trolls
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The Rumpus Interview with Rick Moody
Rick Moody talks about the newly collected writings of the elusive Reginald Edward Morse, Hotels of North America, and why fiction in general ought to lie more.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Ijeoma Oluo
Ijeoma Oluo discusses feminism, coloring, badass women, and being a troller of trolls.
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Word of the Day: Miasma
(n.); noxious exhalations from putrid organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere; a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere “If the Internet is a bridge to the greater world, a troll is the beast who lives under…
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Weekly Geekery
The Apple watch says you aren’t good enough. The tension between sex and science. Are rage clicks a thing of the past? What the Internet needs is a vigilante. Schools still have an equal access problem. When it comes to…
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Weekly Geekery
How one troll came to repent for his sins. Speaking of trolls, they probably all have bad hearts. There is real symbiosis between science and fiction. There is also symbiosis between medicine and literature. Why we shouldn’t fetishize “makers.” Awkward online?…
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Dealing with the Trolls
I do know that job one is to keep writing and talking about the things that scare the trolls – not just feminism but race and LGBT rights and everything else that pisses them off. Filters and moderators and sign-in…
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It Starts With People
In Charlotte, North Carolina, a Heroes Con panel devoted to LGBT visibility in comics was hosted by Kate Leth, Bryan Pittard, Terry Moore, Eric Punzone, and Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez. The sextet spoke on internal censorship, Internet trolls, and straddling…
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Trolls Are “Sadists and Psychopaths”
Common wisdom has it that the Internet has disconnected people from their sense of empathy—but maybe it’s just exposed society at large to greater numbers of people who were already unempathetic. This Washington Post blog post reports on a Canadian study which…
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Go Ahead, Feed the Trolls
“If talking back to some random idiot makes me feel better—if it’s fortifying for my mental health—then I don’t care if I give some dumbass with 13 followers the flash-in-the-pan attention he’s been craving.” At the Nation, Feministing’s Jessica Valenti says,…