Entries from April 2019 ↓

• Twitter
  RT @andizeisler: I don’t know who needs to hear this but YOUNG WHITE GUYS GET ONE FREE RAPE is an indefensible judicial stance.
• Twitter
  RT @kubeflow: #Kubeflow 0.5 is here! Updates to Fairing and the UI mean huge improvements to model development. Learn more & try…
• Americans Don’t Know Local Newspapers Are Dying – The Atlantic
• What Joe Biden Hasn’t Owned Up to About Anita Hill | The New Yorker
  RT @sbg1: Of course you want to read the great ⁦@JaneMayerNYer⁩ on Biden and Anita Hill >>>
• Twitter
  RT @juliekkohler1: Women rarely get deemed "visionary." We are routinely positioned as those who "execute" on men’s brilliant plans. I…
• Coco Chanel's Fascism, the Chanel Flat, and the High Heel
• Paul Kedrosky on Twitter: "This is a remarkable buried lede in a long WSJ profile of Schwab’s rise in robo-advisors and discounted investment management. Schwab forces customers to have a large cash allocation, from which it benefits?… https://t.co/17oH
• Twitter
  RT @triketora: amongst the most obnoxious and bothersome messages i get are from the “woke” dudes who are so utterly condescending…
• Twitter
  RT @washingtonpost: The Post’s Fact Checker database has been updated with President Trump’s weekend remarks. He has surpassed 10,000 f…
• She Draws Deeply Human Characters. They’re Just Animals. – The New York Times

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• To tackle climate change with wind and solar, you need energy storage – Axios
• Twitter
  RT @aweissman: Learned today that the first NYC appearance of Bob Marley & The Wailers was in July 1973 at Max’s Kansas City, play…
• Guantánamo Bay Prison Commander Has Been Fired – The New York Times
• a-poem-about-silicon-valley-assembled-from-quora-quest-1793856489

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• Could Grandpa’s Early Diet Affect Your Health? | The Scientist Magazine®
• Twitter
  RT @GreatLakesPeck: Pretty clear Greenland Ice Sheet is having a tough time w/warming. More scary to me is that there is likely a big t…
• TurboTax Deliberately Hides Its Free File Page From Search Engines — ProPublica

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• Blame my brain: A killer’s bold defense gets a court hearing
• Lessons from a genocide can prepare humanity for climate apocalypse – MIT Technology Review
• Women Did Everything Right. Then Work Got ‘Greedy.’ – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @davidlitt: The problem is not the number of Boston bombers who can vote. It’s the millions of Americans, a wildly disproportio…
• Twitter
  RT @ParkerMolloy: Something I wrote last year: “Media portray these tales of perseverance as uplifting and inspirational. They’re act…
• Scientists accidentally created a new material that could revolutionise electronics – Reaction

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• Twitter
  RT @ElieNYC: Oh what’s that? It’s just @petridishes being the best thing on the Internet again, as she is most days she decides…
• Darwin Mail
• Three ways to build a strong AI-training pipeline
• How Democrats Should Handle ‘Boston Bomber’ Questions – The Atlantic
• Twitter
  RT @juliettekayyem: Can we just start saying the quiet parts out loud? The WH has no intention of stopping Russia in 2020. I’m saving y…
• Twitter
  RT @Rxbun: After enormous black turnout in the 2018 midterms, Republicans are advancing a bill that would penalize voter regis…
• Twitter
  RT @michikokakutani: My review of the Mueller Report: a kind of Rosetta Stone to the Russia and Trump investigations that should slice t…
• Twitter
  RT @haaohaoo: ‘This is your Nuremberg moment, your chance to stand on the right side of history.’ — Amal Clooney called out the T…
• You have to think about electability
• Why Female Presidential Candidates Are Still Overlooked
• Opinion | Tennessee’s Vengeful Lawmakers – The New York Times
• UN waters down rape resolution to appease US’s hardline abortion stance | Global development | The Guardian
• Don’t rely on the coverage. Read the Mueller report. – Columbia Journalism Review

