What I learned working in a porn store

http://www.salon.com/2011/02/04/working_in_a_porn_store/

Economists Discover the Poor Behave Differently From the Rich

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-07/economists-discover-the-poor-behave-differently-from-the-rich

Worries about the future

After listening to an audio book version of Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, I find myself worrying  about the future of our economies. Adam noted, that for workers to be treated well by their employers, there needed to be a greater demand for labor than was available.

Much of the past economic growth fueled this continued increase in demand for labor. However, modern technologies have begun to reduce demand for labor by automating once labor intensive industries. There is some speculation (my own, and based on what I've read online) that an increase in demand for skilled labor (mostly of the engineering, design, and entertainment fields) may compensate for it. It appears that for such speculation to bear fruit, getting more people to be skilled in the use of computers, and access to said computers and internet will be vital. Already there has been an emergence of people making money by streaming their experiences playing games for an online audience. Online self-employment may provide a new source of gainful work. However, it is a much more difficult thing, than simply doing what one is told.

If it proves impractical to create a highly desired, and well paid workforce in the future, then the alternative is to increase income redistribution to raise up the living standards of the poor. In the Wealth of Nations, it is observed, that when the labor supply catches up with demand, that workers inevitably fall into poverty as their ability to demand recompense for their labor drops. So, if we can't maintain a sufficiently high demand for the available labor, then the alternative is to make poverty less miserable. Otherwise, much of the world's population will be doomed to barely make enough money to survive.

The one shining star of hope I see: If we can drastically improve education, the quality of the workforce may increase sufficiently to become a highly demanded resource, through their own efforts. This is not so much a visible solution as merely the acknowledgement that if there's good enough education, then people may invent new solutions to the problem. Possibly even entire new industries.


I suppose my hopeful conclusion, is that a mix of all three ideas (increasing labor demand through invention of new jobs, increasing education to improve workforce quality, and providing the poor with a greater basic standard of living) may allow us to avoid the seemingly unstoppable decline of our standard of living. We need aid for the poor to give them access to the tools needed to benefit from a better education, which is needed to enable them to create and invent their own work. We can no longer depend upon companies to give us work. We must make our own work.

How the Brain Creates Personality: A New Theory

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/11/how-the-brain-creates-personality-a-new-theory/281287/?

7 Homeless People Freeze to Death in Wealthiest Area of the Country

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/7-homeless-people-freeze-death-wealthiest-area-country

Canadian-Based Company Sues Canada Under NAFTA, Saying That Fracking Ban Takes Away Its Expected Profits

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131004/07500724750/canada-hit-with-another-massive-investor-state-dispute-settlement-demand.shtml

On Labeling Women 'Crazy'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harris-oamalley/on-labeling-women-crazy_b_4259779.html?

The great middle-class identity crisis

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/04179370-4741-11e3-b4d3-00144feabdc0.html?

How Does the Economy Actually Work? Ray Dalio Explains

http://freakonomics.com/2013/10/31/how-does-the-economy-actually-work-ray-dalio-explains/

10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy — This Chart Shows How

http://www.policymic.com/articles/71255/10-corporations-control-almost-everything-you-buy-this-chart

Bret Victor The Future of Programming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4

What was considered the future of programming forty years ago, looks a lot like the future of programming now.

"For his recent DBX Conference talk, Victor took attendees back to the year 1973, donning the uniform of an IBM systems engineer of the times, delivering his presentation on an overhead projector."

Why Good Girls Have Become Unicorns: A Response From A Unicorn

http://elitedaily.com/women/good-girls-become-unicorns-response-unicorn/

Why Adolescents Take Crazy Risks

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/altered-states/adolescents-take-crazy-risks-that-make-perfect-sense/

Noam Chomsky: America Hates Its Poor

http://www.alternet.org/visions/noam-chomsky-america-hates-its-poor?page=0%

No one brings dinner when your daughter is an addict.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2013/11/families_dealing_with_mental_illness_need_support_too.html

The problem with wages:

The wages a person is paid, are determined not by the value of their work, but by how easily they can be replaced.

