{"id":24705,"date":"2019-03-03T13:32:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T21:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24705"},"modified":"2019-03-04T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T06:00:09","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-skull-on-the-shelf-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24705","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread And Link Farm: Skull on the Shelf Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. The severed feet found on beaches near Seattle and Vancouver, explained – Vox<\/a>
    \n“The 15th human foot in a decade washed up in Washington State. Don’t be alarmed.”<\/li>\n
  2. Amazon Ring Teaming Up With Police in War on \u201cDirtbag Criminals\u201d<\/a>
    \nAs far as I know nothing terrible has happened with Ring yet – but the blurring of the lines between corporate overlords and police overlords is disquieting.<\/li>\n
  3. Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High | Smart News | Smithsonian<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. (132) Sexual Assault of Men Played for Laughs – YouTube<\/a>A video essay by Pop Culture Detective about male-on-male rape – most frequently, prison rape – played for laughs in movies and on TV. His next video will be about female-on-male rape played for laughs.<\/li>\n
  5. The Cost of Universal Basic Income is the Net Transfer Amount, Not the Gross Price Tag<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Why we should all have a basic income | World Economic Forum<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Protests Inside Freezing MDC Jail Met With Reprisals<\/a>
    \nFor example, prisoners on a hunger strike had their toilets shut off for a week, or a prisoner being put into solitary confinement for asking when heat would come back on. In addition to the inhumanity, there’s a real free speech issue here.<\/li>\n
  8. Androgynous aerial acrobat & 1920s female impersonator, the great \u2018Barbette\u2019 <\/a>
    \nLots of cool photos, too.<\/li>\n
  9. 2019 Minimum Wage Act Would Help Black Workers More Than White<\/a>
    \nHere’s something I hadn’t realized: “The black working class is more likely to work in jobs that pay less than the proposed $15 minimum, but geography has even bigger impact on workers\u2019 pay\u2014black workers are far less likely to work in states with their own minimum wage laws.”<\/li>\n
  10. How To Speak About The Israel Lobby In A Non-Anti-Semitic Way \u2013 The Forward<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Fat Monica on “Friends” Was The TV Role Model I Never Expected<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Study: More restrictive use of force policies reduce police-involved killings, and<\/strong> reduce police fatalities.(pdf)<\/a>
    \n“These results suggest that advocacy efforts focused on pushing police departments to adopt more restrictive use of force policies can produce meaningful reductions in the number of police-involved killings… Officers in police departments with more restrictive policies in place are actually less likely to be killed in the line of duty [and] less likely to be assaulted…”<\/li>\n
  13. The Bat and Ball Problem Revisited \u2013 drossbucket<\/a>
    \n“…the paper is basically a series of increasingly desperate attempts to get people to actually think about the question.” (    Via<\/a>.)<\/li>\n
  14. I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America. | HuffPost<\/a>
    \nContent warning for… I mean, for so much. Dead cat, sexual harassment, homophobia, Dick Cheney, and a generally bleak world. (    Via<\/a>.)<\/li>\n
  15. Performance and Selfhood in \u2018Alita: Battle Angel\u2019 \u2013 J. Rosenfield \u2013 Medium<\/a>
    \n“She has no real understanding of herself or the world around her. And yet she knows that her body is wrong.” I completely loved this movie, by the way.<\/li>\n
  16. The U.S. Fertility Rate Is Down, Yet More Women Are Mothers – The New York Times<\/a>
    \nThe likelihood of women becoming mothers in their lifetime, measured by how many women in the age 40-44 age group have ever had children, has had a recent upturn.<\/li>\n
  17. A Mother\u2019s Promise: You Can Be Yourself – Video – NYTimes.com<\/a>
    \nA beautiful short animated piece.<\/li>\n
  18. Financial Windfalls: 15 Stories of Gifts, Wins, Inheritances, and The Money That Changed Everything | Topic<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. Building a Bigger Action Hero – Inside Hollywood’s Muscle Factory – Men’s Journal<\/a>
    \nHow all the male movie stars suddenly got so ripped.<\/li>\n
  20. Hilde Lysiak, 12-year-old journalist, films Arizona cop threatening her – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. \u201cHilde is a force of nature. One can only imagine what sort of stories she will be turning out once she has a driver\u2019s license.\u201d<\/li>\n
  22. A Dutch Church Held A 96-Day Service To Stop A Refugee Family’s Deportation<\/a><\/li>\n
  23. Opinion | It\u2019s Not That Men Don\u2019t Know What Consent Is – The New York Times<\/a>
    \n“When they realized that their actions conflicted with that benchmark, though, they expanded their definition of consent rather than question their conduct.”<\/li>\n
  24. When Does an Accident Become a Crime? \u2013 Texas Monthly<\/a>
    \nWhen a DA is determined enough, is the short answer.<\/li>\n
  25. Emma Thompson\u2019s letter to Skydance: Why I can\u2019t work for John Lasseter – Los Angeles Times<\/a>
    \nThe actress quit work on an animated movie she’d been cast in.<\/li>\n
  26. How America Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Deficits and Debt – The New York Times<\/a>
    \nThe long-predicted consequences of deficit don’t seem to have come about, and putting off investments in infrastructure is harmful in the long run, various people argue. (    Alternative link.<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  27. The Fake Sex Doctor Who Conned the Media Into Publicizing His Bizarre Research on Suicide, Butt-Fisting, and Bestiality\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n
  28. Rich Must Embrace Deficits to Escape Taxes – Bloomberg<\/a><\/li>\n
  29. With FOSTA Already Leading to Censorship, Plaintiffs Are Seeking Reinstatement Of Their Lawsuit Challenging the Law\u2019s Constitutionality | Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a><\/li>\n
  30. The paradox of Patriot Prayer \u2013 Justin Ward \u2013 Medium<\/a>
    \nThere are a handful of non-white members of The Proud Boys and other racist organizations. That doesn’t magically make them not racist.<\/li>\n
  31. Opinion | The Electoral College Is the Greatest Threat to Our Democracy – The New York Times<\/a>
    \nThe headline is irrelevant clickbait, because nothing in Jamelle Bouie’s excellent overview is making a case about what is “the greatest threat.” (Probably Bouie didn’t write the headline). But the electoral college is definitely anti-democracy, and the arguments in its defense make zero sense.\u00a0 (    Alternate link.<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  32. BNYT columnist Bret Stephens inadvertently explains why women don\u2019t report sexual harassment – Vox<\/a>
    If young journalists can face career-damaging blowback for just making a rude comment on Twitter, is it any wonder victims of sexual harassment (a category that does include some men, Vox!) hesitate to report their abusers?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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