Wednesday, March 19, 2014

More Koch mapping

Some of the organizations on a list of people who got face time with the Kochs in Florida.

The billion-dollar climate change denial network

There is a shitload of money behind denying climate change.

Mother Hulda

Wouldn't it be interesting to do some kind of semantically represented catalog of stories from all the world's cultures so they could be compared and contrasted and tracked?

Things like Santa Claus being partly descended from Lapp shamans who would slaughter reindeer and wear their skins while casting fortunes around New Year, or Santa Claus being Odin (both of which have come up in my reading this week) and a million and more others.

This stuff fascinates me. Anyway, here's also Mother Hulda on Wikipedia.

The Interlock Project

A map of problems facing America. Interesting!

The debt-collecting machine

Fantastic WP exposé of Aeon Financial and its ilk.

The Reactionaries

So apparently there are some guys in Silicon Valley who honestly want a return to monarchy. This FAQ rips them new assholes and reveals them for the puerile naifs they really are.