Entries from August 2019 ↓

• Menstruating Migrant Girls ‘Visibly’ Bleeding Through Pants While Detained, Lawsuit Says | HuffPost
• Voicing Our Fears

  “When learning of any new diagnosis, people often ask: why him? He’s such a good guy. He must have been so angry! She isn’t a resentful person, so why did she get colon cancer? The moral theory of cancer is pernicious and enduring.” https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/08/30/voicing-our-fears/

• What to see in Turkey: iconoclasm in Antalya – TheTLS
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  RT @DrLindseyFitz: Earrings like this depicting Louis XVI’s head being chopped off by a guillotine were popular shortly after the Fren…

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• Bayesian Methods for Hackers
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  RT @EricaJoy: This was extremely brave and I thank Jennifer Blakely for her courage.

  This relationship was known about by many,…

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  RT @Travis_Waldron: Five years ago, hundreds of corporations and big banks pledged to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains…
• The Verge: Google’s top lawyer allegedly had affairs with multiple employees
• Fortune: The Uneven Consequences of a Google Extramarital Affair: The Broadsheet
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• Business Insider: Google rocked by David Drummond claims, shows permissive culture
• CNN: Top Google exec faces renewed scrutiny after former employee details alleged affair
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• The Longest Ride of His Life – Texas Monthly
• Black in AI

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• Could American Evangelicals Spot the Antichrist? Here Are the Biblical Predictions: – Benjamin L. Corey
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  RT @jedshug: “What might have gone wrong with Georgia’s election? Look no further than voting machine #3.
  On machine #3, GOP won…
• Allegations of missing votes in Georgia turned over to Congress
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  RT @michikokakutani: Trump has instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Alaska’s 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Fores…
• Ann Nelson, Expert on Particle Physics, Is Dead at 61 – The New York Times
• kube-aws: Highly Available, Scalable, and Secure Kubernetes on AWS | AWS Open Source Blog
• Alone in the Dark: Sady Doyle on Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers | Interviews | Roger Ebert
• Trump pushes to allow new logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest – The Washington Post
• The best wireless earbuds: Beats, Apple, Sony, Samsung, and more – The Verge
• My Time at Google and After – Jennifer Blakely – Medium

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  RT @ScienceAlert: This is the rare sight of a ctenophore, or comb jelly, with its tentacles fully extended, at a depth of 1,460 metre…
• City on Edge: Photographs From Hong Kong’s Summer of Protest – The New York Times

  It’s been over 80 days since the mass demonstrations in Hong Kong first started. That means the protests have lasted longer than the 2014 Umbrella Movement. This time, they show no sign of stopping. https://nyti.ms/2zrMxJG

• Paleontologists find a 231 million years old saber-toothed Triassic squirrel
• News | New Finds for Mars Rover, Seven Years After Landing
• The Amazon rainforest is on fire. Climate scientists fear a tipping point is near – Los Angeles Times
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  RT @GirlsWhoCode: We surveyed over 1,000 of our alumni. HALF OF THEM have had a negative experience in a tech interview.

  Think all-m…

• WEFT Sessions – Flat Moon Theory – YouTube
• Koshari: The Ultimate Vegan, Egyptian Comfort Food – Tenderly
• Brazil Angrily Rejects Millions in Amazon Aid Pledged at G7, Then Accepts British Aid – The New York Times
• Former Star Google and Uber Engineer Charged With Theft of Trade Secrets – The New York Times
• For Young Female Coders, Internship Interviews Can Be Toxic | WIRED
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  RT @myth_vs_facts: Anamorphic image of Jules Verne
• Federal Election Commission to effectively shut down. Now what? – Center for Public Integrity
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  RT @pastpunditry: Important stat to pair with this: White men make up about 31% of the U.S. population.

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  RT @francismmaxwell: $2 Billion was raised for Notre Dame in two days.
  Netflix paid $200 million so people could watch friends re-runs…
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  RT @JamilSmith: If we destroy the Amazon, @yayitsrob notes, humanity can’t get it back. Even if we could replant all the trees, the…
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  RT @DougSaunders: Caption: "With this ingenious trick you can easily smuggle a chocolate bar into a US cinema!"
• Best Commuter Backpacks | Backpack Reviews 2019
• Amazon.com : Thule 3202035 Paramount 24L Daypack, Black : Sports & Outdoors
• The Backpack – Large / Black Accents – ISM
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  RT @JamesGleick: I’ve never loved Angela Merkel as much. Watch her trying not to roll her eyes or burst into laughter.
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  RT @jonburkeUK: Today’s Bank Holiday heat record is a full 5C hotter than the previous record set just three years ago. That’s a Fe…
• The Amazon Fires Are Political – The Atlantic
• The Al Franken case shows journalism’s limits in litigating #MeToo.
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  RT @matt_cam: "I can’t go back," my client told me as soon as he sat down at the table in ICE detention.

