Take a look, it's in a linkdump!

[yendi]

General reminder: Most of my pop culture/political links these days are over at my @Tsalmoth twitter account (which also contains a decent amount of puns, assuming you think any amount of puns greater than zero can be decent), while my tech/education/accessibility ones are at my @yendi account. Both (along with Facebook wall links) are aggregated into my Pinboard account. But sometimes I like to write a little more about the links.

1. Uber uses dirty tricks to cost Lyft (and Lyft drivers) money. Just some nasty tactics, especially for a company that's billing itself as a bullied underdog. Probably a good reminder that few companies are anything but, well, companies. They'll play the underdog card when they're fighting someone bigger, but are happy to use the same tactics themselves.

2. In defense of black rage. I haven't blogged about Ferguson (because I haven't blogged about anything in weeks), but I've watched the anger on Twitter, and it's palpable and justifiable in light of the police actions there. As a white person, I know that the police have no interest in harassing me because of my race, and I have no chance of being detained, arrested, or killed for walking while being black. I'd sure love to see some of the folks who generally distrust the government and the police on principal actually get half as upset about real police actions like this. Related: America is Not For Black People.

3. The Whole "Veronica Mars" Gang Is Coming Back For A New Web Series. I question their use of "fan favorite" in reference to Dick Casablancas; I think Ryan Hansen is legitimately a fan favorite (and his work on the criminally underrated and dumped Bad Teacher did nothing to disprove this), but Dick is, well, a dick. And, well, someone who egged on and effectively aided and abetted a rapist. But I'm happy to watch Hansen and the rest of the cast (although also a little creeped out by the choice of Ryan Devlin to replace Teddy Dunn.

4. The history of pro wrestling as it relates to capitalism in the 20th century. Great piece, written with a thorough knowledge of the industry.

5. Alyssa Rosenberg writes on how to not talk about the politics of culture. Rosenberg is one of my favorite pop culture writers, and her new home at the Washington Post is well worth visiting.

Comments

[sparkfrost.livejournal.com]

I was SUPER creeped out to see Ryan Devlin cast as Duncan. He may be a good person, but all I'm going to see is Mercer.

[yendi]

*nod* And frankly, Thomas is sometimes more than a little tone-deaf when it comes to handling sexual assault plotlines (just the fact that he thought it was cute to name an episode "The Rapes of Graff" is a whole ball of problematic wax in and of itself).

[sparkfrost.livejournal.com]

I'm excited for the series, but Devlin's casting really does weird me out. We'll have to see how they address it.