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• How Hard Will #BoycottMulan & Hong Kong Protests Hit?

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• STRENGTH: HK PROTESTERS DEFY POLICE

• 8. HOURS. ON. TARMAC.

• BEIJING WAITS

• Saudi Oil Fields Are in the Firing Line as Gulf Conflicts Rage...

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• Two mass murders world apart share common theme: 'Ecofascism'...

• Dirty little wars and law: Did bin Laden win?

• Epstein's special treatment in Florida jail was far more lenient than anyone knew...

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• PIG HEART TRANSPLANTS HOPE...

• Demand grows for video game addiction clinics...

• Here's How de Blasio's 'Milk-the-Rich' Strategy Will Backfire

• Remembering My Father on His 100th Birthday

• IG Report on Russia Probe to Be 'Ugly & Damning'

• There Will Be No Justice for Trump's Enablers

• Michigan Emerges as Crucial Battleground in Fight for Senate

• Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of Trump

• Cosmic Injustice

• Did Bill Clinton See This Coming?

• Stoking Racial Division? MSNBC Does the Dems' Work

• National Media Faces a Huge Credibility Problem

• Using Israel to Score Political Points Has Consequences

• The Unmasking of BDS

• Real Change Depends on the Senate

• Kristol, the Mooch & NeverTrump Quest for Relevance

• Trump's Selfish Foreign Policy Doesn't Put America First

Hacker News

Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• The world’s most-surveilled cities

• Avoid working as a software engineer in a startup

• A parrot has a question for humans

• Kaspersky in the Middle – what could possibly go wrong?

• Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]

• Portugal trials use of goats to clear vegetation for reduction of wild fire risk

• Judge claims mobile phone is not a computer

• OpenDrop: An Open Source AirDrop Implementation

• Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes (2011)

• Does “www.” Mean Better Transport Layer Security?

• What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble

• Robust learning from untrusted sources

• Show HN: Chart.xkcd – Xkcd-styled chart library

• Jaguar and Audi SUVs Fail to Dent Tesla’s Electric-Car Dominance

• Richard Sorge: The Soviet Union’s Master Spy

• Fortifications for civilian sites against Palestinian ground fire from Gaza

• Israel’s no-win, no-lose Gaza policy has too many layers to be scrapped in a hurry

• Netanyahu to critics: We act in Gaza as needed, regardless of elections

• A bombing kills 63 at wedding in Kabul

• Five armed Palestinians killed at Gaza fence

• Palestinian rocket from Gaza lands in the yard of a Sderot home

• Iraq closes airspace to stop Israeli strikes on pro-Iranian militia sites

• Will the Iranian tanker change its name?

• Pelosi: Trump-Netanyahu “weakness” can’t affect US-Israel ties

• US issues warrant to seize Iranian oil tanker released by Gibraltar

Daily Alert by the JCPA

Prepared for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

• Israel Was Right to Ban Tlaib and Omar

• Jewish Nurse in Sweden Brought 60 Refugee Children to Mandatory Palestine during World War II

• Gibraltar Releases Iranian Tanker, Hours after U.S. Asked to Seize Ship

• Who's Funding Illegal Palestinian Settlements in Area C?

• The Islamic State Is Building Caliphate 2.0 in a Syrian Camp

• U.S. Arranges Secret Talks between Israel, UAE over Iran

• Israel Bars Entry to BDS Advocates Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar

• The Men Responsible for the AMIA Bombing in Buenos Aires Are Known and Still at Large

• Israel's Ambassador Denies U.S. Pressure Was Behind Decision to Ban Tlaib and Omar

• Israeli Kids Talk about Living near Gaza

• Israel Allows Tlaib to Enter to Visit Her Palestinian Family

• Forgotten Heroes: The Jewish Resistance in France and Exodus 1947

• Palestinians Stab Israeli Policeman near Temple Mount

• Israel Has Every Right to Block Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar

• Two Israelis Injured in Car-Ramming Attack at West Bank Bus Stop

• Two-dimensional polymer knits together and unravels in an electric field

• The Philippines creates its first space agency

• A tale of two disorders: syphilis, hysteria and the struggle to treat mental illness

• Head of prestigious ancient DNA lab suspended amid bullying allegations

• Do C-section babies need mum’s microbes? Trials tackle controversial idea

• Making dragons: a speculative scientific adventure

• The insect that lost its homeland — and its sex life

• Sighting a molecule’s sigh

• The ‘net’ that leads to excruciating stones in the belly

• Chemists make first-ever ring of pure carbon

• Summer briefing: The best of the Briefing

• The quest to unlock the secrets of the baby Universe

• What makes flatworms go to pieces

• Living commodities, fraud in the lab, and a history of nautical navigation: Books in brief

