Mckesson is symbolic of a really major battle that’s brewing within urban black politics, which is over ed reform. He’s a Teach for America guy and friendly with ed reform writ large; a lot of the emerging black nonprofit class are. But people of color writ large and black parents in particular are generally staunch…

Adolph Reed, as usual, is relevant here: https://t.co/kRLUGw3kPb

One more time: Kickstarter is adamant that Kickstarter is not a store and that you aren’t purchasing a product when you contribute money.

I just want people to understand what they’re doing: in an era of record high corporate profits, in an era of huge economic inequality, in an era where corporations have enormous influence on politics, they’re now turning around and shouldering the burden of financial risk that corporations have always had to shoulder…

That is expressly what Kickstarter says it is not. Kickstarter is adamant: Kickstarter is not a store, and you are not trading money for a product. You are investing in a product... for which you get no stock and no equity.

Why would you see shifting that burden from corporations to consumers as a good thing? That’s bizarre.

Yeah, it’s bizarre that people hate pre-orders but love Kickstarter. Kickstarter is just taking the risk for a for-profit venture and putting it onto consumers without any chance that they’ll share in the profits! That’s worse than pre-orders.

I just hope everyone understands: a lot of companies now are going to be shifting to this model, where instead of for-profit entities paying the upfront costs of development, and taking the risk of financial failure with it, they’re now shifting that risk to the same public that they’ll eventually ask to pay for the…

I can’t wait for Apple to do the same with Mac OS!

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2009, not 2005, sorry.

I love Hawkins in Toronto because I was seated by the bullpen in 2009 when the WBC was there and the US played Canada. He got heckled by some Canadian fans and proceeded to trash talk back about Canadians, their inbreeding, and their tendency to live in trailer parks.

Great conversation.

A lot of the problems with smartphones right now, in my opinion, stem from how little developers of apps and OSs care about resources management. I have an Android that was top of the line when I got it a year and a half ago; firmware upgrades have taken it from snappy to slow in just that time span. I don’t ever play…

Swap in Secret of Monkey Island 1 for 2, and do the opposite for Quest for Glory, and I’m satisfied.

Great piece. Agree completely.

See, I would say that a sport suffering from a PR crisis over its tendency to leave its players with debilitating brain injuries might not want to trumpet two players taking wild swings at each other’s heads.

I will never understand why some people take the idea of others listening to vinyl so personally. Why do people find that so threatening that they need to insult others?