Linkdump

(#1 and #5 probably count as longreads, but I don't have enough other long pieces in tabs to justify a separate post.)

1. The New York Times, unlike the Emmy voters, is aware of Tatiana Maslany.

2. Terry Pratchett graffiti. 'nuff said.

3. Trevor Noah, Patton Oswalt, bad jokes, satire and straw men. Seriously, I love Oswalt, but the man is so obstinately oblivious when it comes to the notion that any comedian, anywhere, might actually have crossed a line.

4. On a similar topic, Linda Holmes writes wonderfully (as always) on Jokes, Fights And Controversy In A Frictionless Void.

5. This five-part piece at Medium on how medical IT can create incredibly life-threatening situations is fascinating (and while the stakes aren't as high, the same double-edged tech sword applies to other fields, too).

6. My Conservative Christian Nightmare: I Spent 16 Years in an Abusive Religious Sect. It's about the Quiverfull movement, which is just as horrible as it sounds.

7. Why crime fiction is leftwing and thrillers are rightwing. Not as overly reductive as it sounds (as the issue is more those subgenre labels themselves).

8. Harvard professor denied tenure for supporting victims of sexual assault. There are so many problems here, both with rape culture and the incredible broken tenure system.

9. You know that thing where you think you've cut and pasted one link, but the cut didn't take, so you paste the previous link you'd had? That appears to have gotten a law school professor suspended for sending anal-bead porn to her students. Ouch.

10. Report: Majority Of Earth’s Potable Water Trapped In Coca-Cola Products. Sometimes, The Onion is silly-funny. Other times, it can be brutally funny. This is the latter.

Linkdump

(#1 and #5 probably count as longreads, but I don't have enough other long pieces in tabs to justify a separate post.)

1. The New York Times, unlike the Emmy voters, is aware of Tatiana Maslany.

2. Terry Pratchett graffiti. 'nuff said.

3. Trevor Noah, Patton Oswalt, bad jokes, satire and straw men. Seriously, I love Oswalt, but the man is so obstinately oblivious when it comes to the notion that any comedian, anywhere, might actually have crossed a line.

4. On a similar topic, Linda Holmes writes wonderfully (as always) on Jokes, Fights And Controversy In A Frictionless Void.

5. This five-part piece at Medium on how medical IT can create incredibly life-threatening situations is fascinating (and while the stakes aren't as high, the same double-edged tech sword applies to other fields, too).

6. My Conservative Christian Nightmare: I Spent 16 Years in an Abusive Religious Sect. It's about the Quiverfull movement, which is just as horrible as it sounds.

7. Why crime fiction is leftwing and thrillers are rightwing. Not as overly reductive as it sounds (as the issue is more those subgenre labels themselves).

8. Harvard professor denied tenure for supporting victims of sexual assault. There are so many problems here, both with rape culture and the incredible broken tenure system.

9. You know that thing where you think you've cut and pasted one link, but the cut didn't take, so you paste the previous link you'd had? That appears to have gotten a law school professor suspended for sending anal-bead porn to her students. Ouch.

10. Report: Majority Of Earth’s Potable Water Trapped In Coca-Cola Products. Sometimes, The Onion is silly-funny. Other times, it can be brutally funny. This is the latter.