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This is great, except your generalized distrust of algorithms.

This is great, except your generalized distrust of algorithms. Machine learning means that algorithms can be trained to make precisely the same kind of judgments as any given set of humans. The problem...

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Objectivity is dead, and I’m okay with it

Credit: GDJ/Open Clipart/Creative CommonsLike a lot of people, I’ve been losing sleep over the news of the last week. As a working journalist, I’ve been deeply questioning not just what our role is in...

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How I Moved From Being A Pro-life Evangelical to Become a Pro-choice Feminist

Content Warning: Murder, rape, abortion, infanticide references.Photo by Tucker FitzGerald. Design by Jessica SabogalDisclaimer 1: I am aware than not all woman have a uterus. And I am mindful of the...

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Douchebag: The White Racial Slur We’ve All Been Waiting For

by Michael Mark Cohen“The white folks had sure brought their white to work with them that morning.” Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go.On Shouting White Racial Slurs in PublicI am a white, middle...

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On “On Bowie”

I read Rob Sheffield’s lovely meditation over a few evenings, going slowly because he kept making me want to listen to Bowie’s music. Written shortly after Bowie died, it’s a very personal book — even...

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Never have so many words been dedicated to nothing, literally.

Never have so many words been dedicated to nothing, literally. And I mean literally in the metaphorical/analogical sense (a space being the written form embodiment/empagiment? of nothingness), not the...

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Holy Crap.

Holy Crap. <space>Nail’in it! <space> I think your piece is great and resourced so well, however since the blab-o-blog-o-sphere is currently on a tear piling on the techno-panic bandwagon...

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THE GOODBYE HAT

The boy always kept the gift his Grandpa gave himContinue reading on Medium »

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In Defense of Dave Chappelle

Chappelle’s new special, Sticks and Stones, takes aim at the power of outrage mobsContinue reading on GEN »

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Dave Chappelle Punches Up

In his new special, the comedian speaks for un-woke America — and draws the ire of Woke Media, Inc.Continue reading on Arc Digital »

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The Tomato Invasion

So aliens look like tomatoes.Continue reading on Medium »

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Welcome to Naked and Exposed

Where your edgy and provocative stuff finds a home.Continue reading on Naked and Exposed »

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Why Women Are Obsessed With True Crime

For many female fans, true crime is exposure therapyContinue reading on Forge »

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Stop Gaslighting the Peloton Wife

Who are the real sexists, here?Continue reading on Arc Digital »

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The One Thing No Guy Will Admit to Women

From My Personal Experience to YouContinue reading on Moments of Passion »

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The Chronic Pain Women Don’t Talk About

The summer of 2000 was supposed to be my best yet. I had passed my oral comprehensive exams for my PhD and now only the dissertation stood…Continue reading on Fearless She Wrote »

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Why I Don’t Want to Talk to Your Kids

Childfree by choice and not looking to entertain your childrenContinue reading on Family Friendly »

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James P. Hogan on AI, The Singularity & The Scientific Establishment

Science started out being persecuted by the church, but it’s become an intolerant religion of its own, and questioning the model is heresy…Continue reading on The Startup »

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How to Stop Your Best Developers from Quitting.

Best developers need to be constantly engaged.Continue reading on The Startup »

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She Put Our Dogs Down When We Divorced

The dog food bag was too heavyContinue reading on The Narrative »

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