Aram Zucker-Scharff

Watch Each of the Last Four U.S. Presidents Announce That We’re Bombing Iraq:

Did last night’s primetime presidential speech announcing expanding authorization for airstrikes in Iraq and Syria feel kind of familiar? Like you’ve

Here comes the new boss. Same as the old boss.

Why people hate Phil Fish.

People cared about racism only insomuch as it let them hate Phil Fish.

‘Minecraft’ creator Notch says selling Mojang to Microsoft was about keeping his sanity – Neowin:

“It’s about my sanity,” says Notch, whose statement on his sale of Minecraft points to ‘the internet exploding in hate’. In his statement, Notch questions if he ever truly connected with his ‘audience’ or if he has become a symbol with no connection to his own identity. 

“Ever wonder why the economic experts never seem to change, keep coming back, despite racking up such shattering failures as the housing bubble and the financial crisis and the bank bailouts? Ever wonder why a guy like Larry Summers gets to be chief economist at the World Bank, then gets to deregulate Wall Street, then gets to bail Wall Street out, then almost gets to become chairman of the Fed, and then gets to make sage pronouncements on the subject of—yes— inequality? It’s for the same bad reasons: Because D.C. worships expertise and because Summers, along with a handful of other geniuses, are leading figures in a professional discipline dominated by what a well-informed observer once called a “politburo for correct economic thinking.””

– All these effing geniuses: Ezra Klein, expert-driven journalism, and the phony Washington consensus.