Boyd Watersadded this to Invisible HandsPlay buttonMicrosoft Lessons from Microsoft's antitrust adventure for today's Big Tech giantsboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow With trustbusting in the air and Big Tech in the crosshairs, Bloomberg's Dina Bass reflects on the antitrust case against Microsoft in the 1990s, …
Boyd Watersadded this to Invisible HandsWealth Tax A Message From the Billionaire’s Club: Tax UsThe New York Times - By PATRICIA COHENEnthusiasm for a wealth tax on the country’s thin sliver of multimillionaires and billionaires may be unsurprising — after all, most Americans wouldn’t have to pay it. But now the idea is attracting support
Boyd Watersadded this to Far OutTajikistan When ISIS Killed Cyclists on Their Journey Around the WorldThe New York TimesAn American couple quit their Washington office jobs to bike around the world in search of experiences they couldn’t find from behind their desks. After thousands of miles through more than two dozen Jay
Boyd Watersadded this to Disrupting ClassAmazon Web Services What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its Bookstore Offers CluesThe New York Times - By DAVID STREITFELDSPERRYVILLE, Va. — “The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy” is a medical handbook that recommends the right amount of the right drug for treating ailments from bacterial pneumonia to infected wounds.
Boyd Watersadded this to Next UpArt meets science🖌️🎨 How do you represent one the four science cases driving the design of the next-gen Very Large Arraytwitter.com
Boyd Watersadded this to Next UpPrimates These monkeys are 3,000 years into their own 'Stone Age'National Geographic - Michael GreshkoWhile capuchins won't use tools like us any time soon, the species now “has its own individual archaeological record,” scientists report. For capuchin monkeys at Brazil’s Serra da Capivara National Park,
Boyd Watersadded this to Out There is HereFalcon Heavy SpaceX Falcon Heavy: Why everyone should watch this night launch from Kennedy Space CenterUSA TODAY - Antonia JaramilloMELBOURNE, Fla. – For the third time ever, on Monday night spectators on the Space Coast will once again get to see the world's most powerful rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center. The 27 Merlin main
Boyd Watersadded this to RESPECTUkraine Ukraine hosts biggest ever gay pride paradeReuters - Natalia ZinetsKIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian politicians and foreign diplomats joined thousands marching in a gay pride parade in Kiev on Sunday, the biggest and most peaceful ever in the former Soviet country. Crowds people,
Boyd Watersadded this to RESPECTGay Pride Brazilians march for PrideDW News - Louisa Wright Hundreds of thousands of people attended Brazil's Pride march in Sao Paulo. It is the first gay pride march since the election of far-right President …
Boyd Watersadded this to RESPECTJon Stewart McConnell agrees to meet with 9/11 first responders after Jon Stewart’s urging: reportFox NewsSen. Mitch McConnell has plans to meet with 9/11 first responders on Tuesday in wake of the recent public tussle with Jon Stewart that culminated last Monday on Fox News when the Kentucky senator asked
Boyd Watersadded this to Out There is Here Check out our neighbors, @AUIEducation, at the table next to us talking about the #EHTBlackhole and #NGVLA. https://t.co/YBRHb6ZbgUtwitter.com
Boyd Watersadded this to Imaginary PropertyPublic Domain To do in LA this weekend: laugh your head off at PUBLIC DOMAIN THE MUSICAL at the Hollywood Fringeboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Last night, I went to see Public Domain: The Musical at the Actor's Company Theater in West Hollywood. I had no idea what to expect, but I was …
Boyd Watersadded this to Cops and RobbersOregon State PoliceIn a bid to avoid climate vote, Oregon Republican Senators cross state lines, go into hiding, threaten to murder cops, asboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Oregon's legislature is about to vote on a piece of climate change cap-and-trade legislation that the Democratic majority are likely to win, so to …
Boyd Watersadded this to Cops and RobbersTrump Administration Urged to Launch an Attack, Trump Listened to the Skeptics Who Said It Would Be a Costly MistakeThe New York Times - By PETER BAKER, MAGGIE HABERMAN and THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFFWASHINGTON — He heard from his generals and his diplomats. Lawmakers weighed in and so did his advisers. But among the voices that rang powerfully for President Trump was that of one of his favorite Fox
Boyd Watersadded this to Out There is Here📌Today at 11:54 am Chile, #WinterSolstice ❄️in the southern hemisphere, #SummerSolstice ☀️in the northern hemisphere. Thetwitter.com
