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[Ninety-Three]

I have no idea what's going on with that site, because even in post preview mode, a manual link is fine. Lacking a good explanation, I shall blame a shitty mobile version of the site, because Deadspin seems like the kind of place to have a shitty mobile version that interferes with regular browsers. 

 

Either that or Apple's Wizard Corps tried to hex down your link.

[Twig]

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-laymans-guide-to-the-new-iphones-and-apples-other-ne-1729643905

 

e: worked for me!!!

 

were you trying to do this?: theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-laymans-guide-to-the-new-iphones-and-apples-other-ne-1729643905

 

'cause without the http:// it won't work

[feelthedarkness]

Fucking Boston edge kids.

 

I thought the edge kids in Cinny were rowdy, but some of the horror stories--plus that dumb FSU documentary--coming from the Boston HC scene. Great bands though. 

 

I don't think I know many/any nati kids, but I know a lot of Clevo people, and it is GROUND ZERO for crazy bad behavior. In general Ohio is a weird rock Mecca.

 

 

 

I've just come to accept the fact that I'm an Apple hater. No disrespect to any Apple lovers out there, this brand just never clicked with me and that means I must hate it irrationally because it's Apple and you have to pick a side.

 

That article is fun, but I OBJECT to the dings on the Surface Pro 2. I love mine! underrated devices! 

[namman siggins]

I don't think I know many/any nati kids, but I know a lot of Clevo people, and it is GROUND ZERO for crazy bad behavior. In general Ohio is a weird rock Mecca.

Clevo and Youngstown people are crazy. I always loved and dreaded going to those areas for shows, especially Youngtstown, because there were high chances you were going to get mugged and a fight was going to break out at a show. Once you get past that, their shows were never boring.

 

Ohio is such a weird place for music. 

 

in other news

when a baby suckles at its mother's breast, a vacuum is created. Within that vacuum, the infant's saliva is sucked back into the mother's nipple, where receptors in her mammary gland read its signals. This "baby spit backwash," as she delightfully describes it, contains information about the baby's immune status. Everything scientists know about physiology indicates that baby spit backwash is one of the ways that breast milk adjusts its immunological composition.

http://www.thestranger.com/features/feature/2015/08/26/22755273/the-more-i-learn-about-breast-milk-the-more-amazed-i-am

[Zeusthecat]

It's really too bad that the push towards formula has been so prevalent. So many people I talk to these days are convinced that formula is just as good as the real thing because of how strongly doctors push it in America and how we are supposedly so technologically advanced that we have figured out how to cook up a perfect substitute for the real thing in a lab.

 

That's a great article and the science behind breast milk is endlessly fascinating.

[sclpls]

Clevo and Youngstown people are crazy. I always loved and dreaded going to those areas for shows, especially Youngtstown, because there were high chances you were going to get mugged and a fight was going to break out at a show. Once you get past that, their shows were never boring.

 

Ohio is such a weird place for music. 

 

in other news

http://www.thestranger.com/features/feature/2015/08/26/22755273/the-more-i-learn-about-breast-milk-the-more-amazed-i-am

 

Yeah, the Cleveland tradition of insane people making music is really strong. My first exposure to the Cleveland punk scene was the same as many people I suspect when I heard Pere Ubu, and it was followed up by the Electric Eels, and then more insane, nihilistic stuff from there. Being in a touring band in the 90s, Pats in the Flats was by far my favorite bar to play at to see whatever local bands were playing that night, it was always something memorable.

[seamus2389]

This articles Whig v Haan view of the world is part of something I have been thinking about recently with regards to how important is people forgetting the various injustices they suffered/ perpetrated play in reducing current/future suffering/violence. What happened in Northern Ireland with the Good Friday Agreement was both sides agreed to put to the back of their mind all that occurred between them and not to bring the murderers on both sides to justice to stop further murder. South Africa did something similar with it's truth and reconciliation movement as a way of exposing what happened under apartheid without planting the seeds for further violence by bringing those who were involved in running of the that system to justice.

