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Super-gonorrhoea's spread 'causing huge concern'

Doctors have expressed "huge concern" that super-gonorrhoea has spread widely across England and to gay men.
The new superbug prompted a national alert last year when it emerged in Leeds, as one of the main treatments had become useless against it.
Public Health England acknowledges measures to contain the outbreak have been of "limited success".
Doctors fear the sexually transmitted infection, which can cause infertility, could soon become untreatable.
Cases of super-gonorrhoea have now been detected in the West Midlands, London and southern England.
Only 34 cases have been officially confirmed in laboratory testing, >>> but this is likely to be the tip of the iceberg of an infection that can be symptomless. <<< + cuts to public health budget! //&! bit.ly/23PdjDp

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april 2016 by asterisk2a

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Deadpool's success accelerates the inevitable: total geek domination | Film | The Guardian

But Deadpool doesn’t just offer up a hero it thinks the fanbase will love, it offers up an entire world. It is one of the best articulations of “geek culture” to reach the big screen. And if it can pull off big numbers at the cinema with an exclusively adult audience, it will presage not only more movies like it but bring geeks one step closer to what they truly want; control of the entire world. [...] Basically Deadpool is Reddit: the movie. It’s highly enjoyable, and very well made, but it’s also a marker, a moment where a massive multi-million dollar bet has been made on geek culture being not only a mainstream proposition but an adult one too.

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february 2016 by asterisk2a

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Crispin Blunt: 'I use poppers and oppose 'stupid' ban idea' - BBC News
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february 2016 by asterisk2a

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Chaotic lives and ethical dilemmas: inside the hospital liver ward | Society | The Guardian

Hepatologists in Southampton are seeing more young, middle-class and female alcoholics – some even in their teens [...] Half of Wright’s liver patients are not drinkers. He sees obese patients with fatty liver disease and cirrhosis, and those with viral hepatitis. But the drinkers are addicted and it is hard for the NHS to sort them out. //&! The secret alcohol liaison nurse's diary: 'Cuts are having a devastating impact' - http://bit.ly/1ZX9EEW - We receive multiple referrals where clients have an underlying alcohol-related mental health problem. //&! How the NHS saved my life: I spent my 20s playing Russian roulette with alcohol - bit.ly/1Tjzr53 //&! >> With budgets tight and lifestyle diseases burgeoning, the NHS will not be saved until the vested interests ranged against it are taken on << Sugar Tax, Minimum Alcohol Unit Pricing, Animal Product Tax, Fast Food/Food Chain Tax, Processed/Engineered Food Tax - bit.ly/1NtxwDL

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january 2016 by asterisk2a

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Köln: Was über die Übergriffe bekannt ist - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Waren die Übergriffe organisiert und geplant? Sicher lässt sich das noch nicht sagen. Nach SPIEGEL-Informationen liegen den Sicherheitsbehörden inzwischen Hinweise vor, dass sich eine dreistellige Anzahl Männer aus dem mutmaßlichen Tätermilieu für die Übergriffe in der Silvesternacht am Kölner Hauptbahnhof verabredet hat. Die Hinweise werden allerdings noch sehr vorsichtig behandelt. Derartige Taten bei Massenveranstaltungen gibt es seit Jahren in Nordafrika, zuerst wurden sie in Ägypten beobachtet. Bei den Krawallen am Tahrir-Platz in Kairo sorgten sie weltweit für Entsetzen. //&! Cologne attacks: Pegida and police clash at migrant protest - bbc.in/1ObXVK7 &! Three competing rallies hit the streets as women, neo-Nazis and anti-fascists demonstrate about the new year’s assaults, police mishandling and the ensuing race hate - bit.ly/1PPrKRf &! tougher deportation rules proposed by Merkel - bbc.in/1RqTq2u &! bit.ly/1UCtrCw - long judicial road for deportation of asylum seekers.

