Founder/CEO Ted Roden explains the methods to his madness to Lifehacker.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
— Buckminster Fuller (via tashwong)
Meet the top ten doctors that made the most money speaking for pharmaceutical companies in our updated Dollars For Docs database.
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I kept trying to persuade him, and at some point, I realized that part of the problem was that he had never seen “Survivor” before. He thought the show was literally about survival - there would be 20 people on the island and 19 of them would die. The one guy who got out alive would be the winner.
I made him watch a few episodes and convinced him that I wasn’t going to die. But the real turning point came when I said to him, “Hey, dad, there are going to be millions of people watching this show. Do you know what that means? It means I’m going to be seen by thousands of potential Korean wives and their mothers.”
He looked up suddenly and exclaimed, “What? Sign the contract!”
— Red Chair Interview: Why Yul Kwon ditched law for TV
Potato of the day.
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Zerlina Maxwell Offers 5 Ways We Can Teach Men Not to Rape
Just in case you missed it, Zerlina Maxwell went on FOX News this weekend and brilliantly put rape culture on blast. While appearing as a guest on Hannity, the prolific writer and social media commentator said that when it comes to preventing rape, we must look beyond the reactionary impulse to just give women more guns. Instead, we need to teach men not to rape.
“I think that the entire conversation is wrong. I don’t want anybody to be telling women anything. I don’t want men to be telling me what to wear and how to act, not to drink. And I don’t, honestly, want you to tell me that I needed a gun in order to prevent my rape. In my case, don’t tell me if I’d only had a gun, I wouldn’t have been raped. Don’t put it on me to prevent the rape.”
Maxwell’s comments got lots of attention and caused a ripple effect on weekend social media. Implicit in them was that the problem isn’t just individual behaviors, but a culture of patriarchy. This morning, she followed them up with a piece at EBONY.com on five ways we can teach men not to rape. “Rape culture is a pervasive part of our society because of social conditioning,” Maxwell wrote. “Yet we struggle to find ways to avoid patterns of victim blaming and many of us would rather advise women on the precautions they should take to avoid being raped as opposed to starting at the root of the problem: teaching men and boys not to be rapists in the first place.”
Here’s a snippet of the five points that Maxwell makes. To read the entire list, march on over to EBONY.
1. Teach young men about legal consent: Legal consent is number one for a reason. Without it, sexual contact with someone is rape whether you intended to rape or not. A woman who is drunk, unconscious, sleeping cannot give legal consent. And it’s not about a woman simply saying “no,” it’s really about making certain she’s saying yes.
2. Teach young men to see women’s humanity, instead of seeing them as sexual objects there for male pleasure: There is a reason why women are shamed into silence and teenage boys in Steubenville, Ohio are caught on camera laughing about gang raping an unconscious girl at a party. The dehumanization of women spans all areas of American life.
3. Teach young men how to express healthy masculinity: The question that’s being asked about what women can do to prevent violence against them is the wrong question. It’s not what can a woman say or do that can prevent being attacked. We need to turn that paradigm
4. Teach young men to believe women who come forward and not to blame the victim: The vast majority of women do not report their rapes to the police and many more only tell one or two people in confidence.
5. Teach young men about bystander intervention: Both Men Stopping Violence and Men Can Stop Rape have bystander intervention workshops for men of all ages. “It’s about community accountability,” says Pandit, “We require men to talk to other men in their lives and tell them about these programs. It is important that we have community networks that hold men accountable.”
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Michelle Maisto: You Don't Say
“Nice yifu, mama,” Emmy said to me approvingly the other morning, stroking my pajama top and finding it surprisingly soft. “Nice yifu…”
Yifu is clothes, and while she might have said shuiyi—pajamas—my first thought was to be pleased that she’d grabbed for a Mandarin word at all.
But…
Li’l Stories launched
It’s been an exciting journey and now Li’l Stories is live: check it out on Kickstarter.
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Any data scientist worth their salary will tell you that you should start with a question, NOT the data. Unfortunately, data hackathons often lack clear problem definitions. Most companies think that if you can just get hackers, pizza, and data together in a room, magic will happen. This is the same as if Habitat for Humanity gathered its volunteers around a pile of wood and said, “Have at it!” By the end of the day you’d be left with a half of a sunroom with 14 outlets in it.
— Jake Porway on how You Can’t Just Hack Your Way to Social Change (via adamlaiacano)
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http://www.indiewire.com/article/magnolia-takes-lynn-sheltons-touchy-feely
“Touchy Feely” picked up by Magnolia! We’ve got distribution! Fun “full-circle” fact: Magnolia is owned by Mark Cuban, who also owns Landmark Cinemas, who used to run the Neptune in Seattle where I worked for 8 years. Life is funny.
