{"id":24820,"date":"2019-04-30T14:59:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T21:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24820"},"modified":"2019-04-30T14:59:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T21:59:40","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-moment-before-the-fall-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24820","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm: Moment Before The Fall Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. On Twitter, I argue that if prisoners could vote, and one or two state representatives need the prisoner vote to get elected, that would be good<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind – The New York Times<\/a>
    \nThis story isn’t as focused on Ms Gilmore as the title sounds; it’s about her, but also about the case for moving towards prison abolition. (    Alternative link.)<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Amia Srinivasan \u00b7 Does anyone have the right to sex? \u00b7 London Review of Books<\/a>
    \n“Here, she tells us, is the task of feminism: to treat as axiomatic our free sexual choices, while also seeing why, as MacKinnon has always said, such choices, under patriarchy, are rarely free.”<\/li>\n
  4. 2020 Candidates Are Very Hesitant About Letting Prisoners Vote | HuffPost<\/a>
    \nI foresee a bunch of links about the different positions of Dem candidates. This is an issue where Bernie is better than the others, all of whom are either “no” or “no comment” or “I’ll think about it.” Gabbard is the worst – she’s not only against voting in prison, but also against voting while on parole.<\/li>\n
  5. What Was the Washington Post Afraid Of?<\/a>
    \nAn infuriating story by a Washington Post<\/em> reporter who spent months researching a story about sexual harassment at 60 Minutes – only to have 60 Minutes successfully pressure her boss, Marty Baron (painted as a hero in the 2015 movie Spotlight<\/em>) to leave 60 Minutes boss Jeff Fager out of the story.<\/li>\n
  6. (134) The Man Who Set Up His Own Toll Road, Without Permission – YouTube<\/a>
    \nThis was in the UK; as the video points out, it would be illegal to do it in the U.S..<\/li>\n
  7. The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center | The New Yorker<\/a>
    \nThe founder has been fired amid allegations of sexual abuse, racism, and just generally being a grifter. Written by a former SPLC staffer who thinks the SPLC does some good work, but also cons donors, takes in way more money than it needs or spends, and profits the people at the top.<\/li>\n
  8. The problems with one-size-fits-all laws on opioid prescriptions – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES: The Equal Pay Day 2019. Where Echidne Dons Her Economist’s Hat And Fixes Mistakes in Beliefs<\/a>
    \nThe mistaken beliefs are roughly divided into “discrimination is everything” and “discrimination is nothing.” Thanks to Mandolin for the link.<\/li>\n
  10. Vertical Panoramic Photographs of New York Churches<\/a>
    \nThese are simply amazing.<\/li>\n
  11. One Doctor\u2019s Answer to Drug Deaths: Opioid Vending Machines | WIRED<\/a>
    \nAlthough the moral scolds who’d rather see people dead than high are less powerful in Canada than in the U.S., this is still a cutting-edge idea even in Canada. Vending machines aside, the interventions that seem to have the most potential are all focused on improving supply, in one way or another, rather than on reducing demand.<\/li>\n
  12. I find this short video of a Chimpanzee fluently browsing videos<\/a> on a smartphone just fascinating.<\/li>\n
  13. The Boarding Houses that Built America | The American Conservative<\/a>
    \nI lean towards agreeing with this article, but I wish the writer had been specific about which regulations preventing boarding houses and SROs from returning he would like to see repealed, and if repealing them would have any bad effects. In other words, is this a case where Chesterson’s Fence applies?<\/li>\n
  14. The outlook for the Portland housing market | City Observatory<\/a>
    \nPortland is building many new residences, and rent – if not exactly falling – has stopped rising. At least, according to the graphs on this page.<\/li>\n
  15. The Sexualized Messages Dress Codes are Sending to Students<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Barcelona School Commission Evaluates 600 Children’s Books for Sexist Content | Smart News | Smithsonian<\/a>
    \nThey removed about two hundred of the books, which are for age 6 and under, from school library shelves.<\/li>\n
  17. Rowan Atkinson: Welcome to Hell – YouTube<\/a>
    \nJust a stand-up routine I enjoyed. Atkinson starred in one of my favorite TV shows ever, “Black Adder.”<\/li>\n
  18. Putting Numbers in Context: A Winnable Battle Our Side Doesn\u2019t Want to Fight | Dean Baker on Patreon<\/a>
    \nA very simple and, I think, pretty irrefutable idea: News should report budget numbers as a percentage of the budget along with dollar amounts, rather than just reporting amounts.<\/li>\n
  19. The Computer Scientist Who Wants to Put a Name to Every Face in Civil War Photographs | Innovation | Smithsonian<\/a>