 

It also brings up the interesting dividing line between change by small, piecemeal steps over a long period of time and change through large scale social revolution in a short period. The latter has a strong kinda emotional appeal except it has a pretty poor track record compared the former approach which can only really be appreciated looking back over 100's of years of history. 

[namman siggins]

An example of that abuse cited by Télam included testimony from a first lieutenant that indicated an officer “bound his hands and feet to his back, placing him face down on the wet sand on the beach from 9am until 5pm” and more reports of a sergeant who had to undergo surgery after being kicked in the testicles.

Six months after the conclusion of the war then-Lieutenant General Cristino Nicolaides was named commander-in-chief of the Argentine Army and he indicated that any reported abuse was to be dealt with as a disciplinary problem, away from public scrutiny, and not a matter relating to human rights abuse.

 

 

http://buenosairesherald.com/article/198562/declassified-malvinas-documents-reveal-true-horror-of-1982-war

 

EDIT:

I  really enjoyed this one

 

http://qz.com/486427/the-weirdest-friendships-you-find-yourself-in-once-you-hit-30/

 

A cute piece on how friendships go through out our lives.

[namman siggins]

Academic life is inherently social. Focusing solely on grades or graduation rates obscures that fact.

Imagine the culture shock that some lower-income students experience navigating this hidden curriculum. Alice, for example, attended a public high school where peers fought, set trash cans on fire, and skipped school while teachers exhausted themselves combating these problems. She doesn’t feel at home in college. When professors say that their door is open, she’s not sure that means she’s welcome. She admits to being “too intimidated or too afraid to go and talk to people” and consequently she “rarely” goes “to school-sponsored people for things.”

In contrast, Ogun, who comes from a troubled neighborhood but attended an affluent boarding school, reports feeling “empowered to go talk to a professor and say, ‘I want to meet with you.’ My school instilled in me that I’m allowed to do that and it’s actually my right.” In fact, when her instructor was away from campus, Ogun had no qualms calling his cellphone for virtual office hours despite her friends’ surprised looks and admonitions.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/opinion/sunday/what-the-privileged-poor-can-teach-us.html

[jennegatron]

^That's a really good article, and I think it extends to not just poort students, but middle class students that went to poor high schools (aka me at school like mine was.) Adjusting to college after going to a bad high school I feel like I did not take advantage of all the opportunities my wealthy liberal arts school had to offer, and maybe I wouldn't have spent my first year our of college unemployed if I had done that differently.

[namman siggins]

It wouldn’t be the first time Morse code was used in a hostage situation; in 1977, one of 52 hostages held captive by South-Moluccan gunmen on a Dutch train managed to transmit the message "get us out of here," using sunlight and a hand mirror. Then there was Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr., a United States Navy rear admiral who spent almost eight years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, four of those in solitary confinement. In a forced North Vietnamese television interview in 1966, Denton ingeniously used Morse code to communicate with American Intelligence by blinking his eyes to spell out "T-O-R-T-U-R-E".

 

"It was a eureka moment! We thought about hiding the Morse code in an advert," says Ortiz. "Then we thought, how about a song?" As a young man, Ortiz was a musician, but his career never took off. The idea of producing a hit song appealed to him.

 

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/7/7483235/the-code-colombian-army-morsecode-hostages

[namman siggins]

This was an phenomenal read.

Snyder: Yeah, so unnatur is actually a term that Hitler uses, and I think it’s a really telling term. I think it gets to the heart of the matter. When we think of anti-Semitism, we start from the ground up, right? We think about everyday prejudice. We think about discrimination. We think about the separation of Jews from other people.

What I’m trying to do is start from the top down, and say that the fundamental issue is not that Hitler was more of an anti-Semite than other people. It’s not a matter of just turning up the notches and getting up to a higher level of anti-Semitism. It’s a whole worldview, in the literal sense of the world. He sees the Jews as being the thing which destroys the world, which infects the world. He uses the term “pestilence” in this sense—the Jews have infected the world. They’ve made the world not just impure in some kind of metaphorical sense—he really means it. And so the only way to purify the world—to make things go back to the way they’re supposed to be, to have a natural ecology, to go back to this struggle between races, which Hitler thinks is natural—the only way to do that is to physically eliminate the Jews.

