Weekend link dump for January 27

“One month after controversial adult-content purge, far-right pages are thriving on Tumblr”.

Now that’s what I call a great white shark.

A brief but informative lesson on modern baseball economics.

“It’s crucial to remember that vaccine hesitancy is a complex, multi-tiered issue affecting the entire planet, and it shouldn’t be defined solely by the well-known maniacs of the anti-vax movement that provide so much fodder for disdain and dismissal.”

“Why do people on TV use blatantly fictitious and janky-looking search engines when Google exists?”

“For each 10 percentage-point increase in household gun ownership, the youth suicide rate increased by 26.9 percent”.

Rudy Giuliani, explained. The scary thing is, that makes sense.

“Here’s what to expect in cybersecurity in 2019″.

AeroMexico knows how to troll.

“To be completely transparent, my opinion is that what happened on the National Mall this weekend, under Abraham Lincoln’s granite stare-down, would never have happened if those privileged, MAGA-hat-wearing white dudes had been properly raised by the responsible adults in their lives. If they had parents, teachers, or community leaders capable of imparting both the necessity and the wisdom of respecting people who hold differing opinions from their own, this all could have been avoided. Clearly, that was the original failure.”

Birtherism never dies, it just changes targets.

“Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg will have a cameo role in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, and Her Honor will get her very own Lego figure to boot.”

“The ongoing partial U.S. federal government shutdown is having a tangible, negative impact on cybercrime investigations, according to interviews with federal law enforcement investigators and a report issued this week by a group representing the interests of FBI agents.”

“From the NFL to rec leagues, football is facing a stark, new threat: an evaporating insurance market that is fundamentally altering the economics of the sport, squeezing and even killing off programs faced with higher costs and a scarcity of available coverage”.

Nothing has made me identify more strong strongly with Generation X than this.

Let me call you Sweetheart, but not till next year.

RIP, Russell Baker, Pulitzer-winning humor columnist for the NYT.

It’s about time someone was unanimously elected to the Hall of Fame.

“The Trump campaign conspired, colluded, and coordinated with WikiLeaks to disseminate stolen, private communications of U.S. citizens and the Democratic Party in order to seek an advantage in a political campaign. We no longer need to have any debate about that question.”

Patton Oswalt is a mensch.

RIP, James Frawley, Emmy-winning director of The Monkees TV show and the original The Muppet Movie.

“Nothing is going to happen. This is surrender. I don’t see how it becomes anything. It’s just complete, total surrender.”

The president delivered nothing for his base and created financial instability for millions of others, uniting Democrats around House Speaker Pelosi, who emerged as his foil during the stretch.”

“The identity of whoever was allegedly directing Bannon and Stone to seek other damaging information about Clinton isn’t disclosed in the indictment. It was likely someone in the very upper reaches of the campaign – possibly a member of the Trump family or Trump himself. Regardless, the indictment’s 24 pages offer one of law enforcement’s most thorough descriptions to date of how intimately Trump’s closest advisors worked with WikiLeaks and Russian-sponsored hackers during the 2016 campaign. The indictment also draws a very full portrait – via testimony, public statements, email and other evidence – of just how readily and actively the Trump campaign colluded with foreign interests in its bid for the presidency.”

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