Entries from September 2019 ↓

• Did White House hide memo on Trump meeting with Russia’s Sergei Lavrov from Robert Mueller?
• Morality Didn’t Turn People Vegan. Capitalism Might.
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  RT @KevinTPorter: Well this undid me
• Stories About My Brother
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  RT @BrentNYT: Weddings held on slave plantations gorge on the blood of the enslaved dead, writes the legal scholar Patricia Wil…
• Going to the Restaurant, by Jenny Slate | The New Yorker

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  RT @MoiraDonegan: .@kate_manne writes about how misogyny is particularly vitriolic when a woman denies a man a feminine-coded service…
• Mister Rogers Picked Me Up Hitchhiking | MEL Magazine
• What’s the Point?
  Michael Chabon
• Staff Picks: Biopics, Blades, and Balloons

  Brandon Taylor’s debut novel, Real Life

• Predicting Customer Lifetime Value with AutoML Tables  |  Solutions  |  Google Cloud

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  RT @danpfeiffer: The fact that Paul Ryan thinks he has more power to do something about Trump as a Fox board member than as Speaker…
• The Politician review – Ryan Murphy’s student politics show is a born winner | Television & radio | The Guardian
• Naomi Klein on Reckoning With the Reality of Climate Change
  RT @KetanJ0: I really can’t stop thinking about this @NaomiAKlein quote when I see tweets like this
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  RT @KetanJ0: I really can’t stop thinking about this @NaomiAKlein quote when I see tweets like this
• Opinion | Impeaching Trump Is Good for the Economy – The New York Times
• White House Tried to ‘Lock Down’ Ukraine Call Records, Whistle-Blower Says – The New York Times
• Whistleblower painstakingly gathered material and almost single-handedly set impeachment in motion – The Washington Post
• Resurrection Blend – Truth Coffee Roasting
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  RT @bgzimmer: If there’s one thing the whistleblower story has done, it’s shown the necessity of gender-neutral singular "they."
• Trump’s pee tape: analyzing an incredibly convincing fake.
• The whistleblower complaint alleges a Trumpcoverup. Here’s what that means. – The Washington Post
• MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Winners for 2019: The Full List – The New York Times
• Suiting – Universal Standard
• Twitter
  RT @chrislhayes: This is president basically saying in the old days we would have killed the whistleblower.
• How Republicans learned to love a pot bill – POLITICO
• Building ML models for everyone: understanding fairness in machine learning | Google Cloud Blog
  RT @SRobTweets: Want to learn about ML fairness but not sure where to start? 🧠⚖️

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  RT @WajahatAli: If people still vote for Trump after this conference & this week’s revelations, realize they will always vote for h…
• Trump poses ‘risk to national security’, whistleblower complaint alleges – live | US news | The Guardian
• Alice Hoffman Brings Magical Realism to the Holocaust Novel – The New York Times
• Crowdstrike: The Truth About Trump’s Insane Ukraine ‘Server’ Conspiracy
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  RT @Astro_Christina: What it looks like from @Space_Station when your best friend achieves her lifelong dream to go to space. Caught the…
• iOS 13: Complete Guide and Feature List
• iPadOS: Everything We Know | MacRumors
• Apple Shares New Tutorial Videos Showcasing iPadOS Features – MacRumors
• Apple releases iPadOS 13.1, iOS 13.1, and tvOS 13 | Ars Technica
• With iOS 13.1, Shortcuts gets a lot more powerful | Macworld
• Libra is a MacBook-like aluminum iPad keyboard with a trackpad – 9to5Mac
• Donald Trump Actually Has 2 Whistleblowers To Worry About | HuffPost
• A Sleeping Octopus Changes Color While Dreaming
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  RT @AaronBelkin: John Roberts says SCOTUS isn’t politicized. In small-ball cases he’s right. But in big cases, when rights of worker…
• The Movie Assassin – Popula
• The Trump–Ukraine Transcript Contains Evidence of a Quid Pro Quo | National Review
• The Ukraine Scandal Is Not One Call. It’s a Massive Plot.
• Twitter
  RT @hardmaru: Using gradient descent for everything
• Italy and France Prepare for Imminent Collapse of Mont Blanc Glacier
  RT @csdickey: Pay attention, World — Italy and France Prepare for Imminent Collapse of Mont Blanc Glacier …
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  RT @csdickey: Pay attention, World — Italy and France Prepare for Imminent Collapse of Mont Blanc Glacier …

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  RT @margowithan_o: I am EXTREMELY inspired by Greta Thunberg’s refusal to smile or make jokes throughout all this media coverage. To s…
• You Too Can Have a Viral Tweet Like Mine
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  RT @emilygadabout: So, I was on The Atlantic’s YouTube page looking for a short doc to share with a student as an example of a certain…
• BigQuery-Geotab Intersection Congestion | Kaggle
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  RT @mattkressel: Your choices matter. "Brazil’s natural ecosystems are being decimated to produce beef and soya. And McDonald’s, KFC…
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  RT @torryyang: I wrote a getting started notebook for this competition. Check it out!
• How TikTok Holds Our Attention | The New Yorker
• Trump, with media’s help, manages to make the Ukraine story about Biden – The Washington Post

