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Friday June 28, 2019. 01:00 PM
The inside of my head is an absolute crap place for productivity. I tend to fixate on old horrors, recent regrets and small shames that swirl around the inside of my brain like greasy water bound down a drain. It makes for a lot of noise while I'm trying to write or focus on ...
Rob Smith is an eminent computer scientist and machine learning pioneer whose work on genetic algorithms has been influential in both industry and the academy; now, in his first book for a general audience, Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to...
Thursday June 27, 2019. 11:14 PM
Jony Ive, Apple's longtime design chief and the creator of countless iconic designs, is leaving the firm to form his own agency. Apple will be his first client. “After nearly 30 years and countless projects, I am most proud of the lasting work we have done to create a...
I'm coming to Houston on July 31 to appear with Hank Green at an event for the paperback launch of his outstanding debut novel An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: we're on a 7PM at Spring Forest Middle School (14240 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77079); it's a ticketed event and...
Just like the cast in an episode of ‘The Bachelorette,’ the leading palace players engage in some minor insignificant event and the tabloids whip it up into a catastrophe. The only thing that’s missing is Chris Harrison promising that it’s “the most shocking and...
Every now and again, a company will come up with a product 'innovation' that seems to deprive people of their free will, driving great masses of internet users to look for Pokemon, or tend virtual farms, or buy now with one-click, or flock to Upworthy-style 'You won't...
Suggested marketing copy for the Breo iPalm520s Electric Acupressure Hand Palm Massager: 'Put your right hand in the box,' she said. Fear shot through Paul. He started to back away, but the old woman said: 'Is this how you obey your mother?' He looked up into bird-bright...
San Francisco passed a law requiring owners of multi-unit buildings to choose which ISP they use, ending the practice of landlords selling access to tenants to ISPs, locking in the tenants to ISPs who don't have to keep them happy to keep their business. Enter Trump's FCC...
Bad News is a free webgame created by two Cambridge psych researchers; in a 15-minute session, it challenges players to learn about and deploy six tactics used in disinformation campaigns ('polarisation, invoking emotions, spreading conspiracy theories, trolling people...
Laurie Santos, a psychology professor, teaches the 'most popular class in the history of Yale University,' according to this article in The Atlantic. Her class is called “Psychology and the Good Life.” She spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Monday to present the...
I lived in the county of Essex for two years as a teenager. It's unique in the English imagination, a place once rural but colonized by Londoners fleeing Germans during the war and Immigrants after it. A sprawling exurban development park, it's held to be trashy yet...
NYC Mesh -- the meshing, neutral, community based wireless ISP in New York City -- has undergone a drastic expansion beyond its initial supernode. That first supernode, at 375 Pearl Street in Manhattan, was serviced by gigabit fiber, and offered downlinks to 300 buildings...
Robert Reich (previously) served in the presidential administrations of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, was Clinton's labor czar, and sat on Obama's economic transition advisory board; though he is generally on the Democratic Party's left flank, his own history...
The American Civil Liberties Union released internal NSA memos received under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit revealing that, once again, the NSA improperly collected phone call and text message metadata of US citizens. A spokesperson for the agency was quick to pin the ...
Methodist University Hospital in Memphis is a nonprofit: it pays virtually no local, state or federal tax; but unlike other Methodist hospitals, Methodist University Hospital is relentless in pursuing medical debts from indigent patients. The hospital owns its own collection ...
If you think your V is for Vendetta mask will hide your identity, think again. The Pentagon has a laser device that 'can pick up on a unique cardiac signature from 200 meters away, even through clothes,' reports MIT Technology Review. A new device, developed for the Pentagon ...
On Topic, the fantastic podcast by Renato Mariotti and Patti Vasquez is one of the few shows I will not miss. This week Renato is joined by legendary Constitutional law scholar and Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe to discuss the whys and why not of impeaching Donald...
The Hydroflask kept my daughter's water super cold during a baking hot road trip. I had a recyclable plastic water bottle and drank warm to hot water. I usually don't buy into my daughter's fancy waterbottle addiction and stick with refilling empties. The Hydroflask...
That Paul Manafort perp walk you've all been waiting for. pic.twitter.com/6eu4R84NDq — Tami Burages (@tburages) June 27, 2019 What a difference an expensive suit makes!
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