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Codes & Limits Striving, and Love. Originally shared by Timothy Street Excellent review from 1952 of The Old Man and the Sea . The linking of the novel with the author's short story "Big Two-Hearted River" is truly insightful. Not the overtly obvious similarity of both being tales of fishing, but that both are expositions of limitations, and the reflection of the writer in his youth imaged into maturity. http://theblogalsorises.com/2018/07/30/new-york-times-review-of-the-old-man-and-the-sea-sept-7-1952/

All Fracked Up And Nowhere To Go https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/books/review/eliza-griswold-amity-and-prosperity.html

Link Up! #YoullNeverPorkAlone New casings for Bedale AFC. https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/7xq4eq/uk-soccer-clubs-new-uniforms-make-them-look-like-giant-wieners

Doomed, I Tell You Contractor guy in the aisle at Lowe's, leaning on a shopping cart, talking on his phone: "Hello, Amazon? I placed a stair tread order with you the other day? Supposed to be delivered soon? Well, I was just trying to order a sample tread, and instead... Yeah, fifteen treads, eighteen hundred dollars? Yeah, that's not what I wanted to do." So. Much. Wrong.

#WordlessOnWednesday #wordlesswednesday

Friendly Fire Incidents https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/25/632243103/marines-who-fired-rocket-launchers-now-worry-about-their-brains

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? Redundancy and security would be nice. But relatively few things require time accuracy of millionths of a second. It's just easier for everyone to watch the same clock... Chicago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uy0ldI_1HA Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-25/the-world-economy-runs-on-gps-it-needs-a-backup-plan

Guilty Pleasures Pynchon weighs in on Barthelme. "Wise satirical practice requires the sensitivity and skill of a fugu chef at controlling toxicity, that is, knowing how long to suffer, and how gladly, and when to give in to rage, and the pleasure of assaulting at last the fools in question. Barthelme’s timing in this regard was flawless, though unfortunately, he was prevented from becoming a world-class curmudgeon on the order of, say, Ambrose Bierce by the stubborn counterrhythms of what kept on being a hopeful and unbitter heart." "Barthelme’s was a specifically urban melancholy, related to that look of immunity to joy or even surprise seen in the faces of cab drivers, bartenders, street dealers, city editors, a wearily taken vow to persist beneath the burdens of the day and the terrors of the night. Humor in these conditions leans toward the antitranscendent—like jail humor and military and rodeo humor, it finds high amusement in failure and loss, and it celebrates s...

#BeaverFever #NotMyHashTag Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/24/beavers-forest-dean-possible-flooding-solution

NICO = RICO? I am not a Srs Bzns School person, nor would I play one on TV, but... whooo. Bad science, bad business, bad optics. Checks all the boxes. Originally shared by Edward Morbius HBR, Harvard University, Northwestern University, Dropbox: How in any way does this study pass informed consent or justified invasion of privacy? Dropbox Projects Reveals How Successful Teams Collaborate JULY 20, 2018 Dropbox gave us access to project-folder-related data, which Dropbox had aggregated and anonymized, for all the scientists using its platform over the period from May 2015 to May 2017 — a group that represented 1,000 universities. This included information on a user’s total number of folders, folder structure, and shared folder access.... Overall, we analyzed data for roughly 400,000 unique users working on about 500,000 separate projects. Principles: Adam Pah (Northwestern), Brian Uzzi (Northwestern), Rebecca Hinds (Dropbox) https://hbr.org/2018/07/a-study-of-thousands-of-dropbox-pro...

Allentown "Tronc has appointed a new editor-in-chief, Robert York, previously editor and publisher of the smaller Tronc sister paper, the Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call." Billy Joel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHnJp0oyOxs Originally shared by Anne-Marie Clark "Icing on Tronc cake: controlling owner Michael Ferro resigned as chairman after accusations of sexual harassment. Converted $5M annual, three-year "consulting fee" into $15M lump sum & sought to sell stake. Sale fell through. He kept $. It put Tronc in red for 1stQ." ~David Folkenflik, NPR https://twitter.com/davidfolkenflik/status/1021428528854839297 The "cake": Tronc Slashes 'New York Daily News' Staff By Half (also by Folkenflik) " The Daily News won a Pulitzer Prize last year, its 11th, with ProPublica, for its exposure of how the New York Police Department used an obscure civil enforcement law to evict hundreds of poor people from their homes without their being ab...

