https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-obama-s-threat-of-retaliation-against-russia-lead-to-cyberwar/
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Saturday, December 31, 2016
Friday, December 30, 2016
Thursday, December 29, 2016
Police allowed to kill dogs
Public Notice to all the fascist police officers: if you enter my home and kill my dog, I will take revenge. Maybe not immediately. No, there will be no physical capture of your family, no torture with blow torches and dental implements.
But do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. I will look for you, I will find you and I will make you kill yourself.
First, your computer will blue screen. Your mobile phone will display random acts of gay sodomy at inopportune times. Your bank accounts will continuously be overdrawn. Every credit card you own will have daily spurious charges. Your most sensitive personal information will appear on the Internet. The FBI will find child pornography on your computer. Hacks of the Russian government will be linked to your account. Your department will terminate you. Your children will continually have failing report cards. Your spouse will cease to exist in any electronic database. IRS records will show you have paid no taxes, ever. Your mother's social security checks will be cancelled.
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
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Saturday, December 24, 2016
Tragedy Made Steve Kerr See the World Beyond the Court - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/sports/basketball/steve-kerr-golden-state-warriors.html
"Put yourself in someone else's shoes and look at it from a bigger perspective," he said. "We live in this complex world of gray areas. Life is so much easier if it could be black and white, good and evil."
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"Put yourself in someone else's shoes and look at it from a bigger perspective," he said. "We live in this complex world of gray areas. Life is so much easier if it could be black and white, good and evil."
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Friday, December 23, 2016
Interesting quote from "Nemesis Games (The Expanse)"
Hi - I'm reading "Nemesis Games (The Expanse)" by James S. A. Corey and wanted to share this quote with you.
"Thing about civilization, it's what keeps people civil. You get rid of one, you can't count on the other.""
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"Thing about civilization, it's what keeps people civil. You get rid of one, you can't count on the other.""
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Thursday, December 22, 2016
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016
DVIDS: Navy Scientist Selected as National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Navy Scientist Selected as National Academy of Inventors Fellow
DVIDS
Dr. Stuart H. Rubin, a scientist at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) who significantly advanced the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and deep learning, has been selected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Read the full story
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Monday, December 19, 2016
Friday, December 16, 2016
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Interesting quote from "Nemesis Games (The Expanse)"
Hi - I'm reading "Nemesis Games (The Expanse)" by James S. A. Corey and wanted to share this quote with you.
""Alien superweapons were used," Alex said, walking into the room, sleep-sweaty hair standing out from his skull in every direction. "The laws of physics were altered, mistakes were made.""
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""Alien superweapons were used," Alex said, walking into the room, sleep-sweaty hair standing out from his skull in every direction. "The laws of physics were altered, mistakes were made.""
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Two years after Prop 47, addicts walk free with nowhere to go
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Two years after Prop 47, addicts walk free with nowhere to go
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Two years after Prop 47, addicts walk free with nowhere to go
http://desert.sn/2hFpHaw
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The Washington Post: Trump wasn’t happy with his State Department finalists. Then he heard a new name.
Trump wasn't happy with his State Department finalists. Then he heard a new name.
The Washington Post
The surprise choice of Rex Tillerson shows the unorthodox leadership style of a president-elect who has never worked in government. Read the full story
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016
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Saturday, December 10, 2016
The Huffington Post - US: Conan's Spoof Phone Calls Between Barack Obama And Donald Trump Will Never Get Old
Conan's Spoof Phone Calls Between Barack Obama And Donald Trump Will Never Get Old
The Huffington Post - US
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TheJournal.ie: 'Cancer can take such a toll. Cannabis has helped me. It picks me up'
'Cancer can take such a toll. Cannabis has helped me. It picks me up'
TheJournal.ie
"I WAS TOLD I only had three months left to live. Here I am now two years later… When you've had cancer for so long it can be a very tough thing to deal with. It takes a toll. Cannabis helps me. It picks me up." Stephen* was diagnosed on Christmas Eve 2014 with stage four, terminal colon, liver and lymph node cancer. A self-employed father of three in his early 40s, his short-term future appeared bleak. He spoke to TheJournal.ie about his cancer diagnosis, how he's found cannabis to be effective Read the full story
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Friday, December 09, 2016
BBC News: Park Geun-hye: South Korea lawmakers vote to impeach leader
Is the USA as strong as Korea? Let's start the proceedings against Trump now....