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january 2016 by asterisk2a

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Searching for the Last Lesbian Bars in America - YouTube
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december 2015 by asterisk2a

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Food and Drug Administration Lifts Formal Ban on Blood Donations From Gay Men : ainbow

perpetuating stigma // The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will allow gay men to donate blood if they have been celibate for one year - lifting a 30-year ban. - bbc.in/1ZmOTis

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december 2015 by asterisk2a

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Stephen Fry - HIV and Me - Part 1 - YouTube

[ chem sex as symptom of public sentiment at large towards what "being gay" means. and how gay people see themselves in this picture and see how they are treated at large?! it's like about breaking free from social norms, its a counterproductive form of rebellion against society in its most dangerous form. ] [ protection = naughty but not dangerous ] [ some are thrill seeking people. a kick apart form normal life. ] [ hetero sex now counts for half of all new infections ] [ medical profession guess is that between 1/3 and 1/2 of all infection go undiagnosed, because they don't have HIV test, in UK ] PART 2: [ stigma and prejudice of being HIV positive is a social crisis. medically we moved on, but socially we haven't. there is still this big fear and horror part, instilled into people by it's initial campaign during the 90's. HIV is a social problem. ]

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december 2015 by asterisk2a

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Syphilis: Krank durch Sex - immer mehr Deutsche betroffen - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Syphilis - gibt es die noch? Die einstige Massenerkrankung schien in Deutschland fast verschwunden. Seit einigen Jahren aber steigen die Fallzahlen rasant, vor allem in der Schwulenszene der Großstädte. [...] Rückgang des Safer Sex

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december 2015 by asterisk2a

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The choice to take the HIV prevention pill has nothing to do with sluttiness | Zach Stafford | Opinion | The Guardian

Using PrEp doesn’t make me want to sleep with every man walking by, but it does make me part of the solution to a persisting public health scourge

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december 2015 by asterisk2a

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Europa: Arme und weniger gebildete Menschen sterben häufiger an Alkohol - SPIEGEL ONLINE

In den meisten europäischen Ländern leben gebildete und wohlhabende Menschen länger als Menschen mit niedrigem sozioökonomischem Status. Ein Grund für diesen Unterschied scheint im Alkoholkonsum zu liegen. [...] Sozial besser gestellte Menschen trinken demnach zwar häufiger und zum Teil auch mehr als Menschen mit geringerem Bildungsgrad. Laut den Forschern sind problematische Trinkgewohnheiten - etwa das Komasaufen - in unteren sozialen Gruppen jedoch weiter verbreitet. Verhalten wie dieses steigert die alkoholbedingten Gesundheitsprobleme. [...] Ungleichheit zwischen den sozialen Gruppen verstärkt.

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december 2015 by asterisk2a

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▶ BBC Two - Victoria Derbyshire, 23/11/2015, Life in a 24-hour drinking city

[ ITS A SYMPTOM, STUPID ] >> life in the 24-hour drinking city of Carlisle, // vs drinking at home, by yourself, of the middle class. // alcohol abuse put into diet-related diseases and substance abuse.

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december 2015 by asterisk2a

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Amber Rose interview: Even when I was a virgin, I was called a slut | World news | The Guardian

// “Women of color are often made to be hypersexual before any of our sexual behaviors or practices are even known”, she says. “That’s a long history that is embedded there,” she adds, referring in part to the United States’ history when black female slaves were seen as sexually available and routinely raped by white slave owners.

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november 2015 by asterisk2a

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Live Webcast - Social Class in the 21st Century - YouTube

Speakers: Dr Niall Cunningham, Professor Fiona Devine, Dr Sam Friedman, Dr Daniel Laurison, Dr Lisa McKenzie (author, getting by), Dr Andrew Miles, Professor Mike Savage, Dr Helene Snee, Dr Paul Wakeling // Precariat and Super Rich tend to disappear in surveys // book Inequality: What Can Be Done? - Book by Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson // Dr Lisa McKenzie (author, getting by), "class in Britain is real, is pervasive and it hurts people." - precariat - 15% of the population. & It's the symbolic violence that hurts more. violence that keeps them out, keeps them down. looks down on them, laughs at them, ridicules them, telling them its their fault. // Meritocracy creates different class, meritocracy does not justify start existing inequality, because meritocracy does not work for everyone, not everyone can become a billionaire (Alain de Bottom) // & Thomas Picketty //&! bbc.in/1R4sNPU - Great British Class Calculator. Some Analysis.

