<\/li>\n
  12. We Need to Talk About Reactionary Centrists \u2013 Member Feature Stories \u2013 Medium<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. ContraPoints: Some thoughts about MtF transition, FFS, conformity, gender stereotypes, and “cis assimilation.”<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. \u2018Roseanne\u2019 Spinoff \u2018The Conners\u2019 Ordered by ABC \u2013 Variety<\/a>
    \n“Not part of the new series will be Roseanne Barr.” The likelihood is that this show won’t work – because MOST shows don’t work. But I’d be happy if it does work, and interested to see them try.<\/li>\n
  15. Opinion | The Bible\u2019s #MeToo Problem – The New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Jamelle Bouie: Taking the Enlightenment seriously requires talking about race.<\/a>
    \n“Racism as we understand it now, as a socio-political order based on the permanent hierarchy of particular groups, developed as an attempt to resolve the fundamental contradiction between professing liberty and upholding slavery.”<\/li>\n
  17. A useful appendix to the above link: Throwing Shade on the Enlightenment \u2013 Liberal Currents<\/a>
    \n” The italicized statements are the things Bouie did not <\/em>argue!”<\/li>\n
  18. Riots are destructive, dangerous, and scary \u2014 but can lead to serious social reforms – Vox<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. How movies cast \u201cugly\u201d characters \u2013 and how it feels to get the part | ShortList<\/a>
    \nFor the most part, they say it feels good. But the guy who played Ted the lawyer on “Scrubs” seems to have found it depressing work, which I was a bit sad to hear, since I always thought there was something joyful in how he played that sad sack part.<\/li>\n
  20. World’s first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden | Environment | The Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. Costume Detective – How to Date an Old Photograph<\/a>
    \n“Elements of the coat could suggest it to be circa 1898. The sleeves with soft fullness at the head and the fitted silhouette suggest late Victorian styling. But the hat is too big for that date.”<\/li>\n
  22. How fast can I flood the Netherlands entirely and permanently?<\/a><\/li>\n
  23. My Rapist Friended Me on Facebook (and All I Got Was This Lousy Article)<\/a><\/li>\n
  24. Climate Change Is Likely Killing Ancient Baobab Trees – The Atlantic<\/a>
    \n“But when around 70 percent of your 1,500 to 2,000-year-old trees died within 12 years, it certainly is not normal. It is difficult to come up with a culprit other than climate change.”<\/li>\n
  25. On Culture War Bubbles | Thing of Things<\/a><\/li>\n
  26. It\u2019s Absurd to Claim That Trans Kids Are Being \u2018Rushed\u2019 Into Transitioning<\/a><\/li>\n
  27. How to Rinse Your Recyclables Without Wasting Water<\/a>
    \nOkay, this is admittedly a very boring link, but it’s a question I’ve wondered about more than once.<\/li>\n
  28. I Detransitioned. But Not Because I wasn’t Trans. – The Atlantic<\/a><\/li>\n
  29. ‘We no longer die in childbirth’: how Indian villages saved their mothers | World news | The Guardian<\/a>
    \n“Gupta sometimes changes the lyrics of romantic folk songs to refer to iron supplements, intrauterine devices (IUDs) and breastfeeding. ‘They find it easier to remember what I\u2019ve told them if they sing it,’ she said.”<\/li>\n
  30. ‘The Daddy quota’: how Quebec got men to take parental leave | World news | The Guardian<\/a>
    \n“What they found in places like Sweden is that if you give fathers their own leave, something families will lose if they don\u2019t take, taking the leave becomes expected.”<\/li>\n
  31. The Southern Poverty Law Center Surrenders Unconditionally To Maajid Nawaz. We Should Be Concerned. | Popehat<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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