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Facebook really needs a ¯_(ツ)_/¯ reaction button.

In the meantime:

The Best Way to Type ¯_(ツ)_/¯ • 2014 May 21 • Robinson Meyer • The Atlantic

While there are splinter factions that sincerely advocate a return to authoritarian and feudalistic politico-economic models, most influential people in the West advocate neoliberalism, which most Westerners don’t recognize as an ideology and just accept as fact.

For the longest time, I’d really only hear Neomarxists use the term, but, especially in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis and the Great Recession, I’m kind of wondering if the term has become more mainstream.

Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems • 2016 Apr 15 • George Monbiot • Guardian

Neoliberalism vs. New Deal: Bernie, Hillary and what’s really at stake in this primary • 2016 Apr 10 • Thomas L. Palley • Salon

The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans • 2016 May • Neal Gabler • The Atlantic

My gut instinct is that vaping is safer than smoking cigarettes and might actually be on par with inhaling polluted air, but it also seems obvious that it might have side effects.

Chemical evaluation of electronic cigarettes • 2014 Feb 28 • Tianrong Cheng • Tobacco Control

An example of the fact that exponential growth cannot continue forever simply because of the laws of thermodynamics.

We are already starting to feel the effects of the end of Moore’s Law at the level of supercomputers and servers, but it will probably be a while until mobile devices will start to notice the slowdown since ARM hasn’t really been optimizing for performance given that battery life is a more important issue at that level.

Moore’s Law Is Dead. Now What? • 2016 May 13 • Tom Simonite • MIT Technology Review

This article discusses Dmitri Belyaev’s experiments with silver foxes and domestication (and discusses the major differences between domestication and taming.)

Can I Have a Pet Fox? • 2013 Jan 23 • Dan Nosowitz • Popular Science