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If the client never reveals the truth, I must continue the role indefinitely. If the daughter gets married, I have to act as a father in that wedding, and then I have to be the grandfather. So, I always ask every client, “Are you prepared to sustain this lie?” It’s the most significant problem our company has.

On American gun culture. Short and to the point.

An interesting article on the horror that is children’s videos on YouTube. Both literally and metaphorically.

No shit. We are never going to build a subway in Scarborough because at some point someone is going to have to actually pony up the money, and when that time comes they’ll be all, “wait—what?”. The SRT is going to collapse one day and everyone who voted the Scarborough clowns into council are going to be taking the bus. Forever.

I’m so hyped for this sequel.

These are some amazing portraits.

Despite Trump’s hysterical denials and attempts at diversion, the question is no longer whether there was cooperation between Trump’s campaign and Russia, but how extensive it was. … Trump, more gangster than entrepreneur, has long surrounded himself with bottom-feeding scum, and for all his nationalist bluster, his campaign was a vehicle for Russian subversion.

It’s unlikely they’ll perp walk Trump out of the White House. Hopefully they’ll get everyone around him.

Tim Carmody has taken over Kottke.org again and his posts are fantastic. This one is a love letter to one of the greatest films of the 20th century, Transformers: The Movie.

John Lorinc responds to all the hype around Sidewalk Lab’s plans for Quayside in Toronto.

She’s an interesting speaker. I saw her at an Ethnic Aisle event a few months ago.

The new Wolfenstein game looks amazing. Also, “lucky” for them, their game is coming out when America is even more of a creepy fascist hell hole than it has been in the past. Their social media marketing is off the charts: IF YOU ARE A NAZI. GTFO.

John Dunsworth (who plays Mr. Lahey on trailer park boys) passed away. Is there a person who plays a better drunk?

I had seen pictures of this rally before. Let’s see how far out we are from recreating something similar.

Someone get those guys a book on The Toyota Way already!

The article is written by Samira from Banu.

This is a pretty huge vulnerability that attacks the underlying WPA2 protocol (rather than particular implementations of that protocol).

This story is horrific.

A follow-up (or sorts) to the NYT article that broke the story of Weinstein’s decades of sexually harassing women who worked for him or in the entertainment industry. This article was apparently 10 months in the works.

The story, however, is more complex, and there is more to know and to understand. In the course of a ten-month investigation, I was told by thirteen women that, between the nineteen-nineties and 2015, Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them, allegations that corroborate and overlap with the Times’s revelations, and also include far more serious claims.

I wonder if the NYT article was the push for them to publish things. This New Yorker article is far more serious. They spoke with women who accuse Weinstein of raping them.

Some next level web design for this essay on group chats as safe spaces.

These spaces, particularly for people of color, aren’t like social media. They don’t by design put anyone at risk of harassment or of a stranger taking something out of context that wasn’t meant for them. If the space is intentional, it’s a digital therapy in your pocket.