Another one. Less Gamergate.
https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/3/22/17140312/ready-player-one-movie-adaptation-bad-good
(btw, Ars Technica disagrees: Ready Player One’s film adaptation isn’t even good enough as a kids movie)
Pro-tip. The seats don’t recline.
:-\
At what point did we go from being toolmakers, inserting stems stripped of leaves into termite mounds, to reasoning about the infinitude of prime numbers? I guess Euclid was just a guy who wrote that down, and it didn’t get burned up in Alexandria.
I haven’t finished reading this, and I’ve never heard of The Outline, but I have this to say: SO MUCH of how we relate to the world is through the stories we tell ourselves, and the symbols we carry around in our brains. The patriotic Minuteman, leaving his plow and grabbing his flintlock rifle to fight the British; the misdirected millennial; Jesus with a ray of sunshine shining down on him from a cloud; and on and on. We simplify. Our stories are filled with cartoon characters. (Even my stories.)
https://theoutline.com/post/3840/frugalwoods-frugality-millennials
«So the Frugalwoods appear to be doing pretty well for themselves. And if their story carries a whiff of déjà vu, that’s probably it slots neatly into a classist myth that millions of adults in this country still believe: the story of the American Millennial.
It goes like this. The 2008 recession may have cratered the wages and employment prospects for people just entering the job market, but according to the myth of the American Millennial, the real problem young people have today is themselves. Nearly a decade after the crash, the mainstream media still seems hell-bent on portraying people born between 1982 and 2004 as a bunch of decadent and “fun-employed” narcissists who piss their parents’ money away on matcha green tea lattes, spend too much time Instagramming their pets, and are thus responsible for the economic rut they’re stuck in.»
I guess there are good solutions to gerrymandering and bad ones.
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/979014185966239745?s=19
«Yup. D voters are more hyper-concentrated in cities/college towns than R voters (far more D+>25 precincts than R+>25 precincts). As a result, on balance, maps that prioritize compactness lead to more D wasted votes.»
From a totally unrelated thread:
https://twitter.com/heatherkaywood/status/978698578959855616?s=19
«During the coming Great Trade War with China, there are going to be a LOT of surprised people who need clothing.»
https://twitter.com/CuriousQuail/status/978754144939864064?s=19
«Every cat that ended up being born in our yard was the result of TWO unfixed female kittens being abandoned by their owners.
Two cats + feral toms = 24 kittens in one year, and that is with us ACTIVELY trying to trap/neuter/release. If we hadn’t? CATPOCALYPSE.»
Wisconsin Republicans’ refusal to follow the court’s order is part of a broader trend among Republicans at the state level to nullify legal rulings they don’t like and attack judges who rule contrary to their positions.
Worth pointing out to my NC peeps: In 2018, Justice is on the ballot.
No state has done more to undermine the independence of the judiciary than North Carolina. The Republican–led legislature there has embarked on an unprecedented plan to transform the state’s courts by gerrymandering judicial maps to elect more Republican judges, making judicial elections partisan instead of nonpartisan, and possibly even allowing the legislature to pick judges instead of the voters.
Courts have overturned 14 laws passed by the North Carolina legislature since 2011. But instead of changing their policies, Republicans are trying to radically change the makeup of the state’s courts.