Park Geun-hye: South Korea lawmakers vote to impeach leader
Park Geun-hye: South Korea lawmakers vote to impeach leader
South Korea's parliament impeaches President Park Geun-hye who steps down amid a corruption scandal.
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Thursday, December 08, 2016
TheStreet: Intel and Qualcomm Look to Transform Themselves as Their Core Businesses Flatline
Intel and Qualcomm Look to Transform Themselves as Their Core Businesses Flatline
TheStreet
This article originally appeared on Real Money on Dec. 7, 2016. There are a lot of differences between the two biggest U.S. chipmakers, but as a pair of stories this week demonstrate, 2016 has provided a major common thread between them. Each company has realized it's unlikely to see much (if any) growth in the coming years from the market that propelled its rise -- and one that needs to make big changes in response. Intel , recognizing that PC CPUs will likely be a flat-to-declining business, Read the full story
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techradar: Qualcomm’s new CPU will give AMD and Intel nightmares
Qualcomm's new CPU will give AMD and Intel nightmares
techradar
Qualcomm has announced the Centriq 2400, noting that it's the first server CPU in the world to be built on a 10nm process, and one that could be a worry for Intel and indeed AMD, particularly given other recent developments in terms of Qualcomm hooking up with Microsoft over Windows and ARM. At any rate, this new processor is designed for speedy performance in the data centre, and the Centriq 2400 is built around a custom ARMv8 CPU core (called Falkor) optimised for server workloads, offering up Read the full story
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Ars Technica: Windows is coming back to ARM, this time with 32-bit x86 compatibility
Windows is coming back to ARM, this time with 32-bit x86 compatibility
Ars Technica
This time around, the plan is for ARM to be just another PC platform. Read the full story
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Wednesday, December 07, 2016
Donald Trump’s Boeing & Air Force One Tweet -- Story Behind the Tweet | National Review
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/442842/donald-trump-boeing-air-force-one-tweet-story-behind-tweet
This is the way fascist terrorism operates.
it is an excellent excuse to send the more likely message Trump wants to send to corporate America: If you criticize Donald Trump, you're going to pay a price.
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This is the way fascist terrorism operates.
it is an excellent excuse to send the more likely message Trump wants to send to corporate America: If you criticize Donald Trump, you're going to pay a price.
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Tuesday, December 06, 2016
Trump’s Threat to the Constitution - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/opinion/trumps-threat-to-the-constitution.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
He had questioned judicial independence, threatened the freedom of the press, called for violating Muslims' equal protection under the law, promised the use of torture and attacked Americans based on their gender, race and religion. He had also undermined critical democratic norms including peaceful debate and transitions of power, commitment to truth, freedom from foreign interference and abstention from the use of executive power for political retribution
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He had questioned judicial independence, threatened the freedom of the press, called for violating Muslims' equal protection under the law, promised the use of torture and attacked Americans based on their gender, race and religion. He had also undermined critical democratic norms including peaceful debate and transitions of power, commitment to truth, freedom from foreign interference and abstention from the use of executive power for political retribution
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Monday, December 05, 2016
Tom's Guide: Your Windows 10 PC Will Soon Rival Amazon Echo
Your Windows 10 PC Will Soon Rival Amazon Echo
Tom's Guide
How can Microsoft compete with Amazon Echo and Google Home? By turning every single Windows 10 PC out there into a smart device. According to a massive new report from Windows Central, the Redmond tech giant is developing Home Hub: a new software tool that will allow Windows desktops to accept always-on voice commands, control your smart home gadgets and plan appointments for the entire family. Image: Microsoft Home Hub will be part of a free software update that won't require a specific machine Read the full story
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Saturday, December 03, 2016
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Cuba: Fidel Castro’s Record of Repression | Human Rights Watch
The repression was codified in law and enforced by security forces, groups of civilian sympathizers tied to the state, and a judiciary that lacked independence. Such abusive practices generated a pervasive climate of fear in Cuba, which hindered the exercise of fundamental rights, and pressured Cubans to show their allegiance to the state while discouraging criticism.
Many of the abusive tactics developed during his time in power – including surveillance, beatings, arbitrary detention, and public acts of repudiation – are still used by the Cuban government.
