A Funkaoshi Production

Robyn Doolittle doing some next level reporting—again. This is a hard read.

[The] complaint is among the more than 5,000 allegations of sexual assault closed as unfounded by Canadian law enforcement every year, according to a Globe and Mail investigation into the authorities’ handling of sexual-assault cases. Rape, the most serious of those, is a crime so injurious to victims that the judiciary considers it second only to murder in severity.

National policing data, compiled and reviewed by The Globe as part of its 20-month investigation, reveal that one of every five sexual-assault allegations in Canada is dismissed as baseless and thus unfounded. The result is a national unfounded rate of 19.39 per cent – nearly twice as high as it is for physical assault (10.84 per cent), and dramatically higher than that of other types of crime.

Some really amazing data driven reporting from the Globe and Mail.

While the tech industry looks to be busy collaborating with Trump, tech people are doing interesting things.

One of the most frank discussions about a production i’ve ever seen. They deleted their production database two nights ago, and had a live Google Doc tracking what they were doing to try and get it back. This is what nightmares are made of.

A great overview of the last couple days of the Trump presidency.

The fellow narrating is so charming. Slow to get started, but it gets interesting quite quickly.

This is some serious business.

Fuck yes! “In his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.”

there’s a Muslim kid in Kansas who has already written the schematic
for the robot that will steal your job in manufacturing,
and that robot? Will also be gay, so get used to it

This poem is good.

Anil Dash’s advice for Twitter is pretty much perfect—except he doesn’t mention adding me to their board of directors.

Today I learned a lot of iconic photographs I know of Wong Kar Wai films were shot by photography Wing Shya. I don’t know why I assumed they by his cinematography Christopher Doyle as well.

Because it’s a bad idea? Yes. Zappos used to be ranked as one of the best places to work. In 2015 it lost a third of it’s work force.

Shima sponsored a Syrian family with some people in our area, and they are still stuck in Jordan, like several of the families mentioned in this article. The process feels a bit glacial. This story is super heart warming, though.

“Intellectual” has two common definitions—the first is the kind of person you hear getting interviewed on NPR about a Big Idea, the second, used by people like Marx, is any kind of economic actor who gets paid to do brainstuff rather than hard labor, like a plumbing engineer. The point of “Nerd” is to keep these two kinds of intellectuals separate, because together they are fucking dangerous. When Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing Black Panther comics and demanding reparations after documenting decades of housing discrimination?—capitalism does not want that shit.

LOL WAT.

I have worked in 60 countries, covered wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and spent much of 2014 living inside West Africa’s Ebola zone, a place gripped by fear and death. What I experienced in the Philippines felt like a new level of ruthlessness: police officers’ summarily shooting anyone suspected of dealing or even using drugs, vigilantes’ taking seriously Mr. Duterte’s call to “slaughter them all.”

Plot twist! I honestly didn’t see this coming from Tory.

I know we’ve been calling people nazis for like the last 60-70 years, but this is some full on nazi shit.

If you love Kottke.org then you can support his site financially once again. 11 years ago (!!) he ran a membership drive that was pretty forward thinking and met with a lot of people calling him crazy and lazy.

These commercials from Egypt are amazing.