Originally shared by Moss Drake https://www.stereogum.com/2006749/kokomo-beach-boys-story/franchises/sounding-board/

Setting Them Up To Put Them Down... Who Will Repair The Robots? Dire Straits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRDykGZI3fk https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4bb3/the-bowling-mechanic-keeping-americas-favorite-pastime-alive

The Eyes Have It Artwork by the immensely talented Carolyn Curtis, founding member of the Taconati

All Buttoned Up Some vintage stickers and magazine clippings repurposed. SJW versions coming up after some design work. Where's your flair?

Fear ICE-IS Probably the only thing worse than ICE-IS would be Robot ICE-IS... via Anne-Marie Clark https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=dNF6sVurAuI

Gridlock https://twitter.com/chazhutton/status/1020295040864833536

Hammurabi's Code 229-If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp I can't tell you how many skanky, janky juke joints, stages, and trusses I've been in, on, and under, or how often I was lit up by improperly controlled electrons. But that was back when it was Only Rock And Roll... And I Liked It. Also, I didn't expect to live all that long, anyway. I don't think any PE's came to the shows, much less stamped any drawings. Originally shared by Mudhooks https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/radiohead-stage-collapse-ontario-labour-ministry-report-1.4748623

Travel Slideshow Originally shared by Damn interesting https://qz.com/1329999/outtakes-from-1969-moon-landing/

A Server... Of Justice! Originally shared by Mudhooks https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/georgia-savannah-waitress-grope-tackle-video-cctv

Sign Off "If you’re a morning D.J., it’s not a matter of if — it’s a matter of when: You are going to oversleep,” he told a 2008 gathering. “And when that happens you come tearing into the station at the very last moment, and you’re staggering around half asleep, half dressed." “You don’t have any records pulled, you don’t know where your headphones are, you haven’t put in your contact lenses, you don’t have any tapes set up. It’s just chaos, and as you walk through the studio door, you hear the newsman saying: ‘That’s the latest from the Armed Forces Radio newsroom. Next news in one hour.’" "Now you’ve got to do something. So as you try and pull some records and find your headphones and get things all set up, you turn on the microphone and you say, ‘Goooood morning, Vietnam.’" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/obituaries/adrian-cronauer-good-morning-vietnam-dj-dies-at-79.html

The Road To Gender Parity In the US House of Representatives. via Jeffrey Zeldman https://pudding.cool/2018/07/women-in-congress/

Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad Yet Another Example Of Don't Trust The Algorithm. via Andres Soolo https://boingboing.net/2018/06/26/software-formalities.html

Adjustable Clamp Co. Another icon of American engineering and manufacturing, gone. I have many, many Jorgensen clamps in the shop. Interestingly enough, the company grew into greatness under the leadership of a woman. "Adele Holman remained the leader of Adjustable Clamp—the furthest thing from a figurehead—up until her death in 1932. As a rather cruel insult, her gravestone in Jerseyville reads merely, "ADELE V., WIFE OF HARRY W. HOLMAN." Twenty years as a world class singer, another 30 years building a successful international tool company, and in the end, she was just somebody's wife. There's the gender gap for you—ever so slowly improving thanks to the exploits of gals like Adele Holman." https://www.madeinchicagomuseum.com/single-post/2015/9/20/Jorgensen-Hand-Screw-Composite-Clamp-by-Adjustable-Clamp-Co-c-1950s

Make A Chair From A Tree My name is Jennie Alexander. Until 2007, my name was John Alexander. I thank all those who have been so supportive and kind. Yes indeed, people change, times change, wood continues to be wonderful! I am a chairmaker. I have made traditional post and rung chairs with hand tools for over 40 years. In 1978, I wrote Make a Chair from a Tree: An Introduction to Working Green Wood (1978), a practical book about of post and rung chairmaking. An enlarged edition was printed in 1994. Both are now out of print. The book has been a part of the growing interest in the actual practice of traditional crafts. It led me to coin the word “greenwoodworking.” https://blog.lostartpress.com/2017/05/25/meet-the-author-jennie-alexander/ via Robert Rambusch https://blog.lostartpress.com/2018/07/13/jennie-alexander-1930-2018/