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The Washington Post: Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say
Russian propaganda effort helped spread 'fake news' during election, experts say
The Washington Post
Researchers say sophisticated tools were used to boost Trump and undermine Clinton. Read the full story
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The Drum: Intel bets big on AI ‘for business and society’
Intel bets big on AI 'for business and society'
The Drum
Calling AI "the next major turning point in human history," Intel CEO Brian Krzanich wrote an editorial likening the coming revolution to the Industrial Revolution, saying this so-called Intelligence Revolution will be driven by data, neural networks and computing power. And, conveniently, Krzanich said Intel is "uniquely capable" of accelerating the promise of AI and is therefore making "major investments" in technology and developer resources to advance AI for business and society alike. This Read the full story
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Sunday, November 20, 2016
The solution to lobbying is more lobbying - The Washington Post
The steady growth of corporate lobbying over the last four decades — the subject of my new book, The Business of America is Lobbying – has tipped representation in Washington overwhelmingly toward large corporations. The types of organized interests we might expect to provide a countervailing force to business — labor unions, groups representing diffuse publics like consumers or taxpayers – now spend $1 for every $34 business spends on lobbying, by my count. That's up from a 1-to-22 ratio in 1998. Of the 100 organizations that spend the most on lobbying annually, consistently 95 represent business.
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Saturday, November 19, 2016
Stephen Smith shared a link: David Runciman · Is this how democracy ends? · LRB 1 December 2016
It is sometimes said that Trump appeals to his supporters because he represents the authoritarian father figure who they want to shield them from all the bad people out there making their lives hell. That can't be right: Trump is a child, the most childish politician I have encountered in my lifetime. The parent in this relationship is the American state itself, which allows the voters to throw a tantrum and join forces with the worst behaved kid in the class, safe in the knowledge that the grown-ups will always be there to pick up the pieces.
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Friday, November 18, 2016
Beware the liberal thought police
http://theweek.com/articles/662656/beware-liberal-thought-police
One of the secrets of Donald Trump's electoral success was his refusal to abide by many of the limits that liberals have sought to place on acceptable political opinion and debate. In devising their response, liberals need to be careful. Yes, Trump is putting certain previously excluded issues on the table for first-order public deliberation. Liberals (rightly) oppose Trump's policy proposals on these issues. But the best way to respond is to make arguments against adopting those policies — to engage in first-order politics — and not to revert to second-order politics by repeatedly screaming "racism!" in the vain hope of getting these issues taken back off the table.
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One of the secrets of Donald Trump's electoral success was his refusal to abide by many of the limits that liberals have sought to place on acceptable political opinion and debate. In devising their response, liberals need to be careful. Yes, Trump is putting certain previously excluded issues on the table for first-order public deliberation. Liberals (rightly) oppose Trump's policy proposals on these issues. But the best way to respond is to make arguments against adopting those policies — to engage in first-order politics — and not to revert to second-order politics by repeatedly screaming "racism!" in the vain hope of getting these issues taken back off the table.
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Thursday, November 17, 2016
John McAfee on privacy: 'Everybody has something to hide'
And speaking to him in person, he echoes the sentiment, albeit in a more nuanced way. "I don't think governments or anyone has the right to invade anybody's privacy because it is the fundamental rock upon which a rational, smoothly functioning and polite society is built," he said.
"You take privacy away and I promise you – all three of those things will disappear. I'm gonna find out you're a supporter of Isis or you're sleeping with my daughter. We keep these things secret for a reason. We are not perfect and should not be expected to be perfect."
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Stephen Smith shared a link: House GOP to vote on bringing back earmarks | TheHill
House GOP to vote on bringing back earmarks | TheHill from Mazel Tov Cocktail's Tweet
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Stephen Smith shared a link: Steve Bannon Suggests There Are Too Many Asian CEOs In Silicon Valley | The Huffington Post
Steve Bannon Suggests There Are Too Many Asian CEOs In Silicon Valley | The Huffington Post from George Takei's Tweet
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Steve Bannon, the man President-elect Donald Trump has chosen to be his chief strategist, expressed dismay at the number of tech execs who are immigrants from Asia.
But Trump, who has pledged to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico to keep people out, has said he wants immigrants educated at Ivy League universities and therefore capable of success to stay.
