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― discreet, Monday, 4 March 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
A hint as to what Hersh is up to
http://m.democracynow.org/stories/11912
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
Did we somehow never discuss the article about the lady who shot her bro and a roomful of fellow professors?
I just read the whole thing, and holy shit
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i had read the wired article about her but that was def incredibly interesting too
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 05:57 (eleven years ago) link
by the time the transgender teens piece had gotten around to talking about YouTube I had already been sucked away from the article and down a 2-hour k-hole of trans teen vlogging
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
bolshoi acid attack piece this week was great, also the crazy dudes diving into florida sinkholes and spending 21 hours underwater
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
that reads like criticism but its meant to be praise
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
Can someone summarise the Urban Honking piece about Lane? I mean, I might agree, but it was too annoying to actually read after a para.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
xpost
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, March 12, 2013 9:53 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i.. sucked.. trans.. teen... hole ― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080)
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
just read the larissa macfarquhar piece on aaron swartz. so damn sad.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
i read the first half of that, felt like i got the idea and stopped
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 12 March 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
I get what you are saying gr80, I have a strange fascination with teens these days, and their feelings, and trans teen vlogging can be pretty powerful and encouraging.
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 04:47 (eleven years ago) link
havent read the article but teenagers are monsters
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 13 March 2013 11:44 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 11:52 (eleven years ago) link
The Urban Honking piece is a prime example of awful internet writing. Lane may indeed be an insidious misogynist but she mounts a half-assed case drizzled with lazy snark.
Read the rest of the Swartz piece k3vin - it gets richer as it progresses.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
i support the causes of trans teens, but i will oppose to the death their right to use "transition" as a verb
― k3vin k., Friday, 15 March 2013 01:50 (eleven years ago) link
that is a fairly common verb
― zero dark (s1ocki), Friday, 15 March 2013 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
a. intr. To make or undergo a transition (from one state, system, etc. to or into another); to change over or switch.1975 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 6 Jan. 43/3 Transitioning to the advanced displays from the basic dial indicators found in standard aircraft sometimes causes minor confusion.
1975 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 6 Jan. 43/3 Transitioning to the advanced displays from the basic dial indicators found in standard aircraft sometimes causes minor confusion.
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Friday, 15 March 2013 04:47 (eleven years ago) link
originally aviation jargon!
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Friday, 15 March 2013 04:48 (eleven years ago) link
also, apposite:
1986 New Yorker 19 May 28/2 There can be something almost quaint, in our meeting here like this talking about Texas in transition, when the overriding question..is whether there will be anything to transition to.
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Friday, 15 March 2013 04:49 (eleven years ago) link
slocki did u know irregardless is in the dictionary
― k3vin k., Friday, 15 March 2013 11:21 (eleven years ago) link
no
― zero dark (s1ocki), Friday, 15 March 2013 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
all words are words
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 March 2013 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
end of story
made up of words
Words all the way down.
― Nilmar Garciaparra (Leee), Friday, 15 March 2013 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
great features this week i thought: lepore's history of the legal system & torture was one of her best pieces, transgender teens piece was v informative and even-handed, & the russian ballet story was riveting! i'd missed that on the news
also i'm finally starting david grann's "the devil and sherlock holmes", thanks max
― k3vin k., Sunday, 17 March 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
i liked the bader ginsberg profile; she seems like a chill lady
― If Boehner's boner ever had a boner for another boner (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 March 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
tbh there was some language in the trans teens piece that some trans folks and queer theorists would probably take issue with
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Sunday, 17 March 2013 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
how unusual
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 March 2013 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
lol
just read "trial by fire" and wow
― k3vin k., Sunday, 17 March 2013 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
As I said in the SCOTUS thread, I thought the Ginsburg piece was kind of puffy, the legal stuff didn't seem that sound and Toobin seems to be overstating her influence(?) (e.g. does Ginsburg's dissent in the Ledbetter case genuinely represent some noteworthy break with traditional SCOTUS roles?), but the human interest stuff was engrossing.
― Nilmar Garciaparra (Leee), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
The ballet article vis-a-vis the acid throwing, threatens to look very one-sided, because Filin seems far too reasonable for someone in his position. I do like the brief history of ballet in Russia/USSR, though, esp. Kruschev perving on the ballerinas.
― Nilmar Garciaparra (Leee), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
I enjoyed the ballet/acid-throwing article quite a bit. I didn't think it was too one-sided, but then again, I don't know anything about ballet, so maybe Tsiskaridze is right and Filin is really ruining the Bolshoi. I guess the article did make him seem sort of a pompous nut-job, but one with a gift for morose Russian snark and great hair.
― o. nate, Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
why the hell won't this thread bookmark
― Heez, Monday, 18 March 2013 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
i laughed at the marv albert shouts and murmurs
― mookieproof, Monday, 18 March 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
lena dunham writes about dogs
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
yeaahhhh i'm skipping that one
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 19 March 2013 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
I'll read anything about the doggehs.
― Leeeyoncé (Leee), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
who dont want to read abt dawgs
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 02:19 (eleven years ago) link
cats
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
Purell piece was great! I say this as a germophobe. Though like someone said up thread, would've loved a few extra pages. Best parts for me is the paragraph that points out the trade off of the hygiene hypothesis, and how alcohol based sanitizers don't promote microbial resistance.
― Leeeyoncé (Leee), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 06:18 (eleven years ago) link
lol yes "it's like humans developing a resistance to bullets"
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 10:51 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the Dapper Dan profile
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 13:03 (eleven years ago) link
very few articles feature Fat Joe, Sonia Sotomayor and Mike Tyson
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 13:05 (eleven years ago) link
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, March 19, 2013 6:51 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
loved this & it totally busted a lot of myths i believed in
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, that Purell article converted me from a skeptic to a believer when it comes to hand sanitizers. Not that I intend to start carrying some around with me.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
same here. Always thought it was crazy. I was like "where does the dirt go?!?!". But that's not really what it's for.
Been telling EVERYONE all about how bad tongs are since reading that.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
I actually liked most of the Style issue--Dapper Dan, the crazy billionaire aussie lady, the punk fashion article had some Richard Hell stuff, even the Lena Dunham, though way beneath NYer's standards, did have a circle of puppies sucking each other's dicks.
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 21:50 (eleven years ago) link