If you know what #GamerGate is, I don't have to tell you. If you don't know what #GamerGate is, any description I give you will be attacked by hordes of
Well, here we are. The Giants won another World Series, while the A’s flopped in the playoffs yet again. I’m not one of those A’s fans who hate the Giants, but
November 10, 2014 An open Internet is essential to the American economy, and increasingly to our very way of life. By lowering the cost of launching a new idea, igniting new political movements, and bringing communities closer together, it has been one of the most significant democratizing…
Bots should always punch up, never punch down: http://t.co/uzy5lpdCxt from last year's #botsummit but new to me
— Eric Phetteplace (@phette23) November 11, 2014
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The Problem With White People Quinn Norton 9 min read· Oct 3, 2014 -- This is Part One of a Series on Whiteness. (Part Two) “Politically, the Negro is the touchstone of the modern democratic idea. The presence of the Negro puts our democracy to the proof and reveals the falsity of it.” — Hubert…
You’ve got to understand how unlikely any of this was. In 1992, in British Columbia, Steve Nash’s team won the provincial title at the old Agrodome, and he was
"What those clamoring for fair and balanced game reporting ignore is how game developers are themselves partisan." http://t.co/HrEuuczWCu
— Boss Fight Books (@BossFightBooks) November 7, 2014
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Run your journey with us. Whether you’re just starting out, or your shoes have already seen many miles, we’ll be by your side for every stride. All you have to do is get out the door, and we’ll take it from there. Start Running Coach Corrine "Running isn’t always pretty, but its capability to change…
The subprime lending market that plunged America into the Great Recession is back and as unscrupulous as ever. Instead of mortgages, this time a bubble has formed around auto loans, and reliably ruthl
For the second time last night I watched post-sportsball crowds trash the Mission District of San Francisco. The first was in 2012, when crowds showed up with
Remember when Joe Maddon ejected the umpires? #peakbaseball #dreamysigh http://t.co/ng2IKVsjEX
— Leigh Cowart (@voraciousbrain) November 3, 2014
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Sports of The Times 1/11 Kevin Bumgarner, Madison Bumgarner’s father, watching Game 6 of the World Series at home in Hudson, N.C. Credit...Mike Belleme for The New York Times 1/11 Kevin Bumgarner, Madison Bumgarner’s father, watching Game 6 of the World Series at home in Hudson, N.C. Credit...Mike…
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This is an epic. 2,500 words. But I’m enraged and I’m tackling this from all angles. *** It’s strange when a shooting can bring my country together and then,
A CBC radio host was fired for what he claims was consensual BDSM sex. Here's @fakedansavage's take on the issue. http://t.co/rjP8LWoSaJ
— The Stranger (@strangerslog) October 27, 2014
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YOU KNOW THE SCENARIO. It begins with someone asserting that global warming really exists. “Oh, yeah?” asks his skeptical friend. “Show me this thing called…
The Simpsons has now officially been bad for longer than it was ever good http://t.co/XHlMbJUrc6 via @nationalpost Yikes!
— Daily Simpsons (@dailysimpsons) October 23, 2014
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OK, here it is—I’m sad and spiteful (sorry, Royals fans). Goodbye, 2014 Blue Jays. Exhale, exeunt: http://t.co/MnhqFJ1rY4
— ruhee dewji (@ruhee_) October 23, 2014
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Ever wanted to write a program that'll write a novel? Thanks to @tinysubversions, November is your month. http://t.co/BIuieU14gp
— TLDR (@tldr) October 23, 2014
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At XOXO, @ednapiranha shares the story of @meatspac, the one-year-old animated GIF chat community: http://t.co/nKWfh9vbCo
— XOXO (@xoxo) October 22, 2014
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Then what is time?” St. Augustine asked himself in his Confessions. “I know what it is if no one asks; but if anyone does, then I cannot explain it.” Augustine saw the present as a vanishing knife edge between the past, which exists no longer, and the future, which doesn’t yet. All that exists is…
Last month, I was invited to Twitter to give a talk. Twitter has made a huge, positive difference in my life, and changed the landscape of politics in multiple countries I studied, including my home country, Turkey. So to start the conversation on a good footing, I opened my talk with this question:…
Vancouver Sea Rise Map A new Vancouver Island emerges when the ice caps of the world have melted. This map shows the inundation of the surrounding area when the sea rises 66 meters, and speculates about the names of the future water bodies and landforms. Greenhouse Gastown, anyone? You can buy this…
Two myths about Mandarin: 1. It's the most spoken language (wrong). 2. It's hard to translate to English (wrong). http://e14t.ca/1qS9nkD
— Oliver Reichenstein
Straight white men like Elliot Rodger are starving themselves of an essential source of support: each other.
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— Samantha Allen (@CousinDangereux) May 30, 2014
Thoughts from Spacing Vancouver on #vdw2014, from the everyday to Cascadia and beyond.
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— Denim & Steel (@DenimAndSteel) September 18,
Few aspects of corporate culture are more widely disliked and ridiculed than intra-office meetings. Employees, for the most part, feel that they're tedious. Managers openly complain about their ineffectiveness. The worst part about meetings? Usually, they lead to more meetings. Data seems to back…
The Saturday Profile “When I talk with friends, I reminisce about the ’80s, when everything was not so tainted by the pressure of money, when poets didn’t abandon their work.” — SHENG KEYICredit...Adam Dean for The New York Times BEIJING — WHEN her village was still lush with lotus plants, and a…
Oh are people linking to Oatmeal's "Bartolome de las Casas" strip a lot today again? Yeah, don't. http://t.co/ziK9j5Lukp
— how now (@brownpau) October 13, 2014
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EMILY THEIS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE As sunset creeps earlier—it’s down to 6:19 p.m. today in Boston—we’re already dreading what happens a month from now: Clocks
I read a lot, but I also watch a lot of TV. I have TV on while I work, while I clean, while I sew and make jewelry, and sometimes I like to put Netflix on my laptop on the edge of the sink while I’m in the bathtub. I watch newly-released shows and shows I haven’t seen before, but mostly I watch…
In December 2012, an Icelandic woman named Thorlaug Agustsdottir discovered a Facebook group called “Men are better than women.” One image she found there, Thorlaug wrote to us this summer in an email, “was of a young woman naked chained to pipes or an oven in what looked like a concrete basement,…
On Last Week Tonight, perhaps to balance out his less-than-friendly main segment on Obama’s drone policies, John Oliver asked a question that has bothered people about Ayn Rand since she first emerged in the middle of the twentieth century: why are people into this dreck? Rand was the founder of…
The NHL has had what some are calling its “summer of analytics,” as the league’s teams frantically harvest a small world of online amateurs for quantitative
FIFA's stadium tour is over, and there's no flinching on artificial turf at the 2015 World Cup: http://t.co/k8jzVnNXwH By @HarJournalist
— The Equalizer
When designers Kharis O’Connell and Ryan Betts attended GROW, the largest tech conference in Western Canada this year, they felt they were the only designers in the room. “Vancouver design is so insular,” Kharis noted. “Where are they all?” This feeling of industry isolation is not unique in…
The Guardian: News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier. http://t.co/ZA5a3Hsg23
— Khoi Vinh (@khoi) October 8, 2014
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Daily Routine http://t.co/Lxhaqw7qhs
Believe it or not, the trick to getting daily meditation and prayer into my schedule was a new app.
— In Real Life (@IRLbook) October 6, 2014
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