AO3 ToS/FAQ update, with a 2-week comment period. The changes are basically updates and a few common questions Support gets moved to the FAQ. If you’re interested, take a look!

In other news, I enjoyed this article about porcupine sex and this piece on gay hookups online. From the latter: “I always want to ask one of those ‘No Asians!’ guys: if you were a baby and accidentally fell from a plane and landed safely in the middle of Mongolia and were raised by a nomadic Mongolian tribe, does that mean you would have grown up not being attracted to anyone?”

Poison pen review of Nassim Taleb’s most recent book: “Reading this book is the intellectual equivalent of having to sit patiently while someone shows you their holiday snaps.” Too bad, I did like The Black Swan, but his self-love was already quite apparent.
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rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( Mar. 12th, 2012 02:08 pm)
Once Upon a Time:
Spoilers go out to the woods today )

Of possible interest:
Please tell PayPal not to decide for us what to read.

Just found out a friend of mine was once a bone marrow match for a woman with leukemia, but wasn’t allowed to donate because he was gay—and still wouldn’t be in the US. Here’s a petition about the blood donation rules.

Interesting article on the psychological poverty trap: Bad decisions are contextual.

Very smart post on When Libertarians Go To Work, and relatedly if you’re interested in why contracts often don’t matter at all, until they suddenly do, and why that’s an important justification for the liberal state.

White bread, the history of the A&P, Steve Jobs, randomness, gay first times )
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