Americans For Welfare: The Daily's 8/8/17

Word of the Day: Fire, Fury....and Frankly: Power

Follow Up: Google Diversity Manifesto Author Fired https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-fired-anti-diversity-engineer-prove-case-google-211417076.html

The punishment for un-right thinking is swift and severe. I would like to point out the manifesto makes repeated claims that the author is in favor of diversity and inclusion: ad nauseum.

Perhaps a new champion will rise...

The only take I didn't find horribly annoying:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/the-most-common-error-in-coverage-of-the-google-memo/536181/

The Cubist Revolution: Minecraft For All
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/08/08/538580856/the-cubist-revolution-minecraft-for-all

I think this is great. When I was in school videos games were seen as bad, and as a waste of time. It is tragic some of our citizens are deprived of glorious video games.

Minecraft is also the apotheosis of right-thinking: all the people and animals are intentionally genderless and raceless human-like entities. I see big subsides incoming.

Ezra Klein Show (Podcast): http://podbay.fm/show/1081584611/e/1502208300?autostart=1

Ezra Klein and Senator Micheal Bennet talk about the sociopathic era in Congress.

Government Scientists Leak Sobering Climate Report https://www.wunderground.com/news/climate-report-scientists-trump

Humans are smart enough to understand climate change, but not smart enough to form an intelligent response. We will endure the worst, whatever that is.

Funny: Trump re-tweets a fake pro-Trump account.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/trump-falls-for-his-own-propaganda-machine

RISE OF THE ROBOT BARONS: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/08/rise-of-the-robot-barons