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“scientists had discovered only four Denisovans; the fifth turned out to be a first-generation hybrid.”
Link. Miscegenation is human.
The History of Aperture
Link. It ended as a danmed fine product. I still rely on it. Left a gulf in Apple’s product lineup
Why Putin hates Bill Browder.
Link. Trump’s cooperation, all by itself, should be impeachable.
WTF happened: maybe it’s all about exploiting the WWC.
Link. Daytime TV has been all this for decades. Call out to Stross!
7 explanations for the year 2016 and beyond.
Link. I’m torn between coma and simulation.
“whenever internet access went down in an area with high Facebook use, attacks on refugees dropped significantly.”
Link. Suspicious.
“Any mastodon profile is an RSS feed,”
Link. A primer.
Android phones a constant data pump to Google.
Link. Greed.
Netflix adds commercials.
Link. Shocker.
Slimy ‘No-Poach’ Policies: the food industry
Link. These should be illegal
“62 percent of black men with a black doctor agreed to cholesterol tests, compared to 36 percent assigned to a doctor who was not black”
Link. Randomized trial. Would black PA have same effect?
Denialism has destroyed Australian conservatives too.
Link. No better than us.
Best evidence on voter ID laws
Link. Work against black voters as designed, but also elderly whites.
Sad stories of late wave crypto investors.
Link. Vulnerable people. Not so different from public lotteries.
Remnick reminds us how Putin and the Russian right killed their moment of freedom.
Link. Trump knows the media and he knows the WWC. That is a kind of genius.
GOP moral collapse rooted in Denialism
Link. GOP war on science became war on truth.
“For his whole career, Kavanaugh has believed in maximal presidential power. Unless it’s a Democrat, unless it’s a president he opposes.”
Link.
Ten Years After the Crash – Mitch McConnell’s poisonous legacy
Link. A 21st century villain.
Events in American History – calendar subscription.
Link. Or iCal download. Good for schools. I used it to populate a demo calendar.
Take the Trump-antidote – a story on Jimmy and Roslyn Carter.
Link. Antithesis is the only word.
10 physics facts that contradict typical high school classes.
Link. Entropy is annoying
“five different backdoors joined the list of security flaws in Cisco routers”
Link. Good thing nothing important uses Cisco routers.
A $700 gravel bike.
Link. Affordable
“Rich snippets work on any social platform or messaging app that supports Open Graph Protocol including Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit and apps like Hangouts, iMessage and Slack.”
Link. Huh? I thought OGP was extinct.
Google search adds subtopics.
Link.
12 Common WordPress Errors
Link. Instapaper this.
DreamHost Remixer now has an exit option: WordPress
Link. I think this is unprecedented.
“If a CPU cycle is 1 second long” – life in a CPU
Link. “platter disks are delivering your data by horse-drawn wagon, over the full length of the Oregon Trail”
An odd doctor behaving badly: “I’m a conservative Republican, I’m a Trump guy”
Link. Phew. A trumpet.
IBM’s Watson is a failure.
Link. Is anyone surprised?
Random thoughts on replacing Twitter.
Link. Years ago I wanted NYT to buy app.net (and Encyclopedia Britannica). They had more money then.
Holick, the “endocrine society”, and the Vitamin D fraud.
Link. Good docs smelled the scam years ago.
Retail banks vs senior fraud.
Link. Automation can detect most of this. I’d opt in.
Mormon -> TCJCLS.
Link. 94 is too old. “Mitt Romney, who is a Mormon, may have a choice to make as he campaigns to represent Utah in the Senate.”
Trump leaps to defense … of Alec Jones
Link. Twitter may need to die
GOP tax cut payoff: “tens of millions of dollars in campaign donations”
Link. One reason why “socialist” is an ineffective epithet.
“That the TSA is willing to consider politically unpopular ideas is a credit to the organization.”
Link. Politicics of fear.
Distrust Google: “surveillance is the business model of the Internet,”
Link. DuckDuckGo
“A key reason motorists feel comfortable blocking bike lanes and committing other seemingly “minor” violations is that they equate driving with Serious Business and cycling with frivolity”
Link. That WaPo piece was amazingly bad.
“we must operate in a system in which the person with the most power is working for a foreign adversary”
Link. Maybe we can do a deal with Putin to restrain Trump.
“many new tracking techniques that work despite all existing anonymous browsing tools”
Link. Abandon hope.
The mainstream lurches left.
Link. Cochrane conversion would blow my mind but it vaporized years ago.
Avoiding Amazon counterfeits
Link. It is a sign of the times that Amazon sells counterfeit products
XKCD equations explainer.
Link. Ok. That did not entirely help.
Equations. xkcd.
Link. By Zeus, someone give Randall a scotch. Running for Explainer now.
“women underestimate the costs of motherhood. The mismatch is biggest for those with college degrees”
Link. Rising expectations for both child raising AND for hours of high income earners leads to male work, female child care. Special needs child blows everything out of the water.
Trump parade canceled.
Link. America wins a skirmish with Trump
Melania understamds the contract
Link. Old school royalty.
iMovie is bloody stupid: the set resolution hack
Link. Argh.