How the patent trolls won in Congress: Ars Technica
“We felt really good the last couple of days,” said the tech lobbyist. “It was a good deal—one we could live with. Then the trial lawyers and pharma went to Senator Reid late this morning and said that’s it. Enough with the children playing in the playground—go kill it.”
(tags: ars-technica patents swpats patent-trolls pharma tech us-politics congress lawyers)
Dublin City North Inner City count results, animated
A nice visualisation of Single-Transferable-Vote proportional representation in action
(tags: pr-stv voting dataviz visualisation dublin elections pr)
New Statesman: Let’s call the Isla Vista killings what they were: misogynist extremism
We have been told for a long time that the best way to deal with this sort of harrassment and violence is to laugh it off. Women and girls and queer people have been told that online misogynists pose no real threat, even when they’re sharing intimate guides to how to destroy a woman’s self-esteem and force her into sexual submission. Well, now we have seen what the new ideology of misogyny looks like at its most extreme. We have seen incontrovertible evidence of real people being shot and killed in the name of that ideology, by a young man barely out of childhood himself who had been seduced into a disturbing cult of woman-hatred. Elliot Rodger was a victim – but not for the reasons he believed.
(tags: elliot-rodger extremism feminism isla-vista mass-killings pua mens-rights harrassment misogyny penny-red)