Link. American stupidity.
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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”
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“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”
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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.
Novichok – a great assassination and terrorism aide.
Link. Favored by GOP’s new best friend.
Scotsman op-ed: “what kind of man Trump really is”.
Link. A good synopsis of the despicable at a moment in history.
Software redo fails: “You aren’t working with people who were experts in the old system”
Link. Rebuilds need way more attention.
Russian bot strategy: the local news ploy
Link. Russia excels at memewar.
Strzok is tough: “how far many in the party have moved since the days when they were seen as the party of law enforcement”
Link. So funny to have GOP pilloring unfaithful spouses
Evolution favors sunk-cost illogic
Link. Curious
“Three SEAL frogmen were hospitalized after their air tanks ran low.”
Link. The more details, the more insane the success.
Apple Discontinues Photo Printing Service: “Damn; this sucks.”
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Kavanaugh financial incompetence resolved by “friends”
Link. Trump pick.
Hominid species and populations split and merged many times.
Link. As recently as -40k. No “bottleneck”
“None of them are stressed,” he added. “They took care of each other well in the cave.”
Link. These kids are intimidating.
“electrical fields, not viruses, to deliver both gene-editing tools and new genetic material into the cell”
Link. Making cells promiscuous.
“Free Market Environmental Law Clinic”, a denialist scam corp, implodes.
Link. Nasty characters can’t get along.
Papa John’s Founder John Schnatter is an unfixable racist.
Link. Dementia may be contributing.
Short NYT video on cave rescue, narrated by expert.
Link. You can’t skip the pre-ad — even if you are a NYT subscriber.
“Halide is great, but I find myself not reaching for it because it doesn’t support HDR”
Link. Same.
The astounding rescue: sedation use.
Link. I wondered if they would use ketamine. A great choice.
Facebook “trusted” news source focuses on Fox.
Link. They known how to make money.
More details on the impossible rescue.
Link. Just because “only” 1 hero’s death doesn’t mean this wasn’t insane.