How Iain M. Banks gave me hope
Highly regarded Scottish author Iain Banks announced today that he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. It's a very sad day for those of us who love his work.Banks writes science fiction under the...
View ArticleBoy of Steel
Cross-posted fromSweatpants and CoffeePowerlessI cried my way through most of the last Superman movie, Man of Steel. I couldn’t help it. So much of what I saw reminded me of my younger son.Of course,...
View ArticlePolice no longer help?
I just read a news story of an Italian marathon runner who was lost in NYC for 2 days. Turns out he doesn't speak English and list his map and hotel key card during the marathon so he stayed in the...
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View ArticleTech Conference Invites White Supremacist to Speak, Regrets its Decision
LambdaConf, a computer programming conference to be held this May in Colorado, is reeling from the announcement that an outspoken racist and white supremacist has been invited to speak there.The...
View ArticleDaily Kos Changelog, June 3rd, 2016
Every two weeks, the Daily Kos tech team has a retrospective meeting in which we look back at our work together so that we can talk about what could have gone better and what we did well. One thing I...
View ArticleDaily Kos Changelog, June 17th, 2016
Some days, everything seems to go my way. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, but that stuff doesn’t even bother me. I’m comfortably hiding from all of that glare in my cool and dark house with...
View ArticleBeyond Disqualifying
I gasped when Donald Trump said he would not necessarily accept the results of the election. I really did not think, even after he had talked about “rigged” elections for some time now, even after all...
View ArticleJohn Scalzi: Dystopias Are Not Actually Fun
At the LA Times, science fiction author John Scalzi makes an interesting case against voting for Trump: you don’t really want to live in a dystopia, do you?Dystopias are fun to read about but believing...
View ArticleIn Our Grief, We Can Still Be Stronger Together
Many people are still processing what we lived through last night. The feelings are difficult, to say the least.I said to a coworker today that this is something like 9/11 and something like my...
View ArticleNew contact forms are live!
Our old contact form was difficult to keep updated with the emails of different folks on staff, so I give you our new and redesigned contact forms! I’m a little bitter that there’s still no way to...
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