A Topical Tropical Atoll Originally shared by Damn interesting 101 years ago today the residents of a small tropical island removed their ruthless dictator https://www.damninteresting.com/the-tyrant-clipperton-island/

#WordlessOnWednesday #wordlesswednesday

A Halo Of Bees Originally shared by Al Tlön "They chased bees, raided junkyards and banged household objects. Now, half a century on, the Radiophonic Workshop are festival material. Meet the sound effect visionaries whose jobs came with a health warning" https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jul/18/lampshade-solo-radiophonic-workshop-built-future-of-sound-festivals

Kindly Leave A Little Tip And help the next poor sucker On his one way trip. . . Originally shared by **** The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing - The Persuasions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c9EfRZXglg

"Never Give Up; Never Surrender!" "By Grabthar's hammer, by the Sons of Warvan, you shall be avenged!" Or something. Originally shared by Kevin Clarke (ksclarke) How Trump retreats: Grudging apologies, plus a wink and a nod to the original insult When he has had little choice but to back away from an offending remark or behavior, he often finds a way to make clear to his audience that the apology is an empty ritual, a formal obligation, and that what he really believes is what he said the first time around. https://wapo.st/2zO2dd5

HappyNet Dear Citizen Of The New Network, You are being given your own HappyNet group. Its placement will depend on your answer to this simple question. ARE YOU A BOZO? (CHECK EXACTLY ONE) [] YES [] NO With HappyNet, everyone WILL be happy, happier than human beings can possibly be. ******* HAPPYNET: YOU CONTROL HOW IT CONTROLS YOU ******* http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/marthag/text/humor/news/happynet Living In Community Is Hard. Doing It From Keyboards Adds Difficulty. Abdicating To The Algorithm Is Beyond Foolish. https://plus.google.com/+AndreasSchou/posts/hZFiD3wvPDb https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17561768/dont-feed-the-trolls-online-harassment-abuse

Pony Up I almost wish I were a Registered Republican, so I could help the Cause. https://www.popehat.com/2018/06/22/randazza-vermin-supremes-pony-horde-rides-on-kansas-popehat-signal-activated/

Big (Husky) Data "God forbid you live on the wrong street these days,” he said. “You’re going to get lumped in with a lot of bad things.” Originally shared by George Station Does your campus library have #LexisNexis? Guess what else they're up to... And no, you can't do anything about it. #datacollection #tracking #insurance #digitalredlining https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/why-health-insurers-track-when-you-buy-plus-size-clothes-or-binge-watch-tv?93042 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/why-health-insurers-track-when-you-buy-plus-size-clothes-or-binge-watch-tv?93042

Victim Blaming Don't Sue Us, We'll Sue You... Sugarloaf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3KeiPjbgcE https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/lawsuits-claim-mgm-has-no-liability-to-las-vegas-shooting-victims/

Paperback Writer 2.0 Book Stuffing, the New Old Fashioned Way... https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17566276/cockygate-amazon-kindle-unlimited-algorithm-self-published-romance-novel-cabal The Beatles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYvkICbTZIQ Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look? It's based on a novel by a man named Lear, And I need a job, So I want to be a paperback writer, Paperback writer. It's a dirty story of a dirty man, And his clinging wife doesn't understand. His son is working for the Daily Mail It's a steady job, But he wants to be a paperback writer, Paperback writer. It's a thousand pages, give or take a few. I'll be writing more in a week or two. I could make it longer if you like the style. I can change it 'round, And I want to be a paperback writer, Paperback writer. If you really like it you can have the rights. It could make a million for you overnight. If you must return it you can sen...