Synder depicts Hitler not totalitarian:

Rather, Hitler was a “racial anarchist”—a man for whom states were transitory, laws meaningless, ethics a facade.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/hitler-holocaust-antisemitism-timothy-snyder/404260/

[Merus]

How to Fail to Win An Argument With An Anti-Vaxxer:

 

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/4/9252489/anti-vaxx-wife

[namman siggins]

The Argentina Papers are the testimony of a group of Nazis who aimed to bring back the idea of National Socialism. Eichmann was a part of this group, consulted because of his firsthand knowledge of the “Jewish question.” The alleged “Sassen Interview” are the minutes of their meetings. Members of the group wrote their own drafts for discussions and Eichmann planned to publish his own book along with Willem Sassen’s book. We can reconstruct and synthesize these different manuscripts, transcripts, and papers. In short, the Argentina Papers provide a portrait of a radical Nazi group with incredible international connections and Eichmann’s thoughts and eloquence outside his glass box in Jerusalem.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/the-lies-adolf-eichmann-told/381222/

Like most everything in Hollywood, it was all smoke and mirrors. His charade wasn’t his stage name—it was his race. Korla Pandit, born John Roland Redd, was a light skinned black man from St. Louis, Missouri. It was a secret he kept until the day he died.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122797/how-black-man-missouri-transformed-indian-liberace

[namman siggins]

If y'all are not doing anything:

 

http://thenewinquiry.com/features/sunday-reading-128/

[Mangela Lansbury]

http://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you.htm?mod=e2this

This starts as a good talk about privacy and the Internet, then turns into a talk on why San Francisco is terrible. I liked it.

[Dinosaursssssss]

http://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you.htm?mod=e2this

This starts as a good talk about privacy and the Internet, then turns into a talk on why San Francisco is terrible. I liked it.

 

I enjoyed that a lot. The jab at Elon Musk felt a little unfair, but it was pretty funny.

[namman siggins]

As the twenty-first century gets darker, politics are likely to follow suit, and for all its apparent weirdness, neoreaction may be an early warning system for what a future anti-democratic right looks like. So what is neoreaction, then, exactly? For all the talk of neo-feudalism and geeks for monarchy, it’s less a single ideology than a loose constellation of far-right thought, clustered around three pillars: religious traditionalism, white nationalism, and techno-commercialism (the names are self-explanatory). This means heavy spoonfuls of “race realism,” misogyny, and nostalgia for past hierarchies, leavened with transhumanism and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

http://www.theawl.com/2015/09/good-luck-to-human-kind

[namman siggins]

Now comes Thomas Piketty, who warns us in his justly celebrated new book, Capital in the 21st Century, that matters are only likely to get worse. Above all, he argues that the natural state of capitalism seems to be one of great inequality. When I was a graduate student, we were taught the opposite. The economist Simon Kuznets optimistically wrote that after an initial period of development in which inequality grew, it would begin to decline. Although data at the time were scarce, it might have been true when he wrote it: The inequalities of the 19th and early 20th centuries seemed to be diminishing. This conclusion appeared to be vindicated during the period from World War II to 1980, when the fortunes of the wealthy and the middle class rose together.

But the evidence of the last third of a century suggests this period was an aberration. It was a time of war-induced solidarity when the government kept the playing field level, and the GI Bill of Rights and subsequent civil rights advances meant that there was something to the American dream. Today, inequality is growing dramatically again, and the past three decades or so have proved conclusively that one of the major culprits is trickle-down economics—the idea that the government can just step back and if the rich get richer and use their talents and resources to create jobs, everyone will benefit. It just doesn’t work; the historical data now prove that.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-myth-of-americas-golden-age-108013#ixzz3ni6Bc1IW

[Gormongous]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/06/carly-fiorina-medieval-history-degree-fight-isis

 

When we use the word “medieval” to characterize something we don’t like, be it Isis, the Ferguson Police department or Russia’s driver’s license regulations, we are trying to impose chronological distance between ourselves and things we find unpleasant. Thinking of these distasteful or evil aspects of the modern world as belonging to the past makes it harder, not easier, to understand their root causes and fight them.

