Entries from January 2018 ↓

• Geo for Good India 2018 – Schedule
• HappyDB | Kaggle
• How to Prepare a Talk – Deconstruct
• Hawaii Missile Alert Wasn’t Accidental, Officials Say, Blaming Worker – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @marginoferror: Thread
• Two Generations on View in Essays by Martin Amis and Zadie Smith – The New York Times
• Dangerously Low on Water, Cape Town Now Faces ‘Day Zero’ – The New York Times

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• Donald Trump, #MeToo, Facebook, And The Breakdown Of Institutional Power
• Nature is Amazing 🌿 on Twitter: "Mind-Blowing Octopus color change 🐙 by IG@rubergnick… "
• Twitter
  RT @skry: The American model — extreme capitalism, no public investment, cruelty as a way of life, the perversion of everyday…
• Why Has Mudbound Been Left Out of the Awards Conversation?
• Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think (Taming the Mammoth) – Wait But Why
• Astropad Standard | Use your iPad to draw on your Mac
• Former Colorado GOP chairman sentenced for voter fraud – CBS News
• The Last Person You’d Expect to Die in Childbirth — ProPublica
• Move slow and break nothing | TechCrunch
• Why Procrastinators Procrastinate – Wait But Why
• Lamellibrachia – Wikipedia

  Lamellibrachia is a genus of tube worms related to the giant tube worm, Riftia pachyptila. It lives at deep-sea cold seeps where hydrocarbons (oil and methane) are leaking out of the seafloor. It is entirely reliant on internal, sulfide-oxidizing bacterial symbionts for its nutrition.

• Leonard Cohen – Bird on the Wire 1979 – YouTube
• The Untold Story of the Pentagon Papers Co-Conspirators | The New Yorker
• The Secret of Happiness and Living a Good Life | Thrive Global
• Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse

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• Douglas Coupland: I don’t remember my pre-internet brain
• Twitter
  RT @CharlesFinch: The SS probably didn’t sound scary until it sounded scary. Just an agency. @ICEgov is the scariest thing happening…

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• Pixel 2 Battery Case
• The Best Pixel 2 Cases – IGN
• Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google? – Quora
• Book review: The dark side of immortality: ‘How to Stop Time,’ ‘Eternal,’‘The Immortalists,’ ‘Immortal Life’ and ‘The Afterlives’ – The Washington Post

  Immortality is overrated. @RonCharles on five new novels that grapple with life, death, and the oddly-aging. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/does-living-forever-sounds-ideal-these-5-new-books-will-change-your-mind/2018/01/23/2adb5460-ff7f-11e7-bb03-722769454f82_story.html?utm_term=.0479b81b1ae1

• How Sanchi’s spill could spread | Reuters
• 2 dads nabbed by ICE as they drop off kids at NJ school; 3rd takes shelter in church | WPIX 11 New York
• India Elephant Sanctuary – Idealist
• ‘Notorious’: Hitchcock’s Mature and Intricate Espionage Masterpiece • Cinephilia & Beyond
• Boy, 14, arrested with weapons after alleged school threat – WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale
• The new vegan: Meera Sodha’s recipe for tamarind and spinach dal | Life and style | The Guardian
• Eclipses visible in Seattle, Washington, USA – Jan 31, 2018 Lunar Eclipse
• Eclipses visible in Los Angeles, California, USA – Jan 31, 2018 Lunar Eclipse
• Coincheck Says It Lost Crypto Coins Valued at About $400 Million – Bloomberg
• Twitter
  RT @grlalx: I would pay 2x+ to be able to choose a female @lyft driver at night
• Twitter
  RT @robmanuel: ++ PIG BREEDS YOU’D BELIEVE WERE FONTS ++

  Aksai Black Pied
  Basque
  Beijing Black
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  British Landrace
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• Twitter
  RT @HorribleSanity: In which Edith Wharton experiences the living hell known as "Road trip with Henry James."
• Elena Ferrante: ‘The cat brought in a snake and left it under my bed. Screaming, I chased it out’ | Books | The Guardian
• Women to Watch—An Interview with Eve Ewing

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• The Dangers of Keeping Women Out of Tech | WIRED
• The Lightning Network Could Make Bitcoin Faster—and Cheaper | WIRED
• The female price of male pleasure
• How to build your own AlphaZero AI using Python and Keras
• Twitter
  RT @ninatypewriter: Important thread….
• The Magnetic Field Is Shifting. The Poles May Flip. This Could Get Bad.
• Addicted to digital technology? Here’s how to beat the habit | Oliver Burkeman | Technology | The Guardian
• Ditto Wearable Tech
• How George Soros Upstaged Donald Trump at Davos | The New Yorker
• Hillary Clinton Chose to Shield a Top Adviser Accused of Harassment in 2008 – The New York Times
• Hillary Clinton, Burns Strider, and the Fault Lines of #MeToo – The Atlantic
• Twitter
  RT @GlennF: EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is growing corpse flowers in its greenhouses, and when one is about to bloom, they plan to displa…
• The Dirty War Over Diversity Inside Google | WIRED
• The Sky in Antarctica Looks Like Something Out of Science Fiction
• Goodies Mediterranean Market – 83 Photos & 102 Reviews – International Grocery – 13721 Lake City Way NE, Olympic Hills, Seattle, WA – Phone Number – Yelp
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Cloud Shell Tutorials: Learning experiences integrated into the Cloud Console
  RT @marcacohen: Cloud Shell Tutorials: Learning experiences integrated into the Cloud Console