Why is it always a white guy: The roots of modern, violent rage

http://www.salon.com/2013/11/01/why_is_always_a_white_guy_the_roots_of_modern_violent_rage/

When legal surveillance isn’t enough: NSA hacked the fiber optic links between Google, Yahoo datacenters

http://www.extremetech.com/internet/169924-when-legal-surveillance-isnt-enough-nsa-hacked-the-fiber-optic-links-between-google-yahoo-datacenters

I'm Grateful To The Woman Who Says She Regrets Having Kids

http://www.rolereboot.org/family/details/2013-04-im-grateful-to-the-woman-who-says-she-regrets-having

Economists

I've been listening to some economics lectures recently, and have come to a somewhat worrying conclusion: The field of Economics appears to have a problem. In trying to understand markets, they developed a model so beautiful, that they've been trying to make reality look like the model ever since.

Another Reason Texas is #1: Homeless Families in the Parks

http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/diane-nilan/another-reason-texas-1-homeless-families-parks

Company Tries to Fine Customer $3,500 for Leaving Negative Review Online

http://mashable.com/2013/11/19/kleargear-negative-review-fine/

Why I Will Never, Ever, Go Back to the United States

http://www.alternet.org/why-i-will-never-ever-go-back-united-states?

Revolt of the Rich

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36575.htm

Bill Gates Can’t Build a Toilet

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/opinion/bill-gates-cant-build-a-toilet.html

How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/free-thinkers/

The difference between a single payer healthcare system and the system set up by the Affordable Care Act

http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1r0feo/eli5_the_difference_between_a_single_payer/

What I Learned About Humanity From Living on the Streets

http://www.alternet.org/economy/what-i-learned-about-humanity-living-streets

How do I begin learning about how to Self Validate?

http://www.reddit.com/r/DecidingToBeBetter/comments/1qoo5c/how_do_i_begin_learning_about_how_to_self_validate/cdf4lqi

Boy, 15, Kills Self After Facing Expulsion and Sex Offender Status for Streaking

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/boy-15-kills-self-after-facing-expulsion-and-sex-offender-status-streaking

UK's reputation is damaged by reaction to Edward Snowden, says UN official

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/15/uk-reputation-edward-snowden-un

When You’re Surrounded By People, But You’re More Alone Than Ever

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/when-youre-surrounded-by-people-but-youre-more-alone-than-ever/

The Trauma Myth: Understanding the True Dynamics of Sexual Abuse

http://www.alternet.org/story/146941/the_trauma_myth:_understanding_the_true_dynamics_of_sexual_abuse?paging=off

He's tough enough to be a Sissy in Wyoming

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-wyoming-cross-dresser-20131003-dto,2652951,1229172.htmlstory

Diary 20131110

The indomitable power of despair.
I don't mean the power of inflicting it.
The power of possessing it.

Willpower.
Why do I have willpower?
Why am I so much stronger than the rest of my family?
Discontent.

The inability to be content.
Disturbance.
Despair is all that binds me.
Holding me back from imbicilic rage.

I am not content.

///////////////////////////////////////////////////

I watch.
I do nothing.
I cry.
I do nothing.
I laugh.
I do nothing.

There is one thing I want to do.
They tell me to stop.

////////////////////////////////

How can I tell my story?
What is my story?
Do I even have a story?

////////////////////////////////

I still don't know what it is I am trying to do.
Fix the world?
Save the world?
Condemn the world?
Break the world?

When something is broken, it isn't destroyed.
Instead, it's changed, drastically.
Yeah. I want to break the world.

Sometimes, fixing a person,
requires breaking who they currently are.
Otherwise, how will they become someone new?

Destroying pillars that support the current corruption.
Leaving a system that collapses.
Ruins that can be used.
Build.
Build again.
Again.
No matter how many times it falls.
Build.
Build again.
Again.

Don't rebuild.
Just build.
Again,
and again.

Build.

//////////////////////////////////

It is not despair that makes me strong.
It is despair that lets me be strong.
Without despair, my strength, would break me.
It already did.

How many times?
I can't remember.
I don't remember all the people I've been.
I only remember who I am now.

No. It's not can't. It's won't.
Remembering...
Not something I will do.
Such things. I will not let them return.

It broke, because I wanted it to.
I don't like who I was.
I don't like who I am.
I don't like who I will be.
Break.
Build.
Break.
Build.
Break.
Build.
Break.
Build.
Break.
Build.
Break.
Build.
Break.
Build.

That many times?
Maybe.

