* Happy Mother’s Day! You Will Hate Your Husband After Your Kid Is Born.
* Humbled to be a finalist for a 2017 Locus Award.
* I’d like to apologize in advance, but after consulting with my colleagues in other departments at Reality Publishing Corporation, I’m afraid we can’t publish your book, Zero Day: The Story of MS17-010, as things stand. However, I’d like to add that it was a gripping read, very well written, and we hope to see more from you in future! The World Is Getting Hacked. Why Don’t We Do More to Stop It?
* It is the iPad that sits on a counter at the entrance, with a typed little note: “Here is a glimpse of what you’re missing over at the main terminal right now.”
* A pair of provocatively negative takes on Donna Haraway’s recent work.
* Meet The Techno-Libertarians Praying for Dystopia.
* Genetically engineered humans will arrive sooner than you think. And we’re not ready.
* Transforming deaf culture at Gallaudet.
* The future is here, it just hasn’t been properly risk assessed yet.
* Teeth and the class struggle.
* Why Milwaukee is among top cities for sex trafficking, what’s being done about it.
* Exploitation and Abuse at the Chicken Plant.
* When Will Republicans Stand Up to Trump? Will they even ever criticize him on the record? Oh honey. No one in politics has less courage or shame than Paul Ryan. But the real heart of anti-anti-Trumpism is the delight in the frustration and anger of his opponents. Mr. Trump’s base is unlikely to hold him either to promises or tangible achievements, because conservative politics is now less about ideas or accomplishments than it is about making the right enemies cry out in anguish. How Worried Should I Be? And just in case you need the reminder: The FBI Is Not Your Friend.
* At 3 a.m., NC Senate GOP strips education funding from Democrats’ districts.
* In Wisconsin, ID law proved insurmountable for many voters. Meet Trump’s voter suppression task force.
* “The Rent Eats First”: Fighting Gentrification in California.
* Gaslighting and Dolezal/Tuvel (and academia more generally).
* Jason Chaffetz Has Been Telling House Republicans He Will Join Fox News. There should be a ten-year ban on politicians and political staff going to media (and vice versa), like with lobbying and the military.
* Man who doesn’t understand the first thing about diabetes says diabetics deserve to be sick.
* For 15 years, Pixar was the best on the planet. Then Disney bought it.
* New York Times publisher sends personal appeal to those who canceled over Bret Stephens, then publishes garbage column by Erick Ericsson for some reason. Six Ways The New York Times Could Genuinely Make Its Op-Ed More Representative of America.
* As far as I’m concerned they should do the whole movie this way.
* No! That’s not true! That’s impossible!
* Yale History’s Major Comeback.
* The future looks bright. Hunt Tories, not foxes. Fandom, or, academia. Still one of my favorite sets of images on the Internet. Tumblr, perfected.
* And at least there’s something to look forward to.
