Brit Marling’s statement about Harvey Weinstein, sexual assault, and all the issues discussed around that recently is the best one I’ve seen. This part is particulary apt (not doing this as a blockquote so I can preserve her emphases):

“The real danger inside the present moment, then, would be for us all to separate the alleged deeds of Cosby, Ailes, O’Reilly, or Weinstein from a culture that continues to allow for dramatic imbalances of power. It’s not these bad men. Or that dirty industry. It’s this inhumane economic system of which we are all a part.”

Recognizing that this sort of abuse depends on and hinges upon our economic system is a great insight. Not that it necessarily does, of course. In our system, however, it very much does.

Brit Marling is the best. I am glad she’s still creating things.

all 30 people worldwide who still use firefox outside of a public library do because of vimperator or some other addon that's about to die

— hotboxing the T-34 (@morganastra) October 25, 2017

Yep! I’m already transitioning off Firefox. It’s killed itself and has absolutely no future. Without the add-ons, it’s worthless to anyone, and it’ll just be crushed into dust by Chrome.

Every time I attempt to read literary fiction, I regret it.

Some very bad writers in that genre who are only saved because they never write about elves or space stations.

If they had to compete on the basis of writing, or ideas, or really anything but expressing white male angst, they’d fail.