2020 Miscellaneous Links: Untitled Moose Game

[SnowFire]

Shamelessly stolen from AAA:



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[Cmdr_King]

Although this was the best part of that I think.

https://twitter.com/gatorgoat/status/845510932423958528

[Cotigo]

Although this was the best part of that I think.

https://twitter.com/gatorgoat/status/845510932423958528

Also, from that thread:

all of Paul Ryan's favorite bands hating him is an idea that never gets old to me

[Captain K]

I just got back from BlizzCon.  You want to go too?

https://blizzcon.com/ru-ru/event-info/tickets/textual

[dunie]

fun animations
http://www.afropunk.com/profiles/blogs/young-afro-feminist-animator-caress-reeve-visualizes-gender?xg_source=activity

[SnowFire]

Have some happy, feel-good news.

http://nbc4i.com/2017/04/06/kentucky-coal-museum-installs-solar-panels-to-save-on-electricity-bills/

[Fenrir]

Civilization was a mistake

https://thinkprogress.org/koch-backed-group-celebrates-fossil-fuels-425ca28de8da

"Cooke told ThinkProgress that the organization’s fossil fuels art contest is rooted in inclusivity. “Fossil fuels seem to get left out of the Earth Day celebration,” she said via email. “As an energy feminist — pro-choice in energy sources — I feel it’s important to have hydrocarbons equally represented.”

"Enviros celebrate by planting trees but they never celebrate the trucks that deliver the trees, or the gas that powers that truck, or the plastic handles of the shovels they use,” an email from the organization reads. “Shouldn’t Mother Earth be thanked for making Earth Day events possible?”

[NotMiki]

I bet she jerks off to recordings of herself declaring herself an "energy feminist— pro-choice in energy sources."  You can't be that level of troll and not get off on yourself.

[dunie]

Right, I don't think I've ever seen an energy feminist embrace patriarchal capitalism and be able to not explode. But gaiz, the first paragraph of that article gave me my tea for the morning.

[dunie]

timely given the city question Good Morning
https://medium.com/@niranbabalola/we-made-austin-unaffordable-dc2e3af35501

[Grefter]

Right, I don't think I've ever seen an energy feminist embrace patriarchal capitalism and be able to not explode. But gaiz, the first paragraph of that article gave me my tea for the morning.

Fossil fuels might be flammable but you really need to add something a bit extra (like oxegyn) to make them actually explode though.


Not even going to click the actual link though, if I want to watch white conservatives masturbate I would get on chat roulette.

[Cmdr_King]

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-irredeemable-arrogance-oklahomas-markwayne-mullins/

Thought about tucking it in Politics, but it's a bit too feelgood for that.

[NotMiki]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BzkrgVivk4

Nobuo Uematsu on writing One-Winged Angel.  Pretty neat!

[Dark Holy Elf]

Good stuff, I love seeing things like this. It doesn't hurt that Uematsu is great.

[dunie]

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a54564/the-violent-clashes-in-berkeley-werent-pro-trump-versus-anti-trump/

[Grefter]

Think pieces about whether it is right to punch Antifa protesters when??

[NotMiki]

Let's start with thinkpieces about whether it's ok to punch generic Trumpers who are standing next to white supremacists.  I say it's ok unless they punched the white supremacists already, in which case lay off.

[dunie]

http://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/04/19/25082450/the-heart-of-whiteness-ijeoma-oluo-interviews-rachel-dolezal-the-white-woman-who-identifies-as-black

This was sharp and I'm glad a conversation other than soapbox chatter's been shared.

[Captain K]

Maybe I'm just not aware of this because I'm white, but is National Geographic really not liked by black people?  I thought its reputation for quality was pretty universally acclaimed.

[dunie]

Mm, that's not quite the message of that conversation. It's not that black people don't like National Geographic. It's that it's had a big role in the fetishization of black folk, specifically African, as naked drooping titty primitives, impoverished, hungry, AIDs-infested and living in mud buildings. So Oluo's questioning Dolezal's interest in the material as uplifting when it's been one lens by which folk project or try to relate to black folk. It's not just white people, black people've stereotyped indigenous Africans similarly because of it.

[Grefter]

Good read now that I finally got to it!  Got me a bit more understanding of why there is such a strong response to all of it.

[Hunter Sopko]

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/

Probably one of the most interesting articles I've read lately.

[SnowFire]

From what I read of Judge Chin's decision at the time, it was one of the worst decisions I've seen (although I'm biased).  Seemed a rare case of actual judicial activism - he basically said "Eh, if I was in charge, Congress would pass a law and this would be done by the government."  Well.  Great.  Have a cookie.  Seemed like a case of if some corporation was funding the building of a new sports stadium, and there's a sports team that wants to move in, but a judge says "eh the city government should build the stadium instead, so no."

Interesting that the article spins it as Chin dancing to the DOJ's tune.  I didn't get the impression at the time that the DOJ's objections were that substantive or meaningful, but maybe they were.

[NotMiki]

Denny Chin is a joke, obviously biased, and an apologist for the Giants and their dumb owner.  FREE BRADY!  GO PATS! 

[Shale]

I didn't pay close attention to the nuts and bolts of the case when it was going on, but the way this article lays out the antitrust arguments makes them sound pretty compelling -- especially since it would have given Google first dibs on selling public domain books, which seems like it would be a pretty big issue.