[Linkspam] Monday, July 4
Jul. 4th, 2016 07:58 pm"Managing Assholes", by Jess Rose (2016-06-27). "I don’t care what kind of skills your toxic team member brings with them, you can afford to remove them from your team. "
"Euthanasia as a Dutch Neoliberal Success Story", by Flavia Dzodan (2016-06-29). Raises some troubling questions about what it means to choose to end your life in a capitalist society where few people actually get to make free choices.
"The Puzzle Box of Shame", by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sonia (2016-06-01). "If the adults around us do not provide soothing touch and welcoming delight, we learn instead that we have to earn our place in the world by being quiet enough, or strong enough, or unemotional enough. We believe, before we have words, that there is something terribly wrong with us. We question our right to exist. We feel ashamed to the core."
"Buying Coffee Every Day Isn’t Why You’re in Debt", by Helaine Olen for Slate (2016-05-26). Speaking of shame, we all get taught to feel ashamed of not having any money and taught that it's our fault for wasting it on things we enjoy. The article debunks that pernicious lie.
"Killing Dylann Roof", by Ta-Nehisi Coates for the Atlantic (2016-05-26). A look at which people are socially pressured into forgiving, and which ones are socially sanctioned for committing violence.
"US nuclear force still uses floppy disks", BBC News (2016-05-26). Title says it all.
"This may shock you: Hillary Clinton is fundamentally honest", by Jill Abramson for The Guardian (2016-03-28). Criticize Clinton for her policies, but most of what she's actually getting criticized for is baseless.
"Hillary Clinton isn't progressive. She's just the lesser evil in the general election", by Kiese Laymon for the Guardian (2016-04-27). The best piece I've read about the election so far.
"There's a gender divide on nuclear power, but it doesn't mean what you think it means", by David Roberts for Vox (2015-05-27). 'What looked like a gender divide on nuclear power is in fact mostly a function of the "extreme risk skepticism" of "white hierarchical and individualistic" males. (In the US, "white hierarchical and individualistic" males generally go by the more economical "conservatives.")' If you want to claim that everyone who opposes nuclear energy is just unscientific and stupid, then you need to be prepared to argue that white men are more likely to be scientifically educated and smart than everybody else is. (Spoiler alert: there's no evidence for that.)
"White Supremacy and Magic Paper", by The Rancid Honeytrap (2015-03-27). "My main objection is to the doctrine of free speech absolutism. In addition to directing the attention, resources and goodwill of decent people to organizations and individuals that would imprison and murder them if they could, it perniciously minimizes the genocidal and avaricious politics with which it makes common cause; it promotes a view of power and social change so ahistoric and infantile it qualifies as magical thinking; and it promotes libertarian as opposed to communitarian values and politics. "
"The Self-Storage Self", by Jon Mooallem for the New York Times Magazine (2009-06-06). Storage units as "our last national commons — places where nearly every conceivable kind of American still goes." (I find storage units endlessly fascinating, and this article feeds my love for the topic.)
"Euthanasia as a Dutch Neoliberal Success Story", by Flavia Dzodan (2016-06-29). Raises some troubling questions about what it means to choose to end your life in a capitalist society where few people actually get to make free choices.
"The Puzzle Box of Shame", by
sonia (2016-06-01). "If the adults around us do not provide soothing touch and welcoming delight, we learn instead that we have to earn our place in the world by being quiet enough, or strong enough, or unemotional enough. We believe, before we have words, that there is something terribly wrong with us. We question our right to exist. We feel ashamed to the core.""Buying Coffee Every Day Isn’t Why You’re in Debt", by Helaine Olen for Slate (2016-05-26). Speaking of shame, we all get taught to feel ashamed of not having any money and taught that it's our fault for wasting it on things we enjoy. The article debunks that pernicious lie.
"Killing Dylann Roof", by Ta-Nehisi Coates for the Atlantic (2016-05-26). A look at which people are socially pressured into forgiving, and which ones are socially sanctioned for committing violence.
"US nuclear force still uses floppy disks", BBC News (2016-05-26). Title says it all.
"This may shock you: Hillary Clinton is fundamentally honest", by Jill Abramson for The Guardian (2016-03-28). Criticize Clinton for her policies, but most of what she's actually getting criticized for is baseless.
"Hillary Clinton isn't progressive. She's just the lesser evil in the general election", by Kiese Laymon for the Guardian (2016-04-27). The best piece I've read about the election so far.
"There's a gender divide on nuclear power, but it doesn't mean what you think it means", by David Roberts for Vox (2015-05-27). 'What looked like a gender divide on nuclear power is in fact mostly a function of the "extreme risk skepticism" of "white hierarchical and individualistic" males. (In the US, "white hierarchical and individualistic" males generally go by the more economical "conservatives.")' If you want to claim that everyone who opposes nuclear energy is just unscientific and stupid, then you need to be prepared to argue that white men are more likely to be scientifically educated and smart than everybody else is. (Spoiler alert: there's no evidence for that.)
"White Supremacy and Magic Paper", by The Rancid Honeytrap (2015-03-27). "My main objection is to the doctrine of free speech absolutism. In addition to directing the attention, resources and goodwill of decent people to organizations and individuals that would imprison and murder them if they could, it perniciously minimizes the genocidal and avaricious politics with which it makes common cause; it promotes a view of power and social change so ahistoric and infantile it qualifies as magical thinking; and it promotes libertarian as opposed to communitarian values and politics. "
"The Self-Storage Self", by Jon Mooallem for the New York Times Magazine (2009-06-06). Storage units as "our last national commons — places where nearly every conceivable kind of American still goes." (I find storage units endlessly fascinating, and this article feeds my love for the topic.)