//////////////////////////

Why am I writing again?
I don't know, but I like it.
I like it when I write.

Silence is lonely.

//////////////////////////

My mind became full, that's why I wrote. It overflowed.

//////////////////////////

Perhaps it's not my story I need.
What I need to write is the story of who I want to be.
I don't know that story.

To change, I must find that story.
Or make it.

Passing on body hatred

http://www.essentialmums.co.nz/mums-life/health/8757837/Passing-on-body-hatred

A Light That Never Goes Out

http://comics.lucyknisley.com/2013/08/a-light-that-never-goes-out-2/

How To Have A Longer Marriage Than Kim Kardashian.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psysociety/2013/05/10/marriage-tips/

How I Learned I Was Pro-Choice by Secretly Aborting My Friend’s Baby

https://medium.com/human-parts/a68cb0bac109

5 Common Crime Fighting Tactics (Statistics Say Don't Work)

http://www.cracked.com/article_19455_5-common-crime-fighting-tactics-statistics-say-dont-work.html

They Thought They Were Free

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

5 Ways You Don't Realize Movies Are Controlling Your Brain

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-you-dont-realize-movies-are-controlling-your-brain/

A healing path for victims of 'branding'

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/08/20138256482979443.html

Occupy Wall Street Legacy

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/14/opinion/blow-occupy-wall-street-legacy.html

How a Koch Brothers 'Business League' Spent $236 Million to Frame the Debate

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/13-0

My ultimate dream, is to change the world. Yet, without money, I probably can't. While others spend millions shaping public discourse, all I have is this tiny blog.

The City That Ended Hunger

http://www.dailygood.org/view.php?sid=351

Hacking The Status Game

http://blog.amirkhella.com/2011/04/18/the-status-game/

The Myth of the Teenage Temptress: Or Why A Young Girl Can Not Consent to Sex With An Adult Man

http://m.xojane.com/issues/stacey-rambold-cherice-morales

How a Blind Player Improved Our Game

http://dungeonsmaster.com/2012/12/greatest-hits-2012-blind/

The More a Society Coerces Its People, the Greater the Chance of Mental Illness

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/more-society-coerces-its-people-greater-greater-chance-mental-illness?

Doing Tolkien Wrong: Why Fantasy Shouldn’t Follow in Tolkien’s Footsteps

http://reflectionsedge.com/index.php/2005/03/doing-tolkien-wrong-why-fantasy-shouldnt-follow-in-tolkiens-footsteps/

Secular Meditation: What’s the Point?

http://freethoughtblogs.com/greta/2013/08/15/secular-meditation-whats-the-point/

The sex worker stigma: How the law perpetuates our hatred (and fear) of prostitutes

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/17/the_whore_stigma_how_the_law_perpetuates_our_hatred_and_fear_of_prostitutes_partner/

6 Famous Documentaries That Were Shockingly Full of Crap

http://www.cracked.com/article_20585_6-famous-documentaries-that-were-shockingly-full-crap.html

Is Depression Unhappiness?

http://www.madinamerica.com/2013/08/is-depression-unhappiness/

MIT Students Release Program To 3D-Print High Security Keys

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/03/mit-students-release-program-to-3d-print-high-security-keys/

The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-hole-in-our-collective-memory-how-copyright-made-midcentury-books-vanish/278209/

16 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True

http://thetruthwins.com/archives/20-conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true

Existential Depression in Gifted Individuals

http://www.sengifted.org/archives/articles/existential-depression-in-gifted-individual

Hyperbole and a Half: Depression part 2

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com.ar/2013/05/depression-part-two.html

Link to part 1, in case it's needed
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html

About Face

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2013/06/25/emotions-facial-expressions-not-related/

Are some children just born evil? Michelle Griffin reports.

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life/bad-to-the-bone-20110920-1kifx.html

World Bank Insider Blows Whistle on Corruption, Federal Reserve

www.thenewamerican.com/economy/economics/item/15473-world-bank-insider-blows-whistle-on-corruption-federal-reserve?

GOP Fought To Cut Dam Maintenance Budget In Colorado – Now The Dams Are Breaking

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/09/14/gop-fought-to-cut-dam-maintenance-budget-in-colorado-now-the-dams-are-breaking/

Meet the Doctor Big Pharma Can't Shut Up

http://www.alternet.org/meet-doctor-big-pharma-cant-shut?