• I am not the hive mind of Transetti Prime

• Sudan’s ex-president Bashir arrives at corruption trial

• Iran says it has warned US against seizing oil tanker

• Turkey replaces three pro-Kurdish party mayors for suspected militant links

• Young Libyans chose danger at sea over peril at home

• UK strips citizenship from dual national Daesh convert ‘Jihadi Jack’

• Feminist icon blasts Israel PM over travel ban

• Facelift of Cairo’s Baron Palace sparks outcry

• Lebanon’s Aoun vows to tend to economic, financial reforms

• Kuwait’s emir in good condition after medical setback

• Sudan names ruling council after landmark signing

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

• The Cost of Bad Intentions

  Progressive policies threaten a new era of urban dysfunction.

• Corporatizing College

  A new book fails to expose how nonprofit universities have turned into for-profit businesses.

• Get Lost, Charlie

  Fifty years after the infamous crimes of his “family,” Charles Manson haunts American culture—but now Quentin Tarantino has something to say about that.

• From Tiananmen Square to Hong Kong

  As pro-democracy protests continue in the former British colony, we should keep in mind that China’s Communist leaders have changed little since 1989.

• Thoughts on the Death of Jeffrey Epstein

  It’s not implausible that a man facing life in prison would find the means to kill himself.

• Our Graham in Havana. Graham Greene’s interventions in Cuban politics were hardly fictional — he actually contributed to Batista’s downfall

• The intellectual coward. Victor Serge knew the type: playing word games, dabbling in fashionable politics, inciting “nothing but a revolt of literary cafes”

• Charles Sanders Peirce was an intellectual titan, an American Aristotle. His obscurity stems from the abstruseness of his ideas and the machinations of his rival

• Ayn Rand always held a certain appeal to precocious, contrarian youngsters. Now all the cool kids want to be socialists

• The rise and fall of an imperial discipline. Economics once wielded vast political influence, but is the intellectual marketplace now moving on?

• The doomsayers rant that English is in decline, that we're speaking a degraded, faltering tongue. They've been saying so since the 14th century

• “Natural and unconstrained.” Nudism in America was shaped by Whitman, Thoreau, German philosophy, and the American Sunbathing Association

• Prince Andrew says ‘appalled’ by Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse claims after video emerges

• Donald Trump cuts off one of his closest friends

• Welder shortage threatens British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s nuclear energy ‘revival’ plans

• Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s ‘verbal incontinence’ blamed for costing country friends

• UN experts find British-made bomb parts in Yemen, in breach of international law

• Canadian police escort worshippers as ‘bullying’ pro-China protesters surround church holding prayers for Hong Kong

• US ‘in secret talks’ with Venezuela’s socialist party boss in bid to end political crisis

• First Netflix film from Barack and Michelle Obama looks at life in a US factory under new Chinese bosses

• Iceland bids farewell to its first glacier lost to climate change, with hundreds more to follow

• Why Chinese students are at risk of becoming gambling addicts in the UK

Brain candy for Happy Mutants

• Save $45 on this wireless charging sonic toothbrush kit

• Congrats to the winners of the 2019 Hugo! Kowal, Wells, Cho, Harrow, Chambers, AO3, Liu, Dozois, Wolfe, and more!

• A new biography reveals the Koch brothers' very early role in creating organized climate denial

• Urban Dance Squad's 'Deeper Shade of Soul' video is much fun

• Ah, well...who wants to live forever??

• Turning a recalled children's unicorn boot into a display for endless product recall notices

• Boost your productivity with this Microsoft Office boot camp

• Pumpkin Spice Spam hitting stores in September

• Town to install public toilets with anti-sex systems

• Create your robot army with these Arduino and Raspberry Pi kits

• Towards a better practice of online news-corrections

• McMansion Hell: the Campbell County, Wyoming edition

• Tech conference changes policy, rescinds requirement for chipped, unremovable bracelets for attendees

• The case for allowing children to vote

• The Greening Earth

• Do opioids contribute to social bonding?

• The culture that is San Francisco

• Sunday assorted links

• A Smarter Kickstarter

• Singapore and China, in history

• Pig semen nationalism protectionism

• Saturday assorted links

• Are Health Administrators To Blame?

• Are property rights in elephants working out after all?

