Entries from July 2019 ↓

• Humanity + Tech
• Billionaire Summer Camp: The Rich And Famous Flock To Sicily For The 7th Annual Google Retreat
• Google camp guests Harry Styles, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom,Leonardo DiCaprio and Bradley Cooper
• Olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin could do it all. Until it all became too much. – The Washington Post
• Twitter
  RT @RobbieGramer: The Arctic Is Experiencing Its Worst Wildfire Season on Record: Arctic infernos released 50 megatons of carbon diox…
• Paid time off for medical leave could be the next health care battle
• Why are these acceptable sacrifices? – The Washington Post
• To Lower Recidivism, Washington State Lets More Felons Clear Their Records
• A new pro-impeachment TV ad boils Mueller’s 6 hours of testimony down to 32 seconds
• » Things I Won’t Work With Archive | In the Pipeline
• Reflections on Relativity
• Google employees love Warren and Sanders, presidential candidates who want to break up Big Tech – Vox
• Twitter
  RT @virgingalactic: Congrats to Celestine Wenardy who won the Virgin Galactic Pioneer Award at @googlescifair! She’s developed a non-in…
• In ‘Severance,’ The World Ends Not With A Bang, But A Memo : NPR
  Ling Ma
• Twitter
  RT @EricHolthaus: This week, 40 billion tons of ice will melt in Greenland as the European heat wave moves north — enough to measura…
• Volunteer Your Time – Bayview Community
• Trump Makes Clear What Black Voters Had to Lose
• Six serious ‘zero interaction’ vulnerabilities found in iOS – 9to5Mac

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• Sony Develops a Personal Wearable Air Conditioner
• Affordable Noninvasive Continuous Blood Glucose Concentration Monitoring via Interferometry and Thermal Technology | Google Science Fair
• Affordable noninvasive continuous blood glucose concentration monitoring via interferometry and thermal technology

  Affordable noninvasive continuous blood glucose concentration monitoring via interferometry and thermal technology

• An investigation into the removal of microplastics from water using ferrofluids | Google Science Fair
• Students changing the world—this year’s Science Fair winners
• Xavier Fettweis on Twitter: "A heat wave is starting tomorrow over Greenland with Tmax reaching 25°C in tundra. The integrated anomaly of melt over the next 5 days (resp. over Summer 2019) will be 40Gt ~0.11mm (resp. ~0.65mm) sea level equivalent. Summer
• Eric Holthaus on Twitter: "This week, 40 billion tons of ice will melt in Greenland as the European heat wave moves north — enough to measurably raise global sea levels. This single heat wave will create a permanent change in our oceans that will linger
• Three pitfalls to avoid in machine learning
• Ling Ma’s “Severance” Captures the Bleak, Fatalistic Mood of 2018
• Trump aide submitted drafts of 2016 ‘America First’ energy speech to UAE for edits, emails show – ABC News
• The Year I Went Bald | The Walrus
• Real ID | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Mutt console email client on Dreamhost – How To – DreamHost Community
• The brain-eating amoeba is a nearly perfect killer

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• Twitter
  RT @rachelcoldicutt: Women: get yourself a partner who does useful things at home: “with ​every 1-standard-deviation increase in a spous…
• The One Thing About Your Spouse’s Personality That Really Affects Your Career
• Colombo full episodes
• Twitter
  Under Brazil’s Far Right Leader, Amazon Protections Slashed and Forests Fall
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/28/world/americas/brazil-deforestation-amazon-bolsonaro.html)
  Under Brazil’s Far Right Leader, Amazon Protections Slashed and Forests Fall
• Twitter
  RT @ambernoelle: This Jane Kenyon poem will never not make me gasp
• Twitter
  RT @RobGMacfarlane: One hundred “Arctic wildfires” (a phrase that shouldn’t exist) have burned since June 1st, releasing smoke-plumes v…
• Adding a free Let’s Encrypt certificate – DreamHost
• Chase Strangio on Twitter: "Too many trans people are dying in custody. We are creating a short-term emergency release fund in NYC for trans folks held pre-trial on misdemeanor charges. Want to help? Check it out: https://t.co/DKa6V8g2yi"
• BuzzFeed Reader on Twitter: ""They thought we were stupid and illiterate people, so nobody would notice what happens to us." How environmental racism played out in an Alabama town that was poisoned for decades by PCBs from a Monsanto plant: https://t.co/
• Working on an iPad Pro as my main computer
• Blink Shell for iOS
• The Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store
• Unconsenting Media
  a search engine for sexual violence in media

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• The Best USB-C Cables and Adapters for 2019: Reviews by Wirecutter | A New York Times Company
• How to Be a Better Writer – Better Humans – Medium
• The "Rope Mother" Margaret Hamilton — Google Arts & Culture
• Chile’s Carretera Austral: how to take the perfect Patagonia road trip
• Alaskan glaciers melting 100 times faster than previously thought
• Twitter
  RT @ossoff: Jul 3, 2017: suit filed challenging Georgia’s corruptible voting system in aftermath of GA06 Special