  "They will kill me."

  I…

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  RT @film_girl: NetNewsWire is back!! @brentsimmons and others have worked SO hard on this and I love that it’s OSS! Congrats Brent…
• What Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Really Sells to Women – The Atlantic
• Untitled (https://www.kalw.org/post/one-planet-catastrophic-consequences-arctics-thawing-permafrost)
  The Catastrophic Consequences of the Arctic’s Thawing Permafrost
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  The Catastrophic Consequences of the Arctic’s Thawing Permafrost
• One Planet: The Catastrophic Consequences of the Arctic’s Thawing Permafrost | KALW

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  RT @clairefrwordley: My article has been read 12,300 x, yet the international press have barely reported anything of the absolute devast…
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  RT @schemaly: In defense of nature: women at the forefront. Their murders, increasing numbers over years and perpetrate often by…
• It’s not just Brazil’s Amazon rainforest that’s ablaze – Bolivian fires are threatening people and wildlife
• In defense of nature: women at the forefront | UNDP
• The false prophet in the White House

  This might be the truest article I’ve read about the Cult of Donald Trump, whose supporters really do say (and have told me) he was sent to Washington by God. https://theweek.com/articles/860337/false-prophet-white-house

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  RT @LAM_Barrett: elizabeth warren’s policies really should smile more
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  RT @GreatDismal: We’ve never had a cultural model for an apocalypse that lasts for a century or two. We don’t even know how to make…
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  RT @JaneMayerNYer: Trump WH complains G7 leaders are forcing US to focus on “niche” issues – like climate change…
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• For me, the Women’s Equality party’s latest battle is personal | Sue Black | Politics | The Guardian
• The Education of Elizabeth Warren – The New York Times
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  RT @NatGeo: Najin is one of the last two northern white rhinos on the planet—here’s the ambitious plan that experts have to sav…
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2019/08/24/dairy-queen-burgers-are-not-made-human-flesh-county-coroner-is-forced-confirm/?tid=sm_tw
  RT @washingtonpost: Dairy Queen burgers are not made of human flesh, county coroner is forced to confirm
• Dairy Queen burgers do not contain human meat, company and officials confirm – The Washington Post
• Scientists extract eggs from northern white rhino for first-ever IVF attempt
• The 1619 Project Isn’t Unpatriotic, It’s Just Anti-Whiteness

  The ‘1619 Project’ Isn’t Anti-American — It’s Anti-White Identity Politics

• Electoral College Members Can Defy Voters’ Wishes, Court Rules – The New York Times
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  RT @meowlibrary: lazy caturday
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  RT @OttawaCitizen: Is it immoral to have babies in the era of climate change?
• Nationwide Bell Ringing Ceremony for the 400th – Partnerships (U.S. National Park Service)
• fix ‘pipeline-runner’ role to allow creation of VirtualServices · Issue #3874 · kubeflow/kubeflow
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• 12 Best Lotions for Dry Skin 2019
• Netflix Discovers Severe Kubernetes HTTP/2 Vulnerabilities – The New Stack
• Opinion | A Child Bumps Her Head. What Happens Next Depends on Race. – The New York Times
• ‘You idiots … The planet’s on f–ing fire!’ Bill Nye’s message to leaders stalling on climate change | National Post
• Essays in Philosophy | Vol 20 | Iss 1

  Is Procreation Immoral?

• Is it immoral to have babies in the era of climate change? | Ottawa Citizen
• Make PNG Transparent – Online PNG Tools
• Prescription Prices, Coupons & Pharmacy Information – GoodRx
• Poor Prince Andrew is ‘appalled’ by Epstein. Let that be an end to it | Marina Hyde | Opinion | The Guardian
• #450: How to tighten up your game at work when you’re depressed. – Captain Awkward

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• 2010 and beyond…life after the dome
• Federal officials concerned about Trump admin plan to police social media censorship – CNN
• AF+MF to fine-tune focusing : Auto Focus System Special Site | FUJIFILM
• Expert Summaries of Mueller Report: A Collection
• ‘Strangers and Cousins,’ by Leah Hager Cohen – The Washington Post
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  RT @MoiraDonegan: A healthy country that is totally a democracy and not a hellish dystopia is one in which the temporary extension of…
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  The Amazon is burning because the world eats so much meat
• The Amazon is burning because the world eats so much meat – CNN
  The Amazon is burning because the world eats so much meat
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  RT @erik_kaars: A thread of medieval lions who would rather not:

  This one is 1000% done with everyone’s shit today.

