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Trump’s F-35 Calls Came With a Surprise: Rival CEO Was Listening | Bloomberg
Kellyanne Conway Sparks Media Debate About Interviewing Trump Advisers | Fortune.com
Some news programs have said they will no longer interview Kellyanne Conway because she isn't credible.
Pulling the plug on @tumblr, and why is @feedly so hard to use?
I’ve now unfollowed everyone on Tumblr. It’s been turning into a dust bowl for me, people I followed haven’t been posting in years. Since the ads made the app annoying for me to u…
Ownership vs. Ownership
A Snap is a universal Linux package that works on (just about) any distribution or device. Snaps are faster to install, easier to create, safer to run, and they update automatically and transactionally so the software is always fresh and never broken. What this means for a normal person is that a tiny computer the size of a Starbucks coffee could be shipped to them and run on their home network. This would then interface with another server they have running in "the cloud". Rather than SSH into a Linux machine and install a bunch of disparate software packages, fiddle with configuration settings, and rage at Apache misconfigurations, a person would instead type something like the following into the public web server: sudo snap install 10centuries
For those in the IndieWeb who want to take “own your data” to the highest level, 10centuries sounds like an interesting project.
PewDiePie Show Canceled by Google’s YouTube | WSJ
YouTube canceled its top star’s show on Tuesday over his anti-Semitic jokes, complicating its efforts to court television advertisers while also retaining its edgy video stars.
It’s Valentine’s Day, and it seems appropriate… | Michael Nielsen
Leaks Suggest Trump’s Own Team Is Alarmed By His Conduct | The Huffington Post
Playboy, Shedding a Policy Change, Brings Back Nudes | The New York Times
A year after the men’s magazine stopped featuring photographs of naked women, it has apparently had a change of heart.
Michael Flynn, OPEC, India: Your Tuesday Briefing | The New York Times
Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
5 pages to add to your academic website | Veronika Cheplygina
Previously I wrote about getting your setting up your own academic website in WordPress and installing some helpful plugins. But once you have all that, what content do you actually add to your new website? Of course, you are probably going to have pages for your CV (possibly split into different pages for research, teaching etc) and your publications. In this post I cover a few other pages I like to see on people’s professional websites. I admit I do not have all of these yet myself – but I’ve provided a few nice examples of those who do.
The Netanyahu Investigations | The Atlantic
How the Israeli prime minister's scandal could spoil what should be his perfect political moment
How the ‘Alt-Right’ Came to Dominate the Comments on Trump’s Facebook Page | The Atlantic
Over the course of the campaign, the comments left on the president’s official Facebook page increasingly employed the rhetoric of white nationalism.
Barack Obama and Hidden Figures: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing
Highlights from seven days of reading about arts and entertainment
A Short History of ‘America First’ | The Atlantic
The phrase used by President Trump has been linked to anti-Semitism during World War II.