Entries from October 2017 ↓
October 31st, 2017 — pinboard
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RT @tishdurkin: Read this thread! & also ask: what’s Kelly up to, even wading into this topic? Makes me wonder what they’re seeing…
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RT @pptsapper: The sound you hear is a thousand historians clearing their throats in unison
Review of Apple’s iPhone X at Disneyland
Mueller’s Investigation Won’t Shake Trump’s Base – The New York Times
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RT @alexismadrigal: I wish everyone knew the terrible history of the 19th century proslavery movement. It made enslaving people a sign…
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RT @PadraigBelton: Tired of carrying your meat cleaver, pistol, and calendar of saints around separately? This 16th c. Czech startup h…
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RT @mattmfm: Appears the White House Chief of Staff just confirmed what the White House has denied for months: Donald Trump is u…
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RT @MarieAnnUK: This building has a security design flaw…
The Plot Against America – The New York Times
I probably should have known you weren’t Putin’s niece – The Washington Post
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Why are so many new and expectant mothers dying in the US? — Quartz
Mueller’s ‘no-knock’ raid yielded key evidence against Manafort
When FBI agents picked lock on Manafort’s house, they found Ukrainian lobbying records he had told DOJ didn’t exist https://www.yahoo.com/news/manafort-charges-grew-records-seized-no-knock-raid-205539175.html
Twitter: Russia-linked accounts generated 1.4 million tweets during the election – Business Insider
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"… this risks making global temperature targets largely unattainable."
Record surge in atmospheric CO2 seen in 2016 – BBC News
this risks making global temperature targets largely unattainable.
Two NYPD detectives charged with handcuffing woman, 18, and raping her | US news | The Guardian
"Two NYPD detectives charged with handcuffing woman, 18, and raping her"
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"Two NYPD detectives charged with handcuffing woman, 18, and raping her"
If you’re using emojis at work you need to stop. This is why | World Economic Forum
Trump-Russia inquiry heats up as three key aides indicted | US news | The Guardian
Cloud 101 Three-Day, Three Clouds | Research Computing Resources
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October 30th, 2017 — pinboard
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RT @haroldpollack: Many gunshot wound victims end up on SSI+Medicaid for essential services, and for the rest of their lives face a $2…
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RT @DavidWetherell: The US spends $80B/yr on mass incarceration ($260/person, up from $77 in 1980) far more than any other country, & i…
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Gut bacteria found to have a role in both PTSD and Alzheimer’s disease
Seeing Danger in a Face – NYTimes.com
RT @AlexBastianSF: This month, I was racially profiled + detained at SFO. Please read the Op-Ed I wrote in #NYTimes. Spread the word.
Trump Is Already Guilty of Aiding Putin’s Attack on America – Mother Jones
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Checking My Male Privilege – NYTimes.com
The Fat Years For U.S. Airlines Are Coming to an End – Bloomberg
‘You’re a Quadriplegic’: A Las Vegas Victim Faces a Hard Reality – The New York Times
How Long Until We Debate Real Gun Laws? – The New York Times
America’s prisons are failing. Here’s how to make them work
Swamp Things: More Than 50% of President Trump’s Nominees Have Ties to the Industries They’re Supposed to Regulate
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RT @annehelen: my general reporting ethos is "talk to the old guys certain of their own deaths" and this is a master class in that
Gut bacteria found to have a role in both PTSD and Alzheimer’s disease
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RT @DogsButAlsoDogs: If you’ve never seen a husky totally shaved except for their head well you’re in luck
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RT @JamesFallows: Really impressive job by @JoyAnnReid.
Brava.
Kindle Oasis
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RT @pourmecoffee: Here we go.
God bless and good luck to everyone
Octopuses ‘walking out of the sea’ on the Welsh coast – BBC News
RT @pourmecoffee: Here we go.
God bless and good luck to everyone
Democrats, Russians and the FBI – WSJ
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RT @YrB1rd:
DuckDuckGo on Twitter: "There’s a new Android permission in town, that shares with apps whether you’re walking, driving, sitting, etc. It’s called "Activity Recogn… https://t.co/tBeIyuHtcJ"
Zeynep Tufekci: We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | TED Talk
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RT @avirr: I’m convinced, I’m donating: if I could go back to 2016 I would throw money at the problem, so I’m going to do it n…
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ActBlue — Support Beyond the Choir’s work.
Camilla Roberson, social justice attorney, dies – Baltimore Sun
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RT @dandrezner: Busy night for this.