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november 2015 by asterisk2a

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Don't Be Awful: Roger Myers and Paul Carr - YouTube

Don’t Be Awful: Attorney Roger Myers on the line between free speech and online harassment ( bit.ly/17fsmO8 ) // talks at the end about revenge porn and right to be forgotten

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february 2015 by asterisk2a

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Venture capital and the great big Silicon Valley asshole game | PandoDaily

(( via pando.com/2015/02/12/how-silicon-valleys-counterculture-went-corporate-and-ruined-everything/ )) --- This is a complex topic with no real “right” or “wrong.” You have to consider what the job of a VC is. It’s not to give inner city kids a helping hand; it’s not to make mom-and-pop dreams a reality; it’s not to help nice guys. It’s to maximize returns and fund companies that have an outsized chance of creating billion-dollar plus outcomes in a decade or less. There is a certain personality type that frequently builds these companies—a mix of outsized arrogance, steel-eyed determination, and even some element of delusion. Rational thinkers don’t usually think they can upend whole industries. People who get impacted by social pressure will be talked out of an idea long before it comes to fruition.

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february 2015 by asterisk2a

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How Silicon Valley’s counterculture went corporate and ruined everything | PandoDaily

Politicians, entrepreneurs, artists, activists, hippies, and corporations all working together to make the world a better place? In 2015, that arrangement seems unthinkable. So where did the dream of tech-powered togetherness go wrong? [...] [...] // As of last November, the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco was $3,350 [£2200]. [...] So contrary to Gosney’s and Archer’s dream of a techno-utopia that benefits every slice of San Francisco’s population, the tech boom — along with various city statutes that limit residential housing — have made it harder than ever for artists and other members of the counterculture to live in the city. These are the very people, mind you, who helped spark the region’s technological revolution. And that’s saying nothing of the struggles felt by teachers, social workers and other non-tech workers struggling to stay afloat as housing prices skyrocket. [...] [C]ity officials and outdated statutes are as much to blame as tech companies

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february 2015 by asterisk2a

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What is the Right Percentage of Women in Technical... | Scott Adams Blog

via Pando:: Dilbert creator on tech’s gender imbalance: The smartest men are unpleasant and women are rational - “I want to be perfectly clear that I am speaking about my personal, flawed, biased, observation, which I hope is not representative. But seriously, how could I spend a year in an industry without meeting one female technical genius/entrepreneur while meeting about a hundred men I would label that way? I know plenty of brilliant women, but they don’t work in that field.” ~Dilbert creator Scott Adams /// "3. Sexism, discrimination, and old-boy networks make technology an unfriendly place for women. My observations support that."

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february 2015 by asterisk2a

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Why do large subreddits with lax moderation trend towards Facebook style posting? Why has no generic personal story subreddit been incredibly successful? : TheoryOfReddit
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february 2015 by asterisk2a

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BBC News - New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard to lead abuse inquiry

bbc.in/16gO6IR - Rotherham Council's cabinet is to resign in the wake of a damning report which found it was "not fit for purpose" after a child abuse scandal. Louise Casey's report found a culture of bullying, sexism, suppression and misplaced "political correctness". << bc majority of men were of foreign background and culture. behaviour widespread across UK among (young and old) communities of immigrant background (post-british empire/ww2). &! bit.ly/1EOMZgK - In December of last year, Scotland Yard was handed a dossier by MPs containing the names of 22 high profile figures, including three current MPs and three members of the House of Lords, who it alleged were involved in a Westminster paedophile ring that operated in locations throughout the country in the 1970s and 80s. &! bit.ly/1EVDwWk &! youtu.be/BAY46NW7EDo &! bbc.in/1KICwFI

