Month: November 2014

Black Riot

The destruction of property is a red herring, used to divert attention from the fact that it is the goals, not the methods, of the protests that the media and the state object to.

Black Riot, from 2013 but topical again.

Fog Islands

Great version of Catan.

The Nomadic Life of an Assistant College Basketball Coach. Long feature on Gus Hauser, an assistant coach at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Sounds like an absolutely brutal profession.

What Would a Better Technological Society Look Like?

Overcrowded prisons, rapid gentrification, industrial disasters, and predatory banking practices aren’t bugs, they’re features of our current historical moment.

What Would a Better Technological Society Look Like?

Publishers and the Smiling Curve. Astute analysis from Ben Thompson on the problems facing traditional publishing companies. The key issue is that they no longer hold an exclusive on creation nor discovery of content; the two most valuable ends of the curve.

The Ebola Wars. The New Yorker’s long feature story about Ebola’s spread.

Jacksonville, Oregon

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