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October 29th, 2017 — pinboard
Anil Dash — Tech’s Moral Reckoning – | On Being
Diversity issue at Silicon Valley cannot be belittled. @anildash describes the scale of the consequences @onbeing: https://onbeing.org/programs/anil-dash-techs-moral-reckoning-jan2017/
Puerto Rico’s Constant State of Medical Emergency – The Atlantic
The Butterfly Effect with Jon Ronson by Audible on Apple Podcasts
The Butterfly Effect – my great show about the tech takeover of porn – goes out on iTunes etc next week: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-butterfly-effect-with-jon-ronson/id1258779354?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
14 | "Abolish Marriage" (w/ Jessica Stites) by Public Intellectual | Free Listening on SoundCloud
That sound? It’s Westminster’s sex pests rehearsing their excuses | Marina Hyde | Opinion | The Guardian
My bit on George Bush’s photo gropes, Jared O’Mara, and tense times for Westminster’s sex pests https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/27/sex-pests-exuses-westminster-george-bush-sr-weinstein?CMP=share_btn_tw
Paris Review – Hilary Mantel, Art of Fiction No. 226
“I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to Âbecome a historian.†—Hilary Mantel https://theparisreview.org/interviews/6360/hilary-mantel-art-of-fiction-no-226-hilary-mantel
Lethal Autonomous Weapons – YouTube
‘Shaped charge for cranial puncture’. Excellent, horrifying talk by AI expert Stuart Russell
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Trump breaks Twitter’s rules, so why not ban him? | Hannah Jane Parkinson | Opinion | The Guardian
Mali’s Desert Elephants, on Edge of Annihilation, Get a Fighting Chance – The New York Times
David Attenborough urges action on plastics after filming Blue Planet II | Environment | The Guardian
Charlie Stross on Twitter: "Perl regular expressions are Turing-complete, and here’s a BrainFuck interpreter written in PRE to demonstrate it: https://t.co/kgHpCef6Dd"
Solve These Tough Data Problems and Watch Job Offers Roll In | WIRED
Kathy Burke: ‘Lifelong member of the non-pretty working classes’ | Culture | The Guardian
Nestlé, Hershey and Mars ‘breaking promises over palm oil use’ | Environment | The Guardian
These 12 Unique Pictures Of Freddie Mercury And His Boyfriend From Back In 1980s Will Show You A Totally Unknown Side Of Him
Find Us | The University of Kansas Cancer Center
The Most Revealing Moment in the New Joan Didion Documentary | The New Yorker
Troubled By Flint Water Crisis, 11-Year-Old Girl Invents Lead-Detecting Device : The Two-Way : NPR
Trumps set to launch two real estate projects in India, despite conflict-of-interest concerns – The Washington Post
Bernstein warns Trump against ‘trying to sabotage’ Mueller investigation | TheHill
Playing Boogie-Woogie with Fats Domino
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Kazuo Ishiguro: a sense of freedom | openDemocracy
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RT @ItMeIRL: me_irl
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October 28th, 2017 — pinboard
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October 27th, 2017 — pinboard
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October 26th, 2017 — pinboard
python – gcloud local prediction – Stack Overflow
Roy Price canceled ‘Good Girls Revolt.’ For the show’s stars, it’s ‘horribly meta.’
google cloud ml engine – My TensorFlow training is slow. How do I profile to find the hotspots? – Stack Overflow
Overview :: Allen Brain Atlas: Cell Types
These Neurons are Alive and Firing. And You Can Watch Them In 3-D | WIRED
National anthem protests are becoming more popular. You can thank Donald Trump. – The Washington Post
Databricks Delta: A Unified Management System for Real-time Big Data – The Databricks Blog
Today we are proud to introduce Databricks Delta, a unified data management system to simplify large-scale data management. Currently, organizations build their big data architectures using a mix of systems, including data warehouses, data lakes and streaming systems. This greatly increases cost and, more consequentially, operational complexity as systems become hard to connect and maintain.
Sorry, Senator Corker. You missed your chance to do the right thing about Trump. – The Washington Post
Who Is Yashar?
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RT @shomaristone: Judge Removes Fatal Shooting of Black Man #TerenceCrutcher From Ex-Tulsa Officer’s Record.
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RT @shomaristone: Judge Removes Fatal Shooting of Black Man #TerenceCrutcher From Ex-Tulsa Officer’s Record.