  (Clermont-Fer…

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  RT @fblpalmeira: @eJett @DaniRabaiotti I am just one of many Brazilian conservationists who is learning to live in a landscape of fe…
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  RT @OnThisDayShe: #OTD in 1856 Eunice Foote’s paper, ‘Circumstances affecting the heat of the sun’s rays’—demonstrating carbon dioxi…
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  RT @WWF: The #AmazonRainforest is burning. 73,000 fires have been recorded this year – 70% more than in the same period in 2…
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  RT @jamescdyer: Wow. Just… wow. Just went through LAX immigration. Presented my journalist visa and was stopped by the CBP agent…
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  Amazon Fires: The Case for Climate Grief
  "Let Yourself Feel How Bad This Is"
• Amazon Fires: The Case for Climate Grief
  Amazon Fires: The Case for Climate Grief
  "Let Yourself Feel How Bad This Is"
• Amazon Fires: The Case for Climate Grief
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  RT @matthewstoller: We all die soon if we don’t stop the Amazon from burning down. Maybe we need to put this problem in terms careerist…
• Effectiveness of polypill for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases (PolyIran): a pragmatic, cluster-randomised trial – The Lancet
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  RT @AFP: AFP map locating wildfires in the #Amazon as of August 22-23

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  RT @sarahkendzior: Shameful, dangerous behavior from the DNC. The climate crisis impacts everything and is connected to Trump’s autocr…
• Amazon fires: Merkel and Macron urge G7 to debate ’emergency’ – BBC News
• How YouTube Radicalized Brazil – The New York Times
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  RT @wwf_uk: If we lose the Amazon, we lose the fight against climate change. The time is now to #ActForTheAmazon.

  ⚠️ Emergency…

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  RT @WWF: The #AmazonRainforest produces 20% of the world’s oxygen and contains 140 billion tonnes of carbon locked up in its…
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  RT @maxjohnporter: This is the most extraordinary and important piece of journalism any of us will read in a long time.

  In Bolsonaro…

• In Bolsonaro’s burning Brazilian Amazon, all our futures are being consumed | Eliane Brum | Opinion | The Guardian
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  RT @ACLU: Ramon Torres, a U.S. citizen, was detained for four days — despite carrying a U.S. passport, a driver’s license, an…
• google/inverting-proxy: Reverse proxy that inverts the direction of traffic
  Reverse proxy that inverts the direction of traffic
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  RT @LettersOfNote: Dorothy Parker, born on this day in 1893, informs her editor that she has writer’s block.
• Jeffrey Epstein’s Intellectual Enabler | The New Republic
• suzanne moore on Twitter: "This is just brilliant . Mctaggart lecture. Every hard earned word. https://t.co/TGcdh8TgSl"
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  RT @MrStevenCree: ‘The series follows a bombshell 2018 report from the World Wildlife Fund that found the Earth’s animal, bird, and f…
• White House considers new project seeking links between mental health and violent behavior – The Washington Post

  Some news: the White House has been briefed on a proposal to develop a way to identify early signs of changes in people w mental illness that could lead to violent behavior. The proposal is part a larger initiative to establish a new agency called HARPA > https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/22/white-house-considers-new-project-seeking-links-between-mental-health-violent-behavior/

• Moneyness: Starbucks, monetary superpower
• Double Feature: ‘Goodfellas’ And ‘My Blue Heaven’ Each Tell The Story Of The Same Mobster, But Could Not Be Any More Different | Decider
• Jay Inslee drops out of 2020 presidential election – CNNPolitics

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• Alaska Reels During Summer of Fire, Heat and Floods – Scientific American
  RT @sciam: Alaska’s average temperature in July was 58.1 degrees Fahrenheit — 5.4 degrees above the average.
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  RT @wwf_uk: There was worldwide outcry when the Notre Dame cathedral was on fire. Why is there not the same level of outrage fo…
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  RT @nytimes: The fires burning in the Amazon rain forest are so large and widespread that smoke has wafted thousands of miles aw…
• Sysadmin Tools – Michael Warren Lucas
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• Mary Annaïse Heglar: The Fight for Climate Justice Requires a New Narrative | Inverse
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• The New American Homeless | The New Republic
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  RT @theintercept: Scientists warn that losing another fifth of Brazil’s Amazon will trigger the feedback loop known as dieback, in wh…
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  RT @lak_gcp: 1 million rows per second!!! ✈️
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  RT @EricaJoy: why are men?
• In Bolsonaro’s Brazil, a Showdown Over Amazon Rainforest

  Scientists warn that losing another fifth of Brazil’s Amazon will trigger the feedback loop known as dieback, in which the forest begins to dry out and burn in a cascading system collapse, beyond the reach of any subsequent human intervention or regret. https://interc.pt/31V1DUa

• Mary Annaïse Heglar: The Fight for Climate Justice Requires a New Narrative | Inverse
• A Day In The Life – Tom Cox
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• The Internet’s Invisible Cleanup Crew
• On me, and the Media Lab | … My heart’s in Accra
• Cracking the Box: Interpreting Black Box Machine Learning Models – Open Data Science – Your News Source for AI, Machine Learning & more

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