Entries from July 2018 ↓

• Urban Refuge: How Cities Can Help Rebuild Declining Bee Populations – Yale E360
• 50 AI Twitter Influencers to Follow in 2018 | Cognilytica
• What is Bigfoot erotica? A Virginia congressional candidate accused her opponent of being into it. – The Washington Post
• Cohen may have the smoking gun – The Washington Post
• Flavia Dzodan on Twitter: "Good morning! I come bearing the gift of political appropriation! "How Advocates Are Using Feminist Language To Rebrand The Anti-Abortion Movement" https://t.co/fLWo0WZv2j"
• sister-hood on Twitter: "Raha Moharrak is the youngest Arab to climb Mount Everest, and the first Saudi woman to complete one of the most daunting challenges in mountaineering: the Seven Summits. https://t.co/tIqn00qk1a"
• Rubbish font by Frazer Price – FontSpace
• Everything You Need to Vote – Vote.org
• In ruling against Planet Fitness, Michigan court concludes trans women aren’t women – ThinkProgress
• Small Water Bodies in Great Britain and Ireland: Ecosystem function, human-generated degradation, and options for restorative action – ScienceDirect
• Twitter
  RT @jeffstaple: The 5 hottest years on record, in ranked order, were 2016, 2015, 2017, 2014 & 2010. “The sort of temps that are occ…
• Twitter
  RT @michikokakutani: All That’s Left Is the Vote: the midterm elections are the last obstacle to Trump’s consolidation of power—and the…
• All That’s Left Is the Vote | The New Yorker
• Simon StÃ¥lenhag’s hauntingly beautiful retro sci-fi art – CNN Style
• Presenting the least misleading map of the 2016 election – The Washington Post
• The Decline and Fall of Diet Coke and the Power Generation That Loved It | The New Yorker
• Two New Books Go in Search of the Real Lolita | Vanity Fair
• States sue Trump administration to block 3D printed guns | TheHill
• FEMA personnel chief Corey Coleman allegedly harassed women for years, according to FEMA officials – The Washington Post
  FEMA personnel chief harassed women, hired some as possible sexual partners for male employees, agency’s leader says
• Twitter
  RT @SteveStuWill: Three logicians walk into a bar…

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• “Let’s talk about genre”: Neil Gaiman and Kazuo Ishiguro in conversation
• Inside the Mind of Donald Trump – POLITICO Magazine
• HAIM – Want You Back (Official Video) – YouTube
• On July 31, 1968, a young, black man was reading the newspaper when he saw something that he had never seen before. With tears in his eyes, he started running and screaming throughout the house, calling for his mom. He would show his mom, and, she would g
• As Microsoft gains cloud share, Amazon and Google embrace hybrid cloud
• The vest vending machine at San Francisco’s airport is making bank – Business Insider
• Breaker: Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher – WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg
• Vala Afshar on Twitter: "Traveling light with brilliant folding https://t.co/qTjuIGZWas"
• Dan Kaminsky on Twitter: "There’s really nothing I’ve ever seen move as fast as deep learning. Code from two years ago is just…so 2016. (This is not the case for all of ML. Random Forests / XGB are still great.) https://t.co/XazwEjn5PE has been the m
• PocketCluster
• Week 89 – The Weekly List
• Opinion | How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women – The New York Times
• jxnblk/mdx-deck: MDX-based presentation decks
  MDX-based presentation decks
• The Disturbing Evolution Of ‘Lock Her Up’ | Cognoscenti
  “Lock her up” isn’t really a political rallying cry. It’s an attempt to criminalize female ambition and autonomy.
• Myths, monsters and the maze: how writers fell in love with the labyrinth | Books | The Guardian
• Hackers break into voting machines within 2 hours at Defcon – CBS News
• Purges: A Growing Threat to the Right to Vote | Brennan Center for Justice
• Voter purge frenzy after federal protections lifted, new report says
• Stacey Abrams for Governor – Vote on Nov 6, 2018.

