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  1. Who Decides When Pain is “Intolerable”? – Brute Reason<\/a>
    \n“‘Not all pain is intolerable’ means acknowledging the fact that some pain is intolerable, and any way you slice it, you have people other than the patient determining if their pain is tolerable or not.” Thanks to Mandolin for the link!<\/li>\n
  2. If You’re Worried About Free Speech, Stand Up for Prisoners – Pacific Standard<\/a>
    \n“The shuttering of a prison debate club shows the precarious nature of free-speech rights among American inmates.” I think that prisoners – along with sex workers and undocumented immigrants – are the people in the U.S. whose free speech is most often suppressed. But the issue gets almost no attention from mainstream free speech pundits.<\/li>\n
  3. \u201cFree\u201d Tablets Are Costing Prison Inmates a Fortune \u2013 Mother Jones<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. The Callout : NPR<\/a>
    \nThis episode of the “Invisibelia” podcast is about the “callout culture” in the hardcore music scene in Richmond, Virginia, and more generally about “the role of pain in making social change.” To me, this story is about the problem of having a set way of dealing with transgressions (something all communities need), but no set way for anyone to come back, and no distinction between minor and major transgressions.<\/li>\n
  5. What is restorative justice? A practitioner explains how it works. – Vox<\/a>
    \n“{The process invites truth-telling on all sides by replacing punitive approaches to wrongdoing in favor of collective healing and solutions.”<\/li>\n
  6. What are we teaching boys when we discourage them from reading books about girls? – The Washington Post<\/a>
    \nI’ve seen the same thing happen with my books; lots of boys read my books, and lots of parents assume boys won’t.<\/li>\n
  7. This film <\/a>– of how a complex shot in a TV show was choreographed – is amazing. I recommend watching the right half only all the way through, with the sound off, and then watching the left half with the sound on.<\/li>\n
  8. Why the Democratic Party has to \u201cfight dirty\u201d if they want to beat the Republicans – Vox<\/a>
    \nSuggestions include breaking up California into seven states and packing the Supreme Court.<\/li>\n
  9. The Socal Affair in Context.<\/a>This 1997 paper by Stephen Hilgartner has some interesting discussion of which scholarly hoaxes are seen as credible and which are not. (Hint: It has nothing to do with how rigorous the hoax’s methodology are.)<\/li>\n
  10. All the men who never assaulted me – Vox<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Billionaires Are the Leading Cause of Climate Change | GQ<\/a>
    \nA crucial example – maybe the most crucial example – of how our democracy is broken.<\/li>\n
  12. Female Supreme Court Justices Are Interrupted More by Male Justices and Advocates<\/a>
    \n“What our findings additionally suggest is that there is no point at which a woman is high-status enough to avoid being interrupted.”<\/li>\n
  13. Tyrannosaurus Redesign 2018 \u2014 Saurian<\/a>
    \n“We are proud to present our results: what we believe to be the most accurate Tyrannosaurus rex reconstruction ever. Here\u2019s a look into the design process and research that went into this massive project.” And the current thinking is: no feathers!<\/li>\n
  14. This Is How Sex-Trafficking Panic Gets Made : Reason.com<\/a>
    \n“One hundred and twenty-three missing Michigan minors were found during a one-day ‘sex trafficking operation,’ the New York Post reported… What the associated articles fail to mention for multiple paragraphs is that only three of the minors are even suspected of having been involved in prostitution.”<\/li>\n
  15. I’ve been watching the animated show “People Watching,” <\/a>and so far it’s good. Very talky, very focused on social anxiety.<\/li>\n
  16. The gender studies fakery (“Sokal Squared”) doesn\u2019t help \u2013 it hinders (and it\u2019s meant to) \u2013 Ketan Joshi<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. How members of the ultra-rich<\/a> are preparing to survive<\/a> the collapse of civilization<\/a>.
    \n“What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival.” (I’d like to credit the person I swiped these links from, but I lost the tweet, sorry.)<\/li>\n
  18. Free Busing: A Way to Combat Global Warming | Dean Baker on Patreon<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. It turns out Taylor Swift isn’t alt-right; 4-chan is despondent<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  20. A defense of “A Feminist Glaciology Framework.”<\/a>
    \nJeffrey Sachs argues that this much-maligned paper was actually making reasonable arguments that, whether or not one agrees with them, should not be out of the bounds of what we’re willing to think about.<\/li>\n
  21. Photos found at: Human Towers in Catalonia Rally for Independence<\/a> and Catalonia’s 36-foot-tall Human Towers Look Even More Amazing from the Air<\/a>
    \n\u201cIf you\u2019re not there, or if you don\u2019t do your part, the castell will fall. It\u2019s a really special feeling.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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