Liftoff! Originally shared by NASA On this day in 1969, the Apollo 11 mission launched aboard a 363-feet tall Saturn V rocket as we sent three humans to land on the surface of the Moon. As the only place other than our home planet where humans have set foot, this giant leap paved the way for future missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. More: https://go.nasa.gov/2KYipxr

Parasitic Effects Things that First World/City Folk/Northerners don't think much about. Brought to mind by a recent visit with a friend who worked as a missionary in the tropics, and by a recent article about the value of "grounding" oneself by walking barefoot. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/could-walking-barefoot-on-the-grass-improve-your-health-the-science-behind-grounding/2018/07/05/12de5d64-7be2-11e8-aeee-4d04c8ac6158_story.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/nature/how-a-worm-gave-the-south-a-bad-name/

Old Dawgs Are The Best Dawgs https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=hOt-cZIVvu0

The New Class Struggle (Same As The Old Class Struggle) It's getting closer to the time of a New New Deal. But the folks at the bottom, the ones with roots, have to organize. And to form alliances with the compassionate ones in the middle. via Will Shetterly https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/05/classless-utopia-versus-class-compromise/

So Nice, We Had To Do It Twice https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-a-foolproof-cobbler-with-any-fruit-recipe-54973

Pinnacle Landing Originally shared by Anne-Marie Clark Video just now: Chinook helicopter lifting injured climber and rescuers off near-summit of Mt. Hood. They're walking in the door. Amazing flying. Another clip of the chinook approaching: https://twitter.com/EileenParkTV/status/1017887833678200832 https://twitter.com/EileenParkTV/status/1017888757976977408

For A Limited Time Only That's Nacho Cheese Fries, those are Mine! Heh. "The only thing better than Nacho Fries is Revenge." https://thetakeout.com/taco-bell-reveals-that-nacho-fries-are-back-in-demoliti-1827576128 The Dorito taco was underwhelming.

OOODD Overabundance Of Oppositional Defiance Disorder is what I've got. In spades. Originally shared by Damn interesting http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180709-our-ability-to-stand-up-to-authority-comes-down-to-the-brain

Your Better Half Having worked in the field, there are reasons why certain folks are represented more in interviews for radio and television. There are elements of showmanship and production values involved (gasp!). However, completely omitting key contributors is simply awful. And, as was mentioned in the original poster's comments, there is also a conflict of interest element. via John Wehrle Originally shared by Lisa Chabot https://work.qz.com/1326146/nprs-all-things-considered-made-a-sexist-mistake-that-proves-womens-work-isnt-just-overlooked-its-erased/

Freedom Fries https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2018/07/12/national-french-fry-day-2018-freebies-deals-dip-july-13/770217002/

Busted https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/what-43-decaying-president-heads-looks-180958129/ Originally shared by Al Tlön "Abandoned presidents heads in a rural Virginia field" Via https://abandonedography.tumblr.com/post/175820636155/abandonedandurbex-abandoned-presidents-heads-in-a

#NotAmyCamus Originally shared by Al Tlön "She claimed to be the final descendant of the last Incan Emperor, Atahualpa — a claim the Peruvian government backed in 1946 — and she allegedly learned to sing from “the creatures of the forest.” Yma Sumac didn’t just hit octaves. She knocked them out of the park with a growl, and took them for ride around the Milky Way. For opera aficionados, the Peruvian soprano goes down in history as one of the most talented, and wonderfully weird performers in modern history" http://www.messynessychic.com/2018/07/10/before-bjork-there-was-the-last-incan-princess/

Error Correction Nez's mom makes the NYT. Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/obituaries/bette-nesmith-graham-liquid-paper.html

Feedback And then there are those who LOVE the sound of their voices... or, at least, can't stop talking, Bless Their Hearts. Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jul/12/the-real-reason-the-sound-of-your-own-voice-makes-you-cringe

#WordlessOnWednesday #wordlesswednesday

The Tell Originally shared by **** Hahahahahahahahahahaha. My powerful eye muscles! Via Noah Friedman Related: https://twitter.com/SimonNRicketts/status/883353965483741185 https://youtu.be/p5WPVLljm1A

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things Trust the Rotational Development Associate. Or not. Maybe not. That picture of a BBQ sandwich is just wrong. Wrong slaw, wrong bun. And where are the frickin' hushpuppies? Just wrong. http://blog.bcbsnc.com/2015/11/which-nc-bbq-is-the-healthiest-lexington-vs-eastern-style/

