The Independent Variable
The Independent Variable
Kevin Humdrum
Welcome to The Independent Variable, the official linkblog of the interwebs covering culture, politics, sports, and tech since 2012.
Latest Posts
ReutersIn China, censorship relates to red lines. You cannot cross some red lines. Itās about state policy and discussions (about) state power. Itās also related to what they would call minority or religious issues, which can be very...
BBCMeanwhile, in Chinaā¦This isnāt a ācount your blessingsā moment. Itās a preview.Fun FAKE NEWS Fact: During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln curbed freedom of speech by suspending habeaus corpus.
AthleticThe last thing I need right now is hope in the Cubs chancesā¦
ReutersThe device had already been on the market for about three years. Until then, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had received unconfirmed reports of seven instances in which the device malfunctioned and another report of a...
UCSDOf course theyāre using bots to play D&D. Who wants to have fun with their own imagination? Weāre only on this rock to track metrics, increase productivity, and shape our blobby flesh into copyrighted bionic cogs.Key phrase in the...
When you're reading this, you may already know what has happened at the Super Bowl on Sunday. Hopefully, the Patriots lose and ICE doesn't do anything idiotic like try to detain Bad Bunnyāor anyone at the game... but they are just crazy...
NY TimesGovernment doesnāt want undocumented immigrants in the country, but they are more than happy to sell non-citizen cartel members high caliber ammunition.
Semi-Sequiturs is our newest subscriber-only monthly column from Nicholas De Marino. We have two other monthly columnists coming soon to join Semi-Sequiturs and the Little Letter of Nonsense.
Directed by Nicholas De Marino
ESPNSources told ESPN that Ronaldo tried to block the transfer of French star Karim Benzema from Al Ittihad to Al Hilal on Monday because he felt the move was unfair and indicated that PIF wanted to pave the way for Al Hilal to win the...
PoliticoActual criminals are absolutely loving whatās happening right now. ICE isnāt going after the (extremely small population of) undocumented immigrants that are in gangs because those people would actually fight back and have...
0:00 /6:45 1Ć Itās absolutely devastating to watch this. Iād love to echo the sentiment Iāve seen on social media and say, āhow could anyone watch this and not be devastated?ā But Iāve become too jaded. The people doing and celebrating...
An Infinite MindI love āFight Club,ā āShutter Island,ā and āAmerican Psycho.ā (The movie and comic adaptations, too, for that matter.) Unreliable narrators are sublime. I donāt begrudge authors or filmmakers playing fast and loose with...
LinkGood list/resource for things you can do around various giant conglomerates who have influence over the administration and/or are enablers of ICE. I think my Apple One subscription is the only place Iām still subscribedāand I had a...
Here is the Little Letter of Nonsense for February! Available to paid subscribers as a PDF and/or in print, delivered straight to your mailbox.