Hawthorne effect

bart_calendar uses language about the people reveling in the Ashley Madison hack.

Life is too confusing

Ambiguity panic

Thanx to Pandagon.

Physiological

Ethical massage and erections

Thanx to Metafilter

It's complicated

Clear thoughts on convention harassment policies, with particular attention to the Antonelli mess.

Thanx to lydy

Dead, Undead, Other?

Happy 125th, H. P. Lovecraft, where- and whatever you are.

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

ETA: And he is remembered.