Entries from November 2018 ↓

• The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome | The New Yorker
• Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems by Andrew D. Selbst, danah boyd, Sorelle Friedler, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Janet Vertesi :: SSRN
• Opinion | Europe’s Jew Hatred, and Ours – The New York Times
• Robert Reich: Trump is Violating the Three Basic Principles of the Rule of Law | Opinion

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• A Surfer’s Perspective on Malibu in Flames | The New Yorker
• US military agency invests $100m in genetic extinction technologies | Science | The Guardian
• US military agency invests $100m in genetic extinction technologies | Science | The Guardian
• World’s leading geneticists call for investigation into ‘deeply disturbing’ claims – CNN
• Scientists call for probe into ‘deeply disturbing’ claims of gene-edited babies in China
• The Secrets of Sleep | The New Yorker
• Andrew Ayer on Twitter: "Headphone software made by Sennheiser has been installing a root certificate, plus the private key, onto people’s computers: https://t.co/9VMNDcLslc Like Superfish, anyone can use this key, which is the same on all installations,
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• Congress has refused to restore net neutrality as Dec. 10 deadline nears | Ars Technica
• Jesmyn Ward: Racism “Built Into the Bones” of Mississippi – The Atlantic
• Strange earthquake waves rippled around Earth, and nobody knows why
• Climate scientist reveals CNN cut her interview and gave the time to Rick Santorum to ‘spread disinformation’
• Prosecutors worked to cut sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein a break | Miami Herald
• A New Report Finds That Climate Change is the World’s Worst Public Health Crisis – Mother Jones
• Send Your Words of Hope to Survivors – Just Detention International
• 4 Million Babies Are Born Every Year, So Why Do We Still Know So Little About Childbirth? – Mother Jones
• Alexander Acosta gave Jeffrey Epstein the deal of a lifetime | Miami Herald
• google/novm: Experimental KVM-based VMM for containers, written in Go.
  Experimental KVM-based VMM for containers, written in Go.
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  RT @pourmecoffee: We are all writing the Handmaid’s Tale sequel.
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  RT @marynmck: Well, this was lost between the holiday and the climate report, and it shouldn’t have been.

  This estimate of 153,…

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  RT @tomscocca: We’ve destroyed the world within my lifespan and I’m not even 50 years old
• It’s time for Silicon Valley to outgrow its Sheryl Sandbergs
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  RT @EricHolthaus: If an asteroid was going to hit the Earth in 2030, we wouldn’t be debating money. We’d be repurposing factories, in…
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  RT @JaneMayerNYer: Only 45% of American men would feel "very comfortable" with a female president!
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  RT @env_story: Environmental storytelling.

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• He took a crash course in bioethics, then created CRISPR babies – STAT
• It’s not the economy, stupid. Here’s why focusing on money misses the big climate picture. | Grist
• Autism & Late Diagnosis – I Wish I’d Known About Sensory Processing Differences – Neurodivergent Rebel
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rebecca Traister, Chris Hayes, and Sherrilyn Ifill | On President Trump – YouTube
• ‘Nancy’ Comic Artist Olivia Jaimes Gives Extended Interview
• Elkhart, Indiana, Police Chief Suspended for 30 Days… — ProPublica
• Please Enjoy Knickers, An Enormous Australian Cow
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• Former Employee Describes Facebook’s ‘Black People Problem’
• The Retraction Watch Leaderboard – Retraction Watch
• People Getting Stabbed In Medieval Art Who Just Don’t Give a Damn
• Julian Reyes on Twitter: "This is a great conceptual diagram of how atm CO2, warming, and changes in precip affect different aspects of grassland ecosystems. Of course, there’s also interacting effects with management. Would have been great for my dissert

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• Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy, sources say | US news | The Guardian
• Daily Routines: Charles Darwin
• Alberto Cairo on Twitter: "It seems that @paulkrugman has really enjoyed @MichaelEMann’s ‘The Madhouse Effect’ https://t.co/YNdDpweDIf It’s a really good book, but I still prefer the much more frightening and thorough ‘The Hockey Stick and the Climate War
• Opinion | The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial – The New York Times
• Fair Fight Georgia | End Voter Suppression | Donate Today
• Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Is Tainted by Crisis After Crisis – Bloomberg
• Best Books of 2018 : NPR
• People Who Buy Smart Speakers Have Given Up on Privacy, Researchers Find – Motherboard
• space-photos-of-the-week-voyager-probes
• How AWS Reinvented the Internet and Became Amazon’s Cash Cow
• Creeping Through My Home Town (for Research!) | The New Yorker
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to a Woman for the Fifth Time in History – The New York Times
• This City’s Overdose Deaths Have Plunged. Can Others Learn From It? – The New York Times
• Former Googler Sarah Cooper wrote a satirical book for working women – Business Insider
• Vaping By A Freeway : gifs
• National Climate Assessment: 3 takeaways – Vox
• I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.
• Michael Gerson on Twitter: "“Both Trump and Nixon share the same ideology of power — a belief that, because their enemies are ruthless, they must be more ruthless still.” https://t.co/Zb7TjpuB8e"
• The IMEU on Twitter: "The Canary Mission blacklist, which harasses and bullies students organizing for Palestinian rights, is used by both Israeli intelligence and the FBI to target and investigate Palestine advocates. https://t.co/9BQUQ1Xa4d… https://t
• 17 ‘Small,’ But Significant, Lifestyle Changes That Help People With Anxiety | HuffPost Life
• How Children Change the Way We See | The New Yorker
• Proof Laptop Messenger | Messengers | Timbuk2
• Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford police shooting: cops shoot armed black man – Vox
• 6 Signs You’re Being Taken Advantage of at Work – The Muse
• Getting started with Kubeflow Pipelines | Google Cloud Blog
  Getting started with Kubeflow Pipelines