  Jul 7, 2017:…

• Twitter
  RT @soledadobrien: This: everyone always underestimates the power of racism. We want to believe ‘this isn’t us’ or ‘we’re better than…
• shopsins_menu.pdf
  Shopsin’s
• Judge weighs whether to force Georgia to use paper ballots

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• Scientists Are Getting Better at Predicting Killer Heat Waves
• Equifax Data Breach Settlement | Federal Trade Commission
• This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years. Then he invented a surgery and cured himself
  endocrinology
• Check Your Eligibility
  Equifax
• Twitter
  RT @mulegirl: Being unlikable is *such* a timesaver.
• Real Rent Duwamish – Real Rent Duwamish
• Twitter
  RT @JoyAnnReid: Succinctly said:
• Point Austin: “The Time to Act Is Now”: Lloyd Doggett on the need to begin impeachment proceedings – News – The Austin Chronicle
• Permission to Marry? Is It 1950? – The New York Times
• Raising Prospect of Impeaching Trump, House Seeks Mueller’s Grand Jury Secrets – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @GretaThunberg: “It’s almost like you don’t even know these numbers exist. As if you haven’t even read the latest IPCC report, on w…
• Prostate cancer: How a full stomach could improve treatment
• Center for an Informed Public | Information School | University of Washington
  The University of Washington is establishing the Center for an Informed Public, projected to launch in fall 2019. Its mission is to marshal the collective resources of a world-class research university, embedded within local communities, to resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse. The Center will be non-partisan. It will bring diverse voices from across industry, government, nonprofits and other institutions.

  This interdisciplinary effort is being led by the Information School, Human Centered Design & Engineering and the School of Law, with collaboration from the Communication Leadership Program at the UW and numerous other university and community partners. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation recently announced investments to establish the Center.

• Russian Doll’s Natasha Lyonne Is the Best Actor on TV
• Report_Volume1.pdf

  Just finished reading the (redacted) Senate Intelligence Committee election report. Election systems in all 50 states were targeted. Note that these were primarily state and local back-end systems. There’s more to election security that voting machines.
  https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Report_Volume1.pdf

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• Estimating the success of re-identifications in incomplete datasets using generative models | Nature Communications

  While rich medical, behavioral, and socio-demographic data are key to modern data-driven research, their collection and use raise legitimate privacy concerns. Anonymizing datasets through de-identification and sampling before sharing them has been the main tool used to address those concerns. We here propose a generative copula-based method that can accurately estimate the likelihood of a specific person to be correctly re-identified, even in a heavily incomplete dataset. On 210 populations, our method obtains AUC scores for predicting individual uniqueness ranging from 0.84 to 0.97, with low false-discovery rate. Using our model, we find that 99.98% of Americans would be correctly re-identified in any dataset using 15 demographic attributes. Our results suggest that even heavily sampled anonymized datasets are unlikely to satisfy the modern standards for anonymization set forth by GDPR and seriously challenge the technical and legal adequacy of the de-identification release-and-forget model.

  All simulations were implemented in Julia and Python. The source code to reproduce the experiments is available at https://cpg.doc.ic.ac.uk/individual-risk, along with documentation, tests, and examples.

• Your Data Were ‘Anonymized’? These Scientists Can Still Identify You – The New York Times

  Scientists have found a way to identify virtually any American from any data set with just 15 attributes, like gender, ZIP code or marital status.

• Twitter
  RT @chrislhayes: The nightmare scenario, one which is not, to my mind, that remote, is that 2020 is very close and amidst recount/co…
• Twitter
  Amazon deforestation accelerating towards unrecoverable ‘tipping point’
  "…this is on cour…
• Amazon deforestation accelerating towards unrecoverable ‘tipping point’ | World news | The Guardian
  Amazon deforestation accelerating towards unrecoverable ‘tipping point’
  "…this is on cour…
• Twitter
  RT @RVAwonk: New Senate Intelligence Committee report confirms that Russian hackers probed election systems in all 50 states in…
• Russia Targeted Elections Systems in All 50 States, Report Finds – The New York Times
• Twitter
  Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months – BBC News

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• Meet the mysterious train expert behind successful website seat61.com

