Briefs
Thursday, August 20th, 2020
The iPhone matters more than anything … it is the foundation of modern life.
Ben Johnson, “Apple, Epic, and the App Store”
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Briefs (cont’d)
Sunday, September 20th, 2020
It’s obvious but still worth reading a quick piece about: the people for whom Israeli-Gulf relations is a boon most of all are Arab Israelis.
In due time, they stand to serve as excellent mediators for any further economic and tourism ties between the UAE and Israel.
I considered Jonah Goldberg overrated until now. On the US DoE calling out Princeton’s woke bullshit, he nailed it:
Princeton: Take our confessions of systematic institutional racism seriously but not literally.
Friday, September 18th, 2020
“Recognizing that the Arab and Jewish peoples are descendant of a common ancestor…” — Let us savor the text of the Treaty of Peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Blessed are the peacemakers…
Thursday, September 17th, 2020
Sunday, September 13th, 2020
This piece in The Federalist articulates how the American Left is projecting its own insurrectionism, nicely comparing their rhetoric to Southerners’ threats in the 1860 election should Lincoln win.
As author John Daniel Davidson writes, what they say “tells us less about what is likely to happen in the real world and more about the mendacious worldview, toxic prejudices, and treasonous imaginings of the elites themselves.”
Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
Parathyroid surgeon Dr Deva Boone informs us on Vitamin D.
Saturday, September 5th, 2020
Lunaz Design’s electrified 1961 Rolls-Royce Phantom V.
Friday, September 4th, 2020
With “Beyond the Face of Race: Emo-Cognitive Exporations of White Neurosis and Racial Cray-Cray” co-authored by Robin DiAngelo of White Fragility, I’m reminded of the totally nutty 1991 book The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing (5 stars with 1,109 ratings on Amazon!).
That said, this paper reads altogether more sanely than that earlier work, though its self-described parables are pretty darn vicious; perhaps it’s telling that they’re explicitly not by DiAngelo but instead credited solely to co-author Cheryl E. Matias.
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
Israel and UAE sign their first agreement in the normalization talks: on banking and finance.
Monday, August 31st, 2020
UAE president Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan signs an order cancelling the boycott of Israeli goods. May they acquire a taste for Osem soup almonds and Beit Hashita pickles!
Dore Gold explains that Arab nations have long held common cause with Israel. This is part of Mosaic Magazine‘s symposium on the Israel-UAE peace accords, and contains links to the other essays.
After a friend forwarded me a crazy conspiratorial post by a mutual acquaintance, I turned for solace to Richard Hofstader’s 1964 essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”.
I’m also reminded of Steve Jobs on the topic:
Western rational thought is not an innate human characteristic; it is learned and is the great achievement of Western civilization.
Sunday, August 30th, 2020
A solitary voice suggesting Vitamin D, Matt Ridley in The Spectator:
The bottom line is that an elderly, overweight, dark-skinned person living in the north of England, in March, and sheltering indoors most of the time is almost certain to be significantly vitamin D deficient. If not taking supplements, he or she should be anyway, regardless of the protective effect against the Covid virus. Given that it might be helpful against the virus, should not this advice now be shouted from the rooftops?
I do believe that the Western media — and therefore Western society in general — is actively uninterested in a biological reason for why darker-skinned people are suffering more from the novel coronavirus; such a materialistic and addressable cause does not fit the fashionable angle of systemic racism. So who suffers?
Thursday, August 20th, 2020
There are many utilities for macOS window management (looks like the most hackable and maybe powerful is Jigish Patel’s Slate) but what I personally rely on is a combination of TotalSpaces2 to keep the Spaces functionality that came and I think went with OS X Leopard; SizeUp for the snap functionality most easily found elsewhere (Moom, Spectacle, Cinch, Divvy, Amethyst); and Zooom/2 for moving and resizing windows and toggling sloppy focus, which I’ve not found anywhere else.
The above link to Zooom/2 is not however to its homepage but to a disk image I just posted because Zooom/2 is no longer available, as I realized when setting up a new Mac. You’re welcome.
The iPhone matters more than anything … it is the foundation of modern life.
Ben Johnson, “Apple, Epic, and the App Store”
Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
Londonist lists its most unusual afternoon teas.
Sunday, August 16th, 2020
In his report of what we know so far on the Beirut explosion, David Wurmser unsurprisingly surmises that what exploded was a Hizbollah weapons cache. Perhaps the whole terrible tale will come to be known as FatimaGate and that we are witnessing, as Wurmser concludes, what “may indeed be the beginning of the end for Hizballah and the Syrian-Iranian Quisling government.”