Unto The Next Generation It is unconscionable that so little has been done, after so long. Shamefully, we can probably make the case that more was done to correct the Exxon Valdese disaster. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-worlds-worst-industrial-disaster-is-still-unfolding/560726/

Postcards From The Edge "There's an economics term (it's also used in game theory) called "common knowledge." Olken says that's what they were trying to get to with Raskin. It's a social state where everyone knows the rules of the program and everyone knows that everyone else knows the rules." "It's not rocket science," says Banerjee. "There's a certain tendency among both social scientists and policymakers to assume that the solution to a complex problem has to be complex, and I don't think that's always true." Unfortunately, this is less likely to work in regimes where Violence is paired with Corruption/Incompetence, and also less likely to work in complicated systems. For example, the Know Your Rights Campaign in the United States, which is more a Privilege Test than a working set of rules https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/07/10/627355954/how-postcards-solved-the-problem-of-disappearing-rice

Undo Redo Short stacks $0.60 on July 17th. http://www.businessinsider.com/ihop-is-back-after-ihob-phase-2018-7

The Fourth Estate Still, the Abuser In Chief operates beyond the TOS. https://twitter.com/ridt/status/1016286454937522176

Shelf Life "I didn’t like to eat food prepared by other people—I was afraid I would taste their emotion." "Fresh produce was the most extravagant, exotic thing on the shelves, even though it was my people that had picked it in the Central Valley. I feared I would taste the sweat and tears of a cousin or the impatient plucking of a woman who wanted to get home to watch soap operas." http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/07/09/the-food-of-my-youth/ http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/07/09/the-food-of-my-youth/

"Ain't I A Woman?" The Algorithm is even worse at Identity than it is at Identification. In that respect, it is very, very Human. Bless its heart (if it had one). Originally shared by George Station https://medium.com/@Joy.Buolamwini/when-ai-fails-on-oprah-serena-williams-and-michelle-obama-its-time-to-face-truth-bf7c2c8a4119

Beating Up 6+ kts upwind, with the #4 and one reef in the main. Gusts of 30+ kts. Heeled the boat past 25° a few times. Splashy.

Cause & Effect More hijinks at the start. They decided to call this one, the Steak Race. Because of all the T-bones.

Argy Bargy That'll Buff Right Out

Last Man Standing https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/07/05/the-last-maitre-here-serve-you-from-bygone-time/yik4E2FgXZcqMf2AUcEAMO/story.html

Tom Tom Taxi Thompson T-8 sport boat following us back to HYC. They did some surfing today, but we still placed ahead of them.

Excels At Extemporaneous Exposition What the Insurance folks say about sailors from North Carolina. As for the boarding part, ahem. We’ll just say that we are not unacqainted with this evolution. Off to race in the mumblety mumblety (nigh on to fortieth? fiftieth?) edition of the Hancock Creek Regatta. (Skippers meeting said this will be the 53rd. Made me feel a little old). https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2018/07/05/boating-differs-across-usa/ https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2018/07/05/boating-differs-across-usa/

Clear To The Bone https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xAzYTbB3KeQ

Interrogatory https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AvZ8Gsim-6o

El Escorial Like San Lorenzo, Assi Sumus... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/07/03/hot-planet-all-time-heat-records-have-been-set-all-over-the-world-in-last-week/

REAL ID Not just for Federal Installations... "Everybody (That Doesn't Look Like Me) Outta The Pool!" Well, at least they didn't deport her... https://www.journalnow.com/news/local/racism-alleged-at-community-pool-after-white-man-asks-black/article_081feb9a-4f15-53be-a4ae-dd91b4e43e26.html

Follow Your Nose It Always Knows... The Flavor Of Fruit, Wherever It Grows... https://twitter.com/wendymolyneux/status/1014395429587279872

Fire In The Hole!