Misogyny Against Men is Deadly Serious

http://splicetoday.com/sex/misogyny-against-men-is-deadly-serious

Basic income versus the robots

http://www.newstatesman.com/economics/2013/06/basic-income-versus-robots

Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

http://www.psychologytoday.com/print/24014

Why People Attempt Suicide

http://www.livescience.com/37433-reasons-people-attempt-suicide.html

Altruistic equations that killed a good man

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/altruistic-equations-that-killed-a-good-man-1358399.html

The Barrier to Big

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130531/193353/The_Barrier_to_Big.php

Software patents are now illegal in New Zealand

http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/28/software-patents-are-now-illegal-in-new-zealand/

Was I Actually 'Addicted' to Internet Pornography?

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/was-i-actually-addicted-to-internet-pornography/276619/

The man who knows too much

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/28/wall_streets_greatest_enemy_the_man_who_knows_too_much/

I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet By Paul Miller

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/1/4279674/im-still-here-back-online-after-a-year-without-the-internet

Go On And Call Me Fat; It's True

http://www.xojane.com/issues/saying-the-f-word-fat-fat-fat

Xbox One's most impressive upcoming title: Project Spark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDymQVgUrPk

Personally, I think this needs more attention than it's gotten. It's a very powerful tool, and is probably the strongest argument in favor of getting an Xbox One.

When Metaphor Becomes Reality: The Abortion Battle and the Necessity of the FACE Act

http://blog.advocatesaz.org/2013/05/22/when-metaphor-becomes-reality-the-abortion-battle-and-the-necessity-of-the-face-act/

Gay Men and Their Not-So-Cute Misogyny Problem

http://www.vice.com/read/gay-men-and-their-not-so-cute-misogyny-problem

Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331”

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/

I get the feeling the ability of crackers to find passwords is going to exceed people's ability to remember passwords. Eventually, passwords will become near useless.

Why #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen Has Been So Meaningful To Me, And Why It Must Never Be Forgotten

http://www.xojane.com/issues/why-solidarityisforwhitewomen-should-never-be-forgotten

The 63 Characteristics Of Fascism And America's Development As A Fascist Nation

http://www.lookingglassnews.org/viewstory.php?storyid=6485

Man writes terrifying account of rare illness that makes him think he is dead even though he is definitely still alive

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331288/Man-writes-terrifying-account-rare-illness-makes-think-dead-definitely-alive.html

My son found help ... after he killed my mom

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/my-son-found-help-after-he-killed-my-mom-689111/

Four Ways to be Social and Relate to People

http://www.understandinghuman.com/2013/03/four-ways-to-be-social-and-relate-to.html

A Russian Lesbian Pretending to Be Straight to Avoid Persecution

http://www.vice.com/read/im-a-russian-lesbian-but-i-pretend-to-be-straight-for-my-safety

I’m Tired of Violence for Violence Sake

http://dustycartridge.com/features/im-tired-of-violence-for-violence-sake/

AI game bots ‘more human-like’ than half of human competitors

http://www.kurzweilai.net/ai-game-bots-more-human-like-than-half-of-human-competitors

The reason I believe EverQuest Next will succeed.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/08/04/soe-live-2013-delving-deeper-into-eqns-landmark/

EverQuest Next Landmark is going to build a community and fan base for EQN before the main game even launches. With contests to create content for the game, it will also result in people becoming emotionally invested in the world of EQN before launch.

P.S. I expect the EverQuest Next launch to be great fun to read about, as having a large number of players descend upon a destructible environment is likely to produce an entertaining disaster for a short while.

Mice Given Human Brain Cells Become Smarter

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2013/03/07/mice-given-human-brain-cells-become-smarter/

Snowden's Asylum: 'It's the law, stupid'

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/08/2013841016657318.html

Boundaries

http://jimhines.livejournal.com/636066.html

Mixing unvaccinated children with vaccinated children: Whose rights prevail?