Bannon is the executive chairman of Breitbart News, a site that regularly airs white nationalist viewpoints. He and his beliefs have come under scrutiny since America's next president appointed him to the senior leadership role in the incoming administration on Sunday.
Trump was a guest on his Sirius XM "Breitbart News Daily" radio show when Bannon made the remarks on Nov. 5, 2015.
"People are coming in and they're taking jobs and people are getting paid less money," Trump said during the broadcast. "A lot of it has to do with borders."
But people who are capable of making lots of money and building big businesses should stay, the New York businessman stressed.
"When someone is going to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Stanford, all the greats" and then they graduate, "we throw them out of the country, and they can't get back in," Trump said.
"I think that's terrible," added Trump, who was a regular guest on the show. "We have to be careful of that, Steve. You know, we have to keep our talented people in this country."
Trump asked Bannon if he agreed with him, but the Breitbart executive chairman seemed to have trouble responding to this suggestion.
"When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think..." Bannon said. "A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society."
Bannon's "facts" were, in fact, well off. A May 2015 study found that 27 percent of professionals working in Silicon Valley companies were Asian or Asian-American. They represented less than 19 percent of managers and under 14 percent of executives, according to the report.
During the exchange on Asian migrants, Trump told Bannon that he wanted people to come into the country.
"You got to remember, we're Breitbart," Bannon replied. "We're the know-nothing vulgarians. So we've always got to be to the right of you on this."
The future Republican president then moved on to tell Bannon of his plans to build a "great" wall as his central immigration policy.
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The president and the press - Columbia Journalism Review
http://www.cjr.org/analysis/the_president_and_the_press.php
Actual news is almost never made, since the White House has new tools allowing it to release and manage news on its own schedule and terms—its online news report is but one of these.
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Actual news is almost never made, since the White House has new tools allowing it to release and manage news on its own schedule and terms—its online news report is but one of these.
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A Conversation with Peter Thiel - The American Interest
http://www.the-american-interest.com/2012/02/01/a-conversation-with-peter-thiel/
There has been a tremendous slowdown everywhere else, however. Look at transportation, for example: Literally, we haven't been moving any faster. The energy shock has broadened to a commodity crisis. In many other areas the present has not lived up to the lofty expectations we had. I think the advanced economies of the world fundamentally grow through technological progress, and as their rate of progress slows, they will have less growth. This creates incredible pressures on our political systems. I think the political system at its core works when it crafts compromises in which most people benefit most of the time. When there's no growth, politics becomes a zero-sum game in which there's a loser for every winner. Most of the losers will come to suspect that the winners are involved in some kind of racket. So I think there's a close link between technological deceleration and increasing cynicism and pessimism about politics and economics.
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There has been a tremendous slowdown everywhere else, however. Look at transportation, for example: Literally, we haven't been moving any faster. The energy shock has broadened to a commodity crisis. In many other areas the present has not lived up to the lofty expectations we had. I think the advanced economies of the world fundamentally grow through technological progress, and as their rate of progress slows, they will have less growth. This creates incredible pressures on our political systems. I think the political system at its core works when it crafts compromises in which most people benefit most of the time. When there's no growth, politics becomes a zero-sum game in which there's a loser for every winner. Most of the losers will come to suspect that the winners are involved in some kind of racket. So I think there's a close link between technological deceleration and increasing cynicism and pessimism about politics and economics.
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Stephen Smith shared a link: We need to talk about the online radicalisation of young, white men | Abi Wilkinson | Opinion | The Guardian
We need to talk about the online radicalisation of young, white men | Abi Wilkinson | Opinion | The Guardian from Stacey Dunn's Tweet
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When we fret about young people leaving western countries and going to fight with Isis, it's common to focus on the role of the internet in their political radicalisation. It's time we discussed the radicalisation of angry, young white men in a similar way.
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Monday, November 14, 2016
Neoliberalism: the deep story that lies beneath Donald Trump’s triumph | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/14/neoliberalsim-donald-trump-george-monbiot
Those who tell the stories run the world. Politics has failed through a lack of competing narratives. The key task now is to tell a new story of what it is to be a human in the 21st century. It must be as appealing to some who have voted for Trump and Ukip as it is to the supporters of Clinton, Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn.