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february 2015 by asterisk2a

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Gender-Debatte: Anschwellender Ekelfaktor | ZEIT ONLINE

Anschwellender Ekelfaktor Professx Lann Hornscheidt hat eine Gender-Debatte entfacht. Wie der antifeministische Untergrund sich nun radikalisiert und was Ulfharaldjanmatthias damit zu tun haben.

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december 2014 by asterisk2a

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With bullying app Secret on life support, investors learn the risk of investing in assholes | PandoDaily

Oh, and there’s one more lesson for investors about investing in assholes: If they seem to be heading for the door after a just a few months, you probably should do the same. At the same time as Secret asked investors to pony up $25m to fund the company’s “growth”, Byttow and his co-founder Chrys Bader-Wechseler personally cashed out $6m. That big payday came just six months after Secret launched, and less than a month before Byttow told the world he didn’t care about the victims of bullying.

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december 2014 by asterisk2a

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Book Excerpt: Understanding the New Jim Crow | BillMoyers.com

The following is an excerpt from Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. - "Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African-Americans. Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination— employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits and exclusion from jury service — are suddenly legal. ...We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." - Michelle Alexander

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december 2014 by asterisk2a

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The Next Big Thing You Missed: Tech Superstars Build 'Startup Factories' | WIRED

... all of them are successful entrepreneurs (/part of unicorn) ... now searching for their 2nd unicorn ... literally searching, experimenting, trying out variations of existing things ... see book once you are lucky, twice you are good, ... that a unicorn comes out of one of these shops, lead by the needs, desires, and imagination by multi-millionaires (who's main app are email to reply to pitches and business plans, and calendar app to schedule expensive luncheons and more pitches during coffee), the chances - worse than winning the lottery, me thinks. it's more like occupational therapy. kindergarten version for exactly those types of people. and that VC's put money into it, into something that has nothing, not even traction, just a name behind it, tzzzzz.

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november 2014 by asterisk2a

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By avoiding acquisitions, Uber has left a lot of investors on the outside looking in | PandoDaily
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november 2014 by asterisk2a

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What We Learned From 40 Female YC Founders | Hacker News

http://blog.ycombinator.com/what-we-learned-from-40-female-yc-founders - "Not surprisingly, most of the women were domain experts solving a problem they themselves had. That's something that tends to be true of successful founders regardless of gender." - &! from the comments in the hackernews item - "I've been coding since I was ~13. I can understand why people who haven't might have valid reasons to wish they'd started earlier. I'd just say: beware self-fulfilling prophecies and selection bias. Lots of really excellent software people I've worked with got late starts. Lots of people who started early coasted or are still coasting. In the 25 years I've been coding, only a few years worth of that time really grew me as a developer, so what you work on has just as much impact as how long you've been working on it." [...] As an old boss of mine said when hiring, "Does this person have ten years' experience? Or one year's experience, ten times?". [...] [Ageism comes also up/is discussed.]

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november 2014 by asterisk2a

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What last night’s “The Newsroom” gets wrong about “disruption” in media | PandoDaily

This has become a common theme in Hollywood and television’s depiction of Silicon Valley. Tech entrepreneurs, especially on HBO’s popular series “Silicon Valley,” are often portrayed as awkward losers who lucked into a billion dollar payday simply because they stayed inside playing computer games as kids instead of riding their bikes. It’s as if society still hasn’t graduated from its 1980s “Revenge of the Nerds” mentality. But while there’s truth to every cliche, the act of turning these rich kids into objects of ridicule glosses over the well of sociopathic greed they drew on to make their companies so successful in the first place. Sure, some tech founders are lovable geeks. But the capacity for evil is just as large in Silicon Valley as it is in any other corporate environment. ... [ to the point, that Unterhaltungsfernsehen = menschenverachtend. ]

