Entries from October 2018 ↓

• Micro Barriers To Diversity | Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP
• The Business of Internet Outrage – The New York Times
• America’s Other Family-Separation Crisis | The New Yorker
• New WWF “Living Planet” report finds huge animal losses – Vox
• Antarctica scientist stabbed colleague for spoiling book endings
• We posed as 100 senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them. – VICE News
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  RT @michikokakutani: Primo Levi: “Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the inf…
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  RT @tiffani: Look at the date on this tweet and this article. 🤔😞
• Wait, just a second, is your doctor listening?
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  RT @EricHolthaus: I feel like "destroying the web of life, billions of years in the making" should be a bigger story
• Cameron Thrash on Twitter: "Engineering yeast endosymbionts as a step toward the evolution of mitochondria https://t.co/39GFHjqv9a"
• Is Birthright Citizenship in the Constitution? – The Atlantic
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  RT @rickhasen: My new one @Slate about a "nuclear option" for voting rights: How Democrats can reverse years of voter suppression:…
• The Emergent Task Planner™ | Dave Seah
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  RT @cstross: The Onion can’t front-run hyperreality any more than I can.
• Amendment 74, Big Oil’s Doomsday Device, Could Destroy Climate-Change Movement, Colorado Economy | Westword
• How Democrats can reverse years of voter suppression.
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  RT @Vinncent: Oh look Bolsonaro’s right-hand economics man (University of Chicago trained) will consolidate three whole ministrie…
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  RT @nytimesbusiness: Richard DeVaul, a director at the X unit of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, resigned from the company after he w…
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• This new Mac attack can secretly monitor your webcam, microphone | ZDNet
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  RT @KimZetter: Voters in Texas aren’t to blame for vote-switching in Cruz/O’Rourke race; a software issue known as a race conditio…
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  RT @robreiner: My father is 96 and a half years old. In his long life he has never seen anything like what’s happening to our coun…
• An Expert Explains Why Texas Voting Machines Are Switching Votes From Beto O’Rourke to Ted Cruz – Motherboard
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  RT @SenKamalaHarris: Right now, a Texas judge is considering a lawsuit that will decimate protections for people with pre-existing condi…
• How the AK-47 and AR-15 Evolved Into Rifles of Choice for Mass Shootings – The New York Times
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  RT @nycsouthpaw: People try incredibly hard to vote in North Dakota, and state officials try incredibly hard to stop them. Should be…

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• Idle Words—The Great Slate
• The States With The Most Gun Laws See The Fewest Gun-Related Deaths – The Atlantic
• "Schrödinger’s Bacterium" Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone – Scientific American
• Trump’s stunning hypocrisy on preexisting conditions – Vox
• Where low 2016 voter turnout overlaps with key races this year – Washington Post
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• Opinion | How Did We Get to the Savagery of ‘Tender Age’ Shelters? – The New York Times
• Synthetic life forms mimic critical evolutionary events, in Scripps Research studies – The San Diego Union-Tribune

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• Hillary Clinton talks with Kara Swisher on Recode Decode podcast – full Q&A transcript – Recode
• Actress Sarah Scott reported sexual misconduct on a Hollywood set and found a difficult path to a resolution – Los Angeles Times
• Using Kubeflow for Analyzing Financial Time Series: Part I
• How ‘Gardening While Black’ Almost Landed This Detroit Man in Jail – The New York Times
• Trump’s Caravan Hysteria Sparked a Massacre – The Atlantic
• Regions of My Brain: The Airbnb Reviews | The New Yorker
• Opinion | A Fate Worse Than Slavery, Unearthed in Sugar Land – The New York Times
• Georgia’s Brian Kemp Improperly Purged 340,000 Voters – Rolling Stone
• Opinion | How to Turn a Person Into a Voter – The New York Times

  Some good, field-tested advice here for how to turn someone into a voter:

  Remind people they have political power.
  Let local people lead.
  Focus on the primaries.
  Embrace difficult conversations.

