The Intercept
Why I Decided Not To Delete My Old Internet Posts
12+ min · · In this excerpt from his memoir, the NSA whistleblower describes his realization that no one should have to "pretend to be perfect." · Shared by 12, including Rick Powell
3quarksdaily.com
The fallibility of feelings
4 min · · Kirsten Gillibrand said that if a woman feels she has been sexualy harassed, then she has been. This wya of thinking, which treats certain feelings or belifs as infallible, is misguided and dangerous. · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
Chicago Tribune
Mollie Tibbetts' mother opens home to child of immigrants who worked on farm with suspect in her killing
· The mom of Mollie Tibbetts has taken in the son of immigrant farmworkers who worked with and knew the man who is alleged to have killed her daughter. · Shared by 6, including Rick Powell
The Atlantic
Meritocracy’s Miserable Winners
10 min · · The system that’s widened the gap between the rich and everyone else has also turned elite life into an endless, terrible competition. Maybe there’s a way out. · Shared by 216, including Dave Nussbaum, David Nagel, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Antonio Vieira Santos, Christina Hoff Sommers, Matthias Lampe, Bradley Metrock, Dr Jordan B Peterson, Tim Müller, Gregory B. Sadler 🦉 (no blue check, just owl), Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, John Tasioulas, Charles Baldwin, Scott Galloway, Stowe Boyd, Rick Powell, Tara Imani, AIA, ...und meine Frau ist auch Elon Musk!, Anita Leirfall, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️
The New York Times
I’m a Black Feminist. I Think Call-Out Culture Is Toxic.
6 min · · There are better ways of doing social justice work. · Shared by 44, including Rick Powell, danah boyd, Tiffany Shlain, M.J. Crockett, Scott Galloway, zeldman
The Atlantic
Trump’s El Paso Photo Is Obscene
2 min · · The president’s callousness has reached a new low: smiling, flashing a thumbs-up next to an orphaned infant. · Shared by 64, including Charles Baldwin, Rick Powell, Luisa Weiss, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Clemens M. Schuster, Jane, Scott McLeod, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor
Timothy McSweeney
Why I’m Inoculating My Kids Against the Dangers of Scientific Evidence
2 min · · Hi, I’m Nancy, mother of five beautiful children, none of whom have stepped foot in a science classroom or seen a Bunsen burner in three years. I w... · Shared by 14, including Rick Powell, keithwilson@fediphilosophy.org on Mastodon 🦣, Charles Baldwin
Aeon+Psyche
Why Epicurean ideas suit the challenges of modern secular life
4 min · · Of all the ancient philosophers, it is Epicurus, not the Stoics, who helps us with the challenges of modern secular life · Shared by 18, including Rick Powell
GEN
If You’re Angry, You’re Part of the Problem, Not the Solution
11+ min · · What we need is restraint — not rage · Shared by 33, including Ryan Holiday, 瑞拿頭, Rick Powell, Eric L. Barnes 🏝️, Justin Jackson
The Intercept
How U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State
7 min · · A nonprofit led by Google and IBM executives is working with Semptian, whose technology is monitoring the internet activity of 200 million people in China. · Shared by 47, including Rick Powell, Mark Kaigwa, Claudia Sommer, Luca Like, Charles Baldwin
HuffPost
Progressive Boomers Are Making It Impossible For Cities To Fix The Housing Crisis
10 min · · Residents of wealthy neighborhoods are taking extreme measures to block much-needed housing and transportation projects. · Shared by 89, including Rick Powell, Greater Greater Washington
Slate
The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven Changed Christian Publishing Forever. It Also Tore a Family Apart.
20+ min · · The cover calls the book “a true story.” But the boy himself now says it was not true at all. · Shared by 122, including Rick Powell, Richard Dawkins
medium.com
What Ego Edges Out…
7 min · · Exciting news, my book Ego is the Enemy is just $.99 as an ebook for a very limited time. Check it out! Also check out our Ego is the… · Shared by 18, including Rick Powell, Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday
Why Ego is The Greatest Opponent to Your Creativity and Success (And How to Fight Back)
18+ min · · We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments.… · Shared by 15, including Rick Powell
trudy
David Brooks and the five lies culture tells us
7 min · · Official Post from Figs in Winter: Readers who have followed several incarnations of my blogs (like this one, and this one, and this one) will have easily figured out that, politically speaking, I… · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
Aeon+Psyche
When Chomsky met Foucault: how the thinkers debated the ‘ideal society’
2 min · · In 1971, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault met at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands for their first and only debate. Produced by the Dutch Broadcasting Foundation as a part of… · Shared by 35, including Rick Powell, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Yvette Dubel