“A juggernaut of creativity, innovation and high-tech:” US national security advisor Robert O’Brien provides Hugh Hewitt with inside baseball on the American angle of the magnificent Israel-UAE Abraham Accords.
Saturday, August 15th, 2020
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson has huge charisma, period, and his recent travails serve to render him even more human. His efforts to ground our current unmoored times (the chaos referred to in the title) in the fertile garden of our intellectual and spiritual heritage (the curative order) are the work of the angels.
The first of his 12 Rules for Life is Nietzschian, an evolutionary biological backgrounder for the maxim to fake it till you make it. The second is Rousseauian: we must love ourselves with amour de soi rather than amour-propre. But the whole thing — and particularly this second rule — is peppered with discussion of founts fundamental to me — Genesis, Taoism, Jung — so that the book feels like it fell out of my own mind, albeit a more disciplined, erudite, deeper version.
Either because of this over-familiarity or because the book is in fact junk food, I cannot remember anything of it as I revisit a few weeks later to write this. Is Peterson merely an Alain de Botton of the Right, a popularizer / informal codifier of what every self-respecting Westerner already knows? Either I need to pick up the book and start again, or perhaps stop reading everything else and get back to the Bible, Plato and Aristotle.
Commentary Magazine‘s Abe Greenwald speaks to the current revolutionary moment:
Because the United States is fundamentally good, most Americans may, in time, become circumspect about tearing it all down.
Here’s hoping.
“From left field, a world-changing moment executed by the executive branch…” The Commentary Magazine podcasters speak to the historic Israel-UAE deal.
Friday, August 14th, 2020
Like the more insightful Thomas L. Friedman of yore, full-throated congrats regarding the Israel-UAE agreement.
Thursday, August 13th, 2020
2020: an isolation odyssey by (in case you miss her name in the credits) Lydia Cambron. [Via DF]
It’s been a while since I’ve found use for the New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman. But this latest one is like the Friedman of yore, before degenerating into partisanship and pandering: he warns the United States that a polity such as Lebanon where everything is political cannot hold (never mind that the politicality of everything is a philosophical touchstone of the side to which he panders).
Wednesday, August 12th, 2020
Seven ceramic sculptures by Japanese artist Jun Kaneko have been set in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin Martin House in Buffalo, NY.
Monday, August 10th, 2020
MacWorld’s list of all the Apple Arcade games that support controllers.
Friday, August 7th, 2020
Shamefully kowtowing to China, Israel has withdrawn a Ministry of Health public service video that humorously refers to the coronavirus as “Made in China (yet works properly)”. This isn’t going well is it?
Thursday, August 6th, 2020
Bahaa Hariri: “It is crystal clear Hezbollah are in charge of the Port and the warehouse where the ammonium nitrate was stored.”
Dave Seminara writes “When Your Favorite Companies Go Woke” in The Wall Street Journal (paywall).
I feel similarly regarding the homepage banners at Node.js (“#BlackLivesMatter”) and Linode (“Black Lives Matter. Linode is committed to social justice and equality.”), both of which I rely on for my work. There are substitutes for Linode, but none for Node.
The Daily Mail has 8:38 minutes of police bodycam footage of the George Floyd arrest.
Given what this American Spectator article contains — the transcript of the exchange between George Floyd and the arresting policemen before he was even on the ground and the toxicology report stating George Floyd’s death was in all likelihood due to an overdose — the shit gonna hit the fan whether the courts find police innocent or guilty.
On Vitamin D and Covid-19 [via Marginal Revolution]. If there’s any truth in the conclusion here — that vitamin D deficiency worsens Covid-19 deadliness by an order of magnitude — then surely it is criminally negligent to not be running public awareness campaigns encouraging people to take vitamin D supplements — especially for darker-skinned citizens, adapted to block out sunlight and consequently vitamin D, and especially in sunlight-challenged locales.
Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
In wake of Phil Schiller’s ascent, Cult of Mac lists all the Apple Fellows.
Tuesday, August 4th, 2020
This is gold. For Bar-Ilan University’s BESA Center, Kenneth S. Brower pens a blunt bracing comprehensive assessment “Israel Versus Anyone: A Military Net Assessment of the Middle East” with conclusions aplenty. Here’s one:
The Israeli political-military leadership has over-responded to the current tactical threat posed by Iran and its non-state forces and has all but ignored the looming potential strategic threat of renewed hostility with Sunni Arab nations.