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• Russian Hackers Appear to Shift Focus to U.S. Power Grid – The New York Times
• TSA is tracking regular travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance program – The Boston Globe
• How we deliver with GCP at the BBC – BBC Design + Engineering – Medium
• British Shorthair Battle of the Box Deathmatch 2017 – YouTube
• The Comedy-Destroying, Soul-Affirming Art of Hannah Gadsby – The New York Times
• Making ‘Redneck Boot Sandals’ became former sheriff’s full-time job
• Was the 2016 election legitimate? It’s now definitely worth asking the question
• Jameela Jamil: ​’I won’t become a double agent for the patriarchy’​ | Life and style | The Guardian
• Immigrant girl hides in auto shop after escaping attendants from Florida detention facility – The Washington Post
• HDEV
• “Indigo” | The New Yorker
• Inside Google’s Shadow Workforce – Bloomberg
• Scientists explain Michael Jackson’s ‘impossible’ antigravity tilt | Big Think
• Summer Vacation? Nah, I’m Taking a Creative Hiatus – The New York Times
• Different US Election Maps Tell ‘Different Versions of the Truth’ | WIRED
• Ben Wikler on Twitter: "This map—where each dot represents the same number of presidential votes—is the best representation I’ve seen of the 2016 election. It also gives you a sense of where people actually live. It’s called a dasymetric dot densi
• Maria Butina is just the tip of the Russia iceberg – The Washington Post
• Steps for Firmware Download on Mac OS
• X-T2 Camera Body Firmware Update | Fujifilm Global
• Detail of firmware update steps | Fujifilm Global
• Donor Diagrams
• Trump, Election Hacking, and the Georgia Governor’s Race
  This is a disturbing read:
• Humanoid | Cross Body Hybrid Bag
• Twitter
  Amazing images
• From Zero to ML on Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Next ’18) – YouTube
  sara
• What is ML Ops? Best Practices for DevOps for ML (Cloud Next ’18) – YouTube
  kaz

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• Predicting balls and strikes using TensorFlow.js – TensorFlow – Medium
• The Travel Line: Versatile Travel Backpack + Packing Tools by Peak Design — Kickstarter
• The Week in Tech: Inequality Rising – The New York Times
• Popula – "Incorruptible"
• The Tech Backlash We Really Need – The New Atlantis
• Men Recommend David Foster Wallace to Me – Electric Literature
• Academics explain David Foster Wallace to me | The Outline
• A 4-Day Workweek? A Test Run Shows a Surprising Result – The New York Times
• Sweida province: Isis knocked on doors then slaughtered families | World news | The Guardian
• ABBA Silver: ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ : NPR
• Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: a spoiler-filled review.
• Two blondes, parted in the middle. | nancynall.com
• How To Tell Someone They Sound Racist – YouTube
• How to Live in a Female Body | Village Voice
• screen capture – How to take a screenshot of the same precise region with a key combo? – Ask Different
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)  |  Google Cloud
  Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) gives you the flexibility to scale and control how workloads connect regionally and globally. When you connect your on-premises or remote resources to GCP, you’ll have global access to your VPCs without needing to replicate connectivity or administrative policies in each region.
• How Geotab Drives Smart City Innovation, Using BigQuery (Cloud Next ’18) – YouTube
  BQ GIS intro from Chad

  Geotab is one of the world’s leading asset tracking companies, with more than 1M vehicles under service every day. They use BigQuery as their enterprise data warehouse to derive new insights from their location data – opening up new possibilities of value for their customers and entirely new lines of business.

• Building the World’s Largest Enterprise Data Warehouse with BigQuery (Cloud Next ’18) – YouTube
  w/ Jordan Tigani

  This talk, by one of the founders of the BigQuery team and a founder and current CTO of Looker, will make the case that BigQuery is not just another Enterprise Data Warehouse. It will show how BigQuery’s unique properties follow from its technical architecture. The talk will announce new performance, security, cost, and manageability features. It will also show tricks and tips for getting more out of BigQuery. And finally it will show you how to push BigQuery to do things that you never thought were possible in a Data Warehouse.

• GoogleCloudPlatform/marketplace-k8s-app-example
  This repository contains example Kubernetes applications ("apps") that meet the requirements for integration with Google Cloud Marketplace. For a complete description of those requirements, see the technical onboarding guide. TODO: add link

  The related marketplace-k8s-app-tools repository contains utilities for testing the integration of an app with Marketplace, including a test harness for simulating UI-based deployment. The repository is submoduled under /vendor/marketplace-tools.

• GoogleContainerTools/kaniko: Build Container Images In Kubernetes
  Build Container Images In Kubernetes
• Knative
  Kubernetes-based platform to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads
• About Us – HackMD
  collaborative markdown notes

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• 13 Widely Reviewed Books You May Not Have Read Yet
• Google executive warns of face ID bias – BBC News

  Facial recognition technology does not yet have “the diversity it needs” and has “inherent biases”, a top Google executive has warned.
  The remarks, from the firm’s director of cloud computing, Diane Greene, came after rival Amazon’s software wrongly identified 28 members of Congress, disproportionately people of colour, as police suspects.

• Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life
• Climate change is supercharging a hot and dangerous summer – The Washington Post
• New York Could Become First Major U.S. City to Cap Uber and Similar Vehicles – The New York Times
• Study: Seattle is the best place to live, if you can afford it
• Amazon’s AWS continues to lead its performance highlights – TechCrunch
• How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies – POLITICO Magazine
• 10 of the best words in the world (that don’t translate into English) | World news | The Guardian
• KHNL: New species (a hybrid of a whale and a dolphin) discovered off Hawaii
• Irish craic explained – Top 6 levels of craic you can reach | IrishCentral.com
• 10 of the best words in the world (that don’t translate into English) | World news | The Guardian
• Paul Lisicky on Twitter: "New species (a hybrid of a whale and a dolphin) discovered off Hawaii: https://t.co/4xdQZI56qS"
• Mary Higgins Clark Warned Me to Fear Men, But I Didn’t Listen | CrimeReads
• Why Decentralization Matters – Chris Dixon – Medium
• whistleblower-provides-emails-that-show-stormy-daniels-arrest-was-pre-planned
• Mona Eltahawy on Twitter: "Ursula K. Le Guin ends this incredible commencement speech at Bryn Mawr in 1986 with one of the most powerful passages I’ve ever read. “We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all t
• Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots | American Civil Liberties Union
• How the Bullet Journal stopped me lying to myself | 1843
• evidence-shows-hackers-changed-votes-in-the-2016-electi-1827871206
• Michiko Kakutani Is Fighting for Truth in a Post-Truth Era | Time
• Drug giant Glaxo teams up with DNA testing company 23andMe

  Home DNA test results from the 5 million customers of 23andMe will now be used by drug giant GlaxoSmithKline to design new drugs, the two companies announced Wednesday.

• Williams Gibson: On Technophobia and the Power of Film | Literary Hub
• Claire McCaskill, a vulnerable Democrat running for reelection, targeted in hacking attempt by Russian spies – The Washington Post
• The Bloody Brilliance of Novelist Megan Abbott | Time
• World War II pilot Mary Ellis dies at 101 – CNN
• The Summer’s Smartest and Most Innovative Thrillers | Vanity Fair
• Opinion | What Feminists Can Do for Boys – The New York Times
  Jessica Valenti
• Michelle Williams on Her Marriage and Fight for Equal Pay | Vanity Fair

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• Eagle Poem by Joy Harjo | Poetry Foundation
• The Big Business of Being Gwyneth Paltrow – The New York Times
• Maria Butina: ties emerge between NRA, alleged spy and Russian billionaire | US news | The Guardian
• Over $109bn wiped off Facebook’s market cap after growth shock | Technology | The Guardian
• Sex redefined : Nature News & Comment
• This photographer spent two years secretly capturing London’s night bus riders
• About – Sharice Davids

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• All Sessions | Google Cloud Next ’18 – YouTube
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Cloud Services Platform: bringing the best of the cloud to you
• Two histories of Myst – Picking Up the Pieces – Medium
• Parasite in cat poop could be reducing our fear of failure, study finds
• Mother Jones on Twitter: "Environmentalists just won a critical victory in Congress https://t.co/Fy9yUy7ere… "
• lawmakers-just-stripped-anti-environment-riders-from-the-defense-bill
• Femen co-founder Oksana Shachko found dead in Paris flat | World news | The Guardian
• Watch "Google Cloud Platform" on YouTube
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Bringing the best of serverless to you
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Cloud Services Platform: bringing the best of the cloud to you
• Google Cloud goes all-in on hybrid with its new Cloud Services Platform – TechCrunch
• Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration and delivery platform – TechCrunch
• Exclusive: White House stops announcing calls with foreign leaders – CNNPolitics
• The Prairie Wife
• A Guide for Psychedelic Virgins and Skeptics? – Los Angeles Review of Books
• Revealing Charlie Jane Anders’ The City in the Middle of the Night | Tor.com
• Painted Ladies by Rachel Vorona Cote | Poetry Foundation
• Mountain View’s unusual rule for Facebook: No free food – SFChronicle.com
• (7) Google Cloud – YouTube
• tensorflow-without-a-phd/tensorflow-planespotting at master · GoogleCloudPlatform/tensorflow-without-a-phd · GitHub
• docs/README.md at master · knative/docs · GitHub
• GitHub – knative/docs: Documentation for users of Knative components
  Knative (pronounced kay-nay-tiv) extends Kubernetes to provide a set of middleware components that are essential to build modern, source-centric, and container-based applications that can run anywhere: on premises, in the cloud, or even in a third-party data center.
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Bringing the best of serverless to you
• Michael Stipe, R.E.M., and the Anxiety of Influence
• Crush the Midterms
• marisa kabas on Twitter: "Big news! We’ve launched CRUSH THE MIDTERMS (@crush18midterms), a tool creating customized plans for voters to strategically spend their time and money until Election Day. Want progressives to win big in November? Time to make
• Young Jean Lee’s Unsafe Spaces – The New York Times
• (7) NASA Live – Earth From Space (HDVR) ♥ ISS LIVE FEED #AstronomyDay2018 | Subscribe now! – YouTube