‘Alias Grace’: 20 Years in the Making, but on TV at the Right Time – NYTimes.com
Trends and mortality effects of vitamin A deficiency in children in 138 low-income and middle-income countries between 1991 and 2013: a pooled analysis of population-based surveys – The Lancet Global Health
Puerto Rico death toll from Hurricane Maria rises to 51
If You Can’t Find a Spouse Who Supports Your Career, Stay Single
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RT @MeredithFrost: Love this perfectly timed action shot by photographer Claudio Piccoli
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RT @MeredithFrost: Love this perfectly timed action shot by photographer Claudio Piccoli
From Prejudice to Pride | Hakai Magazine
Tesla factory at center of discrimination lawsuits – Oct. 25, 2017
Is This Jared And Ivanka’s 21-Minute Sex Playlist? | HuffPost
Everyone knew this Newark native was special. Now he’s officially a genius | NJ.com
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RT @SeanTheTerrible: We live in a country where you gotta be able to afford to get shot in a mass shooting.
Why Having Police in Schools May Be a Risk For Undocumented Students | Teen Vogue
Herbicide ‘Roundup’ detected in Californians urine at increasing levels – UPI.com
Maggie Haberman on Twitter: "Really sharp @peterbakernyt piece on John Kelly, who is more ideological – and more mercurial – than most realized https://t.co/4uw7ky4uG5"
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RT @MarkWarner: So you’re telling me they wasted $1,000,000 in taxpayer money just to make it harder for people to #GetCovered? Tha…
I Accidentally Turned My Dad In to Immigration Services – The New York Times
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Splinter on Twitter: "ICE uses dirty-as-hell arrest tactics. Just let these @ACLU volunteer legal observers tell you what they’ve seen: https://t.co/VLuO0TxoFs"
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October 25th, 2017 — pinboard
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October 24th, 2017 — pinboard
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October 23rd, 2017 — pinboard
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RT @JoeBerkowitz: Glitches in the reality simulation are becoming more profound each day.
Cub Scout Is Exiled After Pressing Legislator on Guns and Race – The New York Times
RT @nytimes: “Why on earth would you want somebody who beats their wife to have access to a gun?†the Cub Scout, 11, had asked
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RT @charles_gaba: That’s ~3.5 million people who’ve lost insurance coverage since Trump took office. And up to 9 million more if…
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Completely mesmerizing
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RT @emilynussbaum: Powerful essay, beyond the specific story it tells.
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RT @nkjemisin: Thread. Important.
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"We’re About to Fall Behind the Great Depression"
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RT @SamanthaJPower: Devastating last line, reflecting despair & rage among America’s disempowered diplomats: “There was never a Deep St…
A huge salmon die-off is happening — and our cars might be responsible – The Washington Post
Trump’s Pick For Key Environmental Post Is A Texan Who Really, Really Likes Fossil Fuels | KUT
The White House Is Now Refusing To Tell You When Donald Trump Is Playing Golf
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Barcelona Mayor Calls for a Third Way to Solve Catalonia Crisis – CityLab
What McCain Knows That Kelly Forgot – The Atlantic
More acidic oceans ‘will affect all sea life’ – BBC News
The 100 best nonfiction books: No 90 – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1689) | Books | The Guardian
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RT @franklinleonard: If I give 10 apples to one person and no apples to nine people, the average person has one apple.
Why are nine pe…
Scientists warn of ‘ecological Armageddon’ after study shows flying insect numbers plummeting 75% | The Independent
Trump’s Boogeymen? Women! – The New York Times
When I was nineteen years old, Elie Wiesel grabbed my ass.
Here Are the 20 Lies Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly Told in Just 4 Minutes
(((Yonatan Zunger))) on Twitter: "People seem to think "Nazi" is meant as a slur or term of abuse. It’s not: it has a straightforward, literal meaning."
The tax extension deadline came and went. Trump didn’t share his return. – The Washington Post
We’re About to Fall Behind the Great Depression – The New York Times
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RT @HistoricalPics: Trench Warfare. Photo taken by an official British photographer during WWI, 1917.
Historical Pics on Twitter: "Trench Warfare. Photo taken by an official British photographer during WWI, 1917. https://t.co/3qjZSwl1Bc"
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RT @PeteSouza: Last night in Texas.
Rex Tillerson and the Unraveling of the State Department – The New York Times
Brooke McAlary on choosing a simpler, slower life
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October 21st, 2017 — pinboard
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