Politics Can I Talk To A Manager? “Speaking to the manager” is a sort of tyrannical helplessness; it is the haughty demand for intercession on one’s behalf by an array of greater forces you assume are servile. It is
Politics Nothing to Syndicate It should be clear what all these changes in the nature of work mean for syndicalism: It is difficult to organize the workplace if there is no workplace. It is even harder if
Politics On Disruption and Underpaid Labor MoviePass says its model can realize a healthy profit margin, provided it can monetize its user data and sign up enough casual moviegoers. This one sentence says so much about what's wrong with
Link Article Apologies as Commodities A huge multi-national company like Starbucks is inextricably plugged into the system of global capitalism and, as such, is complicit in all the forms of oppression that this system engenders or heightens. But
Programming Effectful Haskell: Reader, Transformers, Typeclasses Here we’ll be looking at Reader, starting with a common use case – accessing application configuration – and working our way to effectful bliss, starting from first principles. Once we’re there, we’ll
Link Article Managing Media I’m not going to wander into analyzing personality here, but I think it’s important to note that I’m aware of how I’m wired and it’s something that I
Politics Anti-Fascism Also, many of their followers think that this is a game, that this a joke, that they can come off the Internet and into the streets without this having very serious implications. And
Politics Download More Proles Contrary to public perception, the economy doesn’t actually need that many more programmers. As a result, teaching millions of kids to code won’t make them all middle-class. Rather, it will proletarianize
Religion/Spirituality Racism and Homophobia in the KC Pagan Community: The Asatru Folk Assembly For two months, however, I have been combating racism and homophobia being brought to my community. It has taken over my time I reserve for blogging and, in the past few weeks, sleep
Politics In Charlottesville, the Local Jewish Community Presses On For half an hour, three men dressed in fatigues and armed with semi-automatic rifles stood across the street from the temple. Had they tried to enter, I don’t know what I could
Link Article The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter Many members of YA Book Twitter have become culture cops, monitoring their peers across multiple platforms for violations. The result is a jumble of dogpiling and dragging, subtweeting and screenshotting, vote-brigading and flagging
Politics What Socialism Means The constant cries of “socialism” for every government program from the American right has really diluted the meaning. Socialism refers to a system where sectors of the economy and basic aspects of human
Link Article Socialism’s Future May Be Its Past Capitalism is an economic system: a way of organizing production for the market through private ownership and the profit motive. To the extent that it has permitted democracy, it has been with extreme
Politics Why We Should Fear University, Inc. Rather than painting student activists as censors — trying to dictate who has the right to say what and when — we should instead see them as trapped in a corporate architecture of managing offense.
Politics The Importance of Collective Action While reading through the archives over at Treehugger, I came across this bit of wisdom that I think has broader applications than just environmentalism and global climate change: Inevitably, if we look solely
Politics How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul The result today is a paradox. At the same time that the nation has achieved perhaps the most tolerant culture in U.S. history, the destruction of the anti-monopoly and anti-bank tradition in
Link Article Stories Are Important But it is important. All stories are important. YOUR story is important. Your photopgraphy, your sculpture, your dacing, your music, your writing, your anything...it's important. And taking the time to share your
Politics Jesse Williams Spits Knowledge Like a Seasoned MC This is one of the most powerful speeches on race in America I have ever had the privilege of watching. You owe it to yourself to watch this in its entirety. If it
Religion/Spirituality Ramadan Mubarak Ramadan Mubarak to my Muslim friends! If you're fasting, I hope that your month of fasting and prayer helps you feel interconnected with your faith community and your understanding of the Divine. May
Feminism How to Get Sexually Assaulted at a Gaming Convention If you ever want to know what sexual assault is like, please read this article. And think about it the next time you defend a rapist by trying to discredit a victim. How
Programming How to Avoid the Biggest Mistake You Can Make as a New Software Engineer Small deltas in your learning rate make a huge difference in the long run because investments in yourself compound over time. The knowledge and lessons that you learn today create a foundation for
Gaming Teenage Girls Are Playing Video Games. You Just Might Not Hear Them. About a quarter of the girls who play video games do play online at least once a month. Unlike boys who play video games online, however, teenage girls tend to turn off their
Gaming Bioware Trash I have been playing Bioware games since Baldur's Gate, and Mass Effect is one of my top two favorite sci-fi universes. If "Bioware trash" is a thing, I most definitely belong
Gaming Banned and/or Restricted The latest Magic: The Gathering bans for modern lead me to believe that Wizards of the Coast would like modern to have more variance. That's a valid design choice. Both Birthing Pod and