 

...

 

Isis depends on modernity. Their growth was made possible by modern wars – from the division of the Middle East post-World War I to the most recent wars in Iraq and Syria. It’s only in this ultra-modern context that a group like Isis could grow and flourish. They expertly deploy modern technology to recruit and communicate. Some of their recruits even purchased Islam for Dummies before trying to head to the war zone. Now there’s an ultra-modern “fake it until you make it” mentality.

 

If Carly Fiorina really wants to draw on the Middle Ages for inspiration, I do have some suggestions. Lesson one: support universities, scholars, writers and artists, as their contributions outlive us all. Lesson two: peasants, oppressed for too long, always rebel. Lesson three: don’t go to war in the Middle East without a good exit plan.

[Mangela Lansbury]

This is an exceptionally bad article centered around an exceptionally atrocious interview with exceptionally great quotes from Nicki Minaj. What an exceptional article I have read!

 

‘‘Is there a part of you that thrives on drama, or is it no, just pain and unpleasantness—’’

 

The room went quiet, but only for an instant.

 

‘‘That’s disrespectful,’’ Minaj said, drawing herself up in the chair. ‘‘Why would a grown-ass woman thrive off drama?’’

 

As soon as I said the words, I wished I could dissolve them on my tongue. In pop-culture idiom, ‘‘drama’’ is the province of Real Housewives with nothing better to do than stick their noses where they don’t belong. I was more interested in a different kind of drama — the kind worthy of an HBO series, in which your labelmate is releasing endless dis tracks against your boyfriend and your mentor is suing your label president for a king’s ransom. But the phrase I used was offensive, and even as I tried to apologize, I only made matters worse.

 

‘‘What do the four men you just named have to do with me thriving off drama?’’ she asked. ‘‘Why would you even say that? That’s so peculiar. Four grown-ass men are having issues between themselves, and you’re asking me do I thrive off drama?’’

 

She pointed my way, her extended arm all I could see other than the diamonds glinting in her ears. This wasn’t over yet. ‘‘That’s the typical thing that women do. What did you putting me down right there do for you?’’ she asked. ‘‘Women blame women for things that have nothing to do with them. I really want to know why — as a matter of fact, I don’t. Can we move on, do you have anything else to ask?’’ she continued. ‘‘To put down a woman for something that men do, as if they’re children and I’m responsible, has nothing to do with you asking stupid questions, because you know that’s not just a stupid question. That’s a premeditated thing you just did.’’ She called me ‘‘rude’’ and ‘‘a troublemaker,’’ said ‘‘Do not speak to me like I’m stupid or beneath you in any way’’ and, at last, declared, ‘‘I don’t care to speak to you anymore.’’

[Merus]

I find it difficult to care about Nicki Minaj. Like, clearly there is someone out there that thinks her music is great but from where I'm sitting her biggest hit was thoroughly out-classed by the 30-year-old song it sampled from, and I'm reading this and it sounds like she's trying to win gold in the oppression Olympics. She did the same thing with Taylor Swift, where she basically started a beef then pretended it was about black women getting excluded, except she kept making it about Taylor Swift. 

[seamus2389]

NY magazine go from a shit interview Nikci Minaj to a great one with Rihanna

[Mangela Lansbury]

 The Lonely Death of George Bell is a beautiful eulogy for a man who died with nobody to notice he wasn't there anymore.

[juv3nal]

So this blogging of a football manager campaign is old and and a really long series of blog posts rather than a single article, but I found it super enthralling despite my interest in playing football manager being next to nonexistent. It probably helps to care about football/soccer though.

 

Three years later, an update on the utterly surreal fate of the real life team he had chosen to manage for his campaign:

 

I had chosen a team to save that couldn’t possibly be saved in real life. And here they were, in real life, being saved.

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Can the real Pro Vercelli qualify for Serie A? There’s absolutely no chance, none — which is why I'm certain that it’s possible. I know it can happen in the real world, because it sounds just like a video game.

 

 

Unrelated, I really dug this Simon Parkin piece about a Ashraf Marwan, not least of which because I'd previously no idea he wrote about stuff outside of games.