I share a lot of links on Twitter and Facebook that I don’t blog about because I don’t have much to add. The reading list is a periodic feature where I share those links with my blog audience too. Of course, you’re still welcome to follow me on Twitter.
Around FtB
- Ontario public health policy under review, religious exception for doctors debated–“The issue is reportedly largely being ignored in Ontario; the religiously-motivated anti-abortionists are spreading disinformation and getting a disproportionately loud voice on what channels do exist, likely owing to the word being spread through anti-abortion camps.”
- Your “Jokes” About Sexist Harassment–“If you want me to keep writing, STOP doing this weird half-gloating half-bemoaning thing about how I’m going to get soooooo much harassment for what I just wrote, fuck those sexist assholes, amirite?”
- Guess who got posted about on ChimpOut again?–“I don’t know what an Obama phone is, but if these guys hate it, I want one.”
- Why Tech Companies Don’t Understand Online Abuse–“I understand why these tech dudes don’t get it, since they’ve probably never had to wonder, “How do I warn my friends and followers about this abusive person while minimizing the risk of said person turning on me and threatening me with rape and death?'”
The Wider Web
- How Restaurant Pros Are Handling the Surge of Food Allergies–“James keeps an EpiPen in the six-month-old restaurant, but he didn’t want to have to use it that night.”
- Is Fat Our Friend?–“They intended to encourage U.S. residents to eat more fruits and vegetables. What they accomplished, instead, was a vast expansion of the market for simple starch-based carbs, and for starch-based sweeteners that took the place of fat in industrial food production.”
- 9 Facts That Challenge the Way We Talk About Fat People–“Widespread anti-fat prejudice typically stems from misconceptions about health, weight and body positivity, and negatively affects millions of people every day.”
- Choosing Our Targets for #TwitterTheocracy–“We’re glad that Twitter has changed its mind on these individual accounts and tweets, but the repressive source of that censorship still very much exists, and that’s where we’re putting our focus.”
- Stephanie Kwolek, Chemist Who Created Kevlar, Dies At 90–“‘She found an opportunity at DuPont because many men were in the military at the time,’ reports the Wilmington News Journal. Kwolek continued to flourish there long after World War II ended, doing extensive work on polymers.”
- “Fashionable bigotry” creeps into Twin Cities theatre scene–“To their own individual extents, they’re still just next-gen knock-offs of the one that actually mattered. They are to Archie Bunker as the Squier Bullet is to a Fender Strat.”
- Tech nonprofit resources–“Free or discounted stuff that your tech-related (or non-tech!) nonprofit.”
- First Image Of The New Danger Mouse And Penfold
- The term “#obesity,” like “cancer,” may comprise several different conditions requiring an array of therapies–“Every time patients lost weight, I questioned them closely, hoping to uncover a solution I could pass on to others.”
- Two-Parent Households Can Be Lethal–“Mental health professionals, law enforcement officials, judges and members of the clergy often showed greater concern for the maintenance of a two-parent family than for the safety of the mother and her children.”
- Will There Be a Shi’a-Sunni War in the Middle East? Not Likely–“The success of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS–Also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL) in capturing large territories in Syria and Northern Iraq, and now threatening Baghdad, has raised once again the specter of a Sunni-Shi’a war in the Middle East. Such a scenario is possible, but unlikely.
- The lack of playable women in Assassin’s Creed Unity is more than just “unfortunate”–“The miserable sense here is of femininity as an optional extra. Something on a long list of features that might be nice to have, but that like a set of side missions can be cut if they prove a pain to implement.”
- The walls erected by traditional media–“Is it really the case that even with clear editorial policies in place a school superintendent cannot engage in journalism about education; that a physicist cannot run a recognize publication about physics; and that a blog run by a practicing physician is inherently not ‘editorially independent’?”
- “Half-Sick of Shadows”: WisCon–“There is absolutely no excuse for this level of organizational failure. None.”