Good Internet / 7.12.17

Good things on the internet this week …

 

Good Internet / 7.12.17 — kelsey stefanson — creative direction + graphic design — yeskelsey.com

To Experience

17776 Football (SB Nation)

Holy shit — this is amazing. I want to describe it, but I am afraid to because half of the enjoyment comes from the puzzled feeling the story gives you and discovering what the F is going on. Please read/watch/experience this so we can talk about it. It’s about the “future of football” but does this creation represent the future of the internet?!

To See

Airline Passenger Checks Single Can of Beer As His Only Piece of Luggage (Grub Street / New York Magazine)

Heroes, capes, etc.

To Read

Don’t Leave Health Care to a Free Market (New York Times)

Opinion piece from an Emergency Room doctor, detailing some of his patients’ experiences with medical treatment and the bills that followed. “These patients told me some variant of: ‘Thanks for what you’re doing, but I would rather that you hadn’t.’ …. In the neurology intensive care unit, with a bolt through his skull to measure the pressure around his brain, [one man] told me that while he did not have health insurance, he did have life insurance.”

To Read

Noam Chomsky: On Trump and the State of the Union (New York Times)

Chomsky: “For liberal opinion, the political crime of the century, as it is sometimes called, is Russian interference in American elections. The effects of the crime are undetectable, unlike the massive effects of interference by corporate power and private wealth, not considered a crime but the normal workings of democracy.” Click through to read more thoughts from someone who is definitely smarter than you (and me).

To Read

The Dumbest Criticism of Single Payer Health Care (Washington Post) and Why Single-Payer Health Care Saves Money (New York Times)

Single payer now. Single payer now. Single payer now. Single payer now. Single payer now. Single payer now. Single payer now. Single payer now. Single payer now. Single payer now. Single payer now. Single payer now. Single payer now. Single payer now. Single payer now. Single payer now. Single payer now. Single payer now.

To See

Vintage Photos Show L.A. Beaches Have Always Been Crowded AF (LAist)

Just some neat photos of probably-now-dead Angelenos enjoying the beaches.

 


 

Images via, from left: SB Nation, LAist, Grub Street.