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/