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/08/27/mixing-unvaccinated-children-with-unvacc/

Temple Grandin on DSM-5: “Sounds like diagnosis by committee”

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/18/temple_grandin_on_dsm_5_sounds_like_diagnosis_by_committee/

Teaching Consent: A Better Sex-Ed

http://campusprogress.org/articles/teaching_consent_a_better_sex-ed/

I'm A Trans Woman And I'm Not Interested In Being One of the "Good Ones"

http://www.autostraddle.com/im-a-trans-woman-and-im-not-interested-in-being-one-of-the-good-ones-172570/

Exclusive: Meet the Woman Who Kicked Off Anonymous' Anti-Rape Operations

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/anonymous-rape-steubenville-rehtaeh-parsons-oprollredroll-opjustice4rehtaeh

Look, Guys, Even 'Nice' Can Be Annoying

http://jezebel.com/5953909/look-guys-even-nice-can-be-annoying

Making money on reduced efficiency.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/07/vampire-squid-has-set-its-sights-your-beer-can

Could Our Deepest Fears Hold the Key to Ending Violence?

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/19-2

How the Me-Generation Ruined Modern Conversation

http://www.violentacres.com/archives/173/how-the-me-generation-ruined-modern-conversation/

Rosner and Markowitz, Your Body Is a Corporate Test Tube

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175693/tomgram:_rosner_and_markowitz,_your_body_is_a_corporate_test_tube

Diagnosing the Wrong Deficit

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/diagnosing-the-wrong-deficit.html

Schopenhauer’s Pessimism

http://www.highexistence.com/the-universe-as-will-schopenhauers-pessimism/

I Went To The Psych Ward, Now My Sorority Sisters Won’t Look Me In The Eye

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/i-went-to-the-psych-ward-now-my-sorority-sisters-wont-look-me-in-the-eye/

The realm between “he” and “she”

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2013/04/27/the_realm_between_he_and_she.html

Why I Hate Chris Brown Jokes

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/why-i-hate-chris-brown-jokes/

Assume the Position

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJNVgCHLR-k

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX5foJttgt4

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgddY5OO4fY

Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkfcqJ1TjSE

When One Man Pinged the Whole Internet...

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514066/what-happened-when-one-man-pinged-the-whole-internet/

How I Used EVE Online to Predict the Great Recession

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130405/189984/How_I_Used_EVE_Online_to_Predict_the_Great_Recession.php

No right to remain silent unless you speak up

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/30/scotus_no_right_to_remain_silence_unless_you_speak_up_partner/

Why I Never Play Hard To Get

http://feminspire.com/why-i-never-play-hard-to-get/

Occupy Affiliate Aims at Abolishing Consumer Debt

http://www.nationofchange.org/occupy-affiliate-aims-abolishing-consumer-debt-1365952321

Canadian Hacker School Goes Dark After Government Probe

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/06/bitmaker/

Everything You Know About Money Is Wrong

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/everything-you-know-about-money-is-wrong.html

5 Gender Moments from E3 2013

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/PatrickMiller/20130620/194763/5_Gender_Moments_from_E3_2013.php

Braunstein: the Roots of Roleplaying Games

http://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/104/braunstein-the-roots-of-roleplaying-games/

Disturbing report finds U.S. hospitals profit more when surgery goes wrong

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/16/disturbing-report-finds-u-s-hospitals-profit-more-when-surgery-goes-wrong/

Bad Decisions Arise from Faulty Information, Not Faulty Brain Circuits

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130415172429.htm

My Right to Choose My Daughter Made Me the Confident Woman I Am Today

http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/04/10/my-right-to-choose-my-daughter-made-me-the-confident-woman-i-am-today/

Tea and Empathy

http://www.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2013/04/tea-and-empathy.html

How America Breeds Mental Illness from Birth Until Death

http://www.alternet.org/how-america-breeds-mental-illness-birth-until-death?

Monsanto's claim that it's a "sustainable agriculture company" doesn't hold water.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/12/201212575935285501.html

The Stupidity of Computers

http://nplusonemag.com/the-stupidity-of-computers

Sam Parnia – the man who could bring you back from the dead

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/apr/06/sam-parnia-resurrection-lazarus-effect

Navigating Masculinity as a Black Transman: “I will never straighten out my wrist.”

http://everydayfeminism.com/2013/04/i-will-never-straighten-out-my-wrist

The Real Limitless Drug Isn’t Just for Lifehackers Anymore

http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/modafinil-2013-4/

Want to Help People? Just Give Them Money

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/03/want_to_help_people_just_give.html?