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• No difference in key heart attack symptoms between men and women
• Climate change: Scientists to report on ocean ’emergency’ caused by warming – BBC News
  Climate change: Scientists to report on ocean ’emergency’ caused by warming
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  RT @MarinaHyde: Well, I see 20:1 is still far from the ratio you need for some guy to look into these things
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  RT @MoiraDonegan: I really admire Thunberg’s rejection of sentimentality, which she correctly identifies as being used by adults to t…
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  RT @thehighsign: I will be very surprised if any camera movement in a movie this year is better conceived & executed than this one.
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  RT @tombennett71: RIP to a man who deserves the thanks of all of us alive today: Soviet Officer Stanislav Petrov, ‘The Man Who Saved…
• 7 national security Democrats: If true, Trump’s actions are impeachable – The Washington Post
• Trump ordered hold on military aid days before calling Ukrainian president, officials say – The Washington Post
• The intelligence watchdog at the center of Ukraine firestorm – POLITICO
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  RT @davejorgenson: This is actually my favorite TikTok
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  RT @ktumulty: NEW. A significant development — Seven freshman Democrats, all of whom have national security experience, write in…
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  RT @TomNamako: Wow — NYT publisher says the Trump administration was prepared to sit back and allow one of its journalists to be…
• 7 national security Democrats: If true, Trump’s actions are impeachable – The Washington Post
• CNET: iOS 13 puts your iPhone’s Reminders app on steroids
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  RT @RottenInDenmark: Incredible. Race and other stereotypes affect whether forensic examiners say two fingerprints match.…

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• Snowflake or tough cookie, you’re just hiding from pain | Oliver Burkeman | Life and style | The Guardian
• Overwhelmed by your to-do lists? Try this simple solution | Oliver Burkeman | Life and style | The Guardian
• Phoebe Waller-Bridge and the Fleabag Mystique
• Junko Tabei: Google Doodle honors the first woman to climb Mount Everest – CNN
• Inmates built computers hidden in ceiling, connected them to prison network | Ars Technica

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• Watching Through Windows: A Perspective on Anne Tyler | VQR Online
• The Misogyny of Climate Deniers | The New Republic
• Welcome, Americans, to the Ukrainian swamp – The Washington Post
• Trapped: why 300 scientists are locking themselves in Arctic ice
• Scientists worldwide join strikes for climate change
• Your Navigation App Is Making Traffic Unmanageable – IEEE Spectrum

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• Inside Congress’s failure to act on fentanyl despite warnings, deaths
• Popular Prostate Cancer Therapy Is Short, Intense and Unproven – The New York Times
• Clive Peedell on Twitter: "After years of newspapers publishing hyperbole about cancer “cures”, this headline is actually spot on. Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) can treat and cure localised prostate cancer with 5 treatments over 5 days – and w
• iOS 13 hidden features, tips, and tricks | Macworld
• Artificial intelligence uses too much energy to train. Researchers want to fix that.
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  RT @Meeratweets: Nearly 3 billion birds gone. (silver lining: #raptors doing well) #SilentSpring
• Nearly 3 Billion Birds Gone : Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
  RT @Meeratweets: Nearly 3 billion birds gone. (silver lining: #raptors doing well) #SilentSpring
• The U.S. has no rules for when the president is a national security threat – The Washington Post
• This Old Man | The New Yorker
• The Man Who Got Drunk Without Alcohol – The Atlantic
• Whistleblower complaint about President Trump involves Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the matter – The Washington Post

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• Excavating AI
• New York Times reporters reveal Brett Kavanaugh asked them to lie in upcoming book
• Our biggest renewable energy purchase ever
• Our Desperate, 250-Year-Long Search for a Gender-Neutral Pronoun, e.g. singular ‘They’ – Popula
• Trump Lawyers Argue He Cannot Be Criminally Investigated – The New York Times
• The 2019 National Book Awards Longlist: Nonfiction | The New Yorker
• What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max? – The New York Times
• Opinion | Something Special Is Happening in Rural America – The New York Times
• Birds Are Vanishing From North America – The New York Times
• YouTube Is About to Demote a Wide Swath of Its Creators – The New York Times
• Greta Thunberg, Climate Change Activists Speak to Congress
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  RT @carlzimmer: The US and Canada have lost 2.9 billion birds in the past 50 years. Here’s my @nytimes story on a huge ecological d…
• iOS 13 Arrives, But Not Without Some Bugs | WIRED
• How wearing a bikini changed my life: 47-year-old Jami Attenberg on her bold new spirit | Style | The Sunday Times
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  RT @mims: While I’m breaking my twitter fast, everyone please read the most bonkers profile of a company ever, @eliotwb’s pro…
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  RT @LachlanEvenson: 🥳It brings me great joy to announce the release of #Kubernetes 1.16. This release represents the hard work and dedi…
• GoogleCloudPlatform/earth-ml: Use a TensorFlow model to do land cover classification using Earth Engine datasets.

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