The North is using the vague language of the Singapore agreement to stall the process
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👓 What will Angela Merkel’s resignation as CDU leader mean for Germany? | The Economist
Her successor may not be able to hold the country’s ruling coalition together
👓 Why Latin American governments spend money badly | The Economist
Costa Rica, among others, is trying to change that
👓 The microscopic structure of a cat’s tongue helps keep its fur clean | The Economist
The secret is in the grooves
👓 Why men who make less than their wives lie about their earnings | The Economist
Social norms have failed to keep pace with changes in the workplace
👓 20 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About BuzzFeed News | BuzzFeed
Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalists. Reporting that freed an innocent man from prison. Here are some facts about BuzzFeed News that you might not know. Support our journalism by becoming a member.
Interesting to see them advertising and reaching out like this just after announcements of them having financial issues.
👓 Is Secret sharing REALLY REALLY REALLY used? | Computational Complexity
Since I am teaching Cryptography this semester I am teaching things people REALLY REALLY REALLY (RRR) use. For some topics this is RRR true,...
I like this concept of Really, Really, Really used. Reminds me of the value of finding use cases for markup like microformats in the wild as a means of standardizing things or for paving cow paths.
👓 Puzzle Montage Art | Kottke
Taking advantage of the fact that puzzle manufacturers typically use the same cut patterns to make many different puzzles,
👓 Instagram will remove fake likes and follows | The Verge
Fake likes and follows will be automatically removed
👓 Ivanka Trump Used Personal Email Account for Government Business, Review Finds | New York Times
Ms. Trump’s use of personal email has been expected to be among the topics Democrats will address when they take control of the House next year.
👓 Troops at U.S.-Mexican border to start coming home | Politico
All the troops should be home by Christmas, as originally expected, Army Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan said in an interview Monday.
👓 How the media should respond to Trump’s lies | Vox
A linguist explains how Trump uses lies to divert attention from the "big truths."
I like that he delves into the idea of enlightment reasoning here and why it doesn’t work. This section of this article is what makes it a bit different from some of the interviews and articles that Lakoff has been appearing in lately.
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I take your point, but I wonder if Trump is just kryptonite for a liberal democratic system built on a free press. ❧
The key words being “free press” with free meaning that we’re free to exert intelligent editorial control.
Editors in the early 1900’s used this sort of editorial control not to give fuel to racists and Nazis and reduce their influence.Cross reference: Face the Racist Nation from On the Media.
Apparently we need to exert the same editorial control with respect to Trump, who not incidentally is giving significant fuel to the racist fire as well.
November 20, 2018 at 10:11AM
A lot of Democrats believe in what is called Enlightenment reasoning, and that if you just tell people the facts, they’ll reach the right conclusion. That just isn’t true. ❧
November 20, 2018 at 10:12AM
👓 Some thoughts on following #IndieWeb | Greg McVerry
Greg McVerry (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com)A wonderful chat (starts here and ends here) about following occured last night that made me think about how I would like to connect and display the people I follow as I work on my follow page. Huge h/t to Eddie for capturing it on the wiki. Tantek noted that a focus on following people and not fe...
👓 Emacs from a clean slate | rousette.org
I feel like this post could be subtitled “For real this time”. Let’s just say that it’s certainly not my first time down an Emacs rabbit hole. I’ve used Spacemacs, then given up because I found it hard to maintain and fix small issues that arose. Then I moved to Doom Emacs, and liked it a lot. It was more compact and less monolithic than Spacemacs, but it still required more Emacs knowledge than I had at the time to understand how all the working parts fitted together. Then I went back to Neovim, and so the bouncing between Vim and Emacs cycle began again. This time, something struck me: what if I was approaching Emacs in the wrong way, trying to make it into something it isn’t, namely Vim? What if I actually took the time to learn how to do things the Emacs Way, and built up my configuration from scratch, adding only what I needed and understood? It was a crazy idea, but it might just work…
👓 re Cybersecurity “moonshot” project to secure the internet by 2028.
The report starts with a complete failure to understand the Internet and the powerful idea of separating the infrastructure from what we do with it.