- Thinking like a government: Desperate Yahoo tries to make it difficult for its fed-up customers to leave. (H/T ML)
- There’s a new Wikipedia in town. It’s called InfoGalactic: The Planetary Knowledge Core. It’s a fork from Wikipedia that claims not to try to define reality for the user. I’m not exactly sure what that means, but it’s clearly intended as another anti-secret-censorship move.
- I am not prone to nostalgia. But there was a time, not long ago, when nation-states were actively discussing getting rid of passports and restoring free travel.
- Millennial women expect better than Clinton.
- Violent J of the Insane Clown Posse speaks out about who the real creepy clowns are.
- Michelle Malkin’s family loses its third health insurance policy to ObamaCare. (But you can keep your policy! You can keep your doctor! Obama said so.)
- The FBI is (no surprise) still trying to get away with privacy murder. The NSA, too. (The latter article is way techie, so beware.)
- Here. Have a cute kitten to take your mind of the pitiful state of governmental reality.
- And remember: some things don’t fall as easily as we imagine.
Tomorrow’s news today: Yahoo has changed its terms of service to reflect its new policy of prohibiting users from leaving Yahoo Mail without prior permission from Yahoo’s head offices. Contract talks are under way with the mercenary firm Tidewater Global Services to enable the enforcement clauses of the new service terms…News on casualty rates at 11…
This isn’t a propos of any of today’s links, but I thought you’d enjoy it.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/professors-receive-packets-of-poop?utm_term=.copOonL7q#.kgV1arRLJ
Who knew that philosophers could be so juvenile? And the comments of the SAs* who view this as actually threatening, and not merely offensive and sophomoric, is as amusing as it is telling. Whining babies, the lot of them!
* Sanctimonious Assholes. That’s an acronym I plan to put to frequent use.
I was so rooting for the bridge to stay up that I couldn’t watch the 2nd video wherein it was torn down.
Laird – Maybe the world would have paid more attention to Aristotle and Plato if they had had such an important argument. 🙂
Massive storm heading for the PNW (bad tomorrow, worse on Saturday): http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2016/10/warming-major-storms-threaten-pacific.html
Police arrest more people for marijuana use than for all violent crimes combined: http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/10/police_arrest_more_people_for.html
DEA buckles (for now) in the face of outrage: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/10/dea-reverses-decision-on-kratom-drug-stays-legal-for-now/