Looks excellent. Channing Tatum Stars In Foxcatcher: "Foxcatcher is based on the true story of John duPont (founder of the Foxcatcher Farm wrestling training center) and Dave and Mark Schultz. After the schizophrenic John duPont (Carell) killed Olympic Champion Dave Schultz, his brother Mark Schultz (Tatum) decides to get justice."
Of course. Facebook manipulation experiment has connections to DoD "emotional contagion" research - Boing Boing: "Here's a new wrinkle on the massive emotion-manipulation study that Facebook conducted in concert with researchers from Cornell and UCSF: one of its researchers is funded under a US Department of Defense program to study "emotional contagion" and civil unrest. Cornell's Jeffrey T Hancock, one of the three scientists who conducted the experiment (which was likely illegal) does active work on the DoD's Minerva program, which studies the spread, manipulation, and evolution of online beliefs. The US military and intelligence apparatus has a long history of attempting to manipulate public opinion -- from sneaking Russian editions of Dr Zhivago into the USSR to the covert creation of a "Cuban Twitter". It has also actively delved into directly manipulating online discourse, commissioning "persona management" software that would allow a single spy to run 20 simultaneous online identities for message-board debates and then refining the project with a $2.76M grant to Ntrepid, an LA startup formed to create this software."
It's Not What You're Saying It Is, Part 1,434,303: Employer Health Insurance - Front Toward Enemy: "Here’s how employer-sponsored health care works. Your employer gets a volume group discount on health insurance. You WORK for your employer. Your health insurance packages is PART OF YOUR COMPENSATION FOR YOUR WORK. It is not FREE. You are, explicitly, WORKING FOR IT. Your employer does not discuss, with your doctor, what treatments you are given for any medical condition or circumstance you might encounter. Your employer has no right to your medical records. Your employer is NOT your health care provider. Part of your compensation for work is actual money. Your employer has no rights over what you choose to do with your money. The same applies to the health insurance which you have WORKED in order to EARN. It is not free. It is not a gift. It is compensation for work. I’m saying that more than once because it seems to be a super difficult thing for some of the geniuses to understand...
Reproductive care is medical health care. All methods of contraception are legal. Abortion is legal. You have a right to legal health care. There is no moral or legal difference between reproductive health care and other forms of health care. Like all health care, it is a confidential matter between yourself and your doctor. Anyone who pretends they are a “conservative”, but believes an employer has the right to interfere between doctor/patient privilege is — at best — someone who doesn’t understand conservative values of non-interference in personal lives. At worst, you’re just a fucking hypocrite who is deeply concerned about other people’s lives and choices. Health insurance is not “free abortions” or “free contraception” or “government anything.” It is compensation. For work. And it is, seriously, none of your fucking business what a woman and her doctor decide for her health care. Period. Fucking. End. You can pretend your objection is about whatever you want to pretend it’s about, but it’s pretty obvious you’re just a puritan asshole who’s afraid of ladies having the minimum control over their lives that you take for granted. My wish for you is that your employer is a Christian Scientist, and that you get appendicitis.”"
Aquaman, 1986. I always dug that costume.
"Now an Australian Swimmer named Hamish Jolly has worked with a group of scientist to come up with a shark deterrent wet suit… and it looks kind of familiar."
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