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Links: everything is terrible, no commentary edition.

• Wikipedia: Imminent lawless action
• New York Times: A Pardon for Arpaio Would Put Trump in Uncharted Territory - Narrator: and here we are.
• NPR: A Reformed White Nationalist Speaks Out On Charlottesville
• Reuters: U.S. state election officials still in the dark on Russian hacking
• 4 Thoughts About Trump’s Phoenix Speech And The Media
• The Baffler: The President of Blank Sucking Nullity
• ProPublica: Despite Disavowals, Leading Tech Companies Help Extremist Sites Monetize Hate
• Wired: The Alt-Right Can't Disown Charlottesville
• Globe and Mail: There aren’t ‘many sides.’ There is only one right side, and Trump is not on it

And in more tech-related news...

• The Verge: Medium will now pay writers based on how many claps they get
• Track Changes: Decentralize It! - I clapped several times for this.
• Did This Book Buy Its Way Onto The New York Times Bestseller List?
• A Designer Life: Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 App Analogy
• MIT Technology Review: Eliminating the Human
• Wired: The Great Tech Panic: The Internet Is the Uncanniest Valley
• Data & Society: Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online
• EPJ Data Science: Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression
• Google will offer help when searching for 'clinical depression'

Games are fun?

• Longreads: Here at the End of All Things
• The Believer: Destroy All Monsters

And because we're all trading nuclear fallout tips now I guess?

• Ready.gov: Nuclear Blast
• Racked: How Washing Your Hair Could Help You Survive a Nuclear Blast
• Business Insider: Nuclear fallout safety: Getting in a car is the worst thing you can do

Maybe some music will help:

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.