Link. The Onion.
Monthly Archives: June 2018
Frum on immigration policy.
Link. He’s old school GOP, but this is fairly close to the Obama take on immigration.
Why Trump broke: “non-college white women opposed policy 56% to 30%”
Link. The cohort Dems MUST pursue.
Robert Kennedy: “if the shooting happened today, Kennedy would still have died”
Link. Reading Sirhan’s wikipedia entry “diminished capacity” seems right.
Schneier didn’t know Apple routers get firmware updates
Link. Weird blindspot
Trump is quite flexible about which laws the govt enforces
Link.
Trump’s Ploy: “Trump will announce that the judge is forcing him to keep separating families.”
Link. Miller’s hand?
Verizon and AT&T Will Stop Selling Your Phone’s Location to Data Brokers
Link. That was quick.
GOP slowly prepares to accept CO2 limits.
Link. Exxon gets immunity from climate change suits. Fox will need to reprogram the base.
AmaBerkJPHealth CEO is … Atul Gawande
Link. Didn’t see that coming. Suddenly interesting.
Apple morale: Tim Cook increasingly unpopular
Link. Who will be next?
Apple morale: Tim Cook increasingly unpopular
Link. Who will be next?
Fox Favorite Mocks 10-Year-Old With Down Syndrome Seized at U.S. Border.
Link. The Trump base won’t like this.
Web reference for media fragments
Link. Should be a W3C thing
“We are used to requiring coherence and internal consistency in models of reality. The PSR requires it of reality itself.”
Link. Excellent discussion
Most GOP voters do not oppose splitting family policy
Link. Why GOP won’t oppose Trump
Disability demand declines
Link. Mix of more jobs and harder access. Healthcare?
White noncollege will dominate elections through 2036.
Link. Declining numbers yet ever more powerful. Dems must find a way.
Why Hillary hate: “FBI is largely a Republican institution”
Link. Within there not hard to find misogynistic extremists.
Ancient Earth globe: continent distribution by era
Link. Stop spinning, turn off clouds, play with dates. Not much ice.
Sheffer autism book has an unscientific personal agenda.
Link. How does she want to organize therapy and research?
Guinea worms invade dogs
Link. Not going quietly
Elephants use smell to distinguish “Maasai, who traditionally speared them, and the Kamba, who did not”
Link.
American democracy: mortality risk is small?
Link. Voters can democratically do very bad things.
Airbnb is Android first, iOS eventually.
Link. Where the money is.
“sunsetting React Native at Airbnb”
Link. Admirable sharing.
Rally listing for June 30.
Link. Voting is even more important.
“Trump gave no sign of relenting on his zero-tolerance policy”
Link. I appreciate the clarity he gives voters
Until recently there existed a “JEB Stuart” elementary
Link. The South. ““If you really want to talk about symbols of racism, it is our derelict buildings”
“there has never been a more encouraging time for Duchenne MD patients and their families”
Link. Safety still unknown. But breathtaking.
AP course problems.
Link. Our public school has AP, IB, PSEO, Early college, etc. Driven by reality of too much talent for too few opportunities.
Koch Bros effective war on public transit
Link. Bad for their business.
“stopping the growth in the foreign-born population as the unifying goal”
Link. More like Norway.
Google Plus finds an unwanted audience
Link. They could start charging
Average American watches 3.45 hours of TV every day.
Link. Work, eat, watch Fox.
Carbon extraction technologies claim a cost-effective price.
Link. We should know soon if this can scale.
Kelly: “even if it leads to impeachment – at least this chapter of American history would come to a close.”
Link. Alleged quote.
Silent evangelicals: “children torn from hysterical parents are weighed against other concerns, chief among them what social conservatives call religious liberty regarding issues of marriage and abortion”
Link. The end of American Evangelism is one of the few good things to come from Trump.
AI Masters Rubik’s Cube in 44 Hours
Link. Self-taught. No worries.
“iPhone X NFC related hardware problem”
Link. So far only Japan affected
Fixing 3D Touch.
Link. Kill it.
“in Florida, economically secure retirement meccas like the Villages are the real reason Trump won in 2016”
Link. Building the case for cutting social security.
“A Deep and Visceral Hatred” of NY FBI office for HRC.
Link. Misogyny?
Trump’s retro industrial policy pleases no sentients.
Link. But “retraining” doesn’t work either.
Somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder.replace hypochondriasis.
Link. Better terms. Challenge: we all die, usually of terrible things.
Funding science: time for a lottery
Link. Similar to med school admissions. Also, stem the STEM!
CEOs: “7 percent thought that Mr. Trump should get a second term.”
Link. Bit high.
iPhone – US location sharing with 911 calls
Link. I call 911 to report highway emergemcies. I have wanted this.
“internal pressure inside each proton and neutron, arising from the strong force, that holds up neutron stars when white dwarfs have long given out.”
Link. Resisting black holeness.
Trump trade war: “retaliatory measures that go after products in Mr. Trump’s political base”
Link. Happy to suggest targets.