pinboard August 31, 2020

• Monitoring the Coronavirus Outbreak in Metro Areas Across the U.S. – The New York Times
• Jay Yagnik – Google Research
  Jay Yagnik is currently a Vice President and Engineering Fellow at Google, leading large parts of Google AI. While at Google he has led many foundational research efforts in machine learning and perception, computer vision, video understanding, privacy preserving machine learning, quantum AI, applied sciences, and more. He also created multiple engineering and product successes for the company, in areas including Google Photos, YouTube, Search, Ads, Android, Maps, and Hardware. Jay’s research interests span the fields of deep learning, reinforcement learning, scalable matching, graph information propagation, image representation and recognition, temporal information mining, and sparse networks.

  Jay is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science and the Institute of Technology, Nirma University for graduate and undergraduate studies.

• UW research shows racism and redlining hurt local wildlife, too  | Crosscut
• Chadwick Boseman: 1976-2020 | Tributes | Roger Ebert
• Moderate Republicans Can Save America – The Atlantic
• Twitter
  RT @JoyceWhiteVance: If you want to live in a country where your vote counts, you’ve got one last election in which you can do something about it.
• Matt Zoller Seitz is helping his jazz-legend dad produce his final record in Dallas — and documenting it on film
• Twitter
  RT @RealSardonicus: Small Horned Owl on Maple Branch under Full Moon
  Utagawa Hiroshige
• Marvel Studios' 'Black Panther' Director Ryan Coogler Full Statement on the Legacy of Chadwick Boseman | Marvel
• Leaked McGahn memo reveals alarms about Kushner's security clearance – Axios
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/us/politics/joe-biden-trump-conventions.html)
  RT @jayrosen_nyu: The deep grammar is still symmetrical: Biden is doing this, Trump is doing that. As if there’s a chessboard between them. This is a distortion. There is one normal candidacy competing against an attempt to trigger a national emergency and crash the system.
• Twitter
  RT @RepAdamSchiff: As usual, President Trump is lying and projecting.

  Trump fired the last DNI for briefing Congress on Russian efforts to help his campaign.

  Now he’s ending briefings altogether.

  Trump doesn’t want the American people to know about Russia’s efforts to aid his re-election.

• Twitter
  RT @BarbMcQuade: Intelligence briefings to Congress were part of the post-Watergate “grand bargain” to permit the executive branch to conduct FISA surveillance. Eliminating intel briefings disrupts the carefully calibrated balance of power, and at a time when our democracy is under attack.
• Twitter
  RT @Pinboard: Congress sent itself home for recess and bears a bunch of the blame here. If there’s an electoral emergency (no FEC quorum, open defiance from the Adminstration) then stay in session and fight.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/opinion/black-lives-civil-rights.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur)
  RT @nytopinion: The impact of the massacre of dozens of former slaves in Colfax, La., in 1873 extended far beyond the town. The damage is still felt acutely throughout our entire nation, and the tragedy must not be forgotten, write William Briggs and Jon Krakauer.
• University of Alabama records 481 new COVID-19 cases
• Russiagate Was Not a Hoax – The Atlantic
  RT @Peter_Wehner: "The chairman of the Trump campaign was in daily contact with a Russian agent, constantly sharing confidential information with him. That alone makes for one of the worst scandals in American political history." @FranklinFoer
  in @TheAtlantic

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