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- CODE2040 CEO heads to the White House
Laura Weidman Powers, who has built CODE2040 into a major force for diversifying the technology industry, is taking her advocacy to the White House with her appointment as a senior policy adviser to U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith
- Symone Sanders Interview – Symone Sanders Bernie Sanders former spokesperson
- Could Trashing Junk Proteins Quash Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and Huntington’s? – Scientific American
- A tale of two conventions: As GOP nominates a dangerous lunatic, Democrats reaffirm commitment to diverse America – The Washington Post
By nominating a sociopath, GOP has enabled Hillary to push progressive agenda while expanding Dem party: http://wapo.st/2aA2wKI
- Feminist writer Jessica Valenti quits Twitter after “rape and death threat†against 5-year-old daughter – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW
- Das Keyboard 5Q: The Cloud Connected Keyboard by Das Keyboard — Kickstarter
- Anthrax sickens 13 in western Siberia, and a thawed-out reindeer corpse may be to blame – The Washington Post
- What is the probability your vote will make a difference?
- Israel Proves the Desalination Era is Here – Scientific American
One of the driest countries on earth now makes more freshwater than it needs
- Ten Breakthrough Technologies FREE Download
- The New York Public Library Lets You Download 180,000 Images in High Resolution: Historic Photographs, Maps, Letters & More | Open Culture
- Robert Fano, 98, Dies; Engineer Who Helped Develop Interactive Computers – The New York Times
“You know, information is entropyâ€: Norbert Wiener, 1948. That remark led, more or less, to the phone you’re holding http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/technology/robert-fano-98-dies-engineer-who-helped-develop-interactive-computers.html
- GitHub – grpc-ecosystem/grpc-simon-says: Multiplayer Simon Says game using bidirectional gRPC streaming
.@Neurotic & I open sourced our real-time Simon Says game built w/ @grpcio & @kubernetesio! https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-simon-says http://twitter.com/SandeepDinesh/status/759137631514996736/photo/1
- Twitter
RT @shondarhimes: I know it exists and yet every time I’m faced with actual proof of systemic racism, it still breaks my heart.
- When Women Engineer — Winnie — Medium
Being an engineer on a team of 80% women sounds amazing. http://buff.ly/29KkBlh /by @annekate /via @triketora
- Twitter
RT @CoralReefWatch: This just in from Guam’s top coral disease expert:
- Federal Appeals Court Rules New NC Voting Laws Intended To Discriminate
Holy shit. 4th Circuit rules that NC’s voting laws “targeted “African Americans with almost surgical precision.” http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/north-carolina-voting-law-fourth-circuit-ruling
- Google Cloud Platform Blog: Regional Managed Instance Groups beta gives GCE users new performance safeguards
- Navneet Joneja on Twitter: "So excited about this. Automatically spread GCE VMs across multiple zones, with dynamic rebalancing and autoscaling. https://t.co/7jxkSxArWG"
- Google Chrome on Twitter: "Watch yourself turn into stardust with a Chrome Experiment by Daniel Brown. https://t.co/3oXgHjEMx9 #YoureAStar https://t.co/sZJH4mIMyW"
- NodeSource Packages its Commercial Node.js Software for Kubernetes Clusters – The New Stack
Nice story about @NodeSource selling their software on top of @kubernetesio
http://thenewstack.io/nodesource-offers-one-click-deployment-node-js-across-kubernetes/
- The “Slayary†T-Shirt
- Google Brain will be doing an AMA in /r/MachineLearning on August 11 : MachineLearning
- GitHub – kubernetes/minikube: Run Kubernetes locally
Easily run #Kubernetes locally on your laptop with #Minikube – give it a try: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube #k8s
- Fourth Circuit strikes down North Carolina voting restrictions.
- A Q&A with the 91-year-old “Someday, a woman will be president†T-shirt designer
- Kathryn Schulz on Twitter: "Having a bit of fun with spurious correlations. HT @PGourevitch https://t.co/dgqlC7SrqE https://t.co/iU55DIWyWO"
- Developing and Testing a Scale to Measure Need for Drama — ScienceDirect
- Google’s Famous Kitchens May Serve Fake Shrimp Made of Algae | WIRED
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July 29th, 2016 — pinboard
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July 28th, 2016 — pinboard
- Wikipedia:Scots-English-Scots dictionar – Wikipedia
- Running cron python jobs within docker – Stack Overflow
- [1607.06520] Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings
- How Vector Space Mathematics Reveals the Hidden Sexism in Language
Word2vec
- A New Natural Antibiotic Has Been Discovered In The Human Nose | Popular Science
- Your Scientific Guide to Eating Like a Good Human in 2016 | WIRED
- MI5 resisting independent oversight of bulk data collection | UK news | The Guardian
- How to make a Slack bot speak Kubernetes — Medium
- 12 Things About Being A Woman That Women Won’t Tell You
Caitlin Moran
- Painting by numbers: when mathematics and art collide | Cosmos
- The real reason for Donald Trump’s rise, in 2 charts – Vox
- A stunning prediction of climate science — and basic physics — may now be coming true – The Washington Post
- Obama’s Success Only Beginning to Come Into View — NYMag
- The Real Paranoia-Inducing Purpose of Russian Hacks – The New Yorker
- Writer James Alan McPherson, Winner Of Pulitzer, MacArthur And Guggenheim, Dies At 72 : The Two-Way : NPR
- Bill Clinton wore a fetching navy pantsuit to honor Hillary Clinton’s nomination for US president — Quartz
- Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time | University of Cambridge
RT @JanFreedman: Whoa! ‘Mechanical’ gears in an insect – seen for the first time! (Image Burrows & Sutton)
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RT @JanFreedman: Whoa! ‘Mechanical’ gears in an insect – seen for the first time! (Image Burrows & Sutton)
- Man Booker Prize longlist: review of My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
- tÅnr
With tonr, our team wanted to create an inclusive app with a variety of photo filters that amplifies how beautiful a variety of skin tones are instead of washing them out. The goal of tonr is to create filters that affirm that black, brown and other skin tones are beautiful. We looked towards deepening the subjects’ skin instead of lightening, emphasizing the richness and saturation of melanin and playing with interesting color overlays.
