• Expert looks to seal off attacks on swimmers...

• NOT FUNNY: Decline of Comedy at Box-Office...

• Norway island wants to be world's first time-free zone...

• Will Ferrell Trouble Getting Movie Made...

• New robotic dishwasher for restaurants taking dirty work out of kitchen...

• 'Very active' killer whale pod seen for first time ever in Monterey Bay...

• World population projected to STOP growing by end of century...

• Cape Cod learns to live with rise of great white shark...

• Meth-fed 'attack squirrel' found caged during drug bust...

• Films Bomb; Stars Fade...

• Air Force arms bombers with hypersonic missile for first time...

• Drenches passengers with scalding water... Sends 10 to hospital...

• Wild turbulence slams flight attendant into plane ceiling...

• Dairy Cows Fed Coffee Creamer For Best Milk Results At Award-Winning Farm...

• BUZZFEED: Tony Robbins Punishes Followers By Making Them Drink Unidentified Brown Liquid...

• Trump Drives Down Price of F-35 25% From Obama Level

• Inside Donald Trump's Florida Obsession

• What Trump Should Look For in His Next Press Secretary

• What a Biden-Trump Presidential Race Might Look Like

• Want the Truth? Put Your Money on Bill Barr, Not Jerry Nadler

• All the President's Shrinking Sycophants

• Big Victory for the Liberal Mob--Harvard Cancels Kyle Kashuv

• Why Harvard's Rejection of Parkland Student Makes Sense

• Oberlin Case Shows How Universities Are Losing Their Way

• How Many Ways Is Michigan In Play in 2020?

• How South Carolina Is Leading on Clean Energy Solutions

• Trump Might Not Want War. Without Diplomacy He'll Get One.

• Was It Legal for Democrats to Pay for the Dossier?

• Why Harvard Is Correct to Dump Kyle Kashuv

• The Kyle Kashuv Case Illustrates Harvard's Intellectual Rot

Hacker News

Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• New York to Approve One of the World’s Most Ambitious Climate Plans

• Millionaire hacker gets 9 years in death of man building nuclear bunker tunnels

• New Twist Found in the Story of Life’s Start

• Ribbon (YC S17) is hiring engineers – help simplify healthcare using data

• Milankovitch Cycles

• Generalized Algebraic Data Types: A Primer

• How Fast can A Single Instance of Redis be?

• Announcing Timescale Cloud

• Amazon expands its air cargo fleet

• Launch HN: Sqreen (YC W18) – Securing Web Apps

• $1B for 20,000 Bay Area homes

• Envoy Mobile

• Transforming a Tesla Model 3 into a Pickup Truck

• Simple techniques to optimise Go programs

• The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced

• Pompeo at CENTCOM amid rising tensions with Iran

• Shanahan abruptly resigns as acting US defense secretary

• Russia and China strongly condemn US 1,000-troop deployment

• New Pentagon pix of Iranians removing mine from Japanese tanker

• Saudis report intercepting two Houthi bomb-packed drones

• US intel: Iranian strike at major Saudi oil target imminent. Another 1,000 US troops for region

• Egypt’s deposed president Morsi drops dead in court

• Terrorism suspected in Palestinian rape of Jewish child of seven

• Hamas reports progress in implementing understandings with Israel

• Iran threatens to exceed permitted enriched uranium ceiling

Daily Alert by the JCPA

Prepared for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

• White House: Iran "Nuclear Blackmail" Must Be Met with International Pressure

• Israeli Government Officials Not Invited to Bahrain Conference

• U.S. Releases New Images of Oil Tanker Attack

• Fatah Expels Mayor after Jews Attend Son's Wedding

• U.S. Sending 1,000 More Troops to Middle East amid Tensions with Iran

• Iran Is Playing with Fire

• Iran's Elite Defense Force Finds New Funding Sources

• Netanyahu: Step Up Sanctions If Iran Exceeds Enriched Uranium Limits

• Former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi Dies during Trial

• Bahrain Workshop on Palestinian Economy Is the Opportunity of a Generation

• Cambridge Audience Laughs at Anti-Semitic "Joke" by Malaysian Prime Minister

• Iran Defying Financial Action Task Force

• New Zealand Government Website Wipes Israel Off the Map

• Ayatollah Khamenei Warns of Using "Military Tools" to Beat the U.S.

