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infoworm··on Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt
>That stopped this month. On Dec. 6, Patreon kicked the anti-feminist polemic Carl Benjamin, who works under the name Sargon of Akkad, off its site for using racist language on YouTube.

The article says they barred an account for racist speech, but the article doesn't share the offending quote and without the accompanying context?

Classic case of dishonest media framing.

infoworm··on The Rise of the Thought Leader
You mean she used a system she had paid into?

How is this not merely a personal attack?

infoworm··on Steam Sales 2015
The arty styles are very simple and it's practically the same genre so at first glance it seems like a clone.
infoworm··on Japan's hidden caste of untouchables
That isn't a good argument considering immigration policies in countries select for successful outliers.
infoworm··on Building Attention Span
Nope, though I found the article fairly interesting.
infoworm··on HyperRogue – A non-Euclidean roguelike
Multiplayer functionality is on the way with the introduction of the galaxy client. I hope that spelunky receives the daily challenge.
infoworm··on HyperRogue – A non-Euclidean roguelike
Any chance of a gog release?
infoworm··on Why I Still have faith in LastPass
What alternatives would you recommend?
infoworm··on Thank you Kiva – a letter from Kiva’s Co-Founder and CEO
Also worth looking at Kiva's response to that article, though the editor of the piece you linked to many of Kiva's responses.

http://www.nextbillion.net/blogpost.aspx?blogid=3731