Happening right now at RNC headquarters.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/10/08/republican-party-cuts-trumps-cash-leaves-nominee-wither-die.html

Scary clowns are a bit of a thing this year.

Originally shared by Jodie O’Regan

I was going to make a meme piccy with some words, but really what is there left to say?

The @realDenaldTrump is not the @realDonaldTrump

A rare case of where the media couldn’t be played. Usually the media has no problem with being played.

https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=ywqxJ-UC0lc

Software patents impose a deadweight loss on the nation’s economy, erecting often insurmountable barriers to innovation and forcing companies to expend exorbitant sums defending against meritless infringement suits…

Software, however, is akin to a work of literature or a piece of music, undeniably important, but too unbounded, i.e., too “abstract,” to qualify as a patent-eligible invention.

Originally shared by James Salsman

I’ve been against software patent abuses all my adult life, but as someone who has been both repeatedly hurt by their abuse but also stands to benefit from them, is this going too far? If it stands, what will reward actual algorithm innovations in a meritocratic way, Will Hill & Jan Wildeboer ?

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161005/15280135720/prominent-pro-patent-judge-issues-opinion-declaring-all-software-patents-bad.shtml

Click through.

Originally shared by Christopher Lamke

Accurate comic on the gig economy.

https://thenib.com/get-jobbed-bda6195ee0f2

HRC channelling Otto von Bismarck.

“Politics is like sausage being made,” she said. “It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be. But if everybody’s watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So, you need both a public and a private position.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/07/wikileaks-hillary-clinton-paid-wall-street-speeches?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+AUS+v1+-+AUS+morning+mail+callout&utm_term=193867&subid=16790678&CMP=ema_632

Underestimating your opponent seems to be a right-wing failing. If your whole doctrine is built on being stronger and more dominant, your opponent has to be depicted as lazy and weak. Simultaneously they have to be seen as mendacious, manipulative and sinister. This is a hard synthesis to pull off but seems to be no problem to those used to practising double-think.

Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.

—Umberto Eco