• Unraveling the mysteries of preprints and peer review

• Ways to juggle fieldwork with kids in tow

• University racism report: Cape Town replies

• Academics join outcry sparked by Hong Kong’s contentious extradition bill

• Heat to smash records every year across vast swathes of Earth

• How adapting to research setbacks can pave the way to greater outcomes

• Harness microbes for humanity’s future

• Prepare river ecosystems for an uncertain future

• From the archive

• Unintended consequences of gender-equality plans

• Africa’s science academy leads push for ethical data use

• Psychiatry crisis is a chance to change tack

• Plantations take economic pressure off natural forests

• The master genes that sculpt tentacles and legs alike

• Physicists tackle a delicate challenge: making the ideal crêpe

• ‘Hypocrite’ Rouhani rejects war as Iran’s drones target Saudi civilians

• For Gulf economies, Chinese outbound tourism holds passport to riches

• Bouteflika-era tycoon jailed for six months in Algeria

• Sudan protesters urge night rallies amid standoff with army

• US will maintain pressure campaign on Iran, says Pompeo

• Syria clashes kill 45 fighters: monitor

• Kuwait emir to visit Iraq amid Gulf tensions: KUNA

• Syria says it does not want to fight with Turkey

• Turkey orders arrest of 128 military personnel over suspected Gulen links

• Iraqi cleric Al-Sadr threatens to withdraw support for Abdul Mahdi’s government

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

• California Unplugged

  To prevent wildfires, the entire state’s power grid is subject to planned blackouts.

• Learning Nothing from Yesterday

  Progressive spending plans are a retread from 1966.

• St. Louis Blues

  Once a major American city, the Gateway to the West struggles to redefine itself.

• An Addiction Crisis Disguised as a Housing Crisis

  Opioids are fueling homelessness on the West Coast.

• Beating My Dad

  Reflections on Father’s Day

• In 1943, Francoise Gilot was a wannabe painter and an aspiring intellectual with little firsthand experience. Then she met Picasso

• When people write about Vasily Grossman, they often start by complaining that he is insufficiently appreciated — which is hardly true

• “We live today in a laboratory of human suffering as vast and terrible as that in which Dickens and Dostoyevsky wrote.” The America of Nelson Algren’s imagination

• The painter Étienne Terrus had been largely forgotten until a museum devoted to his work was established in the mid-'90s. Why is the collection riddled with fakes?

• Before its “golden age,” TV was thought to be formulaic, fluffy trash. The change in regard is in no small part the work of Emily Nussbaum

• Lacan, the terrible. He was avaricious, classist, and an awful father. Tasked with treating his suffering daughter, he headed to the brothel instead

• Science wars, Seinfeld, Sokal: What was postmodernism? No other idea from the humanities had so major, if murky, an influence

• Donald Trump promises ‘wild’ rally as he launches 2020 re-election campaign

• Justin Trudeau’s cabinet approves controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

• Vietnam has a new partner in its old rivalry with China – the US

• More than US$1 billion worth of cocaine seized in ‘one of largest’ drug busts in US history

• Facebook reveals Libra cryptocurrency, sparking new privacy concerns and calls for regulation

• Why don’t Hong Kong Canadians just say they are Chinese? Because of subethnicity, and this is why it matters

• Boris Johnson fends off dwindling PM rivals in TV showdown as he says ‘the British people are thoroughly fed up’

• US acting defence chief Patrick Shanahan steps aside after domestic abuse incidents surface

• Robert Lighthizer: ‘Absolutely’ OK to use tariffs to squeeze nations on non-trade issues

• Italian great-grandmother Giuseppina Robucci, Europe’s oldest person, dies aged 116

Brain candy for Happy Mutants

• Trump's Fourth Of July 'Salute to America' now includes Air Force One flyover of Mall

• NASA accused of misrepresenting costs in new GAO report, Trump's moon mission now threatened

• Complete instructions for making a replica of the Minivac 601 educational computer kit

• On Paul McCartney's birthday today, listen to Tammy Wynette cover "Yesterday"

• The world's first Tesla pickup truck

• Video of violent turbulence on a flight

• 50 people from 50 US states speak in their local accents

• Cheap wireless laser printer with 3rd party toner is the way to go

• Vast majority of truck-driving jobs are not under threat from automation

• Independent tribunal concludes that Falun Gong prisoners in China are targeted for organ harvesting

• The British press used to be amazingly homophobic, and the backsliding has begun

• Howto: make better salads

• Canada's telcoms regulator adopts a sweeping new pro-competition agenda

• Elizabeth Warren profile: portrait of a savvy politician who appeals to working people, and who can get stuff done

• Libra responds to my queries

• The Libra reserve, discussion of background documents

• Tuesday assorted links

• The new Facebook cryptocurrency

• Education sentences to ponder

• Why China is not close to democratizing

• *The Great Successor*

• Monday assorted links

• Storyline!

• *The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeastern Europe*, by Marie-Janine Calic

• Whale carrying costs > whale liquidity premium

• Sunday assorted links

• That was then, this is now

• Zimbabwean passport seigniorage is the best kind of Zimbabwean seigniorage

• Neglected Open Questions in the Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Designer News

Where the design community meets.

• Any designers using Framer X? Why or why not?

