{"id":6411,"date":"2014-10-10T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6411"},"modified":"2014-10-10T09:12:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T20:12:09","slug":"misconception-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6411","title":{"rendered":"Misconception Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/visualizations\/common-mythconceptions-worlds-most-contagious-falsehoods\/\">The world&#8217;s most contagious falsehoods<\/a> &#8211; things that ain&#8217;t true that keep getting spread around&#8230; (via Steve Ellis)<\/p>\n<p>Newsweek has a short piece on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2014\/10\/03\/three-letter-word-driving-gender-revolution-272654.html\">Swedish pre-school adoption of a gender neutral pronoun<\/a>. (via Jenni)<\/p>\n<p>Nate Silver with some wisdom:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The bullshitter&#39;s trick is to talk in generalities when questioned about details and to litigate trivia when questioned about principles.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NateSilver538\/status\/518880191519944704\">October 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/the-gritty-reboot-of-adventure-time-is-super-serious-an-1643343059?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Facebook&#038;utm_source=Kotaku_Facebook&#038;utm_medium=Socialflow\">Adventure Time gets a gritty reboot that apparently tugs at the heartstrings if you know Adventure Time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Yorker writer eagerly tells us why the Twin Peaks revival will suck: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/thoughts-announced-return-twin-peaks\">because every other revival sucks<\/a>. Crucial flaw in his argument: no other revival has ever been entirely directed by David Lynch.<\/p>\n<p>Cool comic by <a href=\"http:\/\/thewireless.co.nz\/articles\/the-pencilsword-lights-camera-action\">Toby Morris on just going out and creating stuff<\/a>. His inspirational example: Flat 3, which I raved about last linky.<\/p>\n<p>If you have some questions about feminism, <a href=\"http:\/\/thewomansplainer.com\/?og=1\">the Womansplainer<\/a> can help you. Very reasonable rates.<\/p>\n<p>Anita Sarkeesian&#8217;s talk from XOXO, about the crazy harrassment she was subjected to for the crime of being a woman on the internet, is now up. It&#8217;s well worth watching. Not pleasant viewing, although there&#8217;s a positive atmosphere in the room and even a few jokes.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ah8mhDW6Shs?list=UUqMG_BBwxrhLG80Y3yuEu-Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That leads into this piece &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/seriouspony.com\/trouble-at-the-koolaid-point\">an epic no-holds-barred account by Kathy Sierra, who was targeted by online trolls, and one in particular<\/a>. Essential, and somewhat bleak, reading.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, this just got announced and it cheered me right up: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2014\/10\/09\/archie-vs-predator-from-dark-horse-comics\/\">Archie vs Predator<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s most contagious falsehoods &#8211; things that ain&#8217;t true that keep getting spread around&#8230; (via Steve Ellis) Newsweek has a short piece on the Swedish pre-school adoption of a gender neutral pronoun. (via Jenni) Nate Silver with some wisdom: The bullshitter&#39;s trick is to talk in generalities when questioned about details and to litigate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6411\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Misconception Linky<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-6411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-linky","tag-fridaylinky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-1Fp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6416,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411\/revisions\/6416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}