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• DOWD: Crazy Is as Crazy Does...

• With Declassification Move, Trump Goes on Offense

• With May Leaving, The Hard Part Of Brexit Begins

• Let's Call Russian Collusion 'Hoax' What It Really Is

• Indictment of Julian Assange Is an Attack on Freedom of the Press

• What Britain Needs From Its Next Prime Minister

• Memorial Day War Pardons Unpardonable

• Democrats, the Party of Abortion

• The Buttigieg Delusion

• Bernie Versus Biden: A Familiar Split in Democratic Party

• On Memorial Day, Spare a Thought for Americans Like Mike Spann

• The Dangers of Measuring Students' 'Disadvantages'

• In Defense of an Imperfect SAT Adversity Score

• Trump and GOP Are Weaponizing Anti-Semitism

• The Left Against Zion

• True Extent of Obama's Spying on the Press Revealed

Hacker News

Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• The EU Should Adopt ‘EU English’ as Its Official Working Language

• Syntax Highlighter Is Wrong

• How NOT to get a $30k bill from Firebase

• Ask HN: I want to build a company,how to work towards the goal while employed?

• On SQS

• Arm announces its new premium CPU and GPU designs

• How NLP can help cure cancer? [pdf]

• AMD Ryzen 3000 announced

• Navy pilots report unexplained flying objects

• Scrum is fragile, not Agile

• Nancy Pelosi and Fakebook Dirty Tricks

• Ways to break your systems code using volatile (2010)

• GraphQL Query Rewriter

• How some cities became rat-free zones

• A Curious Sequence of Prime Numbers

• Golf diplomacy: Trump oks Abe’s offer to mediate US-Iran tensions

• UK’s Tories wiped out, France’s Le Pen wins in European parliament vote

• Lieberman’s last word awaited as Likud drafts bill to dissolve Knesset

• Netanyahu’s bid to form government still blocked by Lieberman

• PM Netanyahu summons prospective coalition partners for interviews

• European parliament vote in 21 countries

• Iraq court sentences to death 3 Frenchmen for joining ISIS

• A Swiss diplomat & Iraq’s President – go-betweens for first, US-Iranian talks

• Damascus blocks international probe of chemical attacks

• Dem. Sen Feinstein reported meeting Iranian FM

Daily Alert by the JCPA

Prepared for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

• No, Israel Isn't a Country of Privileged White Europeans

• How Israel Is Helping to Feed the World

• NATO and Israel Deepen Ties

• The New German Anti-Semitism

• German Holocaust Archive Puts Millions of Documents Online

• What Would a Palestinian State Actually Look Like?

• Dozens of Homes Destroyed as Israel Battles Major Wildfires

• A Global Study of Settlements in Occupied Territories

• Arab States Pressuring Palestinians to Attend Bahrain Economic Workshop

• My Father's Family Was Turned Away from America on the M.S. St. Louis

• Six Palestinians Wounded in Gaza Tunnel Collapse

• India Ended Iranian Oil Imports

• Former Israeli Security Adviser: Iran Wants "to Annihilate" Israel

• Palestinian Security Prisoners Receive Special Perks in Detention

• Changes in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard: Preparations for Conflict?

• Author Correction: A dissipatively stabilized Mott insulator of photons

• As a climate researcher, should I change my air-travel habits?

• Taiwan considers double-blind peer review for grants

• Author Correction: A CRISPR/Cas system mediates bacterial innate immune evasion and virulence

• Daily briefing: Video films four trillion frames per second

• Author Correction: miR-34a blocks osteoporosis and bone metastasis by inhibiting osteoclastogenesis and Tgif2

• Robo-pups, printed ears and bias – a tour of AI

• Violent birth could explain galaxy’s shortage of dark matter

• Daily briefing: Are carbon offsets failing us?

• Video filmed at four trillion frames per second captures light in a flash

• World’s largest laser lab rocked by slew of disputes

• Landlocked Mongolia might hold clues to underwater volcanoes

• Brazilian scientists strive to turn politicians into allies

• Fast and inefficient star formation due to short-lived molecular clouds and rapid feedback

• Exome sequencing of 20,791 cases of type 2 diabetes and 24,440 controls

• Iraq offers to mediate in crisis between US and Iran

• Qatar says invited to emergency Arab summits in Makkah by Saudi King

• Regime bombing kills 12 civilians in Syria’s northwest

• Netanyahu struggles to form government amid talk of new election

• Kurdish prisoners end hunger strike after leader’s call

• Lebanese hunter shot at Syrian checkpoint

• Iran must stop supporting militias for peace offer to be taken seriously: Expert 

• Crack in opposition as top Sudan group rejects call for strike

• Algeria graft prosecutor refers two ex PMs to supreme court

• Syrian troops regain control of village they lost to rebels

A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.

