👓 Fox News, NBC, and Facebook pulled Trump’s racist campaign ad. He’s not happy about it. | Vox

Read Fox News, NBC, and Facebook pulled Trump’s racist campaign ad. He’s not happy about it. (Vox)
The latest controversy over Trump’s final campaign ad, explained.

👓 Election Update | Facebook Newsroom

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US law enforcement contacted us about online activity that they recently discovered and believe may be linked to foreign entities.
This seems like a lot of lip service to me. I can’t imagine they’re doing much more than scratching the surface of what they should be doing.

📺 "Chopped Junior" Bug Bites | Food Network

Watched "Chopped Junior" Bug Bites from Food Network
Directed by Michael Pearlman. With Ted Allen, Sammy Voit, David Arquette, Scott Conant. Creepy crawly kabobs pose a challenge for the junior chefs; cooks are happy with fish fillets and a colorful cereal; chefs must get creative with little sprinkles and a giant egg; David Arquette Jake Smollett and chef Scott Conant are the judges.

📅 RSVP An Introduction to Microformats: November 7, 2018

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I'll be giving a talk about microformats at the SDPHP meetup group. Learn about microformats(.org), a simple way to markup structural information in your HTML. I will walk through how to publish microformats, how they are parsed, and some compelling use-cases for both publishers and consumers. For more information and RSVP, visit the meetup.com event page.
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I wish I could attend this talk by gRegor this week. If you’re a web developer or designer in the San Diego area, I highly recommend you attend as there aren’t many people who could speak on this important topic as well as he can.

🎧 The Daily: Nancy Pelosi’s Dilemma | New York Times

Listened to The Daily: Nancy Pelosi’s Dilemma by Michael Barbaro from New York Times

Under fire from both parties, the longtime House Democratic leader faces an uncertain political future.

Reply to Taylor Jadin about planet functionality for education

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It was a pretty productive Open Domains Lab for me. Got my sort "funnel" site set somewhat set up using FeedWordpress. http://taylor.jadin.me/
I’m curious to hear your thoughts after using it. It sounds like it has a lot of functionality overlap with Press Forward (for WordPress). Planet-like functionality is commonly requested in the education and technology space. Are there others? Stephen DownesgRSShopper perhaps?

 

 

🎧 The Daily: A Culture of Secrecy That Perpetuated Abuse | New York Times

Listened to The Daily: A Culture of Secrecy That Perpetuated Abuse by Michael Barbaro from New York Times

A sweeping report issued by a grand jury in Pennsylvania sheds new light on the systemic nature of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

🎧 The Daily: The Economic Cost of Authoritarian Rule | New York Times

Listened to The Daily: The Economic Cost of Authoritarian Rule by Michael Barbaro from New York Times

As President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey applies his strongman tactics to the economy, the country faces a crisis that could reverberate through global markets.

🎧 The Daily: Unearthing the Truth in Myanmar | New York Times

Listened to The Daily: Unearthing the Truth in Myanmar by Michael Barbaro from New York Times

During a reporter’s trip to a part of the country where many Rohingya Muslims once lived, the government’s official narrative began to crack.

🎧 The Daily: A Year of Reckoning in Charlottesville | New York Times

Listened to The Daily: A Year of Reckoning in Charlottesville by Michael Barbaro from New York Times

In the 12 months since white nationalists and counterprotesters clashed there, the Virginia city has continued to struggle with centuries-old tensions.

👓 "Little Foot" hominin skeleton from South Africa will finally be open to other scientists | Michael Balter

Read After more than 20 years in the hands of one researcher, the nearly complete "Little Foot" hominin skeleton from South Africa will finally be open to other scientists at the end of November (michael-balter.blogspot.com)
In 1994, Ron Clarke, a paleoanthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, was looking through some museum boxes filled with fossil specimens from the Sterkfontein caves, located about 40 kilometers northwest of the city. Beginning in the 1930s, a number of hominin fossils had been found there, mostly australopithecines, in what South Africans call the Cradle of Humankind. Clarke quickly realized that four of the fossils, all small toe bones, had been misidentified as belonging to monkeys. They actually belonged to an early hominin, most likely another australopithecine. It quickly became known as "Little Foot."

🎧 The Daily: The Trump Voters We Don’t Talk About | New York Times

Listened to The Daily: The Trump Voters We Don’t Talk About by Michael Barbaro from New York Times

New data offers a more nuanced look at this group beyond “white men without a college degree.”