• Travel markets in everything

• Friday assorted links

• David Wright interviews me

• The importance of economic growth for Italy

• Is There a Gender Wage Gap in Online Labor Markets?

Designer News

Where the design community meets.

• Top 17 UI Design Mistakes That Lead to Failure of Your Website

• Tried something a little different in Sketch this weekend.

• Design recommendations to improve digital payment experience

• Portfolio feedback <3 [front-end developer]

• Adobe Fresco brings the best watercolor and oil paint strokes to iPad

• Why You Shouldn’t Gray Out Disabled Buttons

• Ask Me Anything: @zeldman, here

• Bootstrap Modal Guide, Examples and Tutorials

• GoPablo - Static site generator

• I researched how Sketch, Figma, InVision and Marvel work with the design community. Happy to share my report with you and listen to your thoughts

• 46 European Dotted Country

• New tool to help you generate and download unique SVG waves

• Niching down as a Designer and launching my own site

• Vectornator X

• Docking stations, external displays for a Macbook Pro

Rumors and news on everything Apple since 1997

• Sonos 'Move' portable Bluetooth speaker and dock images leak

• Donate to US National Parks by using Apple Pay at an Apple Store

• President Trump says Tim Cook made 'good case' why tariffs are unfair to Apple

• How to transfer playlists from Spotify to Apple Music

• ICYMI: DJI Osmo 3 gimbal, tiny battery packs, wireless chargers, & more

• Ikea is 'just getting started' in smart home peripheral market

• 'Pokemon Go' on eight phones while driving, pickpocket lifts 40 Apple Watches & more on the Apple Crime Blotter

• These 2019 15-inch MacBook Pros are $400 off with promo code

• How to find your Apple Card number to buy something online

• Review: The BenQ PD3220U 4K HDR Thunderbolt 3 display is a good option for designers

• Apple launches early access program for Apple Arcade

• Titanium and ceramic Apple Watch variants spotted in watchOS 6 beta

Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.

• Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for Teach First by Johnson Banks

• Spotted: New Logo for Stater Bros. Markets

• Linked: Snapchat goes Boo-ld

• Noted: New Logo and Identity for Leman Jewelry by M -- N Associates

• Reviewed: Friday Likes 297: From Daily Dialogue, Love Street, and Radical Co-operative

• Spotted: New Logo for Reproductive Medicine Associates

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• Linked: Logo Archive#4

• Noted: New Name and Logo for AT&T TV Now

• Reviewed: New Name, Logo, and Packaging for TNX by Open

• Spotted: New Logo for Strandbags

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• Linked: World Peace Symbol?

• Noted: New Logo and Packaging for Cracker Barrel Cheese by BrandOpus

• Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for Cloudreach by Siegel+Gale

Biting the hand that feeds IT

• Microsoft Notepad: If it ain't broke, shove it in the Store, then break it?

• So your Google Play Publisher account has been terminated – of course you would want to know why exactly

• KNOB turns up the heat on Bluetooth encryption, hotels leak guest info, city hands $1m to crook, and much, much more

• iFrame clickjacking countermeasures appear in Chrome source code. And it only took *checks calendar* three years

• Subcontractor's track record under spotlight as London Mayoral e-counting costs spiral

• It will never be safe to turn off your computer: Prankster harnesses the power of Windows 95 to torment fellow students

• Can Amazon's AI really detect fear? Plus: Fresh deepfake video freaks everyone out again

• Overstock's share price has plummeted. Is it Trump's trade war? Bad results? Nope, its CEO has gone bonkers...

• Chrome add-on warns netizens when they use a leaked password. Sometimes, they even bother to change it

• NSA asks Congress to permanently reauthorize spying program that was so shambolic, the snoops had shut it down

• Dropbox would rather write code twice than try to make C++ work on both iOS and Android

• Microsoft Surface users baffled after investing in kit that throttles itself to the point of passing out

experiments in refactored perception

• Multitemporality: 1

  Today I officially start my fellowship at the Berggruen Institute, working on my multitemporality project. At the moment the plan for the project is to write a book, but who knows. It might morph into a comic book or an interpretive dance, as I’ve been telling people who seem inclined to form oppressively burdensome presumptions […]

• Meaning as Ambiguity

  I can’t even tell if I was wrong or not. Maybe you’ll have better luck: In June at Refactor Camp I gave a talk about voids (How To See Voids). The hook for my talk was a pretty picture of late afternoon conifers in the woods outside Truckee, California, and a mystery: why does the […]

• Predictable Identities: 15 – Newcomblike, Part I

  An introduction to Newcomblike situations.

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