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november 2014 by asterisk2a

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The guy who accused Sarah Lacy of “playing victim” over Uber forgot to disclose he’s “bros” with the company’s two most senior execs | PandoDaily

& http://pando.com/2014/11/21/ubers-smear-machine-thinks-youre-a-total-idiot/ &! http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/22/opinion/joe-nocera-ubers-rough-ride.html "Part of the problem is that, to an unusual degree, Uber has an “us-versus-them” mentality. That attitude manifests itself when the company is fighting taxi regulations or other obstacles the taxi establishment places in its path. But it also seeps into the way it views everyone it comes into contact with, including journalists. But part of it is that there simply isn’t anybody in Silicon Valley willing to tell Uber’s principals to grow up. They have a hot company that is disrupting an outmoded industry — and, therefore, they are lionized, not matter how boorish their behavior. They are like the star football player at State U. who can get away with anything because he scores touchdowns on Saturday. Engineering talent and business savvy don’t necessarily impute maturity. &! http://bit.ly/1trLMDb

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november 2014 by asterisk2a

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BBC News - Bill Cosby defends silence over sexual assault allegations

newrepublic.com/article/120338/bill-cosby-rape-allegations-why-america-took-so-long-wake "No One Wanted to Talk About Bill Cosby's Alleged Crimes Because He Made White America Feel Good About Race" &! salon.com/2014/11/12/chris_rocks_poisonous_legacy_how_to_get_rich_and_exalted_chastising_bad_blacks/ "Respectability politics isn't new. But with Charles Barkley and Bill Cosby now joining in, here's why it's so toxic" [...] “I hide my money in books. Why? Because n–gers don’t read.” [...] It doesn’t matter how much debunking is done, because this strain of respectability politics is easy to comprehend, fits neatly into our racist system, and has the potential to be lucrative. [ Respectability Politics does apply too 2 Feminism; sex work, prostitution, Pornography, It-Girl. & Gay (femGay, ButchLez) & Transgender (Barbie, Plastic Look) &! bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30167914 "It follows allegations of paedophiles in positions of power and claims about attempts to cover up their actions."

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november 2014 by asterisk2a

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Women 'belittled, underappreciated and underpaid in tech industry', Guardian readers say | Technology | The Guardian

“Beyond structural gender disparities, many respondents complained of a ‘macho, misogynist culture’, with bosses organizing events at strip clubs, and frequent commentary on women’s bodies the norm. That culture was reinforced elsewhere, with female staff told to smarten up, wear lipstick, and some required to attend trade shows where ‘booth babes’ – scantily-clad models promoting products – were commonplace.”

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november 2014 by asterisk2a

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Uber’s smear machine thinks you’re a total idiot | PandoDaily

"Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- PandoDaily Founder and Editor-In-Chief Sarah Lacy discusses Uber executive Emil Michael’s journalist comments. Lacy speaks on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg) " -- http://www.bloomberg.com/video/pandodaily-s-sarah-lacy-responds-to-uber-tFzq09hvSiGVd0W3LW5_Yw.html << min 11:00 culture comes from the top &!&! http://pando.com/2014/11/20/seth-myers-travis-kalanick-is-axe-body-spray-in-a-suit-thats-become-sentient/ “What exactly is going on with the corporate culture at Uber? … Are you a man [Travis Kalanick], or did they just spray Axe Body Spray into a suit until it became sentient?” &!&!& http://pando.com/2014/11/20/on-stage-at-goldman-sachs-event-travis-kalanick-compared-his-companys-woes-to-ferguson/ "On stage at Goldman Sachs event, Uber CEO compared his company’s woes to Ferguson" &!&! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8644080 << web.archive of "Rides of Glory" << algo/predictor about Users getting laid.