The travel closet

http://1dad1kid.com/2013/03/29/the-travel-closet/

What Does It Take for Traumatized Kids to Thrive?

http://www.psmag.com/health/what-does-it-take-for-traumatized-kids-to-thrive-56488/

It’s Not Just the Internet. It Never Has Been.

http://www.thisview.org/?p=99

Why does Kenya lead the world in mobile money?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/05/economist-explains-18?fsrc=scn/gp/wl/bl/ee/mobilemoney

You're Eye-to-Eye With a Whale in the Ocean. What Does It See?

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/youre-eye-to-eye-with-a-whale-in-the-ocean-what-does-it-see/274448/?google_editors_picks=true

Cyberattacks Seem Meant to Destroy, Not Just Disrupt

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/technology/corporate-cyberattackers-possibly-state-backed-now-seek-to-destroy-data.html

I Was 12, He Was 20 -- So Why Did Everyone Blame Me for Our Sexual Relationship?

http://www.alternet.org/i-was-12-he-was-20-so-why-did-everyone-blame-me-our-sexual-relationship?

These Exploding Droplets of Glass Are a Bewildering Quirk of Physics

http://gizmodo.com/5992072/

Why the game’s up for Sweden's sex trade

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/why-the-games-up-for-swedens-sex-trade-8548854.html

How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing

http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing

Disability as the Last Refuge of the Unemployable

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/03/disability-last-refuge-unemployable

The Relative Age Effect in Sports: It’s Complicated

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2013/03/23/the-relative-age-effect-in-sports-its-complicated/

Who I really am.

I am not who I wanted to be. I am not any of the things I tried to become. No matter how much I make myself care, I cannot override the one desire, the one rule, that governs my behavior.

I can make myself care enough to suffer, but not to act. The only drive that I possess, is a desire to dream. My interest in reality extends only as far as it can inspire new ideas and dreams. I am unable to spend significant effort on anything that does not directly fuel my dreams. I spent my whole life trying to be someone who works hard, and earns their place in life. I spent my whole life failing. I finally understand why, and it leaves me right back where I started: Hopeless, useless, pointless. An existence without value. Even my care for others merely acts as a restraint, to prevent me from deliberately harming others. It cannot motivate me, except when action takes no effort, making it seem fake.

Me

I do not understand why people struggle so hard to live. What makes it worth the effort, and pain? Why is it so important? What drives them? And why do they insist that I must want to live too? Why is life so important to people? I doubt I will ever understand.

Not a media trend, nor PC bullshit: female heroes and same-sex relationship options in gaming

http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/not-a-media-trend-or-pc-bullshit-female-heroes-and-same-sex-relationship-op

Impressions: Prison Architect

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/11/26/impressions-prison-architect/

They Found Their Son In A Subway

http://www.prosebeforehos.com/article-of-the-day/03/20/they-found-their-son-in-a-subway/

In Praise of Filth: A Feminist Housework Manifesto

http://www.the-broad-side.com/in-praise-of-filth-a-feminist-housework-manifesto

Have Scientists Discovered a Way of Peering Into the Future?

http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=3016

HTML5's overseer says DRM's true purpose is to prevent legal forms of innovation

http://boingboing.net/2013/03/20/html5s-overseer-says-drms.html

Are Americans Too Stupid For Democracy?

http://www.alternet.org/belief/are-americans-too-stupid-democracy?paging=off

Prevent Another Steubenville: What All Mothers Must Do for Their Sons

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-simon/prevent-another-steubenville-moms-of-sons_b_2896131.html?

Balancing for Skill

http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/balancing-for-skill

Combat soldiers more likely to commit violent crimes: study

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/15/us-military-violence-idUSBRE92E00220130315

On Video Games and Storytelling: An Interview with Tom Bissell

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/03/gears-of-war-writer-tom-bissell-on-video-games-and-storytelling.html

The One-Legged Wrestler Who Conquered His Sport, Then Left It Behind

http://deadspin.com/the-one-legged-wrestler-who-conquered-his-sport-then-l-452888181?

