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“Serious malfeasance really began with Jackson, reached a pitch with Buchanan, then quieted down until the Presidencies of Grant and Harding”
Link. Today’s GOP is key to Trump’s triumph over all of the worst.
GOP: “there are no limits: They’ll do whatever it takes to defend Trump and consolidate power.”
Link. Hungary.
Who Is the Most Powerful Supervillain?
Link. Surprisingly erudite discussion by experts
“on top of all the above, while manipulating each of them, has been Rupert Murdoch – the greatest cancer on the Australian democracy.”
Link. American journalists are either terrified of Murdoch or deeply corrupt. What else explains the silence of decades?
Ghostbuster Vic Tandy
Link. Real?
Plutonium is going missing.
Link. “When they awoke the next morning, the window had been smashed and the special valises holding these sensors and nuclear materials had vanished.” Small amounts, but, yeah.
Lecture notes for Aaronson’s Intro to Quantum Information Science.
Link. An *undergraduate* class. Yikes.
NYT writes about prison strikes — somewhat apologetically.
Link. “Knowing what is happening in prisons in real time is notoriously difficult.” They’ve been accused of ignoring the actions.
Vietnam: “The US government would draft men whose low IQ scores had hitherto disqualified them from military service.”
Link. Ask a VA physician about these men.
Interview with an “out” “psychopath”.
Link. Very 2018. Would be interesting to know some brain scan results.
AT&T mobile app: A bug with data usage display and an unexpected feature.
Link. You can turn data off for a specific phone number on a family plan.
White-Black adoption: attacks from left & right.
Link. I know a bit of this world. “[The alt-right] made me wish for the days when “the left” came after us; at least progressive critics didn’t want my daughter to die.”
Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper.
Link. Puts Jupyter project in context.
The Atlantic: Scientific papers and Wolfram’s Notebooks.
Link. Surprisingly deep exploration. See also next post.
Sabine “What does the universe expand into?”
Link. Few dare to answer such simple questions. “you can embed any curved four dimensional space-time into a ten dimensional flat space-time.” … but that adds nothing.
Economist’s McCain obit tells much.
Link. Contradictions, flaws, endurance, duty.
“objections to the Trump-era Fox News are widely shared within the network’s reporting corps”
Link. This is encouraging. Even Fox.
Today’s GOP is no worse than 1970s: “Nixon’s party was wholly loyal to him too.”
Link. Comforting.
Lini Puthussery died of the Nipah virus on May 21st
Link. Read to honor the memory of a good person who died young.
Vanguard’s 2FA disgrace
Link. “a unique, single-use, 6-digit number that you receive by text”. TEXT! Incompetence.
“pattern of clusters of teens in friend groups becoming transgender-identified, the group dynamics of these friend groups and the types of advice viewed online led her to the hypothesis that friends and online sources could spread certain beliefs”
Link. Patience.
The role of government in setting standards
Link. Standards are a building block of civilization. Maybe we need an international Celebrate Government day
Google report on nation-state hacks: Iran’s IRIB.
Link. The real pros don’t get caught
Account PIN insecurity another reason text message 2FA is a disaster
Link. Very weak sscurity.
Textbook publishers successfully blocked eTextbooks
Link. We buy used paper textbooks for our kids because they are vastly superior to current eTextbooks.
“If it is not human waste or toilet paper, it should not be disposed of in the toilet”
Link. Not facial tissue, not wipes, not tampons, not meds…
Manafort holdout juror: “strong supporter of President Trump”
Link. He was so guilty even she couldn’t save Trump.
NYT’s intimate review of ‘Small Fry
Link. You are probably not as messed up as Steve Jobs.
Money buys happiness.
Link. Surprise.
“plenty of paths to the President’s and his family’s undoing even if he manages, through whatever means, to decapitate the Special Counsel Investigation.”
Link. Why did he think this was a good career move?
CIA hints Trump admin is spooking their sources.
Link. Spies act as though Trump is working for Putin.
“there isn’t really any benefit of drinking to your health”
Link. Sadly, been trending this way for years. Drink minimally or not at all
The Persistence of Stormy Daniels.
Link. A flawed hero for our bizarro world.
Russian Troll Vax-wars: “trolls and bots they programmed hurled insults at both pro- and anti-vaccine advocates”
Link. They are so good at this. Almost as good as Rupert Murdoch.
Trump’s latest distraction: South Africa.
Link. “Ernst Roets, the group’s deputy chief executive, appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight”. Tucker chose “rule in Hell”.
“you can create text clippings for email signatures”
Link. I forgot about them. Like Services. Appreciate the reminder.
“Make no mistake: Drivers are your enemy.”
Link. This is how we ride in the city.
The Extreme Cyclists of the Navajo Nation. | The New Yorker
Link. In 1978 I met a bike festooned bus that donated to California Rez.
“Paul Manafort must know things that could destroy Trump, members of Trump’s family or both.”
Link. The pardon is pending.
“When Trump instructed Cohen to pay off women with whom he’d had affairs, he may have been violating the law. But he was upholding traditional gender and class hierarchies.”
Link. Only for white men.
Anti-vax tweets often malicious bots
Link. A particularly nasty cyber attack.
NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History.
Link. Must read.
Trump’s lies are a successful political strategy aimed at 80% of Republicans.
Link. For Trump “truth” is an academic distraction. His genius is understanding most humans feel “truth” rather than know it.
A #MeToo champion comes to terms with human reality.
Link. Imperfect victims, adulterated monsters. This is a truth the old know, the young not so much.
Ancient human hybrids: “When you find a needle in a haystack, you have to start wondering if what you’re really looking at is a needlestack”
Link. Comparison to Tolkien’s world inevitable.
Ways to lose photos: leaving Apple Cloud solutions.
Link. Apple has a history of vaporizing customer Cloud data.
“people who gravitate to Trump tend to be people who share his values and those values include a high willingness to break the law.”
Link. Repells the best.
Sanders: “no problem since the President hasn’t been charged with anything. Also, the President cannot be charged with anything – because he’s President.”
Link. Truth is not truth.
“I can’t tell you how much I wish Aperture were still around”
Link. Apple sank the ship … without lifeboats.