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• Making Kubernetes IP addresses static on Google Container Engine | Terrence Ryan
  I’ve been giving a talk and demo about Kubernetes for a few months now, and during my demo, I have to wait for an ephemeral, external IP address from a load balancer to show off that Kubernetes does in fact work.  Consequently, I get asked “Is there any way to have a static address so that you can actually point a hostname at it?” The answer is: of course you can.
• The TLS interview: Twenty Questions with Ottessa Moshfegh

  Amie Barrodale

• ‘Life,’ Keith Richards’s Memoir – The New York Times
• A Sleeping Beauty Hopes Hibernation Is the Answer to All Life’s Problems
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  RT @christinawilkie: NEW: Russian hackers have penetrated U.S. electric utilities and are positioning themselves for an attack, reports…
• Twitter
  RT @Law_Mana: Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, a drafter of the Refugee Act of 1980, resigns from the Homeland Security A…
• From Michiko Kakutani to Anne Tyler: The Best Books of July 2018
• Memorizing these three statistics will help you understand the world | Bill Gates
• Twitter
  RT @kimmaicutler: "Housing is eating the world" because we designed it to do exactly that. We made homeownership the de facto social…
• Google Power Women Of The Cloud
• Patricia Clarkson on Sharp Objects

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• Canada by rail, your way | Canada Rail Vacations
• When rapes are reported and nothing happens – StarTribune.com
• White House Protests Set To Continue For 7th Day After Organizers Raise $50K
• Voter purge frenzy after federal protections lifted, new report says
• HDR Software – Best HDR Photo Editor for Mac & PC | Aurora HDR 2018
• Homepage – Nik Collection by DxO
• HDR Efex Pro 2 Tour – Nik Collection Help
• Fujifilm 33mm f/1.0 Set to Be the First Mirrorless f/1.0 Autofocus Lens
• CyberKnife Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer | CTCA

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• Lakes Rivers Streams by Michael Dickman | Poetry Magazine
• Internal turmoil slows rebuilding of Puerto Rico’s power grid
• WIRED on Twitter: "Everyone loves the white sandy beaches of Hawaii, until they realize they’re made of fish poop: https://t.co/PMj9LEKTBC… https://t.co/SJtCbQm98k"
• Google AI Blog: Announcing Cirq: An Open Source Framework for NISQ Algorithms
  Today at the First International Workshop on Quantum Software and Quantum Machine Learning (QSML), the Google AI Quantum team announced the public alpha of Cirq, an open source framework for NISQ computers. Cirq is focused on near-term questions and helping researchers understand whether NISQ quantum computers are capable of solving computational problems of practical importance. Cirq is licensed under Apache 2, and is free to be modified or embedded in any commercial or open source package.
• google/data-transfer-project: The Data Transfer Project makes it easy for people to transfer their data between online service providers. We are establishing a common framework, including data models and protocols, to enable direct transfer of data both i
  The Data Transfer Project makes it easy for people to transfer their data between online service providers. We are establishing a common framework, including data models and protocols, to enable direct transfer of data both into and out of participating online service providers. http://datatransferproject.dev
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  The Data Transfer Project was formed in 2017 to create an open-source, service-to-service data portability platform so that all individuals across the web could easily move their data between online service providers whenever they want.

  The contributors to the Data Transfer Project believe portability and interoperability are central to innovation. Making it easier for individuals to choose among services facilitates competition, empowers individuals to try new services and enables them to choose the offering that best suits their needs.

• Data Transfer Project: From Theory to Practice
• Introducing Data Transfer Project: an open source platform promoting universal data portability | Google Open Source Blog
  In 2011, we launched Takeout, a new way for Google users to download or transfer a copy of the data they store or create in a variety of industry-standard formats. Since then, we’ve continued to invest in Takeout—we now call it Download Your Data—and today, our users can download a machine-readable copy of the data they have stored in 50+ Google products, with more on the way.

  Now, we’re taking our commitment to portability a step further. In tandem with Microsoft, Twitter, and Facebook we’re announcing the Data Transfer Project, an open source initiative dedicated to developing tools that will enable consumers to transfer their data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it. Download Your Data users can already do this; they can transfer their information directly to their Dropbox, Box, MS OneDrive, and Google Drive accounts today. With this project, the development of which we mentioned in our blog post about preparations for the GDPR, we’re looking forward to working with companies across the industry to bring this type of functionality to individuals across the web.

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