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• Twitter
  RT @pbump: Today someone sent me hate email in all caps so I told him that I had a disorder where I couldn’t read capital lett…
• eScience Institute – Northwest Data Science Summit
• Twitter
  RT @AstronomyMag: A new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft indicates the presence of large organic molecules on Enceladu…
• Twitter
  RT @darth: me with sports tbh
• Twitter
  RT @cnni: The world’s first malaria vaccine will go to 360,000 African children
• World’s first malaria vaccine to go to 360,000 African children – CNN
  RT @cnni: The world’s first malaria vaccine will go to 360,000 African children
• ‘You did not act in time’: Greta Thunberg’s full speech to MPs | Environment | The Guardian
• The rise and fall of bees – Ecology

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• Twitter
  RT @dnvolz: A complete travesty. Two journalists who exposed a village massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar—and just won a P…
• Diamine Aurora Borealis Ink – 30 ml Bottle | JetPens
• Colorverse Fountain Pen Ink Bottles | JetPens
• Did Trump Obstruct Justice? Mueller Didn’t Say, but Left a Trail to the Answer – The New York Times
• Turning Over the Earth – Popula
• 2020 Democratic primary: why women candidates are called ”unelectable” – Vox
• A Trump Transition Staffer Calls for Impeachment – The Atlantic
• Twitter
  RT @sethvargo: Create, manage, and access secrets on @GCPcloud with #Berglas. Berglas integrates seamlessly with #CloudFunctions,…
• Myanmar Supreme Court Upholds Prison Sentence For Reuters Journalists : NPR

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• GoogleCloudPlatform/berglas: A tool for managing secrets on Google Cloud
  Berglas is a command line tool and library for storing and and retrieving secrets on Google Cloud. Secrets are encrypted with Cloud KMS and stored in Cloud Storage.

  As a CLI, berglas automates the process of encrypting, decrypting, and storing data on Google Cloud.

  As a library, berglas automates the inclusion of secrets into various Google Cloud runtimes

  Berglas is not an officially supported Google product.
  (Seth)

• 11 Everyday Products Made of Recycled Materials (2019) | WIRED
• Women’s Flats: Washable, Round Toe Ballet Flats for Women | Rothy’s
• Beyond Meat Details Plans for Initial Public Offering – The New York Times
• The Company That Sells Love to America Had a Dark Secret – The New York Times
• Extinction Rebellion is leading a new, youthful politics that will change Britain | Matthew d’Ancona | Opinion | The Guardian
• To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time
• CBO: over 1 million Americans have become uninsured since 2016 – Vox
  CBO: over 1 million Americans have become uninsured since 2016 – Vox

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• Fundraiser by Ishini Rachel Weerasinghe : Relief for Sri Lanka Bombing Victims
• Opinion | The Earth Is Just as Alive as You Are – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @chriszbeckett: Just learnt the name of one of those women scientists who really ought to be better known: Eunice Newton Foote, who…
• Emily L. Hauser on Twitter: "Dial 202-224-3121 (or look up Rep’s name/direct number at https://t.co/seR8PnzxJx) Follow prompts. Say: "I live in [zip code] & I’m calling to urge the Representative to support @RepRashida’s Impeachment Resolution. Mueller’s
• Whores of Yore on Twitter: "There is some evidence that Easter hot cross buns come from a Roman custom of baking phallic shaped bread at spring. The 19th century French historian, Jacques Antoine Dulaure, reports that in the town of Saintonge phallic brea
• The destruction of the Earth is a crime. It should be prosecuted | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian
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• Move Over, San Andreas: There’s an Ominous New Fault in Town | WIRED
• Dear White Sisters: Please Don’t Misuse Beyoncé
• Twitter
  RT @emilynussbaum: This is what not impeaching the president leads to: The shrugging expectation that everyone is corrupt and even obj…
• Chris Beckett on Twitter: "Just learnt the name of one of those women scientists who really ought to be better known: Eunice Newton Foote, who first wrote about the Greenhouse Effect, a century and a half ago: https://t.co/z9VaLk0AAq"

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• Marijuana Legalization Bills Are Advancing In Several States
• States where marijuana is legal – Business Insider
• This 4/20, Let’s Be Blunt About Justice | Ben & Jerry’s
• Twitter
  RT @CInsistence: Yikes. Not surprising but yikes
• How to Cook With Weed—and a Dash of Tasty, Tasty Science | WIRED
• Cannabis: The Complete WIRED Guide | WIRED
• Mueller’s report makes it look like Paul Manafort was working with the Russians.
• A Bionic Lens Undergoing Clinical Trials Could Give You Superhuman Abilities In Two Years – Big Think

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