  THE MAN IN SEAT 61’S FIVE MOST MEMORABLE TRAIN JOURNEYS

• Fork – a fast and friendly git client for Mac and Windows

  a fast and friendly git client for Mac and Windows

• Migrants sent back by US dumped in Mexico’s Monterrey
• Sony WF-1000XM3 Review: The Perfect Travel Companion | WIRED
• Use Asana to manage your team’s work, projects, & tasks online · Asana
• Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months – BBC News
• The Potomac River set a record high water temperature of 94 degrees – The Washington Post
• Solar Sailing Success: Planetary Society Deploys LightSail 2 – Scientific American
• Twitter
  RT @stevesilberman: This is one of the most poignant signs I’ve ever read in my life, to be installed at the former Okjökull glacier in…
• Twitter
  RT @kelseykeith: “There’s not a single county in the U.S., urban or rural, where a person making minimum wage can afford to rent a t…
• Happy Birthday To Vera Rubin: The Mother Of Our Dark Matter Universe
• Twitter
  RT @theferocity: Anyway, I think Trump is probably gonna win re-election. Hope I’m wrong. (I’m usually not tho.) This article looks…
• Twitter
  RT @mehdirhasan: This should be one of the top stories in America today
• Twitter
  RT @TexasTribune: 1/ He has a birth certificate and a Social Security number.

  But ICE has detained this U.S. citizen for three week…

• Twitter
  RT @ArlanWasHere: Master class in CLASS and SHADE💅🏾Tres magnifique!
• Kevin Barry longlisted for 2019 Booker Prize
• Where are the families in U.S. cities? – Curbed

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• Tonight Show Summer Reads 2019 Final
• FBI Sees ‘Challenging’ Battle Against Domestic Terror Amid Rise In White Supremacist Threat
• Colorado urine therapy group touts the benefits of drinking pee
• These Michigan Voters Show How Trump’s ‘Go Back’ Attack May Help Him – The New York Times
• ‘Not just in their heads’: Scientists find anomalies in brains of ‘Havana Syndrome’ patients
• ICE releases U.S. citizen born in Dallas, Texas, after detaining him 3 weeks | The Texas Tribune
• Trump says Constitution gives him power to ‘do whatever I want’ – The Washington Post
• The ‘Texas Miracle’ Missed Most of Texas – The New York Times
• A Dallas-born citizen picked up by the Border Patrol has been detained for three weeks, his lawyer says | Immigration | Dallas News
• MIT AI tool can predict breast cancer up to 5 years early, works equally well for white and black patients – TechCrunch
• Neurosexism: the myth that men and women have different brains
• regulated-capitalism-is-the-answer-to-global-warming

  “Over the next ten years, build about 5,000 standardized 5 TWh nuclear reactors worldwide and retire all fossil-fuel plants….This would cost around $3 trillion per year, which isn’t much, and would cut carbon emissions by about 80 percent. Done.” https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/07/regulated-capitalism-is-the-answer-to-global-warming/ https://twitter.com/kdrum/status/1153733266425483264/photo/1

• Researchers Developed an AI that Can ‘Relight’ Portraits After the Fact
• Apple’s Fancy Photo Relighting Option Could Soon Be a Feature On Even the Cheapest Smartphones
• GoodTwitter – Chrome Web Store

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• Sci-Fi Short Film "FTL" | Presented by DUST – YouTube
• Gourmet Stovetop Popcorn Popper | Lehman’s
• Xenophobe’s Guide to the Americans:Amazon:Books
• Microsoft invests in and partners with OpenAI to support us building beneficial AGI

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• Twitter
  RT @eric_brewer: This is special…
• Twitter
  RT @theferocity: Over the years, this paragraph has only made more sense as I return to it, armed with my own experiences.
• Rick Doblin: The future of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy | TED Talk

  Drugs like LSD, psilocybin and MDMA — when paired with psychotherapy — could change the way we treat PTSD, depression, substance abuse and more.

  Watch @RickDoblin’s full TED Talk here: http://t.ted.com/VxUc5W5 https://twitter.com/TEDTalks/status/1149033760622612480/video/1

• Twitter
  @tlpayne @elle_desylva yeah, I’m hoping that as a younger generation of politicians starts getting elected, things…
• Twitter
  RT @lmatsakis: I don’t believe that a single person intends to give a tip to a multibillion dollar venture-backed startup. They ar…
• Twitter
  RT @ClintSmithIII: Just finished Eula Biss’s “On Immunity” & this paragraph stopped me in my tracks. I understood, in an abstract way,…
• Twitter
  RT @elle_desylva: As an Australian I find it odd that Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley and Tlaib are seen as the “far left” when they’re…
• Mueller report shows evidence Trump committed crimes, House Judiciary chairman says – Reuters
• I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked. – The New York Times
• We rewrote and illustrated the Mueller report so you’ll actually read it – INSIDER
• Apollo 11: As They Shot It – Returning Home – The New York Times
• Apollo 11: As They Shot It – The New York Times
• Review: Jennifer Egan’s ‘Manhattan Beach’ – The Atlantic
• My friends were detained by ICE in Philly. Here’s what happened when I tried to help them. | Perspective
• The Women Divers Hall of Fame™ (WDHOF)
  Amelia Behrens-Furniss

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