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Airstrike errors: “noncombatants entered the so-called killbox after the weapons were released,”
Link. Mistakes from the egregious to the inevitable.
The end of retail stores: “We are downsizing a part of the economy that is uncompetitive”
Link. “creative destruction”? Or mass disability?
Last names in the world and Vietnam: taxes, immigration, and politics.
Link. Unique identifier assigned.
Akihabara Electric Town: now more pop culture than electronics.
Link. Geek core.
Groom of the Stool: toilet companion to kings.
Link. April 6. I checked.
Joseph Bologne: composer, musician, warrior, revolutionary, abolitionist. And black.
Link. 18th cent France.
Europe’s 1930s mystery hikes were popular.
Link. Cars were not universal.
Great sewers of history.
Link. Very long lifespans.
Ulysses S. Grant. Read it.
Link. Twain did well by his friend.
Delta bump bribe: $2000 at gate $9,950 managers.
Link. Know it! Kudos Delta. This will work.
823 billion into Vanguard funds in 3 years.
Link. Not just us.
TidBITS reviews US border device law c
Link. Basically you are screwed.
T ignorance is different: “inability to understand that everyone else isn’t equally ignorant to him.”
Link. Never seen anything like this.
Scientific glory is also timing.
Link. Like everything. Talent is abundant.
Cohen’s long essay on the state of France and Le Pen.
Link. Rural distress, youth unemployment, large scale immigration, cultural dislocation, mass unwanted.
Apple’s disdain for bug reports is worsening.
Link. Suspect they can’t keep quality developers.
Dao’s significant injuries from United’s assault.
Link. His children are all physicians too.
Why Assad uses chemical weapons.
Link. Plausible, but somehow I distrust this.
Turkey’s slow, quiet, civil war.
Link. Kin to China’s cultural revolution.
All the beliefs Trump abandoned today.
Link. Unprecedented.
A gastric ulcer from a patient’s perspective.
Link. Way better than my medical textbook.
“Trump flipped on maybe half of his major campaign promises yesterday.”
Link. Throws his base under trade agreement bus.
Trump/Pruitt vs Science: The courts are a problem.
Link. Courts are biased towards reason, logic, science.
“you’ll be amazed at how loud road bikes have become”
Link. Yes! I like quiet. Steel frames best.
Trump has an extensive and public relationship with organized crime.
Link. Doing money laundering for post-Soviet criminals?
Trump, facing enemies, threatens to shoot base.
Link. Abstract Art of the Deal confounds critics.
Gig world: never less than 5 stars.
Link. 5 means good.
Onedrive scan is single page only for iOS.
Link. Don’t bother until it can at least handle multiple pages. Sheesh.
Scott Pruit is a nut: security demands.
Link. Crackers.
In 1955, an experimental meltdown.
Link. Not exactly planned, but not random.
Society of Women Geographers: it lives.
Link. Big meeting pending.
Society of Woman Geographers: 1920s onwards
Link. Still exists?
David Rockefeller: rolodex of 150K names.
Link. Founded Trilateral Commission.
The Pauli Effect.
Link. Not exclusion.
Lessons from a lost iPhone.
Link. Apple 2FA and secure iCloud pw are bad news.
Google AI Experiments lab
Link. AutoDraw, Bird Sounds, Visualizing high dimensional space.
AutoDraw: Google AI experiment in turning rough sketch into illustration.
Link. Remember Newton’s sketch tool?
Stross on 2117 culture and language.
Link. Fun.
US military tweets Breitbart.
Link. Has consequences.
Infectious autism.
Link. I have long wondered about this. Wonder if there was any follow up.
Airtable has a calendar view and that view has an iCal feed.
Link. Bizarre that Google Sheets doesn’t do this. Sharepoint is only similar product I know of.
Update of ant fungal farms.
Link. The chemistry must be fascinating.
Trump yields (some) on Fed hiring.
Link. If Fed hiring falls contractors will rise; net cost increase.
United airlines passenger assault: Blame the Feds.
Link. DOT sets absurdly low compensation limit.
United bumps: “In the United States, compensation maxes out at $1,350”
Link. Damnit, NYT, explain WHY that number!
Trump’s Carter Page might be a really weird Russian agent.
Link. Makes senses he’d be incompetent.
ISIS attacks Egypt.
Link. Big vulnerable target.
Border Officers Nearly Double Searches of Electronic Devices.
Link.
Apple AirPods: much improved by 10.3.
Link. I’d have returned them.