What are your favorite online news sources?

[dualstow]

* Opting out at Google: http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/12/opt-out-google-ads/

*  Schneier on security: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/ ... _gaps.html

* The Reincarnation Machine (metal shredder):  http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ ... on-machine

[dualstow]

* "blood avocados" - a story from an interesting site called vocativ.

http://www.vocativ.com/underworld/crime/avocado/

[dualstow]

* Kenny G is now a stock picker (No, not a satirical piece!)
http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtop ... st=2189707

[dualstow]

Just wanted to say that the error page at theweek is quite amusing. I had an article loaded when I accidentally unplugged my computer enough to shut it off. When I came back online, it said, something like, uh oh, someone broke the page you're looking for. Below it was an illustrated image of childlike versions of Obama and Boehner pointing at each other beneath a broken window, a bat and baseballs at their feet. Of course Boehner also had tears.

Well, a picture's worth a thousand words. Just go to http://theweek.com/ with something weird appended to that rightmost slash.

[dualstow]

http://theweek.com/dualstow

It *is* pretty good.

Heheh, I'm honored! 

[hoost]

On the topic of the OP, a friend turned me on to The Skimm.  It's a daily email with commentary on the day's news, delivered on weekday mornings.  It's directed toward women, from what I can tell, but I find it to be quite good.

[MachineGhost]

It's not really a news source, but a blog with a mix of things, but I recently re-discovered (thanks to PS's Ad-slapping Neo-reactionaryism thread):

http://slatestarcodex.com/

The guy posts on lots of interesting subjects.

Topics on Slate Star Codex tend to center vaguely around this meta-philosophical idea of how people evaluate arguments for their beliefs, and especially whether this process is spectacularly broken in a way that may or may not doom us all. In between there’s a lot of cognitive science, psychology, history, politics, medicine, religion, statistics, transhumanism, corny puns, and applied eschatology.

I've ran out of time in the day (all day) to read anything more!  We're all turning into SVOL's just to process all this damn information!

[LC475]

I believe that almost all of the U.S. news sites are biased way left. Fox is the only one that is fair.

Ahh, it's a satirical account.  Reub, I understand you at last!

[Mountaineer]

National Enquirer; the only source used by the Men in Black.  At least NatEnq is honest as to what they are selling and you are getting. 

... Mountaineer

[dualstow]

HitchBOT Was A Literal Pile Of Trash And Got What It Deserved
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/hitchb ... 1721850503

An opinion piece. 

[Greg]

It's not really a news source, but a blog with a mix of things, but I recently re-discovered (thanks to PS's Ad-slapping Neo-reactionaryism thread):

http://slatestarcodex.com/

The guy posts on lots of interesting subjects.

Topics on Slate Star Codex tend to center vaguely around this meta-philosophical idea of how people evaluate arguments for their beliefs, and especially whether this process is spectacularly broken in a way that may or may not doom us all. In between there’s a lot of cognitive science, psychology, history, politics, medicine, religion, statistics, transhumanism, corny puns, and applied eschatology.

I've ran out of time in the day (all day) to read anything more!  We're all turning into SVOL's just to process all this damn information!

SVOL? I tried looking it up but wasn't finding anything in 45 seconds.

[moda0306]

Regarding the thread title, The Intercept... Namely anything by Glenn Greenwald.

[Greg]

I've ran out of time in the day (all day) to read anything more!  We're all turning into SVOL's just to process all this damn information!

SVOL? I tried looking it up but wasn't finding anything in 45 seconds.

That's because you forgot to use the forum's search function.

SVOL = Sedentary Vat Of Lard

It is a completely unserious term I coined last December in a response to Desert and modain a thread about intermittent fasting.  MG must have liked it because he started using it like it was a real thing.

Gotcha thanks for the info. I work for the military so everything is in acronyms, even though most of us don't know what the acronyms stand for. I could certainly see the U.S. at least continuing to lead towards SVOLs for everyone.

[Reub]

24 million watched the FoxNews debate last night! I think that they spoiled Jon Stewart's farewell event on the Comedy Network.

[Reub]

Some biased leftist journalists like Bruni praised FoxNews for the hard hitting questions in the debate. Do you think that they might incorporate some of that in their reporting on Obama and Hillary? Not a chance.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-p ... le/2569863

[4x4]

Seems to me all main stream news sources are biased, leaning to some degree on various topics.  An insightful exercise is to note which organization one feels is not (or the least) biased.  The bias of that organization tends to match one's personal bias imho.

[Ad Orientem]

Free Republic is a good source for news.

Huge caveat though... It's hard right and very neo-con both in terms of whats posted and the commentary (some of which can be a little fringy). Reub would probably love it. Actually I'd be a little surprised if he has not already found it.
http://www.freerepublic.com

[dualstow]

Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... army-bases