• Remember the Fallen, and Their Cause

  Memorial Day pays tribute to those who gave their lives for their country—but we should know more about why.

• Nothing Left to Lose

  The New York State Republican Party has hit bottom, but a change in leadership offers hope for revival.

• Bring Back the Old Cory Booker

  The presidential candidate’s education agenda ignores successful reforms he pushed as Newark’s mayor.

• Au Secours—and Pass the Duck

  The crisis in France has a particularly French flavor.

• Socialism Destroys the Human Character

  

• The enclosed life. In the Middle Ages in Europe, hundreds of religious recluses permanently sealed themselves inside small rooms. Why?

• Art criticism is art. It makes meaning out of the seemingly indecipherable, elucidating existential stakes. No one does this better than Peter Schjeldahl

• “The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him," said Arthur Miller, who understood shame

• Imagine writing a masterpiece and never getting to see it in print. Such was the fate of Vasily Grossman

• Step aside, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Mill. Meet the oddballs, underdogs, and outcasts of British philosophy

• She had Sartre for conversation; he, only drunks and gamblers. Inside the short-lived long-distance relationship of Nelson Algren and Simone de Beauvoir

• Storytelling was Shakespeare’s gift, and no stories gripped him more than those of classical antiquity

• Who will replace European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker?

• Five key takeaways from the European parliament elections

• ‘Trump of the tropics’ Jair Bolsonaro faces reality check on his power and popularity in Brazil

• Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party triumphs in EU elections, as Tories score worst results in decades

• Donald Trump insists ‘very smart’ Kim Jong-un knows he must give up nukes and backs Shinzo Abe to meet one-on-one

• World’s rivers ‘awash with dangerous antibiotics’, massive global study warns

• Devastation after deadly twister tears through Oklahoma city of El Reno

• China’s wrong, the US can kill off Huawei. But here’s why it won’t

• Everyone should take vitamin D supplements, especially children, UK scientist urges

• Try a no-deal Brexit and we’ll stop you, Tory MPs tell top contenders for Theresa May’s position

Brain candy for Happy Mutants

• New York Times: Navy pilots reported a rash of strange UFO encounters

• Poland has asked the European Court of Justice to overturn the #CopyrightDirective

• The Chinese company that bought Grindr wasn't supposed to let Chinese engineers access Americans' data -- but it did

• These corporations backed the politicians who will murder women by banning legal, safe abortions

• Remembering the pre-Netscape browsers

• Just look at this suspect's gun that turned out to be a banana

• Catch Memorial Day deals on this Bluetooth audio gear

• Europe's surging, far-right, "anti-establishment" parties: funded by billionaires, voting for billionaire-friendly policies, lining their own pockets

• Quantum physics, Brad & Angie, and Doris Day's scandals, in this week’s dubious tabloids

• Give your career a boost with these online training bundles that are 60% off

• Real estate title insurance company exposed 885,000,000 customers' records, going back 16 years: bank statements, drivers' licenses, SSNs, and tax records

• Already regretting assigning Anthony Burgess to review the Samsung Galaxy Fold

• The Digital Public Library of America has re-released the Mueller Report as a well-formatted ebook instead of a crappy PDF

• A(nother) Lego Turing machine

• China fact of the day

• The minimum wage and migration decisions

• Sunday assorted links

• Bias against indigenous Americans?

• Viral Markets in Everything

• Yes there has been an American male culture collapse

• Saturday assorted links

• Why Are the Prices So D*MN High?

• Maciej Cegłowski on gdpr

• Friday assorted links

• Shipping the good economists out?

• *Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World*

• State and local policy is the real immigration policy

• What should I ask Neal Stephenson?

• Thursday assorted links

Designer News

Where the design community meets.

• Handy design resource with millions of free transparent PNG images - IMGBIN

• For San Francisco Designers: who is going to design week?

• Made the dream expense tracking app. Just how I want it.