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Those who tell the stories run the world. Politics has failed through a lack of competing narratives. The key task now is to tell a new story of what it is to be a human in the 21st century. It must be as appealing to some who have voted for Trump and Ukip as it is to the supporters of Clinton, Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn.
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Stephen Smith shared a link: Google’s top news link for ‘final election results’ goes to a fake news site with false numbers - The Washington Post
Google's top news link for 'final election results' goes to a fake news site with false numbers - The Washington Post from Washington Post's Tweet
The propaganda of alt right fake news continues. Can we call Breitbart the American Pravda yet? The official news source of the Trump administration.
The propaganda of alt right fake news continues. Can we call Breitbart the American Pravda yet? The official news source of the Trump administration.
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The Huffington Post - US: Joe Biden Trolls Donald Trump In Bittersweet Post-Election Meme
Joe Biden Trolls Donald Trump In Bittersweet Post-Election Meme
The Huffington Post - US
Vice President Joe Biden pulled pranks on president-elect Donald Trump in a bittersweet meme that's been sweeping the web. ... Read the full story
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Sunday, November 13, 2016
Stephen Smith shared a link: Nine Must-Read Books in the Age of Donald Trump
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The messy truth about the gulf between Trump, Clinton voters
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/12/opinions/van-jones-messy-truth/index.html
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What Donald Trump's "America First" vision of the world looks like - Election 2016 - CBS News
The GOP front-runner asserted that the U.S. also "cannot be the policeman of the world" when it comes to allies in the Asia Pacific region, suggesting he would like to see Japan and South Korea develop nuclear weaponry in order to combat North Korea.
"Unfortunately, we have a nuclear world now," Trump said. "Would I rather have North Korea have [nuclear weapons] with Japan sitting there having them also? You may very well be better off if that's the case. In other words, where Japan is defending itself against North Korea, which is a real problem."
Stephen Smith shared a link: How to Restore Your Faith in Democracy - The New Yorker
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Saturday, November 12, 2016
Stephen Smith shared a link: The Night Editor: The Death of a Moderate: My Radicalization
The Night Editor: The Death of a Moderate: My Radicalization from Jake Hinkson's Tweet
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Friday, November 11, 2016
Stephen Smith shared a link: Conservatives vs. Trump’s infrastructure plan - POLITICO
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Stephen Smith shared a link: Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit
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Those who have been warning of the grave dangers these powers pose have often been dismissed on the ground that the leaders who control this system are benevolent and well-intentioned. They have thus often resorted to the tactic of urging people to imagine what might happen if a president they regarded as less than benevolent one day gained control of it. That day has arrived. One hopes this will at least provide the impetus to unite across ideological and partisan lines to finally impose meaningful limits on these powers that should never have been vested in the first place. That commitment should start now.
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Thursday, November 10, 2016
Stephen Smith shared a link: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: What it means to be black during a Trump administration - The Washington Post
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Stephen Smith shared a link: Hyperpartisan Facebook Pages Are Publishing False And Misleading Information At An Alarming Rate - BuzzFeed News
Hyperpartisan Facebook Pages Are Publishing False And Misleading Information At An Alarming Rate - BuzzFeed News from Will Oremus's Tweet
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Stephen Smith shared a link: 12 Trump promises and how he could fulfill them - The Washington Post
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Stephen Smith shared a link: Speaking Out After the Presidential Election? We’ve Got a Few Tips - FIRE
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Behind Trump's victory: Divisions by race, gender and education | Pew Research Center
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trumps-victory-divisions-by-race-gender-education/
In the 2016 election, a wide gap in presidential preferences emerged between those with and without a college degree. College graduates backed Clinton by a 9-point margin (52%-43%), while those without a college degree backed Trump 52%-44%. This is by far the widest gap in support among college graduates and non-college graduates in exit polls dating back to 1980. For example, in 2012, there was hardly any difference between the two groups: College graduates backed Obama over Romney by 50%-48%, and those without a college degree also supported Obama 51%-47%.
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In the 2016 election, a wide gap in presidential preferences emerged between those with and without a college degree. College graduates backed Clinton by a 9-point margin (52%-43%), while those without a college degree backed Trump 52%-44%. This is by far the widest gap in support among college graduates and non-college graduates in exit polls dating back to 1980. For example, in 2012, there was hardly any difference between the two groups: College graduates backed Obama over Romney by 50%-48%, and those without a college degree also supported Obama 51%-47%.