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  RT @ArtPicsChannel: by Gustav Klimt
• Event Recap: Cloud Foundry Days at SAP Labs Bangalore – Cloud Foundry
• Meet Silicon Valley’s Secretive Alt-Right Followers – Mother Jones
• Twitter
  RT @lak_gcp: Two great pro tips in this video: (1) Write to GCS, load to BQ, to avoid streaming charges (2) Trigger a Dataflow t…
• George Lakoff on Twitter: "People don’t vote their self-interest. They vote their values. Let’s talk about ours. https://t.co/L5SmwX9ei2"

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• The Rising Pressure of the #MeToo Backlash | The New Yorker
• Twitter
  RT @historylvrsclub: richard peter’s photo of the bombed dresden 1945
• Twitter
  RT @Pappiness: Judge Rosemarie Aquilina was the first female JAG officer in the Michigan Army National Guard and served for 20 yea…
• Congress must investigate USA Gymnastics for letting Larry Nassar prey on innocent victims – The Washington Post
  RT @RuthMarcus: this, from @sallyjenx is the most scorching column I have ever read, deservedly so.
• Prescient and Precious: On Joan Didion – The Millions
• Bright the Hawk’s Flight on the Empty Sky: Ursula K. Le Guin | Tor.com
• “The Boss Baby” Is Good And You’re All Wrong
• Twitter
  RT @jimsciutto: 15-year olds Bailey Holt and Preston Cope, the two teens killed in the #KentuckySchoolShooting. It was the 11th sch…
• Thunderstorm in Glasgow, July 25, 2013
• Twitter
  RT @felipehoffa: Your challenge, if you choose to accept it @polleyg:
  – Process 10.6 billion rows 😅
  – Before reaching the city 🌇…
• Ursula K. Le Guin: How I Started Writing
• Tourism to U.S. under Trump is down, costing $4.6B and 40,000 jobs – NBC News
  RT @MSNBC: Tourism to U.S. is down since President Trump took office, costing $4.6 billion and 40,000 jobs

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  RT @catherine_mayer: #WTAF. It’s not the sexism that’s shocking, the hypocrisy or the double standards from prominent men who pretend to…
• More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas
• Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: an interview with Ursula le Guin | The Anarcho-Geek Review
• Twitter
  RT @RVAwonk: NEW: Biden confirms earlier reports that Mitch McConnell stopped Obama from warning the public about Russian interf…
• Biden: McConnell stopped Obama from calling out Russians – POLITICO
• Ursula K. Le Guin On ‘Starting Late’ as a Writer
• U.S. Government Faces Critical ‘Brain Drain’ of Sanctions Experts – Foreign Policy
• Ursula Le Guin & Margaret Atwood – Literary Arts
• Twitter
  RT @davemakes: Ursula K. Le Guin’s take on the singular ‘they’ is my absolute favorite
• The best of Atherton police blotter – The Mercury News
• Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88 – The New York Times
• Investigation: For some who lived in it, Keillor’s world wasn’t funny | Minnesota Public Radio News
• Twitter
  RT @bowiesongs: one of the great coincidences of the 20th C: Ursula Le Guin and Philip K Dick went to the same high school, at the…
• Hank Green on Twitter: "Ursula Le Guin has been a hero of mine for 20 years. She’s done so much, and she will continue to do good even though she’s gone. She recorded a podcast recently and I want everyone who can to listen to it. I haven’t stopped thinki
• Here’s How Much It Costs To Have A Child
• The Awl Showed Us What Writing Looks Like When It’s Not Treated as a Commodity
• Aieeeee! Gunn on Twitter: "Ursula is no longer here, but she not silent. Her blog is a wonderful miscellany of whatever interested her at the moment. You can still enjoy her voice. https://t.co/xQgJxCo2P1 #UrsulaKLeGuin"
• Ursula Le Guin: ‘Wizardry is artistry’ | Books | The Guardian
• Twitter
  RT @botnikstudios: Announcing your 2018 COACHELLA LINEUP, generated by a neural network trained on thousands of band names:…
• Ian Lewis on Twitter: "The chrome ssh extension is a pretty magical piece of software https://t.co/W2EJuJBZHS"
• Laurie Penny on Twitter: "Here is ‘The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas’, possibly the greatest short story by Ursula K Le Guin, definitely one of the greatest writers of her age, who died today at 88. https://t.co/foTwx65xuW #UrsulaLeGuin"
• Ursula K. Le Guin: Amazon has too much control over what books get published – Salon.com
• Twitter
  RT @sarahmccammon: By Ursula Le Guin, who died today at 88:
• Doris Lessing: "Shikasta" reviewed by Ursula Le Guin | New Republic
• Ursula Le Guin: ‘Wizardry is artistry’ | Books | The Guardian
• Ursula K. Le Guin at 88: ‘No Time to Spare,’ erudite as ever – Chicago Tribune
• Ursula K. Le Guin – Interview Magazine
• Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88 – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @presactlyalicia: Final post in my series on filtering CSV files outside of a spreadsheet is live. In it, I reveal the tool I actuall…