  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/opinion/voter-voting-alabama-black.html

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• Why Is Chardonnay Still America’s Best-selling Wine?
• Scott-Joan-Wallach-French-Feminists-and-the-Rights-of-Man-Olympe-de-Gougess-Declarations.pdf
• The Proposal’s Jasmine Guillory on How to Write Consent – The Atlantic
• The Concorde and the Lost Glories of Commercial Air Travel | The New Yorker
• As Germans Seek News, YouTube Delivers Far-Right Tirades – The New York Times
• The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture | The New Yorker
• Platform Justice: Content Moderation at an Inflection Point – Lawfare
• Republicans Find a Facebook Workaround: Their Own Apps – The New York Times
• Lauren Wolfe on Twitter: "I do not recognize my home any longer. The US is one of just 13 countries to have voted against a United Nations resolution condemning the death penalty for having gay sex. https://t.co/yvReTGuGeE"
• Markdown footnotes in Drafts – All this
• Microplastics Find Their Way Into Your Gut, a Pilot Study Finds – The New York Times
• Box Breathing: Techniques, Benefits, and More
• Trailhead Direct – Park. Ride. Hike.

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• iPhone XR Review: This Is the iPhone You Should Buy
• Alphabet Shrugs Off Bad News With Big Quarter – The New York Times
• Living with Dolly Parton
• Google Workers Fume Over Executives’ Payouts After Sexual Misconduct Claims – The New York Times
• Obama, Rallying in Wisconsin, Warns Democrats: ‘Don’t Be Hoodwinked’ – The New York Times
• Silicon Valley Nannies Are Phone Police for Kids – The New York Times
• Investing in Blue Carbon for a Resilient Future
• In Saudi-besieged Hodeidah, Yemen’s famine has already struck | Middle East Eye
• China’s hidden camps – BBC News

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• David Simon talks to the creator of Godwin’s law about his Twitter suspensions.
• My Father Says He’s a ‘Targeted Individual.’ Maybe We All Are | WIRED
• Opinion | Why Sex Is Not Binary – The New York Times
• How to Make Friends – The New York Times
• How Repeal of the Individual Mandate and Expansion of Loosely Regulated Plans are Affecting 2019 Premiums | The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
• The tension between globalisation and democracy – Charlemagne

  A country can have economic integration, the nation-state or democratic politics, but not all three fully https://econ.st/2D4wWDE

• Whales go quiet and dolphins shout in loud oceans, new studies show – The Washington Post
• The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War – The New York Times
• CDC says polio-like disease is puzzling. These doctors disagree
• Why Are Americans Still Uncomfortable with Atheism? | The New Yorker
• Toronto Cleared Cars Off Its Biggest Transit Street, and Ridership Soared Almost Overnight – Streetsblog USA
• Senate’s Out? Nobody’s Around? Perfect Time To Advance Trump’s Court Picks, Says GOP. | HuffPost
• The Dangerously Thin Line Between Political Incitement and Political Violence | The New Yorker
• Sergey Brin and Amanda Rosenberg: Inside the Google Co-Founder’s Romance with the Google Glass Marketing Manager | Vanity Fair
• Google Misconduct Allegations: Will The Board Do Anything? – The Atlantic
• The Loudest Sound Ever Heard – The Crux
• Opinion | F-Bombs and Real Bombs – The New York Times
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  RT @nycsouthpaw: Republicans vs democracy itself
• It’s official: women over 55 make the best bosses – Telegraph
• Bloomberg Technology on Twitter: "Alphabet engineer speaks candidly about how the tech giant is dealing with harassment https://t.co/ggo1CK3VXg… "
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  RT @MichaelEMann: Reversing the arrow of time is pretty much the only option available to us now for avoiding 1.5C planetary warming.…
• How non-English speakers are taught this crazy English grammar rule you know but you’ve never heard of — Quartz
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  RT @davidenrich: My initial tweet was too narrow. This article shows a corporate culture that protects (and in some cases rewards) m…
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  RT @MariaHaskins: "No voting on who gets to be people."

  – N.K. Jemisin, "The Obelisk Gate"
  (I think about this quote a lot. It sums…

• I Listened to All Six Trump Rallies in October. You Should, Too | The New Yorker
• How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ – The New York Times

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• Google Abandoning Plan for Berlin Campus to Develop Tech Startups – WSJ
• Opinion | Alex Honnold, a Soul Freed in ‘Free Solo’ – The New York Times

  “In a world of B.S. artists—and in a country led by one—Honnold is modeling something else, a kind of radical truthfulness. Either he’s going to get it exactly right, or he’s going to die.” My column on @AlexHonnold and the breathtaking film Free Solo: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/opinion/alex-honnold-free-solo-movie.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

