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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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