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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.

The mainstream media response suggests that the onus is on people of colour to perform the emotional labour of deftly handling racists. The praise for the way Singh “handled racism” reinforces a notion that people of colour are expected to “deal” with racism in an amiable way that white people deem acceptable: to fight hate with love, thereby requiring a response that is inherently pacifist. A response like this negates the pain, anger and hurt that is inherent in racial attacks, and it negates the overwhelming hopelessness and defeat of that moment. People of colour are expected to “transcend their race.” They are expected to adhere to notions of propriety that are predetermined by the white majority who have never had to deal with racism as an accepted feature of being non-white in Canada. There is an arrogance in this way of thinking: to suppose that white people have the experience, education and understanding of the nuance of racism, so much so that they can critique the behaviour of people of colour who live it every day.

> At a hearing this year, a department official said the audit had found “systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire work force,” although Google has not officially been accused of any wrongdoing.

Of course they did. Facebook is bad and you should feel bad for using it.

An oral history of the Era of the Mooch — condensed and edited for clarity — as told by senators, Boy Scouts, soldiers, journalists, parents, talking heads, Wall Street traders and the CEO of an arcade-game company in Florida.