• Whimsical Mind Maps: In-Page Interactive Demo

• Show DN: Boxy Suite 2 – Gmail, Calendar, Keep and Contacts for Mac

• How the Slack blog’s content strategy works

• Stubborn - Free Illustrations Generator

• Building a Design System UI Component using Framer X

• PV Solar Energy website redesign

• Experience working for a corporation as a designer (internal or external)

• Calibra | Digital Wallet for Libra Cryptocurrency

• Marking Required Fields in Forms

• Madgraphism new portfolio

• How to Manage Your Design Team Effectively

• As a Product Designer, what are your essential tools?

• Ultimate Guide to Website Design Cost in 2019

• A case study on how to create a case study

Rumors and news on everything Apple since 1997

• Here are all the receivers and speakers that are getting AirPlay 2

• Dish might pay $6B or more for Sprint & T-Mobile assets including Boost Mobile

• PCIe 6.0 will double the bandwidth of PCIe 5.0 to 256GB/s in 2021

• Review: Satechi M1 wireless mouse gets the aluminum treatment

• Google Calendar was down for some users across the globe [u]

• watchOS 6 should support direct-to-Apple Watch software updates

• App Store continues to vastly outpace Google Play in consumer spending

• Here are 40+ changes in iOS 13 beta 2

• CalDigit's Connect 10G joins Thunderbolt 3 Macs to 10-gigabit Ethernet networks

• Satechi releases HomeKit-capable Dual Smart Outlet

• B&H Mega Deal Zone: Apple hardware slashed by up to $1,000

• Kanex launches iAdapt USB-C Multiport Docking Station for 2018 iPad Pro

Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.

• Spotted: New Logo and Identity for Skuratov Coffee by White Russian Studio

• Spotted: New Logo for The Philadelphia Inquirer done In-house

• Linked: Warriors in Alternate Universe

• Noted: New Logo and Identity for Destination Canada by Cossette

• Reviewed: New Logo, Identity, and Packaging for FENTY by Commission

• Spotted: New Logo for Tetris

• Spotted: New Logo and Identity for The Marketing Society by Bloom

• Linked: 2019 LogoLounge Trends

• Noted: New Logos for Golden State Warriors

• Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for Correos by Summa

• Announced: No Posts Until June 17

• Noted: New Logo and Identity for Eyebeam by Mother Design

• Reviewed: Friday Likes 289: From Un Barco, Mubien, and AURG Studio

• Spotted: New Logo for Sault Ste. Marie by Scott Thornley + Company

• Spotted: New Logo for Candlewood Suites by Stag & Hare

Biting the hand that feeds IT

• Spin the wheel and find today's leaky cloud DB... *clack clack... clack* A huge trove of medical malpractice complaints

• Awoogah! Awoogah! Firefox fans urged to update and patch zero-day hole exploited in the wild by miscreants

• HPE: Since y'all love cloud subs so much, we'll throw all our boxes into GreenLake by 2022

• HPE unveils Primera storage tech, vows 100% availability – anyone fancy breaking, er, putting that to the test?

• Cyber-IOU notes. Voucher hell on wheels. However you want to define Facebook's Libra, the most ridiculous part is its privacy promise

• Delicious irony: Hacked medical debt collector AMCA files for bankruptcy protection from debt collectors

• Fancy a fondleslab dab? Adobe pulls oilcloth off new iPad-first Fresco painting, drawing app

• DDN wheels out big chungus of a storage box, the disgustingly scalable EXA5

• Ahhhhh! What year is it?! Users left without direction or clue after Google Calendar 404s

• Get your coat, you've pulled a Pull Panda: GitHub goes home with code collab specialists

• UK.gov whacks export ban on 'grotesque' crab made by famous Brit potter bros

• Who bought the most powerful commercial supercomputer? Come on, it's Total-ly obvious

experiments in refactored perception

• Worlding Raga 6: World To Live

  In a few weeks I’m going to become a dad. I’ve been feeling a new urgency to imagine what life might be like for a person born native to this weird atemporal era. But what that really means remains speculative until, well, she arrives. So in anticipation for this new world of a person entering […]

• Refactor Camp Livestream This Weekend

  Day 1 Live Stream recording Day 2 Livestream recording Just a heads-up that Refactor Camp 2019, on the theme of Escaping Reality, is this weekend in Los Angeles, on Saturday and Sunday. We have a great program lined up, and there will hopefully be a live stream if there are no technical glitches (update: WE […]

• Mediocratopia: 5

  In a world that runs on ceremonial expectations of optimal performances, but where it is rarely in your best interests to actually deliver optimal performances, practicing mediocrity necessarily involves capability masking: the act of hiding the true extent of your capabilities. Capability masking is the opposite of “fake it till you make it” behavior, and […]

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