May 14, 2017
Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job
Mr. Gonzalez started at a little over $10 an hour in a job he described as “pretty much shoveling dirt.” Nevertheless, he signed an employment contract that included a noncompete clause, enforceable for three years within 350 miles of [Singley Construction’s] base in Columbia, Mississippi.
Conor Dougherty writes about about the increasing pervasiveness of non-compete clauses in contracts for The New York Times.
Conor Dougherty writes about about the increasing pervasiveness of non-compete clauses in contracts for The New York Times.
DARK WATERS
Some of the world’s largest, oldest fish live in Oregon. Why anyone would want to vandalize them, even abduct them, takes explaining. [more inside]
Viral af. 13/10. Would retweet vigorously
Esquire profiles Matt Nelson, the creative force behind twitter sensation WeRateDogs™. Nelson, who also tweets at The Dogfather and Thoughts of Dog, is a 20-year-old sophomore studying golf management at a small Baptist college in North Carolina. [more inside]
From Safe Spaces to Brave Spaces
The name's Mander. Gerry Mander.
Gerrymandering is the practice of manipulating boundaries in such a way that favors a political party. If you slice and group in various ways, you can end up with different election results.
How many different ways can you draw boundaries though? And can results really change that much, depending on you draw the boundaries? District, by Christopher Walker, is a puzzle game that shows you how it works. The goal: Group circles in such a way that favors your color. (Works on my iPhone but not on my iPad. YMMV.) [via]
We love doughnuts. That's why we must save them from themselves.
to the person who held me when I was in his place
My Mom Was My Best Friend, and I Was Kind of a Dick thank you, thank you for being here, thank you so much. by Jeb Lund, in Esquire
"Mysterious user subpages[1]"
Brent Weinbach
Brent Weinbach (previously very nsfw, sfw version) is an American stand-up comedian based in Los Angeles, California. He is a host of The Legacy Music Hour and has a new comedy special on Seeso titled Appealing To The Mainstream. [more inside]
“There is a persistent belief that mothers are defined by that role,”
Why is motherhood so poorly portrayed in video games? by Kate Gray [The Guardian] “If everything I learned about motherhood was from games, a large part of it would be “you die roughly five minutes after giving birth, surviving just long enough to leave a memento or a letter that will later serve as the motivation for your child to do some big quest”. You are less a nurturing, sentient human being, more a plot device. The statistical probability of this happening is worrying on a pandemic scale: there’s Ellie’s mother in The Last of Us, Evie and Jacob’s mother in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, the drowned mother in Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, the protagonist’s mother in Fallout 3, the saintly Lady Comstock in Bioshock Infinite (who, when she returns to life, does so as a nightmarish and deadly siren) … the list continues.” [more inside]
Exploring the Stereotyping of the Egyptian Countryside Through Film
The task was to make a film revolving around the villages in the Delta, and around two elements in particular: water problems and water management, and the problems women living in these villages face and their empowerment. [more inside]
Where healthcare won't go: Marion, Alabama
The rate of TB infection in Marion, Alabama is a hundred times the national average, and even higher than Haiti, India, and Kenya. There is no hospital in town, two ambulances in the county, and life expectancy here is seven years lower than the US average. Marion sits in the belly of the Black Belt — historically, a ribbon of seventeen counties in central Alabama and parts of northeastern Mississippi, where whites enslaved black people to farm cotton in the dark, fertile soil; the term has come to refer broadly to predominantly African-American areas in the rural South.
"I've never seen an update to a book's cover executed so perfectly."
How the redesigned Judy Blume covers avoid nostalgia and embrace universal adolescent angst. [SLVox]
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