Month: October 2016

Democracy is now on the nose with the political right.

Democracy is now on the nose with the political right. This is a thing that happens when you keep losing. Two factions that are particularly antidemocratic: libertarians—because they will always be outnumbered—and fascists who like their leaders manly.

In both cases, there’s a general belief that the majority of voters cannot be trusted.

https://newrepublic.com/article/138019/right-giving-democracy

“Until recently, we never even thought about hardware bugs [and] software was never written to deal with them,” one…

“Until recently, we never even thought about hardware bugs [and] software was never written to deal with them,” one of the researchers, Victor van der Veen, wrote in an e-mail. “Now, we are using them to break your phone or tablet in a fully reliable way and without relying on any software vulnerability or esoteric feature. And there is no quick software update to patch the problem and go back to business as usual.”

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/using-rowhammer-bitflips-to-root-android-phones-is-now-a-thing/

Some thoughts about the likely aftermath of the 2016 election, where it’s likely to leave the Republican Party, and…

Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger

Some thoughts about the likely aftermath of the 2016 election, where it’s likely to leave the Republican Party, and what this means for the political coalitions of our future.

Spoiler: The religious right, and the part of the business right which can’t reconcile itself to joining a Clinton coalition, are likely to be the biggest losers.

https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/the-future-of-republicanism-5eaa2c025128#.n63wdnhp7