• Dana Milbank on Twitter: “”Forty-eight S&P 500 companies mentioned “tariffs” during calls with analysts in recent days, many warning that they threaten to cause a drag on the economy.” https://t.co/pgJuQ5aJF3″
• Anthony Hobley on Twitter: "As the #ArcticScienceMinisterial takes place watch renowned #climate scientist @MichaelEMann explain in 8 mins that What Happens in the Arctic Doesn’t Stay in the Arctic and how a warming #Arctic impacts global #heatwaves & ot
• Geneticists Criticize Use of Science by White Nationalists to Justify ‘Racial Purity’ – The New York Times
• Experts are leaving Alphabet’s smart-city project over privacy concerns – MIT Technology Review
• James Fallows on Twitter: "You’ve read the story about the county’s moving the (one) polling place in Dodge City, Kansas. You may not be aware of what Dodge City’s local government has done in response. https://t.co/GtgbunLat5 Story by me."
• An Early Voting Showdown in Dodge City – The Atlantic
• Osamu Shimomura, 90, Dies; Won Nobel for Finding a Glowing Protein – The New York Times
• Lucia Orth on Twitter: "I am outraged our First Amendment freedom of press continues to be attacked and blamed for telling the Truth about Trump. What can I do? Subscribe to many publications. Please join me in contributing to Committee to Protect Journa
• Putin says US dominance is ending after mistakes ‘typical of an empire’ – ABC News
• The Elevator-Phobes of a Vertical City | Topic

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• Death threats, vandalism: Seattle hires mediator over 35th Avenue Northeast road project | The Seattle Times
• With the People’s Vote March, Brexit Goes Down the Rabbit Hole | The New Yorker
• Newly Restored Photos of Shackleton’s Fateful Antarctic Voyage Offer Unprecedented Details of Survival | Colossal
• ‘In the service of whim’: Officials scramble to make Trump’s false assertions real – The Washington Post
• There’s a perfectly rectangular iceberg floating in Antarctica. Here’s how it got that way – Los Angeles Times
• An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption | WIRED
• I Know the Salaries of Thousands of Tech Employees – Power Trip – Medium
• Paul Volcker, at 91, Sees ‘a Hell of a Mess in Every Direction’ – The New York Times
• Paris Review – Richard Powers, The Art of Fiction No. 175
• Shipwreck found in Black Sea is ‘world’s oldest intact’ – BBC News
• What Happens When Your Crime Library Goes Up In Smoke? | CrimeReads
• Growing Up Surrounded by Books Could Have Powerful, Lasting Effect on the Mind | Smart News | Smithsonian
• Heidi Przybyla on Twitter: "NEW: This study shows a direct transfer between 2 decades worth of tax cuts benefiting the top 1% and proposed GOP cuts to safety net programs — and it’s coming weeks before the midterms: https://t.co/9y3WkVlCY5 via @nbcnews"
• Opinion | Attack of the Right-Wing Snowflakes – The New York Times

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• Adam Liptak on Twitter: "Supreme Court temporarily blocks deposition of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in suit challenging new citizenship question in next census. Gorsuch and Thomas would have gone further:… https://t.co/gCoDValYvV"
• Young People Are Suing the Trump Administration Over Climate Change. She’s Their Lawyer. – The New York Times
• Man arrested for groping woman on flight says ‘President says it’s OK to grab women’
• Trans Lifeline on Twitter: "Here is our take on the NYT article and the administration’s sustained attacks on trans people. We can provide hope. Today & every day, we’ve got you. If you need us, call us. 877-565-8860. If you don’t, support us: https
• Safe Abortions by Mail Now Ship to the U.S. – The Atlantic
• Indivisible WA2🇺🇸🇨🇦 on Twitter: "🚨Midterms are here! Look for your Ballots in the mail. 👀 Some election resources for #WA04 #WAelex #VoteBlue 📄Progressive Voter’s Guide – https://t.co/d6c7V4aMDw 📄Stranger’s Endorsements – https://t
• Gavel Drop: SCOTUS Gets Its First Abortion Rights Petition With Kavanaugh on the Bench – Rewire.News
• History in color: Marina Amaral finishes Anastasia Romanov’s work – YouTube
• Nine Tips for Becoming the Perfect Astronaut Movie Wife
• Study: anti-black hiring discrimination is as prevalent today as it was in 1989 – Vox
• Home – EN (US) — Shimoda Adventure
• Explore 40 — Shimoda Adventure
• Everyday Backpack 20L & 30L | Peak Design Official Site | Peak Design Official Site
• Disrupting Domesticity: Mental Illness & Love as a Fact – The Butter – The Toast

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• About the competition | Wildlife Photographer of the Year
• ‘Transgender’ Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration – The New York Times
• Viola Davis: ‘I stifled who I was to be seen as pretty. I lost years’ | Film | The Guardian
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