“It is common to see “the left” claim publicly and clumsily that they have scientific authority on their side in all…

Originally shared by Jeff Zahari

“It is common to see “the left” claim publicly and clumsily that they have scientific authority on their side in all matters. It is common to see “the left” celebrate its close alliance with establishment figures. It is common to see “the left” accept finance industry support, make exaggerated claims of intelligence authority support and give its own support without question to a militia with expensive PR.

“When “the left” calls for little besides cultural regulation and chooses to represent itself as entirely ratified by all the best and most powerful institutions, it should think hard about adopting a new name.”

Slate respects URLs.

Slate respects URLs. This is so much better for the web than what most content producers do. This is also in contrast to Google’s utter contempt for URLs both in its own properties and what it does to the web with AMP pages.

URLs are good. They should be succinct, readable and useful. If the web was about one specific thing, it’d be about URLs.