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When things turn to garbage I guess I turn to Wikipedia. A couple more links I've been thinking about recently: False equivalence and Slippary slope. Have journalists seen these? Because I feel like they haven't seen these.

I have a slew of links to share, but it doesn't feel like a good time to share a slew of links. The daily news feels like a daily test of the paradox of tolerance and I've been thinking about that quite a bit. Also, brushing up on the concept of hate speech has been helpful for me.

Some unorganized links from the past week or so:

• MetaTalk: mathowie transfers ownership of MetaFilter to cortex - Big MetaFilter Universe news, but not a big shift for the site. Congrats to Matt and Josh on the move! Long may MeFi run.
• Erica Joy: I am disappointed but unsurprised... - A sexist manifesto circulating Google is abuse of co-workers but defined as an alternative view by Google management. (Update: Google management takes an alternative view.)
• Ijeoma Oluo: Facebook's Complicity in the Silencing of Black Women
• Atlas Obscura: Join the Search for Geedis - I love these pop ephemera mysteries.
• New York Times: To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software - We have been having this conversation since voting machines were invented. This should be obvious.
• The Atlantic: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? - See Betteridge, but there's more than just the headline here.
• Teen Vogue: We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs
• Siggraph 2017: Deep Bilateral Learning - Teaching computers to edit photographs like a human.
• Texas Monthly: The Drug Runners - Sad update on the reclusive Mexican native people The Tarahumara of Born to Run fame.
• @GalaxyKate ...welcome to Programmer Hell - Apple spent billions to build a terrible work environment.
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
• Brad Sucks: Better Than Nothing Preorder - new vinyl ordered.
• Wall Street Journal: Why Vinyl's Boom Is Over - Two of my favorite artists provide a snapshot of where vinyl production is today.
• Ask Polly: It Seems Like My Friends Don’t Like Me - "We have to find a way to bring the sharp edges and troubling complications and glorious moments of joy into a world that communicates with a series of popping-Champagne emoji and eye roll memes."
• New York Times: Thanks to Venmo, We Now All Know How Cheap Our Friends Are - An update on PayPal's peer-to-peer option.
• Stanford Business: Why Working From Home Is a “Future-looking Technology”
• Dan Hon has been knocking neural network social commentary comedy out of the park lately by simulating Ask MetaFilter questions and Hacker News headlines.

I've been enjoying the new Arcade Fire: