Stop talking about race and IQ. Take it from someone who did.

Stop talking about race and IQ. Take it from someone who did.: "I’m not asking anyone to deny science. What I’m asking for is clarity. The genetics of race and the genetics of intelligence are two different fields of research. In his piece in the Times, Reich wrote about prostate cancer risk, a context in which there’s clear evidence of a genetic pattern related to ancestry. (Black men with African ancestry in a specific DNA region have a higher prostate cancer risk than do black men with European ancestry in that region.) Reich steered around intelligence where, despite racial and ethnic gaps in test scores, no such pattern has been established.

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Frank Chimero · A Modest Guide to Productivity

Frank Chimero · A Modest Guide to Productivity: "In the morning (or the evening before), make a to-do list for each day by selecting items from your master list. Each day can only hold so much. You can probably do one task that’s level five difficulty, one level four, a couple three’s, and you’ll backfill the groggy afternoons with one’s and two’s. Flip this arrangement if you turn into a night owl. A massive block of four’s and five’s means you need to ask for help. (This is okay! Now you know where you need it, which is half of asking.)
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Reddit, what’s something that stuck with you that the person who said it probably never realized would have an impact? : AskReddit

Reddit, what’s something that stuck with you that the person who said it probably never realized would have an impact? : AskReddit: "never dance to impress, but to dance to express."



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DNA blunder creates phantom serial killer | The Independent

DNA blunder creates phantom serial killer | The Independent: "The only clues that "The Woman Without a Face" left behind at 40 different crime scenes were DNA traces. These were collected on cotton swabs, supplied to the police in a number of European countries. Now police investigators have established that in all probability the DNA had not been left by their quarry but by a woman working for the German medical company supplying the swabs, who had inadvertently contaminated them.

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'We're doomed': Mayer Hillman on the climate reality no one else will dare mention | Environment | The Guardian

'We're doomed': Mayer Hillman on the climate reality no one else will dare mention | Environment | The Guardian: "e’re doomed,” says Mayer Hillman with such a beaming smile that it takes a moment for the words to sink in. “The outcome is death, and it’s the end of most life on the planet because we’re so dependent on the burning of fossil fuels. There are no means of reversing the process which is melting the polar ice caps. And very few appear to be prepared to say so.”

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Bovey comments on Ajit Pai Is Intentionally Delaying His Net Neutrality Repeal and No One Knows Why

Bovey comments on Ajit Pai Is Intentionally Delaying His Net Neutrality Repeal and No One Knows Why:

They aren't going to implement any blocking or fast lanes ever.

What they are going to do is begin pushing plans with free access to services that pay for the privilege, such as Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, Google, etc.

See, you can keep your existing plan, but now we have this other plan for people who can't afford a real data plan.

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Bovey comments on Ajit Pai Is Intentionally Delaying His Net Neutrality Repeal and No One Knows Why

Bovey comments on Ajit Pai Is Intentionally Delaying His Net Neutrality Repeal and No One Knows Why:

They aren't going to implement any blocking or fast lanes ever.

What they are going to do is begin pushing plans with free access to services that pay for the privilege, such as Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, Google, etc.

See, you can keep your existing plan, but now we have this other plan for people who can't afford a real data plan.

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ElephantTeeth comments on Yesterday, in my city, a man rented a van and deliberately mowed down a number of pedestrians who were living their lives. It has now been confirmed he posted on Facebook about an "incel rebellion" just before doing so

ElephantTeeth comments on Yesterday, in my city, a man rented a van and deliberately mowed down a number of pedestrians who were living their lives. It has now been confirmed he posted on Facebook about an "incel rebellion" just before doing so: "North American (and to a certain degree European) self-radicalization all starts with a young man feeling isolated and antagonized, and when he seeks out a support community, he is found by a toxic group that seeks to indoctrinate this vulnerable young man to their agenda. They offer community, a shoulder to cry on, sympathy, understanding -- they use these emotional ties to alienate the target from their IRL peers and potential support systems.

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Penn State's 98-Year-Old Outing Club Is No Longer Allowed to Go Outside - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Penn State's 98-Year-Old Outing Club Is No Longer Allowed to Go Outside - Hit & Run : Reason.com: "A key issue for administrators was that the Outing Club frequently visit locations with poor cell phone coverage. This wasn't an issue during the Coolidge administration, but now that cell phones exist, students are apparently expected to remain glued to them at all times.

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‘My Dearest Fidel’: An ABC Journalist’s Secret Liaison With Fidel Castro - POLITICO Magazine

‘My Dearest Fidel’: An ABC Journalist’s Secret Liaison With Fidel Castro - POLITICO Magazine: "The untold story of how Lisa Howard’s intimate diplomacy with Cuba’s revolutionary leader changed the course of the Cold War.

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Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody on Being Madly in Love

Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody on Being Madly in Love: "MP: I never experienced unconditional love until I met her. [He tears up.]

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What Comes After The Social Media Empires

What Comes After The Social Media Empires:

It’s a truism in Washington that Congress typically gets around to solving a problem only after it’s too late. We were riveted by the Facebook hearings last week. But it is possible that scale and centralization are just yesterday’s and today’s problems in this landscape of media and politics. Tomorrow’s may involve the birth of a fragmented new ecosystem with no Silicon Valley headquarters and no executives to grill.



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Jaron Lanier Interview on What Went Wrong With the Internet

Jaron Lanier Interview on What Went Wrong With the Internet:

To me, one of the patterns we see that makes the world go wrong is when somebody acts as if they aren’t powerful when they actually are powerful. So if you’re still reacting against whatever you used to struggle for, but actually you’re in control, then you end up creating great damage in the world.



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Cause of Death - Reality vs. Google vs. Media - GIF on Imgur

Cause of Death - Reality vs. Google vs. Media - GIF on Imgur:

This animation shows the percentage share of top causes averaged from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (1999-2016), Google search trends (2004-2016), and headlines from the Guardian and New York Times (2004-2016). The data was collected by Hasan Al-Jamaly, Maximillian Siemers, Owen Shen, and Nicole Stone for their in-depth write up here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8cmvms/death_reality_vs_reported/. All credit for the data goes to them.

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Trial of American pastor highlights strained U.S.-Turkish alliance - The Washington Post

Trial of American pastor highlights strained U.S.-Turkish alliance - The Washington Post: " The pastor, Andrew Brunson, was detained in October 2016 during a large-scale wave of arrests by the authorities after a failed coup attempt in Turkey. A formal indictment — presented a year and a half after Brunson’s arrest — accused him of associating with the coup plotters and other offenses, based on evidence that his lawyer, his advocates and U.S. officials have dismissed as groundless.

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Jammersy comments on Have you guys heard of "stealthing"?

Jammersy comments on Have you guys heard of "stealthing"?:

First, "innocent until proven guilty" and "believe the victim" don't conflict, and I'll tell you why. They refer to different audiences and parts of the process.

In order for evidence to be collected and for victims to be treated appropriately for trauma, investigators, counselors, medical professionals, and the support network of the victim should behave as if the victim is telling the truth. Assuming otherwise leads to retrauma, which can undermine the victim's ability to be a competent witness for the prosecution, and can impair the collection of evidence. It's a perverse self-fulfilling cycle when disbelief prevents proper investigation and results in a failure to prosecute.

But in order to preserve the rights of the accused, the police, defense attorney, judge, and general public must treat the accused as innocent until proven otherwise.

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Opinion | What the Rich Won’t Tell You - The New York Times

Opinion | What the Rich Won’t Tell You - The New York Times: "Yet we believe that wealthy people seek visibility because those we see are, by definition, visible. In contrast, the people I spoke with expressed a deep ambivalence about identifying as affluent. Rather than brag about their money or show it off, they kept quiet about their advantages. They described themselves as “normal” people who worked hard and spent prudently, distancing themselves from common stereotypes of the wealthy as ostentatious, selfish, snobby and entitled. Ultimately, their accounts illuminate a moral stigma of privilege.

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Regarding the Freedom of Information “hack” |

Regarding the Freedom of Information “hack” |:

Remember what I said about the other installations being called “PublicPortal”? And how 6750 of the 7000 records were public anyways, and how this system is literally designed for facilitating “access to information?” Looking at it further, there are no authentication mechanisms, no password protection, no access restrictions. It’s very clear that the software is intended to serve as a public repository of documents.

It’s also very clear that there at least 250 documents improperly stored there by the province. Documents that the province had a responsibility to protect, and failed.

Mr. Big asked for a document, the server returned it, as it’s supposed to. Then asked for them all, and unluckily for him, 250 of the 7000 were “confidential.” He didn’t even try to hide, apparently having been traced by his IP address.

Was that access fraudulent? It’s for the courts to decide, but I would argue no.

Had this system been audited, or looked at by any reasonably competent security professional, this would have been fixed before it became national news and an embarrassment to the province.

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Léo Major - Wikipedia

Léo Major - Wikipedia:

Léo Major DCM & Bar (January 23, 1921 – October 12, 2008) was a French Canadian soldier in the Régiment de la Chaudière in World War II. He was the only Canadian and one of only three soldiers in the British Commonwealth to ever receive the Distinguished Conduct Medal twice in separate wars.^[1]

On the night of April 13, 1945, Major single-handedly liberated the city of Zwolle in the Netherlands from German army occupation

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Learning From My Black Family – The Thinkings of Things

Learning From My Black Family – The Thinkings of Things: "I was raised in a Christian context that, in the name of vigilance against the dangers of revisionist history, actively taught it. I grew up believing that the Puritans were the pinnacle of American Christian orthodoxy and that Martin Luther King Jr. was little more than an adulterous heretic. I was taught that majority black churches were corrupted by the prosperity gospel, irreverent worship, and too many women in leadership.
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marinesol comments on Russian military says that an alleged chemical attack in Syria was staged and directed by Britain.

marinesol comments on Russian military says that an alleged chemical attack in Syria was staged and directed by Britain.: "An epilogue. I don't know why a government would gas its own citizens, I also don't know why a country would murder a 1/4 of citizens, or why a government would continue a brutal war largely to avoid a humiliating defeat. What I know is that scientists with decades of experience in chemical weapons and who have previously called out Bullshit claims are pointing very clearly at Syria and are saying that what is happening there is not bullshit. They tell us how and who, but not why.

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Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis - The New York Times

Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis - The New York Times:

In 1850, when the death of a baby was simply a fact of life, and babies died so often that parents avoided naming their children before their first birthdays, the United States began keeping records of infant mortality by race. That year, the reported black infant-mortality rate was 340 per 1,000; the white rate was 217 per 1,000. This black-white divide in infant mortality has been a source of both concern and debate for over a century. [...]



From 1915 through the 1990s, amid vast improvements in hygiene, nutrition, living conditions and health care, the number of babies of all races who died in the first year of life dropped by over 90 percent — a decrease unparalleled by reductions in other causes of death. But that national decline in infant mortality has since slowed. In 1960, the United States was ranked 12th among developed countries in infant mortality. Since then, with its rate largely driven by the deaths of black babies, the United States has fallen behind and now ranks 32nd out of the 35 wealthiest nations.



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Remembering WWII’s Hardest-Fought Battle: 100k Dead at Hürtgen Forest | Observer

Remembering WWII’s Hardest-Fought Battle: 100k Dead at Hürtgen Forest | Observer: "Nowhere was this reality more painful than in the Hürtgen Forest, a dark and hilly patch of woods just inside the German border next to Belgium, a 50-square-mile piece of hell for the American soldiers fighting there. Despite being the longest and hardest-fought battle for the U.S. Army in the Second World War—G.I.s moved into the forest in mid-September 1944 and didn’t clear it of the enemy until early February 1945, nearly five months later—the fight for the Hürtgen Forest has been all but forgotten. While most Americans have heard of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge, historic victories, perhaps one citizen in a hundred would recognize the name of the battle that, according to the army’s official account, cost over 100,000 G.I.s dead, wounded, missing, and crippled by illness.

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What’s an interesting fact you know about WW2? : AskReddit

What’s an interesting fact you know about WW2? : AskReddit:

During the War, the Japanese were struggling, and failing, to produce enough of anything. But, they still felt they had a chance to win if they could just get a single large victory.

One commander (not sure on rank) remarked that he lost faith in this when he discovered that the US had 2 specially designed "Ice Cream Ships." These were boats that were formally designed to make concrete on the move and use that for building ports and air strips in the Pacific. We made too many however, so the US Brass decided to convert two of them to make ice cream to be served to US troops fighting in the pacific where they had few tastes of home. The Japanese naval officer was aghast that we had so much production that we could afford to waste money, fuel, food, and sailors on ships that had no purpose (or armaments) aside from giving our soldiers a luxury like ice cream. In the tropics. During a war that he, until then, thought his side was winning.

According to his recollections, his men were short of food, clothing, boots, ammunition, fuel, ships, guns, aircraft, training, and everything but the US had so much we could waste it on ice cream. And the fact that these ships were chosen because the giant concrete mixers came on each ship in sets of three allowing the GIs and sailors to choose between Vanilla, Chocolate, and whatever fruit was available (often frozen strawberries) was another nail in the coffin of his opinion.

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What is your go-to never-fail joke? : AskReddit

What is your go-to never-fail joke? : AskReddit:



"When does a joke become a dad joke?

When it becomes apparent."

How do you think the unthinkable? With an itheberg.

I stand corrected, said the man in the orthopaedic shoes

What's a pirate's favorite letter?

They inevitably answer "ARRRR"

Then you reply (in a piratey voice) "No, me first love be the C!"

Why did the half blind man fall into a well? He couldn’t see that well.

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The Best School District in Every State - 24/7 Wall St.

The Best School District in Every State - 24/7 Wall St.:

10. Georgia
> Best school district: Decatur City School District
> Location: DeKalb County
> Per student spending: $12,593 (total enrollment: 4,345)
> High school graduation rate: 85.5%
> Adults with a bachelor’s degree: 72.3%



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The Reinvention of 14th Street: A History

The Reinvention of 14th Street: A History:

Tony Gittens, who was features editor of the Howard University newspaper during the riots, says the memories of those days on 14th Street are still with him. Now director of Filmfest DC, he remembers the first time he saw a white woman jogging in the neighborhood after dark. It was 2007, and he was working for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in an office at 14th and Harvard.

“I’m saying, ‘What is she doing?’ And then I realized the whole riot thing was not part of her experience. It’s in my DNA. It’s not in theirs.”

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Life Inside China’s Social Credit Laboratory – Foreign Policy

Life Inside China’s Social Credit Laboratory – Foreign Policy: "The reason why Rongcheng has the most successful social credit system so far is that the community has embraced it, Zhang says. And that has happened because the scheme basically only deducts points for breaking the law. It is precise in its punishment and generous in its rewards.

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The New Digital Mandate: Cultivate Dissatisfaction

The New Digital Mandate: Cultivate Dissatisfaction:

The right kind of dissatisfaction is a mindset of constantly questioning the status quo and striving for more-than-incremental change. The wrong kind is constantly finding fault with the current situation, arguing that it is somebody else’s fault and assuming it’s somebody else’s responsibility to fix. Where the wrong kind of dissatisfaction (or the wrong kind of dissatisfied person) is demotivating, the right kind of dissatisfaction is highly inspiring. It’s also relatively rare, even among successful top executives.

However, dissatisfaction can be taught. Under the right conditions, it can be contagious.

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We’re confused. Can you show us what Coors Field looks like? – The Denver Post

We’re confused. Can you show us what Coors Field looks like? – The Denver Post:

So, we messed up.

You’ve probably seen it. We accidentally ran a photo of Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia instead of Coors Field on the cover of our Life & Culture section on Friday, April 6, 2018.

We deeply regret the mistake. But here’s where we make good on it, dear reader. Send us your best photo of Coors Field by noon on Saturday, April 7, 2018, and you can win two front-row Rockies tickets to Monday’s game against San Diego.

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Lecture 3 - How to Start a Startup

Lecture 3 - How to Start a Startup:

We saw this happen so often, people going through the motion of starting a startup, that we made up a name for it: "Playing House." Eventually I realized why it was happening, the reason young founders go though the motions of starting a startup is because that is what they have been trained to do, their whole life, up to this point. Think about what it takes to get into college: extracurricular activities? Check. Even in college classes most of the work you do is as artificial as running laps, and I'm not attacking the educational system for being this way, inevitably the work that you do to learn something is going to have some amount of fakeness to it. And if you measure people’s performance they will inevitably exploit the difference to the degree that what you’re measuring is largely an artifact of the fakeness.

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Stephon Clark Shooting: Cops More Aggressive Than Soldiers | National Review

Stephon Clark Shooting: Cops More Aggressive Than Soldiers | National Review:

I learned what it was like to see a car approaching and not know whether the occupant was a terrorist about to blow himself up or a civilian oblivious to the presence of American troops.



It was a tough deployment, one that ultimately earned my squadron the Valorous Unit Award. In the months we were in Diyala, our troopers faced constant attacks. IEDs claimed lives. Men died to ambushes. Indirect fire was a frequent threat to our combat outposts. Our troopers fought pitched battles in the streets, called in air strikes, fired thousands of artillery rounds, and killed, wounded, and captured dozens of terrorists. By the end of the deployment, they’d reclaimed thousands of square kilometers from al-Qaeda and left it a broken, spent force.



Do you know how many innocent civilians we killed in that entire deployment, which spanned hundreds of engagements with the enemy? Exactly two. One to small-arms fire and one to a wayward artillery shell.



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“The Clock Is Ticking”: Inside the Worst U.S. Maritime Disaster in Decades | Vanity Fair

“The Clock Is Ticking”: Inside the Worst U.S. Maritime Disaster in Decades | Vanity Fair: "A recording salvaged from three miles deep tells the story of the doomed “El Faro,” a cargo ship engulfed by a hurricane.
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(13) ERLC - Matt Chandler kicks off day two of the #MLK50Conference...

(13) ERLC - Matt Chandler kicks off day two of the #MLK50Conference...: "Matt Chandler kicks off day two of the #MLK50Conference with his keynote, Understanding and Overcoming the Inconsistencies in White Evangelicals on Racial Issues."



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Always keep the cup in sight. : gifs

Always keep the cup in sight. : gifs:

I was a community assistant at my university. One of our responsibilities is to throw programs, which are basically like events, for the freshman residents.

We organized one one about safe and responsible drinking. We thought it'd be clever to hand out drinks and to have someone randomly "roofie" residents by sneaking a Skittles into their drink.

We did it to about 40 students. Not one of them noticed till they got to the bottom of their drinks.

Stay safe people.

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Free_For__Me comments on If our schools were better funded would student performance improve?

Free_For__Me comments on If our schools were better funded would student performance improve?:

As a former teacher, I would posit that "improvement" should be measured in social measurements, not academic ones. It's infinitely difficult to pin down a standard that measures academic progress for a broad range of socioeconomic groups, as well as a broad range of natural aptitude.

Instead, I find that when schools are "doing better", there are commonalities like lower absence rates, lower suspensions and expulsions, lower rates of violence and legal problems outside of school, and higher score on polls targeted at measuring morale of both students as well as staff.

Students and teachers who are happy and less stressed will learn better, whatever that means for them. Whether that's achieving high marks on tests and report cards to move on to Harvard, or understanding better ways to grow potatoes and become a great farmer.

In line with this, I'd say that both better funding as well as proper allocation of that funding is badly needed in most school systems.

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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #71: The Ghost Ship That Didn’t Carry Us - The Rumpus.net

DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #71: The Ghost Ship That Didn’t Carry Us - The Rumpus.net: "I’ll never know and neither will you of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

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What common product has a feature you’re not sure everyone is aware of? : AskReddit

What common product has a feature you’re not sure everyone is aware of? : AskReddit:

Measuring tapes have a few features that a lot of people don't seem to know about.

The notch in the metal clip is so you can pop a nail into something and hook the tape onto the nail to measure on your own.

You can also hook it onto a nail, hold a pencil at a measurement you want, and use it to draw a circle.

That metal clip is also serrated so that you can use it to scrape a mark in something like wood when you don't have a pencil handy.

Also, in relation to the metal clip, you may notice it's loose. It's loose by exactly the thickness of the clip so that you get a correct measurement whether you're measuring from inside or outside.

Finally, if you look at the side of the tape, you'll notice a measurement is written there, like 70mm.

This is the length of the measuring tape housing itself.

The reason for this is so that you can sit the tape against a window frame, for instance, and measure to the other end.

Now just take the measurement and add the measurement on the housing.

Most people seem to just bend the tape into the corner, but that's just cumbersome and likely inaccurate.

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Being a Multiplier: Why Government Innovators Need to Do Less and Lead More

Being a Multiplier: Why Government Innovators Need to Do Less and Lead More: "A multiplier is someone who looks beyond her own genius and focuses her energy on extracting and extending the genius of others. The opposite of a multiplier, is a diminisher — someone who is so focused on being clever that she sucks up all the air in the room.

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The Moment « Jacob Kaplan-Moss

The Moment « Jacob Kaplan-Moss: "Then there was a moment. A short one. Social media was perfect. The bubble popped, and suddenly there were voices from outside the bubble. But it was still small, still manageable, not yet the all-consuming force it is today. I felt comfortable sharing all sorts of things. Poorly-thought-through arguments that might be wrong. Positions that didn’t track popular consensus. Politics that didn’t neatly map to left or right. Questions I could barely understand well enough to ask. The network was big enough that I’d get great feedback! If I was wrong, I’d hear about it (gently). I’d hear that my contrary view wasn’t entirely abnormal (or, that it was). Friends would engage even when my questions sucked or made stupid assumptions. I learned so, so much in this moment.

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Jimmy Carter: 'We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war' | US news | The Guardian

Jimmy Carter: 'We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war' | US news | The Guardian: "Rosalynn has been quoted as saying that, had her husband bombed Tehran, he would have been re-elected. I put this to Carter. "That's probably true. A lot of people thought that. But it would probably have resulted in the death of maybe tens of thousands of Iranians who were innocent, and in the deaths of the hostages as well. In retrospect I don't have any doubt that I did the right thing. But it was not a popular thing among the public, and it was not even popular among my own advisers inside the White House. Including my wife."

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On Smarm

On Smarm: "Over time, it has become clear that anti-negativity is a worldview of its own, a particular mode of thinking and argument, no matter how evasively or vapidly it chooses to express itself. For a guiding principle of 21st century literary criticism, BuzzFeed's Fitzgerald turned to the moral and intellectual teachings of Walt Disney, in the movie Bambi: "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all."

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Sinclair employees say their contracts make it too expensive to quit. : television

Sinclair employees say their contracts make it too expensive to quit. : television:

We sell dog food/treats/supplements and they wanted to take one of our products (salmon oil) and put it on their morning segment on their "Good Morning Fox" where The Village Vet would answer peoples questions and have little "info-tainment" segments about dogs and cats.

For a fee, they were willing to take our products and forcibly insert them as if they were news, where they would talk about and promote the products while pretending it wasn't a commercial we were paying for.

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Decatur one of 20 finalists for All-America City Award | Decaturish - Locally sourced news

Decatur one of 20 finalists for All-America City Award | Decaturish - Locally sourced news: "The City of Decatur is one of 20 Finalists selected by the National Civic League (NCL) for the 2018 All-America City Award (AAC). The award, given to 10 communities each year, celebrates and recognizes communities that engage residents in innovative, inclusive and effective efforts to tackle critical challenges. AAC Award recipients serve as models in practicing inclusive civic engagement and creating community connections.

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I’m a female chef. Here’s how my restaurant dealt with harassment from customers. - The Washington Post

I’m a female chef. Here’s how my restaurant dealt with harassment from customers. - The Washington Post: "In the years since implementation, customer harassment has ceased to be a problem. Reds are nearly nonexistent, as most sketchy customers seem to be derailed at yellow or orange. We found that most customers test the waters before escalating and that women have a canny sixth sense for unwanted attention. When reds do occur, our employees are empowered to act decisively.

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Lifetime ban from Empress for pepperoni seagull fiasco has been lifted

Lifetime ban from Empress for pepperoni seagull fiasco has been lifted: "A Nova Scotia man has  received a "pardon" from the Fairmont Empress for his lifetime ban from the iconic Victoria hotel after he inadvertently trashed one of their rooms with a pack of pepperoni and a flock of seagulls.

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Building team culture – Nikki Lee – Medium

Building team culture – Nikki Lee – Medium: "There are three major themes to my approach. First, understand the vision. You can’t inspire and organize effectively without it. Second, invest in relationships. Teams are made of people, not machines, and trust is key. Finally, empower individuals. If you set yourself up to micromanage your team, you’re losing the benefit of having other people involved. Fortunately, this is pretty easy to do if your teammates have a clear picture of the vision and strong relationships with one another (and you).

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Police: Nashville pastor molested 8 children during 20 years in church

Police: Nashville pastor molested 8 children during 20 years in church:

Then on Sept. 26, church leaders met with an attorney who advised them to go to the police. Church leaders filed a report on Sept. 27. They turned over Patterson's phone and computer and gave police access to the church property.

"We here at Nolensville Road Baptist Church want to let our community know that the sinful actions of one man does not reflect upon the church as a whole," a prepared statement provided by James Thomas said. "We remain committed to truth, transparency in all our operations, and for the care and support for the victims and family who have been victimized by the alleged perpetrator.

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Sacramento Police Shooting of Stephon Clark Deeply Problematic | National Review

Sacramento Police Shooting of Stephon Clark Deeply Problematic | National Review: "It’s often said that cops have mere seconds to make life-and-death decisions, and that’s exactly right. But do you know who else has mere seconds? The suspect. A suspect who is far more likely to be frightened, confused, disturbed, or drunk than he is to be committed to killing cops.



 When we speak about police shootings, we often focus too much on the most basic question — was the shooting lawful — rather than the far more complex and ultimately more consequential question. Was the shooting proper? Is this how we want to train police to respond? Is this how we should conduct escalation of force in an American neighborhood?"



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