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november 2014 by asterisk2a

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Values and Culture – AVC

& http://www.buzzfeed.com/johanabhuiyan/uber-is-investigating-its-top-new-york-executive-for-privacy << http://www.buzzfeed.com/johanabhuiyan/uber-is-investigating-its-top-new-york-executive-for-privacy & http://www.businessinsider.com.au/ashton-kutcher-supports-uber-2014-11 << http://pando.com/news/uber-investor-ashton-kutcher-thinks-its-totally-fine-to-smear-journalists/

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november 2014 by asterisk2a

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Women, what would you say is the most difficult part of working in a male dominated field? : AskWomen

ie Comments!!! &!&!&! http://randi.io/wp/archives/86 - via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8613855 "This post is dedicated to all of the people that think sexism in tech doesn’t exist, that harassment isn’t a big deal, that trolling is harmless and funny, and that the gender disparity in tech is due simply to biology. I originally posted my story on Facebook and later on imgur under the title Abusing Women is the New Normal. It’s the first time I ever publicly discussed everything that had happened. I told the shorter version of my story there, and I’m going to tell you the longer version today. Trigger Warnings abound." &!&!& http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2011/07/women-business-finance-power &!&!& http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/18/why-women-make-less-when-they-work-for-men/

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LITERALLY OUR MOST AMAZING EPISODE EVER!!! | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios - YouTube

We Are Literally Living In The Best Time Ever For Hyperbole // alles in massen.

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november 2014 by asterisk2a

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BBC News - Academics study rise of the tattoo
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Video "Reload - Folge 50" | ARD Mediathek | EinsPlus

half way in. Unter anderem geht es um Spielejournalismus,

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october 2014 by asterisk2a

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Mama-Shooter - Wie fühlt sich Spielen an? | Panorama - die Reporter | NDR - YouTube

jede generation hat ihren eigenen soundtrack, cult filme, und subkulturen ...

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october 2014 by asterisk2a

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Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Frequency - XOXO Festival (2014) - YouTube

At this year's XOXO festival, Anita Sarkeesian, creator of the "Tropes vs. Women in Video Games" series of videos, gave a presentation on all the various ways online trolls and harassers attempted to intimidate, threaten and discredit her work as a cultural critic.

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october 2014 by asterisk2a

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Clip: Ruby Dee on the Psyche of Black America - YouTube
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june 2014 by asterisk2a

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Industry leaders attack Chicago Tech Week over ludicrously sexist ads | PandoDaily

There’s never a good time for tacky marketing, but this incident comes at time when gender equality is under extreme scrutiny in media and technology circles. [...] [W]omen as marketing objects. Surely this industry could use all the positive leadership it can muster. + http://youtu.be/u_4dPB9MVS8 + http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neal-samudre/6-things-we-lose-from-objectifying-women_b_4886980.html + http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/joy-goh-mah/objectification-women-sexy-pictures_b_3403251.html + https://twitter.com/search?q=%23YesAllWomen&src=hash + http://bluesky.chicagotribune.com/chi-techweek-chicago-controversy-images-of-women-bsi,0,0.story + http://www.businessinsider.com/atlassian-atlas-conference-gender-gap-tech-horror-2014-6 via http://bit.ly/1nQasZF + http://www.businessinsider.com/google-diversity-numbers-2014-5/ & http://www.businessinsider.com/locket-ceo-email-2014-4 +++ #YesAllWomen - http://bit.ly/1kzecLs --- tip/via http://bit.ly/1nhiqYl << some comments *eyesroll*

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june 2014 by asterisk2a

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Why Snapchat CEO’s Sleazy Emails Really Do Matter - Business Insider

So this idea that tech is some sort of boys club has basis both in anecdote and fact. +++ http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/28/confirmed-snapchats-evan-spiegel-is-kind-of-an-ass/ || http://techcrunch.com/video/googles-self-driving-car-apple-buys-beats-founders-behaving-badly/518251103/ "Entitled Manchildren." - Travis Kalanick, Evan Spiegel, "~we care more~, and holding them to a higher standard" - "privacy; everything now on quasi record." +++ http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/30/stanford-asks-students-to-learn-from-snapchat-founders-mistakes-we-all-should/

