https://kottke.org/18/04/how-bill-russell-stopped-charles-barkley-from-complaining-about-taxes

As I’ve been fortunate to be reasonably successful in life, I am looking more and more for ways to give back. And not being a jerk about the most fundamental way to do that is, literally, the least anybody can do.

We’ve known this for a long time

April 4, 2018 | Bryant Noice

And it makes me pretty angry. We talk about “crime” and “inner city problems” like they are inevitable. Well, they are when you cultivate them.

Please read.

BS Detector, Redux

Link | April 2, 2018 | minnesotanoice_4hxdx4

I’m sure that I posted about this before, but this is still awesome!

Even the software is racist and sexist

Link | March 27, 2018 | Bryant Noice

because facial recognition AIs have a hard time with darker complexions and female features. Article.

March for Our Lives

March 24, 2018March 24, 2018 | Bryant Noice

We exercised our civic voice and joined the rally at the state capital to support the marching students. It was awesome to see such a motivated generation! We all tear’d up and chanted “enough!” despite the cold. In the meantime, I’ll leave you with some #truth reading.

Super-interesting Article on “Political Correctness”

Link | March 23, 2018March 23, 2018 | Bryant Noice

My thing about “political correctness” is that it’s not a constraint on free speech at all. It’s simply acting civilized. When somebody who is a particular thing asks you to refer to them a certain way, that’s just being civilized to accommodate them. When people say “I hate all this political correctness”, I like to replace “political correct” with “being respectful”. And then people just sound like dicks for saying “I hate all this being respectful”.

Read the article here.