    \nIt’s pretty neat – they’re using a combination of facial recognition software and crowd-sourcing. Despite the headline, it seems impossible to me that they’ll be able to put a name to every face, but they’ll certainly put names to a lot of faces.<\/li>\n
  20. Anita Hill deserves better than Joe Biden’s excuses.<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. Pussy – Gwen Benaway<\/a>
    \n“Latest essay from me: on my pussy, my life as a post op trans girl, and the “real” problem with Andrea Long Chu’s recent op ed on her surgery.” Thoughtful and gorgeously written.<\/li>\n
  22. Gender Critical | ContraPoints – YouTube<\/a>
    \n“Denying trans people their gender identity because \u201cabolish gender\u201d is like denying citizenship to immigrants because \u201cabolish borders.\u201d You’re targeting the people who are the most vulnerable under the present system, and then leveraging that system against them, under the pretense of abolishing it.”<\/li>\n
  23. For decades, Garfield telephones kept washing ashore in France. Now the mystery has been solved. – The Washington Post<\/a>
    \nActually, I think the mystery is only partly solved. I mean, where did the shipping container come from, exactly? Did no one notice a shipping container full of Garfield telephones had gone missing?<\/li>\n
  24. College admissions scandal: a modest proposal to fix admissions – Vox<\/a>
    \nRather than make wealthy parents pay insane prices for illegal means to get their kids admitted, set aside “rich kids” slots to be sold to the highest bidder, and use the proceeds to pay for more poor kids attending elite schools.<\/li>\n
  25. Latino outreach or Google Translate? 2020 Dem candidates bungle Spanish websites<\/a><\/li>\n
  26. ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES: Christopher Ingraham on the Sex Dearth Among Young Americans<\/a>
    \nI didn’t realize that how the now-famous graphs were calculated is not publicly available. That might not mean anything, but it’s less than ideal. Anyway, yeah, the incel interpretation of the sex dearth really makes no sense.<\/li>\n
  27. Food and Diabetes, or, People are Weird | Kelly Thinks Too Much<\/a>
    \nThanks to Mandolin for the link.<\/li>\n
  28. #MarALard*ss and the Left\u2019s Fat Problem \u2013 Your Fat Friend \u2013 Medium<\/a>
    \nContent warning: Anti-fat sneers from the left, both aimed at Trump and in general. “We talk about calories in, calories out like we talk about poor people saving money. We assume that we could outwit poverty, outsmart our own bodies. Suddenly, we become so deeply conservative.”<\/li>\n
  29. Evaluating James Damore’s Google Gender Diversity Memo on the Merits<\/a><\/li>\n
  30. The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous – The Atlantic – Pocket<\/a>
    \nThere are more effective treatments – but they have trouble gaining traction, because everyone has heard that AA’s model is the only way. (Content warning for a brief fatphobic comment.)<\/li>\n
  31. The Skin I\u2019m In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than 50 times\u2014all because I’m black<\/a>
    \nIn case you thought Canada was better.<\/li>\n
  32. The photos at the top and bottom of this post came from Dancers Among Us, by Jordan Matter<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  33. Trump\u2019s absurd threat to close the Mexican border \u201cif the drugs don\u2019t stop\u201d – Vox<\/a>
    \nTrump is more brazenly awful on this, but his tough-on-drugs stop-the-flow position is the mainstream of American policymakers in both parties. Drug policy is an area where puritanism and faux-macho posturing rule.<\/li>\n
  34. Why some US cities are opening safe spaces for injecting heroin – Vox<\/a>
    \nThe Trump administration is threatening (and in one case taking) legal action.<\/li>\n
  35. 8 Reasons Why Insulin is so Outrageously Expensive – T1International<\/a>
    \nDid you know it’s legal for a pharmaceutical company to pay a competitor to not <\/em>sell a competing drug? I didn’t. That really doesn’t seem like it should be legal.<\/li>\n
  36. (137) The Great Tragedy of the Buffy HD Remaster – YouTube<\/a>
    \nI mean, not an important issue, obviously. But it really is impressive how badly Fox screwed this up. I’m very glad I have the DVDs from before this was made. Perhaps now that Buffy<\/em>, like nearly all other franchises, is owned by Disney, there will be a better remaster done.<\/li>\n
  37. Trump pushed to close El Paso border, told admin officials to resume family separations and agents not to admit migrants – CNNPolitics<\/a>
    \n“After the President left the room, agents sought further advice from their leaders, who told them they were not giving them that direction and if they did what the President said they would take on personal liability.”<\/li>\n
  38. Trump Administration Grants Waiver To Law To Miracle Hill Foster Agency, Which Turns Away Catholics and Jews<\/a><\/li>\n
  39. How Not to Have a Constructive Debate | The New Republic<\/a>
    \n“The left is often criticized for shutting down debate. But is productive debate even possible when we can’t agree on the terms?” Thanks to nobody for the link!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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