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• The women killed on one day around the world – BBC News
• Free Saudi women who fought for the right to drive | Amnesty International UK
• EXCLUSIVE: Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies – MIT Technology Review
• Norway Becomes World’s First Country to Ban Deforestation – EcoWatch
• Parker Higgins on Twitter: "Some good pieces on the case(s) to dismantle DHS include: – @fordm in The New Republic: https://t.co/4rx29r5IpL – @trevortimm in The Guardian: https://t.co/zZo0CgT3Js – @DLind in Vox: https://t.co/Qi0Nf9fvbM"
• Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead It Unleashed a Catastrophe. – The New York Times
• 94 Year Old Former LIFE Magazine Photographer Fred Lyon Shares His Incredible Photos of San Francisco
• Questions academics can ask to decolonise their classrooms | Foluke’s African Skies
• How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet | The New Yorker
• The Website That Shows How a Free Press Can Die – The New York Times
• ❄️👹 Goth Ms. Krampus 👹❄️ on Twitter: "did you know you can donate vaccines to kids overseas? that’s pretty cool, but did you know you can also fill it out in an antivaxxer’s name and a notification will be sent to their house of how many kid
• Ivanka Trump ignores rules because she doesn’t treat the White House as a real job – The Washington Post
• A Warming Climate Brings New Crops to Frigid Zones – WSJ
• Opinion | Everything Is for Sale Now. Even Us. – The New York Times
• Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding—Stephen Wolfram Blog
• Why Airlines Want to Make You Suffer | The New Yorker
• Opinion | How Loneliness Is Tearing America Apart – The New York Times

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• Michiko Kakutani on Twitter: "Studies show that white supremacists and far-right militia groups have attacked and killed as many or more Americans than any other terrorist movements in recent years. via @BrennanCenter https://t.co/4sxjCrHcn4"
• GitHub – ekzhu/SetSimilaritySearch: All-pair set similarity search on millions of sets in Python and on a laptop (faster than MinHash LSH)
• 48 Smart Holiday Gift Ideas That Everyone Will Connect With: WIRED Wish List 2018 | WIRED
• 5-Day Fast Portable Charger (13,000 mAh) | Nimble
• ESPRO Ultralight Travel Press Bottle | REI Co-op
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• How to Buy a Car Without Interacting With a Human – The Toast
• Mars Landing: NASA’s InSight Is Built for Absurd Conditions | WIRED
• U.S. Climate Report Warns of Damaged Environment and Shrinking Economy – The New York Times
• Why Publish a Dire Federal Climate Report on Black Friday? – The Atlantic
• DHS wants to use credit scores to determine who gets to be a legal U.S. resident.
• Sun-dimming aerosols could curb global warming – CNN
• Books of the Year 2018 | Financial Times
• Hand Sown… Home Grown (1969), Silk Purse (1970) and Linda Ronstadt (1972): Three Great Slightly Lost Albums By A Superstar – Tom Cox
• Behind Google Cloud Chief’s Departure, Tensions With Execs — The Information

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• Somali Workers in Minnesota Force Amazon to Negotiate – The New York Times
• How Fei-Fei Li Will Make Artificial Intelligence Better for Humanity | WIRED
• James H. Billington, 89, Dies; Led Library of Congress Into Digital Age – The New York Times

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• Securely Connecting to VM Instances  |  Compute Engine Documentation  |  Google Cloud
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  –project my-project \
  –zone us-central1-a \
  — -NL 2222:localhost:8888
• Helping My Fair-Skinned Son Embrace His Blackness – The Atlantic
• Google USB-C earbuds cost $30, Pixel Buds features – 9to5Google
• How Facebook’s P.R. Firm Brought Political Trickery to Tech – The New York Times
• A Soap Label To Save The World From Future Hitlers – The Establishment
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• Ohio Republicans declare motherhood “necessary,” want to make it mandatory | Salon.com
• Democracy is in crisis around the world. Why? – The Washington Post
• Holiday Okini
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  RT @dearnonnatives: It celebrates Native genocide.
• Meredith Frost on Twitter: "Marvin Gaye’s isolated vocals for “I Heard It Through The Grapevine." Simply incredible. https://t.co/ztG6l3lM2U… "
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• Scientists discover why wombat poop is cube-shaped – CNET
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  RT @sbg1: Read this, then read it again. No President since Nixon has so nakedly pushed to use Justice Dept as a tool of poli…
• Photos: The Ubiquity of Smartphones – The Atlantic
• Climbing Chameleon T-Shirt – clothingmonster.com
• The HI-SEAS Mars Habitat Is Turning Into a Moon Simulation – The Atlantic
• Tactile Turn Glider Pen – Titanium – JetPens.com
• Blog – Fountain Pens – JetPens.com
• Buy It For Life: Writing Tools and Bags – JetPens.com
• After 20,000 workers walked out, Google said it got the message. The workers disagree. – Recode
  Recode’s Kara Swisher talks with six of the organizers of the Nov. 1 protests, who say the company’s response has been deeply inadequate.

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• Questlove Expertly Curates Soundtrack for Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ Book Tour: Listen | Billboard
• OpenNMT/OpenNMT-tf: Neural machine translation and sequence learning using TensorFlow
• Mercury 13 – Wikipedia
• Jerrie Cobb – Wikipedia

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