- Actually, I’m Not White.
“Light skinned Latinas: Privileged, outcast, and judged by their community”
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- No-talent ass clown.
The real Micheal Bolton inserted into the office space.
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- #GamerGate Is Now Literally An Industry Joke.
How many GamerGaters does it take to make a single piece of armour? Fifty! One to do the modeling, one to do the materials, and forty [sic] to tweet that it’s not your shield.
That’s a pretty good joke.
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- Why Software Maker Fog Creek Is Helping Its Competitors Hire Women.
Given the complexities of the problem and the company’s limited resources, Hall realized she couldn’t just hire more women.
I don’t think the article does a particularly good job explaining why. Their solution seems a bit silly. They have 30 full time developers: no women. It seems like a company that big should be able to hire and train junior people if that’s their main road block to hiring women. That seems more straight forward than running a mentorship program to help women hired elsewhere. (Not to diminish what they are doing here. That’s certainly commendable.)
“The gender imbalance at Fog Creek is not by design.” I’m sure most places with big gender gaps in their employment aren’t actively trying to be malicious here. If the net result of your actions is the same as if you were, though …
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- Sixteen Years.
Matt is retiring from the day-to-day operations of MetaFilter.
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- YouTube: Amazing video Indian street shop paratha maker shows his talent.
Kottke’s favourite food prep video? It’s pretty great.
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- Raped on Campus? Don’t Trust Your College to Do the Right Thing.
“The University of Oregon has shown that when administrators are desperate, when they want to use ugly tactics to intimidate a student who is challenging the status quo, they will.”
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- The Oscars and learning the craft of being good.
Jay Smooth on the Oscars. I haven’t watched the oscars in a long time, because they seem kind of dumb.
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- YouTube: Ali Siddiq - Prison Riot
This story is pretty funny.
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- Face of the New West.
“Has Naheed Nenshi’s time in office changed Calgary’s racial climate?”
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- Toronto’s 2015 budget problems were easily avoidable.
Rob Ford was so god damn useless. Though I suppose that’s true of most of our city council, now and then.
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- Halifax murder plot shows absurdity of anti-terror laws.
Our laws might be kind of racist? This is my shocked face: :o.
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- The Toronto Star's HPV Reporting is a Disaster.
What a joke.
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- DeathHacks
Jessamyn West writes about tending to her deceased father’s high tech house.
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- How Men's Rights Leader Paul Elam Turned Being A Deadbeat Dad Into A Moneymaking Movement.
I don’t really know anything about this scene, so this was a pretty fascinating read. BuzzFeed does surprisingly good reporting.
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- My Dad, the Pornographer.
He was also famous (to fantasy nerds anyway) for editing the Swords Against Darkness anthologies.
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- The curious case of the disappearing Polish S.
All about a bug on Medium.
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- Canada introduces new "anti-terrorism" powers.
Man, fuck Harper. The Conservatives can’t get voted out soon enough.
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