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may 2014 by asterisk2a

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BBC News - Almost 2,000 kids questioned over social media abuse
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may 2014 by asterisk2a

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BBC News - 10 slang phrases that perfectly sum up their era
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may 2014 by asterisk2a

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Jonah Peretti: “Both Time and BuzzFeed grew by creating irresistible lists” | PandoDaily

Marc Andreessen on future of journalism "go broad as possible or pick a niche"

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may 2014 by asterisk2a

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Why I’m Bullish on the News - POLITICO Magazine

Go maximum mass or maximum specific. [...] News organizations are also going to have to mix and match revenue models. I see eight obvious ones: advertising, subscriptions, premium content, events, cross-media promotion, crowdfunding, micropayments and philanthropy. [...] Today, this same science culture, this civilization of engineers and math, is again on the rise. And to many, it feels like it’s running away with the future. [...] The point is that, for people who aren’t deep into math and science and technology, it is going to get far harder to understand the world going forward. || + http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/1-destroy-the-village-2-save-it-105923.html + http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/lords-of-the-viral-internet-105905.html + http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/04/brauchli-keller-interview-the-new-york-times-is-not-going-to-turn-into-buzzfeed-105900.html

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may 2014 by asterisk2a

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GitHub Apologizes for Secrecy Around Harassment Allegations | Re/code

The tone of GitHub’s response has gone from defensive to super apologetic. >> "“Last Monday I published the least open and least transparent blog post GitHub has ever written. We failed to admit and own up to our mistakes, and for that I’m sorry. GitHub has a reputation for being transparent and taking responsibility for our actions, but last week we did neither. There’s no excuse. We can do a lot better.” + Add the wifes response = https://medium.com/my-side-of-the-story/2fe173c44215

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april 2014 by asterisk2a

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Legally Speaking: Martha Nussbaum - YouTube

Martha Nussbaum - http://www.amazon.co.uk/From-Disgust-Humanity-Orientation-Constitutional/dp/0195305310/ - added books to amazon wishlist

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GitHub co-founder resigns after investigation into harassment claims | The Verge

Horvath claimed to have experienced sexism and gender-based harassment at GitHub. She also spoke out about Preston-Werner and his wife, who she says personally harassed her for two years, the former berating her in his office and the latter stalking her at work. According to Horvath, the Preston-Warners were apparently concerned that she would undermine the company's reputation, perhaps due to her outspokenness on the issues around women in tech. + http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/19/5526574/github-sexism-scandal-julie-ann-horvath + http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/19/5526574/github-sexism-scandal-julie-ann-horvath + http://techcrunch.com/search/Julie+Ann+Horvath#stq=Julie Ann+Horvath&stp=1 "" GitHub was generally female-friendly, but her team felt like a boy’s club. She felt increasingly aware of "how little the men I worked with respected and valued my opinion" and observed the same thing happening to her female co-workers. ""

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april 2014 by asterisk2a

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Top 10: Die besten Filmszenen - Teil 1 - YouTube
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april 2014 by asterisk2a

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Richard Dawkins | Memes | Oxford Union - YouTube

trivial change/mutation, but the message survives.

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february 2014 by asterisk2a

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Rebellious New Feminism Returns to German Social Discourse - SPIEGEL ONLINE

http://www.spiegel.de/international/topic/gender_equality/ "Everything is on the agenda again: how men look at women, how they speak to them, and how they put down the opposite sex in jokes and silly comments to make themselves feel bigger and more important. If one were to summarize what the movement is about, then it would be the notion that gender shouldn't make any difference anymore. Along the way there, the idea is to shatter the images and clichés that assign women and men to different positions in society. The problem is that there are widely divergent notions about how to achieve this objective."

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june 2013 by asterisk2a

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