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Tuesday, November 08, 2016
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Stephen Smith shared a link: Top Ten Books to Give to Adolescent Boys Who Say They “Hate Reading” by Oona Marie Abrams | Nerdy Book Club
Top Ten Books to Give to Adolescent Boys Who Say They "Hate Reading" by Oona Marie Abrams | Nerdy Book Club from Oona Marie Abrams's Tweet
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The New York Times: Should We Be Scared of Butter?
Simply substituting 5 percent of calories from saturated fats with the equivalent amount of polyunsaturated fats reduced total deaths by 27 percent, and replacing saturates with monounsaturates (from foods like olive and canola oil, nuts and avocados) reduced deaths by 13 percent. Omega-3 fatty acids from fish also "modestly" lowered total mortality, the researchers found.
However, when saturated fats were consumed in place of carbohydrates, there was no significant drop in cardiovascular death rates and slightly higher death rates from cancer
Should We Be Scared of Butter?
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It's back on the table, but not in the quantities the meat, dairy and fast-food industries might have you ingest. Read the full story
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Friday, November 04, 2016
MIT Technology Review: Machines Can Now Recognize Something After Seeing It Once
Machines Can Now Recognize Something After Seeing It Once
MIT Technology Review
Most of us can recognize an object after seeing it once or twice. But the algorithms that power computer vision and voice recognition need thousands of examples to become familiar with each new image or word. Researchers at Google DeepMind now have a way around this. They made a few clever tweaks to a deep-learning algorithm that allows it to recognize objects in images and other things from a single example—something known as "one-shot learning." The team demonstrated the trick on a large Read the full story
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Stephen Smith shared a link: Five Independent Signs Of New Physics In The Universe
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Wednesday, November 02, 2016
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Stephen Smith shared a link: 'This is slavery': U.S. inmates strike in what activists call one of the biggest prison protests in modern history - LA Times
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Rheumatology Advisor: US Healthcare System Ranks Among Least Efficient in World
US Healthcare System Ranks Among Least Efficient in World
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The US health care system is one of the least efficient worldwide based on a Bloomberg index that assesses life expectancy, health care spending per capita, and relative spending as a share of gross domestic product Read the full story
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Bloomberg: Americans Are Dying Faster. Millennials, Too
Americans Are Dying Faster. Millennials, Too
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People who predict death for a living have some bad news. Read the full story
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Religion may be a miracle drug: Column
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Religion may be a miracle drug: Column
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Religion may be a miracle drug: Column
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
Stephen Smith shared a link: Marijuana legalization long overdue | Opinion - Sun Sentinel
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ScienceBlog.com: Researchers find weakness in common computer chip
Researchers find weakness in common computer chip
ScienceBlog.com
Researchers from Binghamton University–State University of New York and the University of California, Riverside have found a weakness in the Haswell central processing unit (CPU) components that makes common computer operating systems vulnerable to malicious attacks. Computer hackers could take control of individual, company and government computers if a weak point in address space layout […] Read the full story
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the guardian: Ethics and genetics: opening the book of life – Science Weekly podcast
Ethics and genetics: opening the book of life – Science Weekly podcast
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When it comes to the ethics of genetic technologies who decides how far we should go in our pursuit for perfection? Read the full story
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Monday, October 24, 2016
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The Washington Post: The awkward thing that happened when scientists asked a computer to tell Asian faces apart
The awkward thing that happened when scientists asked a computer to tell Asian faces apart
The Washington Post
To be Asian in America is to be quizzed, constantly, about your ethnicity. Read the full story
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Thursday, October 20, 2016
1reddrop.com: Microsoft AI Achieves 'Human-level' Accuracy in Speech Recognition - 1redDrop
Microsoft AI Achieves 'Human-level' Accuracy in Speech Recognition - 1redDrop
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CNN: Scientists confirm genetics of schizophrenia
Scientists confirm genetics of schizophrenia
CNN
Using technology to illuminate chromosomes, UCLA scientists confirmed the core mechanics underpinning the genetics of this mental disorder. Read the full story
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Stephen Smith shared a link: Every 25 Seconds: Human Rights Watch and the ACLU Document More Harms from Drug Prohibition | Cato @ Liberty
Every 25 Seconds: Human Rights Watch and the ACLU Document More Harms from Drug Prohibition | Cato @ Liberty from ACLU of Arizona's Tweet
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Stephen Smith shared a link: Half of US adults are recorded in police facial recognition databases, study says | World news | The Guardian
Half of US adults are recorded in police facial recognition databases, study says | World news | The Guardian from ACLU of Arizona's Tweet
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Summary of Hamilton, Jay, and Madison: The Federalist - From WikiSummary, free summaries of academic books and articles
The Problem of Factions
Factions--a catch-all term for what we might call "special interests," "political parties," and pressure groups like the Moral Majority--worried Madison. If a faction grew large enough, it could impose its will on an entire nation, resulting in a tyranny of the majority.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/10/18/watch_barack_obama_s_masterful_donald_trump_rigging_takedown.html
That's what Americans do. That's why America is already great. One way of weakening America and making it less great is if you start betraying those basic American traditions that have been bipartisan and have helped to hold together this democracy now for well over two centuries.