This project was created during a 2016 Vox Media hackathon by Brittany Holloway-Brown, Alesha Randolph, Pam Assogba, Aidan Feay, and Scott Kellum to explore and address the above issues. If you would like to contribute, check out tonr on github.
- Stack Exchange Network Status — Outage Postmortem - July 20, 2016
- Man Booker prize judges reveal 2016 longlist | Books | The Guardian
- Twitter
RT @ManBookerPrize: Delighted to announce our #ManBooker2016 longlist! #FinestFiction
- Man Booker Prize announces 2016 longlist | The Man Booker Prizes
- Why Security Experts Think Russia Was Behind the D.N.C. Breach – NYTimes.com
- For the first time, forecast predicts hotter-than-normal in every square inch of the USA
- 15 best children’s books of all time – Telegraph
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July 27th, 2016 — pinboard
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July 26th, 2016 — pinboard
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July 25th, 2016 — pinboard
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July 24th, 2016 — pinboard
- Meet Graham
- Trump & Putin. Yes, It’s Really a Thing
- Twitter
RT @sallykohn: Kinda says it all, no? Whoah…
h/t @JohnFugelsang
- Trump & Putin. Yes, It’s Really a Thing
RT @joshtpm: my look at the growing evidence of a collusive alliance between Trump & Putin, focused policy, cemented by cash
- flassbeck economics international – Economics and politics – comment and analysis
RT @mims: The reality of Anthropogenic Climate Disruption continues to outstrip worst-case scenarios
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RT @mims: The reality of Anthropogenic Climate Disruption continues to outstrip worst-case scenarios
- Recasting Silicon Valley’s role in society | TechCrunch
- Twitter
RT @harikunzru: 50x tax increase for Powells, would kill one of most important bookstores in the US
- Donald Trump on Roger Ailes’ Fox News exit: ‘So sad’ – Jul. 23, 2016
RT @brianstelter: TODD: Is Ailes advising you?
TRUMP: Well, I don’t want to comment. But he’s been a friend of mine for a long time.
- The Activist Push To Force Silicon Valley To Move Faster On Diversity | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
- Anxious-Avoidant Duos: Walking on Thin Ice in Relationships and Physical Health | SPSP
- Donald Trump reminds me of Vladimir Putin — and that is terrifying – The Washington Post
RT @Kasparov63: Respect the sacrifice I made watching the Trump speech again for this WaPo article by reading and sharing it!
- A Hacking of More Than $50 Million Dashes Hopes in the World of Virtual Currency – NYTimes.com
- Cucumber Salad With Asian Flavors Recipe – NYT Cooking
- Cool and Refreshing Cucumber Recipes – Recipes from NYT Cooking
- Who is Tim Kaine? Clinton’s ‘smart political pick’ for VP a bipartisan favorite | US news | The Guardian
- Is Donald Trump a Racist? – NYTimes.com
- The Libertarians’ Secret Weapon – The New Yorker
RT @SeanMcElwee: Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Presidential candidate, doesn’t know who Harriet Tubman was.
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RT @SeanMcElwee: Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Presidential candidate, doesn’t know who Harriet Tubman was.
- Cutting Sugar Rapidly Improves Heart Health Markers – The New York Times
- The Lean-In Industry by Heather O’Neill | Model View Culture
- Kubernetes: Happy Birthday Kubernetes. Oh, the places you’ll go!
- Visualize your BigQuery data with re:dash – Unacast Labs
- Survey – Access Now
- If it doesn’t already, Silicon Valley will probably learn to really like Tim Kaine – Recode
- The R.N.C. on TV: Ivanka’s Weaponized Graciousness – The New Yorker
- Holy Crap, Tim Kaine Just Killed It In His First Speech With Clinton – The Daily Beast
- Africa’s real land grab | The Economist
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July 23rd, 2016 — pinboard
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July 22nd, 2016 — pinboard
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