pinboard October 22, 2021

• Miles Teller Is Young, Talented, and Doesn't Give a Rat's Ass What You Think
• I Am Mad About Everything – The Riveter
• Opinion | Angela Merkel Was Right
  Opening Germany to a million refugees looks even better in retrospect. 

  "But six years later, the catastrophes predicted by Merkel’s critics haven’t come to pass.

  In the recent German election, refugees were barely an issue, and the AfD lost ground. “The sense is that there has been comparatively little Islamic extremism or extremist crime resulting from this immigration, and that on the whole, the largest number of these immigrants have been successfully integrated into the German work force and into German society overall,” said Constanze Stelzenmüller, an expert on Germany and trans-Atlantic relations at the Brookings Institution.

  “With the passage of time,” Marton told me, Merkel “turned out to have chosen the absolutely right course for not only Germany but for the world.”"

• What the Living Do by Marie Howe – Poems | Academy of American Poets
  What the Living Do
  Marie Howe
• National Audubon Society | Birdability
  The features that define whether or not a space is accessible have long gone unreported. Together, we can change that. You can help us chronicle the accessibility features of outdoor spaces by submitting birdability site review.
• a haunted house with a picket fence — Capybara bucket spa
• (400) https://twitter.com/hoosteen/status/1451188023350022151/photo/1
  RT @hoosteen: just for fun i threw in defense spending
• (400) https://twitter.com/sangerkatz/status/1450956635631980547
  RT @hoosteen: just for fun i threw in defense spending
• Mariah Carey and the Fiction of the Color Line
  Black women writers have long used passing stories to crack our façades of race, class, and gender.
• Louise Bourgeois. Fillette. 1968
  Louise Bourgeois. Fillette. 1968. Latex over plaster. 23 1/2 x 11 x 7 1/2" (59.7 x 28 x 19.1 cm). Gift of the artist in memory of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. 386.1992. © The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY. Painting and Sculpture
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/10/18/epa-regulate-forever-chemicals-pfas/
  RT @BiellaColeman: Skeptical this will pass but it would be amazing if this came to be: EPA says it plans to regulate PFAS compounds, known as “forever chemicals” –
• Vikings Were in the Americas Exactly 1,000 Years Ago
  By studying tree rings and using a dash of astrophysics, researchers have pinned down a precise year that settlers from Europe were on land that would come to be known as Newfoundland.
• Slate's 25th anniversary: 25 of our most memorable arguments.
• Salmonella outbreak linked to onions: Throw away onions if you don't know where they're from, CDC says — USA TODAY
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has linked fresh whole onions to a growing and mysterious salmonella outbreak with cases in 37 states.
• Install TensorFlow with pip
  whl Package locations
  A few installation mechanisms require the URL of the TensorFlow Python package. The value you specify depends on your Python version.
• In an Era of Misinformation and Tracking Technology, Long-Held Journalism Norms Are Shifting – Nieman Reports
  RT @jayrosen_nyu: "We were partly to blame for the misinformation that spreads because we kept giving our platforms over to things we knew were false and reckless and dangerous.” — Editor of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, Chris Quinn.

  Not the former editor. The current one.

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