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 My Anxiety Is Forever And That’s Fine

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 Rob Ford under 24-hour medical supervision after chemo fails | CP24.com

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 It's Over Gandalf. We Need to Unite Behind Saruman to Save Middle Earth from Sauron!

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 Maybe Putin’s Telling the Truth About Winning Syria

The war in Syria is so depressing.

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 PlayStation VR hands-on: the $399 headset is comfortable, sturdy, and holds its own

Coming in October. Sounds not as good as the Oculus or the Vive but considering it works with a $400 PS4 rather than a high-end gaming PC, it’s considerably cheaper.

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 Someone Will Die

Re: Trump’s incitements to violence at his rallies. It’s getting harder and harder to laugh at Trump.

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 A King in His Castle: How Donald Trump Lives, From His Longtime Butler

Sounds like Tony is finally going to retire.

Predictive Text Laffs

Not sure why, but there is a certain kind of comedy that always cracks me up: broken telephone, mistranslation, poor imitation. And also Markov chain stuff, like where an algorithm tries to guess the next word based on its analysis of previous words. It feels like a computer trying to bullshit you and failing. Here’s what I’m talkin aboot:

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 Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again?

This is indeed a very well explained take on the Apple vs FBI affair. (via)

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 Comedian John Mulaney Jokes About How Donald Trump is Like Every Hobo’s Dream

Love this analogy:

Donald Trump is not a rich man. Donald Trump is like what a hobo imagines a rich man to be. Like Trump was walking around under an underpass, and he heard some guy like ‘Ohh, as soon as my number comes in, I’m gonna put up tall buildings with my name on ’em! I’ll have fine golden hair, and a tv show where I fire Gene Simmons with my children.’ And Trump was like ‘That is how I will live my life.’ … When he makes a decision, he must think to himself: ‘What would a cartoon rich person do?’ Run for president.”

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 Toronto’s grand transit plan (maybe, hopefully)

So I didn’t link to this yet? WTF? Also check out the Alt Shift X trailer breakdown.

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 The Bike Wars Are Over, and the Bikes Won

Janette Sadik-Khan on her time as NYC’s transportation commissioner

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 Revealed: the 30-year economic betrayal dragging down Generation Y’s income

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 27 Ways To Celebrate International Men's Day

I think I linked to this when it was first published? Nevertheless it’s worth a refresher course.

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 Seeing Trump as vulnerable, GOP elites now eye a contested convention

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 The Trouble with Transporters — CGP Grey

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 More Latinos Seek Citizenship to Vote Against Trump

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 Brazil’s breakdown: ‘A political and ethical crisis without precedent’

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 Donald Trump Needs 7 of 10 White Guys

Come back to your senses, white guys.

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 McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I Falsified the Data in My Bestselling Book Everyone Poops

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 Why cars and cities are a bad match

Succinct making of the case for public transit

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 The rise of American authoritarianism

Interesting, although there’s something circular in its reasoning. Also, how will it apply in the general election? 44% of Americans are authoritarians, but if 55% of republicans are authoritarians will the other 45% non-authoritarian republicans vote Trump? Will the 30% or whatever of Democrat authoritarians vote against their party? Will that be outweighed by non-white authoritarians who probably won’t vote Trump no matter what?

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 The growing risk of civil war in Turkey

Made me think – how will the series of wars emanating out of the Middle East starting in 2002 be remembered? As a bunch of separate conflicts or one big one? At this point it has touched Africa and more and more it is touching Europe.