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• eScience Institute – WRF Data Science Studio Office Hours
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• AI Dev Days – Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Conference
• In the home of the bear (Bear Essentials) — High Country News
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg: ‘For so long, women were silent’ – CNNPolitics
• How the Right’s War on Unions Is Killing the Democratic Party | The Nation
• Pioneering wolf becomes first sighted in Belgium for a century | Environment | The Guardian

  “Agricultural areas are being abandoned by people so they are re-wilding again, leaving lots of space for carnivores. The countryside is being abandoned by young people who are moving to the cities.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jan/22/pioneering-female-becomes-first-wolf-in-belgium-in-a-century

• ICE has detained or deported prominent immigration activists – The Washington Post
• Twitter
  RT @Jody_Houser: Thread.
• In Colorado, a glimpse of renewable energy’s insanely cheap future – Vox
• Live Weather News, Map and Videos
  RT @ABC: HANG TEN: Surfer rides humongous wave off the coast of Portugal.
• Twitter
  RT @ABC: HANG TEN: Surfer rides humongous wave off the coast of Portugal.
• WATCH: The Hurricane Season, As Shown By Salt, Smoke And Dust : The Two-Way : NPR
• A Feisty Little Black Cat Takes Drastic Action to Stop Her Human From Singing About Her in the Bathtub
• Paleo Profile: The Rainbow Dinosaur – Scientific American Blog Network
• Gladys — BRU.BUILD
• heptiolabs/wardroom: A tool for creating Kubernetes-ready base operating system images.
  A tool for creating Kubernetes-ready base operating system images.
• Using Helm
• “Honey and White Miso Aubergines” from “A Modern Way to Cook” – A cookbook a month
• Aubergine with miso and chinese cabbage I Ottolenghi recipes
• Cloud AutoML Vision with Amy Unruh and Sara Robinson | Google Cloud Platform Podcast
  RT @googlecloud: On this week’s @GCPPodcast, @SRobTweets & @amygdala discuss the launch of Cloud AutoML →
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  RT @googlecloud: On this week’s @GCPPodcast, @SRobTweets & @amygdala discuss the launch of Cloud AutoML →

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• Challenges for web developers – Tales of a Developer Advocate by Paul Kinlan
• ‘I don’t know how they live with themselves’ – artist Nan Goldin​ takes on the billionaire family behind OxyContin | Art and design | The Guardian
• FLImmigrantCoalition on Twitter: ".@CustomsBorder got on a Greyhound bus yesterday at 4:30pm in Fort Lauderdale and asked every passenger for their papers and to prove citizenship. Proof of citizenship is NOT required to ride a bus! For more information a
• Nina Simone: Her Art and Life in 33 Songs | Pitchfork
• Twitter
  RT @jpetazzo: This is a fantastic thread about how ignorance and preconceptions can prevent the progress of science, sometimes fo…
• Mechanical Turkers out-predicted COMPAS, a major judicial algorithm – The Verge
• Twitter
  RT @j2bryson: #AIethics MT @FrankPasquale @leoniehaimson: New study shows most popular algorithm used to predict recidivism use…
• How to schedule a BigQuery ETL job with Dataprep – Google Cloud Platform — Community – Medium
• How to schedule a BigQuery ETL job with Dataprep – Google Cloud Platform — Community – Medium
  RT @lak_gcp: I just published “How to schedule a BigQuery ETL job with Dataprep”
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI is more profound than electricity and fire – Recode
• Checking Out Amazon Go, The First No-Checkout Convenience Store
• British 15-year-old gained access to intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran by pretending to be head of CIA, court hears
• British 15-year-old gained access to intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran by pretending to be head of CIA, court hears
  RT @Dinosn: New social engineering world record
• Twitter
  RT @ddale8: ICE has arrested a Michigan "model physician" who immigrated from Poland when he was a child, has a green card. Not…
• Stewart_Starbird_Drawing_the_Lines_of_Contention-final.pdf

  Recently, our lab published a paper “frame contests” within the #BlackLivesMatter and #BlueLivesMatter conversations on Twitter in 2016. Not surprisingly, those conversations often had a very divisive tone. http://faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Stewart_Starbird_Drawing_the_Lines_of_Contention-final.pdf [thread]

• Twitter
  RT @NAChristakis: Fantastic thread by @katestarbird illustrating deliberate actions by Russian trolling units to foment discord in th…
• Indian Visa | India Visa Application | Visa for India from USA – CKGS USA
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• Twitter
  RT @michikokakutani: US "core institutions were attacked by an admin. that rejects established norms of ethical conduct." Trump "has als…
• Famous Viking Warrior Was a Woman, DNA Reveals
  "Famous Viking Warrior Was a Woman, DNA Reveals"

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