Comfortable white people jeer when black activists at Yale desire a safe space, but they still make us take our shoes off at the airport.

Well… shit.

At least one of the assailants in France’s worst-ever terrorist attack was a Syrian who entered Europe through Greece with a group of migrants, French and Greek authorities said Saturday, deepening fears that other terrorists have infiltrated the European Union this way.

Generally speaking, adults are so inured to the idea that kids/students are dumb and have nothing to offer that they never think to ask this question. And it’s a real shame.

Though it can be tough to burrow into the hardline opinions and strategies of today’s students—and, damn, can they can seem so adorably foolish—Friedersdorf and his ilk are defending the tradition of American colleges without inquiring why contemporary students might be looking to rearrange the campuses they now inhabit.

Bike Ad

I took a class on Photoshop yesterday. I had to make an advertisement for a bicycle shop. This is the result.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

But there’s more to any cafeteria than the serving line, and Sprig’s app offers no photograph of that other part. This is the Amazon move: absolute obfuscation of labor and logistics behind a friendly buy button. The experience for a Sprig customer is super convenient, almost magical; the experience for a chef or courier…? We don’t know. We don’t get to know. We’re just here to press the button.

All of these stories are really interesting, and I highly recommend all of them, but this one stuck out to me. .io is an extremely popular domain name, and while I had heard about the controversy surrounding the use of the .ly TLD, there wasn’t any similar outrage abou the rise of .io. Many of the interesting TLDs are tied to countries, and .io is tied to the British Indian Ocean Territories, a collection of islands that were straight up stolen from the people who lived there so Great Britain and the United States could use them for a military base.