Woman challenges tradition, brings change to her Kenyan village

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/14/world/africa/cnnheroes-ntaiya-girls-school/index.html

Why Dove's 'Real Beauty Sketches' Video Makes Me Uncomfortable

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/jazz-brice/dove-real-beauty-sketches-video-angry_b_3112339.html

Save The Day, Get The Girl

http://notalwaysromantic.com/save-the-day-get-the-girl/22930

How to stupidise people

http://www.anxietyculture.com/stupidise.htm

The Secrets Behind Psychology’s Most Famous Experiment

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201301/the-secrets-behind-psychology-s-most-famous-experiment

How Revenge-Porn Publisher Hunter Moore Suffered $250,000 Worth of Payback

http://gawker.com/5965758/how-revenge+porn-publisher-hunter-moore-suffered-250000-worth-of-payback?

The science of Red Hair

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/07/1043223/-The-science-of-Red-Hair?

What Is the Answer to That Stupid Math Problem on Facebook?

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/03/facebook_math_problem_why_pemdas_doesn_t_always_give_a_clear_answer.html

What happened to Orson Scott Card?

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/07/end_game_for_orson_scott_card_partner/

Science and gun violence: why is the research so weak?

http://boingboing.net/2013/02/26/firearms-science-and-the-mis.html

Don’t blame the victim, or the photographer

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/01/dont_blame_the_victim_or_the_photographer/

The Wire

http://open.salon.com/blog/jan_wilberg/2012/08/23/the_wire

Explain It to Me Again, Computer

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/02/will_computers_eventually_make_scientific_discoveries_we_can_t_comprehend.html

I Used to Give Out Sex Like Gold Star Stickers (And I'm Glad I Did)

http://www.xojane.com/sex/i-used-to-give-out-sex-like-gold-star-stickers-and-im-glad-i-did

Spec Ops is critical of war and the players of war games: an interview with the game’s writer

http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/spec-ops-is-critical-of-war-and-players-of-war-games-an-interview-with-the

Cello Fortress

http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/yo-yo-ma-could-whoop-you-at-this-game-the-strange-and-asymmetrical-game-pla

Massive Sinkhole In Louisiana Baffles Officials

http://www.npr.org/2013/03/20/174853576/massive-sinkhole-in-louisiana-baffles-officials

How Some Men Harass Women Online And What Other Men Can Do To Stop It

http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2013-01-how-some-men-harass-women-online-and-what-other-men

The Verdict: Steubenville Shows the Bond Between Jock Culture and Rape Culture

http://www.thenation.com/blog/173387/verdict-steubenville-shows-bond-between-jock-culture-and-rape-culture

Lust Is Not Uncontrollable

http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2012-12-lust-is-not-uncontrollable

5 Psychology Studies Every Awkward Teenager Should Read

http://www.cracked.com/article_20204_5-psychology-studies-every-awkward-teenager-should-read.html

How to Land Your Kid in Therapy

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/07/how-to-land-your-kid-in-therapy/308555/?single_page=true

Was That a Rape Scene in Girls?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/03/11/girls_adam_and_natalia_sexual_assault_and_verbal_consent_on_hbo_s_girls.html

On domestic violence, no one wants to hear the truth

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=a41532d6-d4df-46a2-a784-f6499938f3b0

How I Lost Faith in the “Pro-Life” Movement

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2012/10/how-i-lost-faith-in-the-pro-life-movement.html

Study finds widespread 'criminalisation of pregnancy' in US institutions

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/15/criminalisation-pregnancy-women-study

Rape in the Age of Social Media

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/rape-age-social-media?akid=9911.68028.NQ_Sey&rd=1&src=newsletter774576&t=9

Secrets and Lies of the Bailout

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/secret-and-lies-of-the-bailout-20130104?stop_mobi=yes

The Sequester’s Market Utopians

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/03/the-sequesters-market-utopians.html

Shale Gas: How Often Do Fracked Wells Leak?

http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/01/09/Leaky-Fracked-Wells/

The Contract Curse

http://www.laweekly.com/2013-01-10/news/machinima-maker-studios-YouTube/

Of 'Monsters' and Brothers

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chantel-garrett/mental-health_b_2435290.html

Why I Will Never Tell My Niece She's Pretty

http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2013-01-why-i-will-never-tell-my-niece-shes-pretty

The fans who became developers share the surprising story of Fighting Is Magic, a My Little Pony-inspired fighting game.

http://www.gamespot.com/features/the-most-unlikely-fighter-youve-never-heard-of-6402004/

