Is the website of Jason Sutter. A sometimes User Experience Designer, frequent wanderer, and vegan soup aficionado. After stints in MO, NY, CA, NM, and New Zealand he currently resides in beautiful Portland, OR.
“Nature, that is, our own true nature, is bringing these preoccupations to a stop by coming forth with the technical power to pursue them on a colossal scale, hitherto unknown. Pursued and magnified with such power, they come swiftly to absurdity and catastrophe – so that their innate contradictions become obvious to all.”
I could do without the Fox News baiting, but can absolutely get behind labeling wealth inequality as “the great moral, economic and political issue of our time”
“Adulthood isn’t an inevitability; it’s an ideal. And it’s a feminist ideal, too, which is perhaps why it’s been so fiercely repressed, for so long, by pop culture.”
“The former Black Panther has become the first woman placed on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list and reminds us that the struggle for freedom is far from over.”
Thorough look at systemic economic oppression. I've seen this cycle of minor violations to warrants to endless fees and fines up close and personal. Balko nails every aspect. It's well worth making time to read the entire thing.
“A UCLA neuroscientist named Keely Muscatell has published an interesting paper showing that wealth quiets the nerves in the brain associated with empathy”