Linkdump 11-04-2018

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• Are music videos behind the rise in UK's violent crime? | Sky News 
  Because the problem is rock and/or roll. Why can't these gangsters listen to some ballet like normal people.
  (tags: betteridgesLawOfHeadlines news crime music bloodytories fuckwits politics policing acab incrediblyobscurereference )
• Police use Experian Marketing Data for AI Custody Decisions | Big Brother Watch 
  Be afraid, be very afraid
  (tags: acab privacy ai cyberpunk tech livinginthefuture dystopia crime policing capitalism )
• David Reich: ‘Neanderthals were perhaps capable of many modern human behaviours’ | Guardian 
  "There was never a single trunk population in the human past. It has been mixtures all the way down."
  (tags: anthropology racism science handwringingLeftyGuardianistasFTW race history )
• The American Chopper meme, explained | Vox 
  Apparently it's all about Socratic dialectics. And rednecks with Hulkamania moustaches throwing chairs at each other. Personally, of course, I favour the Downfall meme as a best fit for my own personal style of philosophical discourse.
  (tags: philosophy nerd meme socialmedia millennials language #getoffmylawn culture internet )
• Brunel University finds that superheroes keep us sane | Geek Native 
  Here come the new gods, same as the old gods.
  (tags: natureoftruth narrative religion psychology dataisbeautiful nerd sf )