Link. Trump is a fascinating pathology.
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Trump appointee at VA purges during a leadership gap.
Link. “he had not communicated with Mr. Wilkie regarding these changes.”
“journalists have been asked to allow the Wild Boars to return to the business of being normal boys”
Link. We have to let them be.
Musk being sleazy and despicable again
Link. A $1 billion libel judgment would be nice
WhatsApp fueled mob murders in India.
Link. Who gains from the videos?
Software Development: how it works.
Link. Exactly
“Just because Amazon is successful, doesn’t mean it’s particularly harmful to anybody else.”
Link. Somewhat contrarian. Implies one should invest in companies after Amazon enters their space.
Brexit status.
Link. GOP has a rival in catastrophe.
Iran: No Plan B
Link. Maybe Trump is trying to promote global MAD?
Upstaging Anna Chapman
Link. Russia really is like Trump’s America.
“Russia exerts a control over President Trump. So the US is in grave danger.”
Link. Through him the GOP.
Mariia Butina: the spy who loved … guns.
Link. NRA leaders were putty in her hands.
Average lifespan of the parts of a house
Link. Ref.
“The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive”
Link. Jobs had a gift.
Obama speaks.
Link. When Obama is alarmed it is time to lower the gates.
Tsai suggests patreon donations
Link. I love his work
DF: “most powerful person in the world isn’t Trump or Putin but Rupert Murdoch”
Link. I thought I was alone. What is Murdoch’s motivation? What does Putin have on him?
“Trump’s entire company, and therefore his personal wealth, is held afloat entirely by Russian money”
Link. Agree pee tape wouldn’t bother today’s GOP. So it’s something else.
Extortion E-mail Based on Password Theft
Link. This will be refined.
“Canadian practices spend only 27 percent of what U.S. ones do on dealing with payers like Medicare or private insurers.”
Link. American stupidity.
Muelller GRU indictment: a warning to Putin.
Link. US intel knows a lot. A warning to Trump as well.
“we wouldn’t say entropy is a property of a system, but a property of an observer who describes a system.”
Link. Quantum thermodynamics. Fun overview.
A sober analysis of trade and alliances in the age of Trump
Link. The most important midterm elections in decades.
DeLong excerpts Goebbels.
Link. A stream of words that have the rhythm of reason without actual reason.
““predictive coding” theory, at each level of a cognitive process, the brain generates models, or beliefs, about what information it should be receiving from the level below it”
Link. Modern models of thought.
“the unobservable Universe, assuming there’s no topological weirdness, must be at least 23 trillion light years in diameter”
Link. How do you create exactly one universe?
Amazon’s bizarre price hacks.
Link. Lesser versions of this in some collectable items. I know a vulnerable adult buyer.
“Democrats currently hold a substantial 52-38 percent lead among white women at the moment.”
Link. I don’t believe this.
Trump brand toxic in Canada.
Link. A positive development
Sympathy for devils: the GOP base is pretty dumb.
Link. Professional wrestling politics is not for everyone.
Israel’s motive: “trade Russian assistance with Iran for regularizing Russia’s gains in Ukraine and ending sanctions.”
Link. Putin’s goal.
Novartis lied about its bribes to Cohen-Trump
Link. Their payments worked
‘Dishonesty Density’: Trump inspires new metrics
Link. How does he compare to Mussolini?
Apple Maps also has enroute destinations
Link. I use it infrequently… good to know
“no evidence to support that vitamin D supplementation significantly benefits PCOS patients”
Link.
“Guanfacine failed to ameliorate prefrontal cognitive function in older individuals”
Link. Worth a try.
“Mr. Putin, he added, “is ready to lure him into many different traps.”
Link. Trump is a target rich environment.
“Russian women turned up, wanting to practice English”
Link. I love the sly phrase.
“there’s nothing simple about the thermodynamics of compound binding”
Link. Limits to computation.
“extremely high energies we find in the earliest stages of the Big Bang, every particle in the Standard Model was massless”
Link.
College for adults with cognitive disabilities
Link. Money for the schools. Unclear value.
Neoliberal Party Card.
Link. Amusing. Also me.
Bitcoin good for more than drugs
Link. Espionage & sabotage too.
10 Stages of Genocide. 2016.
Link. Plausible path. I’m sure some merge steps, sometimes progress is non-linear.
“Greenwald mocks what was already understood: that Guccifer 2.0 was a Russian intelligence operation.”
Link. Glenn Greenwald’s corruption was spectacular
Keynes (after 2 world wars): “We were not aware that civilisation was a thin and precarious crust erected by the personality and the will of a very few, and only maintained by rules and conventions skilfully put across and guilefully preserved.”
Link. 15% of humanity sustains civilization.
Life with a $60 Android phone: YouTube is great.
Link. Everything else sucks. But my 2yo $99 Moto wasn’t nearly so bad …
Anti-aging drug candidates
Link. If immune senescence related to endogenous neurovirus proliferation…
July 27, 2016: Trump calls on Russia to hack Clinton personal email server. Also same day they try.
Link. Funny that.
Hawks on Out of Africa: “There’s a big story brewing here”
Link. Journalists, he awaits your phone call.