Author Archives: Jeff Porten

Worth noting that you’re only guaranteed to be allowed to see this if you live in the EU. I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets

This kind of crap is why I generally don’t give a fig about animal rights. I’ll never understand the people who will curtail 1,000 civil rights in an effort to reduce harm, but who think random charismatic megafauna are more important than potentially millions of humans.

Yes, by all means, treat animals humanely. And give more consideration to species capable of more advanced forms of suffering. But when the question is “who’s more important, us or them?”, we win, every time. FDA halts monkey research denounced by Jane Goodall as ‘shameful’

Philadelphia folks: I’m looking to improve my local news radar. Right now I’m missing things like last night’s free performance of Marriage of Figaro, which I absolutely would have gone to, and which I just read about in the fricking Washington Post.

I’m doing a daily headline skim of Philly.com and Billy Penn. I follow a bunch of Philly government and tourism people on Twitter. Much more interested in events and communities than in whether someone got mugged last night. Suggestions? Philadelphia local news, sports, jobs, cars, homes – Philly.com

Police beat up a protestor, chief says “mighty fine job, boys,” and oops, he was an undercover cop patrolling the protest. Undercover cop, Air Force officer, med student among those police swept up Sunday night

?Dear everyone who doesn’t run websites: it’s not usual for us techs to take down a site for 25% of its weekend heaviest traffic.? Sarah Kliff on Twitter

If we get Trump-branded single payer, I will laugh and laugh until I die at an advanced age I won’t otherwise reach Kilgore Trout on Twitter

Michael Weinmayr I assume you already know this exists, but if not, I see no reason why I should be the only person utterly disturbed by it. CLOSER By Nine Inch Nails Featuring the Muppets.

I’m thinking militarization and blatant lies are older, but certainly this accelerated their adoption as the new normal. Myke Cole on Twitter