Cobbled Together

Rush Job Note the expanded (double) spacing, Cara Evangelista. via Matt McIrvin, who also added: The Declaration of Independence was not drafted on July 4, 1776; the final wording was settled on a couple of days earlier. Nor was the calligraphic version you can see in the National Archives signed that day; the famous "Signing of the Declaration of Independence" happened in August. What actually happened on July 4, 1776? The Continental Congress ratified it, then they typeset this, the printed version of the Declaration. So that's the date given to the thing. Originally shared by Andrew Reid Fourth of July randomness, with fonts! So apparently in 1962, JFK picked out the font for the marking on Air Force One personally, picking one that resembled the early printed versions of the Declaration of Independence. The version in question, the first widely-distributed version of the declaration, is the "Dunlap Broadside", put together by John Dunlap, whose printing sho...

Psalm Of Joy The first (recorded) July 4th celebration, in Salem, North Carolina. The music featured a brass band (trombones) and was in German (Moravians). https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-first-americans-to-observe-the-4th-were-moravian-pacifists https://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2014-07-04/american-roots-music-of-the-moravians/ https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-first-americans-to-observe-the-4th-were-moravian-pacifists

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Going Up The Country Country Joe & The Fish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf0Dm-OaTNk I wonder if the folks at Uber have a special Surge Rate for Armageddon? Originally shared by Al Tlön "Families can now lease the bunkers to be used as shelters in the wake of a catastrophic event, such as a nuclear war, a viral pandemic or an asteroid strike at one-time upfront payment of $25,000 per bunker, plus a 99-year lease of $1,000 per year. Shared bunkers are also available at $7,500 per person."

Not Just Him http://www.stonekettle.com/2018/07/folly-vice-and-madness.html

Youthenasia "Difficult To Live With" http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/man-found-fatally-shot-in-fountain-hills-suspect-detained_

DIY Guide http://time.com/5177802/cdc-budget-cuts-infectious-disease/ Originally shared by Edward Morbius A freely available book on epidemiology from the US CDC This course covers basic epidemiology principles, concepts, and procedures useful in the surveillance and investigation of health-related states or events. It is designed for federal, state, and local government health professionals and private sector health professionals who are responsible for disease surveillance or investigation. A basic understanding of the practices of public health and biostatistics is recommended.... Part of a self-study course. HTML & PDF. My interest: parallels between information and infection. https://www.cdc.gov/ophss/csels/dsepd/ss1978/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/ophss/csels/dsepd/ss1978/index.html

We Apologise For The Fault In The Subtitles Those responsible have been sacked. Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti... We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked. Special Møøse Effects OLAF PROT... The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked. The credits have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute. via Edward Morbius Originally shared by Johannes Riecke Nothing to see here, move along. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/ron-paul-racist-caricature-tweet-republican-pattern.html

Sex Sells Crime Pays $3.5 Million. Originally shared by Ray Radlein https://gizmodo.com/usps-ordered-to-pay-3-5-million-after-putting-artists-1827305357

First, You Find The Mark Grifting, At Scale... via George Station Originally shared by John Verdon "Cambridge Analytica didn’t convince decent people to become racists; they convinced racists to become voters." http://locusmag.com/2018/07/cory-doctorow-zucks-empire-of-oily-rags/

Pick Up The Pieces The Average White Band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnH_zwVmiuE Originally shared by Mudhooks Under the Presidential Records Act, the White House must preserve all memos, letters, emails and papers that the president touches, sending them to the National Archives for safekeeping as historical records. But White House aides realized early on that they were unable to stop Trump from ripping up paper after he was done with it and throwing it in the trash or on the floor, according to people familiar with the practice. Instead, they chose to clean it up for him, in order to make sure that the president wasn’t violating the law. Staffers had the fragments of paper collected from the Oval Office as well as the private residence and send it over to records management across the street from the White House for Lartey and his colleagues to reassemble. “We got Scotch tape, the clear kind,” Lartey recalled in an interview. “You found pieces and taped them back together and ...

The Dresser The Algorithm that is bold enough to make fashion suggestions to a pregnant woman is not far from being bold enough to take over the world. Thankfully, I need no advice about when to wear my Carhartts, and when to wear my Hawaiian shirts. https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/07/01/amazon-dressed-for-week-here-what-learned/cdZ5YgLew5zC6lVUyg9AoN/story.html