Link. Sufi. Islam has a lot of internal fissures.
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US moving to take $1B from corrupt Malaysians.
Link. Big seizure.
NATO nukes in Turkey: “American officials say the weapons are secure and they are not planning to relocate them”
Link. We do, however, have plans. Scary ones.
“99 percent probability that the full year would be hotter than 2015.”
Link. Gore wasn’t extreme after all.
Melania Speech Debacle: mystery solved.
Link. Trump in miniature.
State lawsuits go after VW CEO.
Link. Germany seems uninterested. Nobody doubts he set it all up.
An Introduction to Bikepacking.
Link. Fat bikes especially.
Amazon $50 Android phone.
Link. Game over.
Arts
Link. Google’s gift.
Google Arts & Culture site rebooted.
Link. It was already superb. Now better.
Kansas Black Lives Matter cancels protest, invites police to picnic.
Link. Smart move, well timed.
We signed up for Talking Points Prime – $50/year.
Link. Ouch. Better than NYT for US politics though, that’s worth something.
The day the GOP became a fascist party.
Link. This is a dangerous time.
MacKeeper scamware using legal extortion on critics.
Link. Sleaze beyond any other.
View-Master Deluxe VR Phone mount $40
Link. Step above Google cardboard. Well made.
HDD still improving: better tech, more capacity.
Link. Primary use is backups now.
Louisiana legislator: streets are for cars, not people.
Link. There are lot of people who believe this.
In the US state support of public schools was and is a “miracle”.
Link. Pawlenty, a GOP governor, reversed some of the reform. American school funding is insane.
David Brooks: Trump getting more insane.
Link. GOP could introduce nominee drug testing.
Putin’s olympic doping: he remains insanely popular.
Link. 81%. Just amazing.
Apple Breaks Thunderbolt Networking in OS X 10.11.6?
Link. No test case?
“President Obama is a Muslim who was raised in the Middle East”
Link. Major speaker Trump convention.
SV nuttiness: biohacking.
Link. Never ends well.
Modeling chemistry with quantum analog of a neural network.
Link. A new microscope.
Ransomware: service in a libertarian market.
Link. They like repeat customers.
Trump creator mourns his sin.
Link. In fairness, nobody could imagine this outcome. He did need the money.
Gavin Long waived a lot of red flags.
Link. Pre-crime cometh. 400,000 suspects?
Apple Music finally replaces Match: DRM ditched.
Link. Getting closer to version 1.0. Ready by Feb 2017?
GOP lost reality track with 1980 supply side economics.
Link. The big lie. Trump is the snake that devours itself.
Long 538 review of GOP past & future ends in stalemate.
Link. House yes, Senate fading, Presidency not.
Rebooting physics: finite dimensional Hilbert space.
Link. Distance and gravity emergent. Time TBD. The new hotness has less infinity.
False equivalency: even with Trump.
Link. Our media FE addicts should be made cannon fodder come the apocalypse.
UBI (income) is a distracting diversion in US.
Link. Absolutely. We need to subsidize work instead.
Freddie Gray death: “A mere error in judgment”
Link. I think judge could have phrased that better.
W3 reference: Personal names around the world
Link. “ask yourself whether you really need to have separate fields for given name and family name”
Informatics core: US genomic and healthcare standards have a common problem.
Link. Money to create repositories, not to maintain them.
Narcissistic personality disorder: a popular review.
Link. Underlying anxiety and self-doubt. Rarely fixed.
Tips for managing one Asperger’s athlete.
Link. Love to know if this applies to any other.
Porn and vulnerable populations: Apple’s iPhone solutions work.
Link. MacOS is lousy though. Book preprint has the details.
Porn and kids.
Link. Parental apathy surprising. Problem is absolutely tech fixable.
SV swarms deep learning nsAI.
Link. Success societally catastrophic.
McKinsey: robots will displace proles, but our tribe is safe.
Link. Honesty appreciated.
Philando Castile traffic stops.
Link. Drove without a license or insurance for six years. Did police know him?
Apple Music Android is a train wreck.
Link. Apple reminding me of Yahoo.
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” precedes Pence intro.
Link. Humiliation is complete.
“Trump drained Christie of all dignity and filled the space he once occupied with a raked carcass of dignity loss”
Link. Genuine power of the T.
Vox survey of science problems omits core problem: too many scientists.
Link. We have more scientists than we are willing to fund.
Fecal transplants very effective for C. difficile control.
Link. Poop has archaea.
Pence wrote editorial: “smoking doesn’t kill.”
Link. Of course he did.
More iOS 10 features.
Link. Some good ones.