These are my recent Pin​board​.in links:

• What We’ve Done to the Mis­sis­sippi River: An Explainer — Alexis Madri­gal — Tech­nol­ogy — The Atlantic

  “Rivers change course, as you can see in the beau­ti­ful map below, which shows the river’s mean­der­ings.” LOOK AT THAT MAP

engi­neer­ing environmental-​​engineering rivers floods Mis­sis­sippi maps his­tory

• George Takei vs. Tennessee’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill | clusterflock

  IT’S OK TO BE TAKEI

con­ser­vatism tol­er­ance culture-​​war

• Mother Wins $7,500 After Suing Debt Col­lec­tor — The Consumerist

  “…They then got attor­neys who demanded that we set­tle for 2,000 or they would appeal. We again refused and told them we would see them in court. They filed an appeal and a hear­ing date was set. We pre­pared our­selves, decid­ing to forgo an attor­ney after dis­cussing the case with one. How­ever, two days before the hear­ing we received a notice from them inform­ing us that they would not pur­sue the appeal and would be pay­ing us. We received the money in April. This was our lit­tle moment of vic­tory. Col­lec­tion com­pa­nies have no right to harass any­one. The Fair Debt Col­lec­tion Prac­tices Act is very clear regard­ing calls to peo­ple other than debtor.”

lawyers financial-​​crisis debt-​​collectors legal-​​advice inspi­ra­tional