Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Does anyone have the right to sex?
Amia Srinivasan · Does anyone have the right to sex? (London Review of Books) When we see consent as the sole constraint on OK sex, we are pushed towards a naturalisation of sexual preference in which the rape fantasy becomes a primordial rather than a political fact.
On 23 May 2014, Elliot Rodger, a … -
"Elon Musk"
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Child Abuse Ad Uses Lenticular Printing to Help Children While Remaining Invisible to Adults
Child Abuse Ad Uses Lenticular Printing to Help Children While Remaining Invisible to Adults (Laughing Squid) The ANAR Foundation and Grey Group Spain have created a unique advertising campaign that only kids can see. The ad campaign uses lenticular printing to show individuals below a certain height — children, in this case — a certain …
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No, Panera Bread Doesn't Take Security Seriously
No, Panera Bread Doesn’t Take Security Seriously – PB – Medium by an author and an author (Medium) tl;dr: In August 2017, I reported a vulnerability to Panera Bread that allowed the full name, home address, email address, food/dietary… tl;dr: In August 2017, I reported a vulnerability to Panera Bread that allowed the full name, …
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Authority and Usage and Emoji
Authority and Usage and Emoji (Dan Cohen) Maybe it’s a subconscious effect of my return to the blog, but I’ve found myself reading more essays recently, and so I found myself returning to the nonfiction work of David Foster Wal…
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The Secret Language of Ships
The Secret Language of Ships | Hakai Magazine (Hakai Magazine) A ship’s markings may look like hieroglyphs, but to industry insiders they tell an important story.
Approaching the container ship in San Francisco Bay, the tugboat looks like a pit bull puppy chasing an eighteen-wheeler. When the vessels are an arm’s length apart, the ship’s … -
Asymmetric Cryptography: Works Like Magic
Asymmetric Cryptography: Works Like Magic (cyberhoboing with dominic tarr) It’s a common complaint that cryptography is too hard for regular people to understand - and that all our current cryptographically secure applications are designed for cyborgs and not humans. While...
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Inside the Deadly World of Private Prisoner Transport
Inside the Deadly World of Private Prisoner Transport (The Marshall Project) Tens of thousands of people every year are packed into vans run by for-profit companies with almost no oversight.
In July 2012, Steven Galack, the former owner of a home remodeling business, was living in Florida when he was arrested on an out-of-state warrant … -
21 Books You Don't Have to Read (and 21 you should read instead)
The 21 Most Overrated Books Ever (and 21 Books to Read Instead) (GQ) GQ asked its favorite new authors to dunk on the classics. We've been told all our lives that we can only call ourselves well-read once we've read the Great Books. We tried. We got halfway through Infinite Jest and halfway through the …
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Far Cry 5 review
Far Cry 5 review (Polygon) A horrible story ruins an enjoyable world Far Cry 5 had the potential to say something interesting by setting the game in America, but its murky story and themes do more to taint the game’s fantastic and playful open world than to give it purpose and meaning.
The goofy world and … -
Precise Slice
http://buttersafe.com/2018/03/08/precise-slice/ (buttersafe.com)
Buttersafe
You can see the punchline coming from a mile away but it's still awesome. -
Violin Plots
XKCD
Is that supposed to be a flower or... OHHHH! This is a question I've asked before... -
Lure
http://buttersafe.com/2018/03/01/lure/ (buttersafe.com)
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Dwitter
Dwitter is a community of <canvas> artists who write Javascript programs of no more than 140 characters to produce beautiful graphical output. Some favourites: Bluer waves, d/3697, d/4388. If the demoscene were invented today, this is what it might look like. -
Visualisation of bike rides around Tampa, Florida
A visualisation of bike rides around Tampa, Florida, taken from the GPS logs of bike-sharing scheme Coast Bikes' vehicles.