Boyd Watersadded this to Cops and RobbersNews (U.S.)I’m a Journalist but I Didn’t Fully Realize the Terrible Power of U.S. Border Officials Until They Violated My Rights andThe Intercept - Seth Harp I should have kept my mouth shut about the guacamole; that made things worse for me. Otherwise, what I’m about to describe could happen to any …
Boyd Watersadded this to Here There Be TygresWhite Supremacism Jewish human rights scholar: yes, America has built concentration campsboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Anna Lind-Guzik ("a writer, attorney, and scholar of Soviet history, international law, and human rights, with degrees from Duke University, Harvard …
Boyd Watersadded this to Cops and RobbersIran America can only go to war against Iran if it reinstates the draftboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Gil Barndollar -- a Marine veteran who served in Afghanistan, the Republic of Georgia, Guantanamo Bay and Bahrain, who also holds a PhD in History …
Boyd Watersadded this to HardwareRecycling Enjoy this weekly dose of snark about bad product designsboingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder The industrial design website, Core77, has recently introduced a sarcastic column about poorly-thought-out products called The Weekly Design Roast. …
Boyd Watersadded this to Disrupting ClassU.S. Army The ENIAC Programmers: how women invented modern programming and were then written out of the history booksboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Kathy Kleiman, founder of the ENIAC Programmers Project, writes about the buried history of the pivotal role played by women in the creation of …
Boyd Watersadded this to Here There Be Tygres The South Dakota Legislature Has Invented a New Legal Term to Target Pipeline Protestersaclu.org - Andrew Malone The government of South Dakota has made it very clear that it does not like people who protest the Keystone XL pipeline. The state’s governor has …
Boyd Watersadded this to Cops and RobbersClarence Thomas Clarence Thomas Just Left Another Landmine, This Time in First Amendment LawEsquire - By Charles P. PierceClarence Thomas, layer of land mines in settled law, has managed to do it again. Perhaps that's going to be his most lasting legacy as part of the Trumpist Supreme Court: setting the explosives in place
Boyd Watersadded this to Here There Be TygresPlay buttonEncryption Private Join and Compute is Google's free/open source tool to allow "mulitparty computation" of encrypted data without decryptionboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Private Join and Compute is a new free/open Google tool that implements the longstanding cryptographic concept of "commutative encryption," which …
Boyd Watersadded this to Disrupting ClassMakeup Googler films drag coding tutorials as Anna Lyticalblog.google - Megan Friedman If you’re looking to learn how to code, there are tons of tutorials on YouTube—but only a few star a wise-cracking drag queen in a candy-colored wig. …
Boyd Watersadded this to RESPECTMilitary Wonderful profile of Anita Sarkeesian, the feminist games critic who made an army of shitty manbabies very, very upsetboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Anita Sarkeesian (previously) is a brilliant media theorist and critic whose Feminist Frequency/Tropes vs. Women in Video Games projects …
Boyd Watersadded this to HardwareGoogle Google's Not Going to Make Tablets AnymoreMacRumors - Juli CloverGoogle has no future plans to release additional tablet devices and has even canceled two models that were in development, the company confirmed to Computerworld today. Google has not released a tablet
Boyd Watersadded this to DSM-XMuay Thai How Muay Thai is helping Parkinson’s patients stand up to the diseasescmp.com - Mathew Scott Michael Leung wasn’t sure what to make of the offer he was given to take part in today’s Muay Thai training session. Aged 49, he has spent the past …
Boyd Watersadded this to Next UpOptimism Your Daily Dose of Optimism!The New York Times - By DAVID BROOKSSomeone recently gave me a book of photos taken on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1890s. The conditions were horrible: homeless, malnourished children sleeping in a clump, barefoot in a doorway.
Boyd Watersadded this to Eco EcoOregon State Police Governor sends police after GOP senators who fled CapitolAssociated Press - By SARAH ZIMMERMAN and GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated PressSALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown deployed the state police Thursday to try to round up Republican lawmakers who fled the Capitol to block a vote on a landmark economy-wide climate plan that would
Boyd Watersadded this to RESPECTJoy Harjo Joy Harjo named 23rd Poet Laureate, first Native American to serve in U.S. position of honorboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin “Words are powerful and can make change when understanding appears impossible.” The Library of Congress today appointed Joy Harjo as the 23rd U.S. …
