White students burn a book about white privilege
It happened at Georgia Southern University. To the privileged, equality feels like oppression.
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Captain America nails it!
I’ll admit that I suffer from superhero fatigue. I’ve enjoyed some of their movies – Christopher Reeve’s Superman movies, for example. Lately, though, it’s just one “existential” crisis after another, with no resolution of much of anything, the better to justify yet another sequel. Superheroes keep proliferating like insects, their super powers seem to increase
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PG&E shuts off power in California
Welcome to the USA, an exceptional third-world country!
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Express Scripts encourages identity theft
A basic tenet of identity protection is to avoid providing any sensitive information on a phone call that you didn’t initiate yourself. Caller ID is easily spoofed, and you should not trust anything the caller says, no matter how charming and believable they might sound. If necessary, hang up and call the relevant party using
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Protect the whistleblowers!
As this article points out, Obama was no friend to whistleblowers. But Obama is no longer President, and our current one poses a clear and present danger to our democracy.
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Disinformation proliferation
It’s bad enough that many countries run disinformation campaigns. When the leader of the most powerful nation in the world actively disinforms, how can we effectively fight the problem?
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Spreading the Gospel of Modern Monetary Theory
The New Republic has a good article on MMT.
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Apple, do the right thing!
I like Apple products, but their policy on self-repair is an abuse of their market power, pure and simple. It needs to change.
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Your 401(k) might be out to get you!
Kiplinger has an article that explains why your big 401(k) – you know, the one that was going to give you a cushy retirement – might come back to bite you. Start planning now to reduce the bite.
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checkm8: iOS boot ROM exploit explained
If you own an iOS device, you need to read this explanation of the checkm8 boot ROM exploit that lets practitioners explore all the inner workings of iOS apps and iOS itself.
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Looking back at the Snowden revelations
Matthew Green looks back at the lessons we learned from Edward Snowden. Although we’ve made progress since then in securing and defending our data, no officials have been held accountable for government misdeeds, and other distractions threaten to divert our attention elsewhere.
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Got VPN?
A virtual private network (VPN) is a great tool for protecting your privacy and security on the Internet, especially when you’re using a public network or Wi-Fi hotspot. However, not all VPNs are trustworthy, and some are nothing more than thinly disguised data collectors. Here are some sites that help you weed out the good
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
In People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent, Joseph Stiglitz proposes ways to overcome forty years of neoliberal rot that have infected our economics and our politics. This country has overcome extreme inequality in the past, and we must do so again now, or our children will face a much
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I can’t feel my heart
My country psychologically tortures children, and our President doesn’t give one nanodamn about it.
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How to eat less plastic
Yes, I said “eat less plastic.” Read this Consumer Reports article on how plastics have thoroughly infested our food chain. One study estimates that the average human ingests the equivalent of a credit card every week.
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Proof in the pudding?
I share Joseph Stiglitz’s skepticism regarding the Business Roundtable’s recent endorsement of stakeholder capitalism. Actions will speak louder than words, but don’t bet the farm yet.
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The Kansas Experiment
Conor Lynch of The Week posted an editorial on https://theweek.com/articles/861385/trump-taken-gops-kansas-experiment-national–predictable-results
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Use Multi-Factor Authentication!!!
According to Microsoft, multi-factor authentication will stop over 99.9% of unauthorized login attempts, even if the attacker has the correct password.
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Simple Questions Your Congressperson Cannot Answer
Most elected representatives parrot the bromides of mainstream economists, such as: The national debt is a burden that will crush the economic prospects of our children and grandchildren. The federal government must balance its budget and pay down the debt. The government needs to borrow or tax before it can spend. If unemployment gets too
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Don’t Believe the Hype
The Trump administration must think that Orwell’s 1984 was meant as a handbook for governing. (Not that Trump himself would have ever read a book with that many pages and so many big words.) Christian Weller of Forbes highlights some of the administration’s hype and lies with regard to the economy.
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