Joe Biden Didn’t Just Vote for the Iraq Invasion—He Helped Lead the March to War
Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’ - UK news
DHS, USCIS, CBP, ICE Share Data With Census After Trump’s Executive Order 《We should follow the example of the CAA protests in India and stop this!》
Humanity is under a DDOS attack from the right. Such attacks are designed to overwhelm a system’s defenses by flooding it with attacks from multiple sources at the same time, thus overloading the system and making it impossible to continue normal operations.
When you tell a racist you’re an anthropologist… Me: Racist: Why are X people like that? Me: Racist: I love Jared Diamond.
Surprised this story didn’t get more attention in Taiwan: A recently-discovered translation from Dutch to Siraya 《This effectively doubled the archival data for a language that the Siraya people are struggling to revive!》
Sanders, Khanna introduce legislation to block funding for a war with Iran
Beeple on creating a zombie Mark Zuckerberg and flesh-eating Baby Yoda to examine the times
Zettelkasten — How One German Scholar Was So Freakishly Productive 《I have long ago given up on trying to be so organized. I’m lucking if I can remember which app I wrote something down in…》
Iran strike: killing top general Qassem Suleimani changes the game in the Middle East - Vox 《Useful overview》
Amazon threatens to fire critics who are outspoken on its environmental policies
Google’s human rights principles come under fire by a former executive
The East Gippsland fires and how they compare to fire extent over the last 70 years, mapped.
Thousands of Zapatista women gather in the mountains of Mexico
“a decade in popular culture is not defined by scientific convention” 《Exactly. Try telling someone born in 1980 that they were actually born in the 70s…》
VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them 《I was just thinking I should be make recurring donations to Propublica…》
Dr. Manhattan is a Cop: “Watchmen” and Frantz Fanon - by Aaron Bady
45 of our reporters were arrested. 20 are still in custody but we don’t know where
Taiwan’s Minimum Wage Would Have Grown to NT$40,000 if previous administrations had achieved Tsai’s Growth Rate - another great report by Roy Ngerng
Verso’s New Year’s sale means that Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race, by Patrick Wolfe, one of my favorite books of the decade, is on sale as well. Read it in 2020!
The only question to ask of the anti-infiltration bill is whether you would support it regardless of which party was in power? I’m afraid I can’t say I would.