The world’s first 3D printing pen: Yours for just $75

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/148824-the-worlds-first-3d-printing-pen-yours-for-just-75

The “Don’t Be That Guy” Campaign

http://freethoughtblogs.com/greta/2013/01/08/rape-prevention-aimed-at-rapists-does-work/

Japanese police taunted by anonymous hacker find clue on cat’s collar

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/07/japanese-police-taunted-by-anonymous-hacker-find-clue-on-cats-collar/

Girl Geeks and Boy Kings

http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/girl-geeks-and-boy-kings

Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/23-things-they-dont-tell-you-about-capitalism-by-hajoon-chang-2081168.html

America's Real Criminal Element: Lead

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline

They Were Laid Off From Their Game Company. Now They Want To Change The Way We Play.

http://kotaku.com/5932692/they-were-laid-off-from-their-game-company-now-they-want-to-change-the-way-we-play

Masculine, feminine or human?

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/masculinefeminineorhuman.htm

Artificial intelligence project builds A Puzzling Present

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/12/artificial-intelligence-project-builds-a-puzzling-present/

Mastering the Art of Bosslessness

http://lifehacker.com/5955748/mastering-the-art-of-bosslessness

Gay Men and Christian Wombs: Surrogacy’s New Frontier

http://nymag.com/thecut/2012/12/gay-men-christian-wombs-the-new-surrogacy.html

My husband’s secret gay life

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/10/my_husbands_secret_gay_life/

It Happened to Me: I Married My Rapist and We Had 4 Kids

http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/daleen-berry-married-rape

Believe you can change (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dweck

Great Geek Debates: Disney Princesses vs. Hayao Miyazaki

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/disney-vs-miyazaki/all/

The State Of 3D Printing Is Beyond What Sci-Fi Predicted

http://www.bitrebels.com/technology/the-state-of-3d-printing-is-beyond-what-sci-fi-predicted

Old Man Henderson

1d4chan.org/wiki/Old_Man_Henderson

Methanol toxicity from aspartame may cause autism, spina bifida, preterm delivery and more

http://www.balancingyourchemistry.com/news-23/post-316-methanol-toxicity-from-aspartame-may-cause-autism-spina-bifida-preterm-delivery-and-more.html

The Most Harmful Medical Intervention Is Done to All of Us

http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2012-12-01/the-most-harmful-medical-intervention-is-done-to-all-of-us/

College

http://p10.info/college-22/

Hormones

http://community.sparknotes.com/2012/11/20/auntie-sparknotes-why-do-i-want-to-hnd-all-the-time

World Economic Forum Warns That Patents Are Making Us Lose The Race Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130110/09590621628/world-economic-forum-warns-that-patents-are-making-us-lose-race-against-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria.shtml

I Am Going to Dropkick the Next Dudebro Who Tells Me Coercive Sex is Consensual Sex

http://www.xojane.com/issues/i-am-going-to-dropkick-the-next-dudebro-who-tells-me-coercive-sex-is-consenting-sex


There's a problem: in almost everything outside of sex, people say to not give up when refused, and just keep trying. Especially in any sales oriented job. So it sorta makes sense that most men would assume the logic applies to sex too. Even romantic stories often have men continue to pursue a woman after being turned down once.

To get men to respect the word "no" in the bedroom we need to teach respect for the word in other places too. It would help a lot if people simply got taught to respect others in general. There is very little respect for anyone in America.

Going Viral For Something You Didn't Do

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andyellwood/2013/01/07/going-viral-for-something-you-didnt-do/

Man Creates Indestructible Football for Kids in Third World Countries

http://www.odditycentral.com/news/man-creates-indestructible-football-for-kids-in-third-world-countries.html

St Matthew Island

http://randomgag.com/funny-image/11420/

Games Are Best When Things Go Wrong

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/10/23/games-are-best-when-things-go-wrong/

Anderson Cooper: "The Fact Is, I'm Gay."

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/anderson-cooper-the-fact-is-im-gay.html

When someone says they aren't comfortable with another person's behavior: Listen

http://captainawkward.com/2012/08/07/322-323-my-friend-group-has-a-case-of-the-creepy-dude-how-do-we-clear-that-up/

http://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/meet-the-predators/

U.S. mentally ill and their families face barriers to care

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/29/us-usa-shooting-mentalyill-idUSBRE8BS07O20121229