• How we designed a bike/scooter-to-transit trip planner

• Introducing Struct Illustrations for Web

• How we research for designing a new product

• HTML Emails 101 For Web Developers

• UX/UI Design Trends: What’s In Store for Us in 2019?

• Introducing uxiboard.com

• Factors that influence the reading experience in Augmented Reality

• The New We Work Remotely

• I built a WordPress Plugin to auto-create og:images

• How To Make A Conversion-Driven SaaS Landing Page [2019 Edition]

• Tables for a design system

• My second year of freelancing

Rumors and news on everything Apple since 1997

• Next iPhones may play audio over two Bluetooth devices at once

• Huawei founder opposes Chinese retaliation against Apple

• Tested: Thermal throttling and performance in the eight-core 2019 MacBook Pro

• ICYMI: New Samsung T5 SSD, new Qi wireless chargers & more

• Rare Apple I fetches $471,000 at Christie's auction

• Apple Store armed robberies & 'Find My iPhone' solves crimes on the Apple crime blotter

• Memorial Day Sale: Find the best Apple deals all weekend long

• Popular iOS game 'Clicker Heroes' pulled from App Store after name theft

• Tested: Apple's updated 2019 MacBook Pro butterfly keyboard

• 'Gaming disorder' on iPhone & other platforms recognized by World Health Organization

• Editorial: Apple Card invites you to join a premium, private club

• Tim Cook promotes 'Chronicles of San Francisco' exhibit and iOS app

Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.

• Spotted: New Name and Logo for Artemis

• Linked: Bee-g Mac

• Noted: New Logo and Packaging for Æcorn Aperitifs by Pearlfisher

• Reviewed: Friday Likes 288: From Diano, makebardo, and A Friend of Mine

• Spotted: New Logo for Hyundai Merchant Marine

• Spotted: New Packaging for Alaskan Brewing Company by Blindtiger

• Linked: Stade Rennais FC Fan Fiction

• Noted: New Logo for Sallie Mae

• Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for Duquesne University Athletics by ChangeUp

• Spotted: New Logo for Healthline

• Spotted: New Logo and Identity for Savoir Beds by Without

• Linked: Game of Chairs

• Noted: New Logo and Identity for True Ventures by Ueno

• Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for MoFu by Podpunkt

• Spotted: New Logo for Wintershall Dea by Jung von Matt

Biting the hand that feeds IT

• If servers go down but no one hears them, did they really fail? Think about it over lunch

• It's all in the RISC: Arm legs it to Computex with a head full of Cortex-A77 CPU, Mali-G77 GPUs

• When two tribes go to war... Intel, AMD tease new chips at Computex: Your spin-free summary

• Millions of personal files exposed by insurance biz, serial web hacker strikes again, and more from infosec land

• That magical super material Apple hopes will hit backspace on its keyboard woes? Nylon

• Activist shareholders to target Zuck with giant angry emoji inflatable at Facebook AGM

• DXC: We axed 10k staff, shut nine data centres, closed 4.6m sq ft of office space... and sales tumbled, funnily enough

• That's just Huawei it goes, shrugs founder as analysts forecast sales slump for embattled biz

• HP's delayed Reverb: Jesus-headset dribbles out of the echo chamber and into the channel

• Rough quarter? Just blame falling sales on China and US trade tensions – right, HPE?

• What do our IT pro readers make of virtualization in 2019? Here are the poll results, plus our insight and tips

• Uber JUMPs at chance to dump load of electric bikes across Islington

experiments in refactored perception

• Predictable Identities 10: Big Updates

  When the world conforms better to your expectations, whether through effective action or improving models, it feels great. When the world slides towards unpredictability, it sucks. So how does changing your mind feel? That depends on whether the change improves or breaks your predictions. Look at the image below until you can make out what […]

• Domestic Cozy: 5

  Drew Austin devotes the latest issue of his excellent Kneeling Bus newsletter (highly recommended; a weekly short dose of urbanism, infrastructure etc) to “Inner Wear”: I like the idea of a leather jacket being a form of armor—the notion that the outside world is a harsh wilderness and clothing is the only layer shielding you […]

• A New Newsletter: The Art of Gig

  As some of you already know, I’ve added a new thing to the sprawling Ribbonfarm Media Empire: a paid newsletter on substack ($5/mo or $50/y) called The Art of Gig. To quote myself from the About page: This is a weekly newsletter for indie consultants who are in the gig economy for the deep fun […]

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