https://www.thestranger.com/music/2017/11/30/25598183/the-calculated-chaos-of-laurel-halo

experimental electronic producer Laurel Halo (born Ina Cube)

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2017/11/long-zed-new-guidelines-say-last-letter-alphabet-pronounced-zouble/

http://www.blogto.com/city/2017/11/someone-fixed-dangerous-toronto-intersection-leaves/

https://catapult.co/stories/why-you-left-social-media-a-guesswork

Social media hold out the promise of authenticity, but never fulfill it. In this way, they reproduce the craving for authenticity. 

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/11/a-public-option-for-food

https://www.wired.com/story/net-neutrality-fiber-optic-internet/

On universal, low cost access.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/drms-dead-canary-how-we-just-lost-web-what-we-learned-it-and-what-we-need-do-next

http://www.governing.com/commentary/col-entrepreneurs-startups-debt-public-sector.html

https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/a37m4g/the-motherboard-guide-to-avoiding-state-surveillance-privacy-guide

https://cs007.blog/

https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/nov/25/lentil-recipes-curried-coconut-soup-aubergine-stew-sweet-potato-croquettes-fritters-yotam-ottolenghi

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/12/07/big-money-rules/

https://thewalrus.ca/how-one-translator-brought-quebecs-greatest-authors-to-english-canada/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/jean-rouchs-inspiring-metafictions

https://www.wired.com/story/jaron-lanier-vr-interview/

https://bostonreview.net/literature-culture/daniel-penny-instagrammable-charm-bourgeoisie

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-new-folk-horror-recent-work-by-sarah-hall-conor-ocallaghan-and-malcolm-devlin/

 Of all the speculative genres, horror is particularly obsessed with place. Those who argue for science fiction as the most overtly political form of the fantastic often point to horror’s putative conservatism, its preference for isolated settings — old houses, bleak moorland, remote villages, that dodgy patch of wasteland on the edge of town — and its seeming indifference to the wider world. Yet one can also see horror’s obsession with place as, by extension, an obsession with history, with the past as it meets the present and offers warnings about the future. In this regard, horror is the most subversively political of literatures, mired in causality up to its armpits.

https://splinternews.com/ban-marriage-1820022167

Yup 🙂

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/11/motherboard_dig.html

https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/8x53xb/meet-the-spreadsheet-that-can-solve-nyc-transit-and-the-man-who-made-it

http://lithub.com/how-a-german-writer-made-peace-with-the-imprecision-of-english/

This means that Germans read and speak differently; we scan to the end of the sentence, then we go back and parse it. Understanding this, in my view, is crucial to understanding how English speakers and German speakers think differently. English speakers make it up as they go along; German speakers have to know where they’re going.

http://www.qwearfashion.com/home/2017/6/10/femme-leaning-queer-owned-fashion-brands

http://www.sfintranslation.com/?p=3027

https://www.quantamagazine.org/choosy-eggs-may-pick-sperm-for-their-genes-defying-mendels-law-20171115/

His hypothesis – that the egg could woo sperm with specific genes and vice versa – is part of a growing realization in biology that the egg is not the submissive, docile cell that scientists long thought it was. Instead, researchers now see the egg as an equal and active player in reproduction, adding layers of evolutionary control and selection to one of the most important processes in life.

http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/after-moon-fishing/