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That's what Americans do. That's why America is already great. One way of weakening America and making it less great is if you start betraying those basic American traditions that have been bipartisan and have helped to hold together this democracy now for well over two centuries.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Monday, October 17, 2016
No Fear Shakespeare: The Tempest: Act 1, Scene 2, Page 10
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/tempest/page_30.html
Was the first man that leaped, cried, "Hell is empty
And all the devils are here."
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Was the first man that leaped, cried, "Hell is empty
And all the devils are here."
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No Fear Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet: Act 2, Scene 6
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/page_132.html
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
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These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
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Sunday, October 16, 2016
Stephen Smith shared a link: A non-probabilistic quantum theory produces unpredictable results
A non-probabilistic quantum theory produces unpredictable results from The Royal Society's Tweet
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Saturday, October 15, 2016
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Review: Best of Enemies | Screens | NUVO News | Indianapolis, IN
http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/review-best-of-enemies/Content?oid=3438445
Argument is sugar, and we swarm around it like flies.
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Argument is sugar, and we swarm around it like flies.
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Guns & Suicide | Harvard Public Health Magazine | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Far more people kill themselves with a firearm each year than are murdered with one. In 2010 in the U.S., 19,392 people committed suicide with guns, compared with 11,078 who were killed by others.
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Sunday, October 09, 2016
Stephen Smith shared a link: Author explains why Democrats have zero chance of winning the House until 2030 - Vox
Author explains why Democrats have zero chance of winning the House until 2030 - Vox from Steven Pinker's Tweet
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BBC News: Medicine Nobel for cell recycling work
I saw this on the BBC News App and thought you should see it:
Medicine Nobel for cell recycling work
Medicine Nobel for cell recycling work
The 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi for discoveries about the secrets of how cells can remain healthy by recycling waste.
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Sunday, October 02, 2016
Saturday, October 01, 2016
Stephen Smith shared a link: An Infusion of AI Makes Google Translate More Powerful Than Ever | WIRED
An Infusion of AI Makes Google Translate More Powerful Than Ever | WIRED from WIRED's Tweet
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Deep water. Horizon accident
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/09/bp_is_to_blame_for_deepwater_horizon_but_its_mistake_was_actually_years.html
organizations staffed by smart, seemingly moral people can slowly slide into dangerous and unethical behavior.
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organizations staffed by smart, seemingly moral people can slowly slide into dangerous and unethical behavior.
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Friday, September 30, 2016
the guardian: In the age of the algorithm, the human gatekeeper is back
In the age of the algorithm, the human gatekeeper is back
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The rise of algorithms has been relentless, but we need human input in our world of technological innovations Read the full story
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Thursday, September 29, 2016
Stephen Smith shared a link: The Arctic is being utterly transformed — and we’re just starting to grasp the consequences - The Washington Post
The Arctic is being utterly transformed — and we're just starting to grasp the consequences - The Washington Post from climatehawk1's Tweet
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USA TODAY: Meet America's super polluters
Meet America's super polluters
USA TODAY
Many states have at least one super polluter. In southwest Indiana, there are four. Read the full story
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016
The Washington Post: Cancer immunotherapy is moving fast. Here’s what you need to know.
Cancer immunotherapy is moving fast. Here's what you need to know.
The Washington Post
While confident that immunotherapy will play an increasing role in cancer treatment, researchers must overcome some obstacles. Read the full story
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