Friday, July 31st, 2020
Soderbergh’s Raiders, so that we can marvel at Spielberg’s craft in staging.
The Smithsonian posts a nice little piece on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Laurent House, designed for the wheelchair-bound client who clearly adored his wonderful home, which is now thankfully a museum.
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work may be a business book but, like Peter Drucker’s best, I found it profound. We can forget that business itself is profound, the intended happy medium of most modern collective endeavor. For authors Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, founders of the Basecamp organizational management software-as-a-service, business is the expression of philosophy. They counsel practicing it humanely, moderately and deliberately.
They establish authority with a first shock, an obvious idea you’ve almost certainly not thought of yourself: that a company should be considered a product, its employees the users. In fact this is a framing analogy for the entire book; like Nietzsche’s preface to Beyond Good and Evil positing that we suppose Truth be a woman, it throws wide open our thinking on our subject.
Another shock: they advise eschewing goals: “You don’t need something fake to do something real.” How shatteringly refreshing is that! Especially since my previous book was John Doerr’s Measure What Matters, which is all about goals. I had been excited for the Doerr book, but couldn’t finish it due to the sterile-speak of the case studies, which — unwarrantedly perhaps — undercut my faith in the concept. In contrast, Fried and DHH have the clear bracing style of successful coding entrepreneurs. This helps overcome the natural worry that going goal-less means a descent into hedonic anarchy, instead what they seek is appropriateness and authenticity. That said, I wonder whether this is the idea they’re most likely to step back from in future.
A third novelty seems downright crazy: they advocate not selling licenses by the seat, but by the organization. “It doesn’t matter if you have 5 employees, 50, 500, or 5,000 — it’s still just $99/month total. You can’t pay us more than that.” They leave this money on the table as part of deliberately designing the culture of their company (see the first idea); they don’t want to be dependent on a few large customers, nor create an internal cultural schism between serving small business and enterprise.
Similarly, they decided to stop accepting checks for payment just because it was a hassle, which did lose them some customers. This however is a less controversial notion, akin to Apple removing older technologies from new products despite their still being in widespread use and absorbing the hue and cry.
The authors also believe that the American-inspired work ethic of long hours is counterproductive and inhumane. Having worked at an Israeli software services giant I’m in agreement here too; at Amdocs if you went home after a mere 9 hours in the office you were perceived to be not pulling your weight (and, in my case, eventually laid off). And when I was temporarily attached to teams for international business trips, it seemed that all the team leaders were either divorced or in the process of becoming so.
Some of the authors’ values only apply to their particular industry. They make a claim for good enough rather than perfectionism — this is fine when your product is web-based software where one can churn out a fix at little cost, but not for many other high-value products such as cars.
In my small own small way I already practice much of what the authors preach. My only qualm is that while I love their philosophy, I’ve never much liked Basecamp itself.
Sunday, July 26th, 2020
Saturday, July 25th, 2020
Paul Graham is on the case and thank goodness. As an uber-geek he reduces the current cultural moment into a clear and bracing 2×2.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Nixon Library to a new posture regarding China.
If we bend the knee now, our children’s children may be at the mercy of the Chinese Communist Party … securing our freedoms from [the CCP] is the mission of our time.
Friday, July 24th, 2020
If we stopped testing now we’d have very few cases — or any.
US President Donald J Trump
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020
In their respective theatres of the Middle East, Europe and Eurasia, the prime strategic directive for liberal bulwarks Israel, Britain and the United States is to block aspiring authoritarian hegemons.
ASK
Tuesday, July 21st, 2020
In an artificial world, only extremists live naturally.
Paul Graham, “You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss”
The essence of programming is to build new things.
Paul Graham, “You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss”
A normal job may be as bad for us intellectually as white flour or sugar is for us physically.
Paul Graham, “You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss”
All races are equal but some are more equal than others. The Associated Press will not be capitalizing the word “white” when referring to race, but will do so for “black” and “indigenous”. This was quite the decision. I wonder if they’d do similarly within the Jewish context, ie “ashkenazi” vs “Sephardic” Jew.
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Ricin Intercepted in White House Mail...
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Iran says USA faces 'maximum isolation' as world powers dismiss sanctions...
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DRUDGE APP IPHONE, IPAD...
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STATE OF 2020 RACE...
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538: Daily presidential tracking polls...
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USC DAYBREAK CHART...
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LeBron questions awards voters after finishing second for MVP: '16 out of 101!'...
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Paying With Your Face Is Hard Sell...
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Woman becomes first healthcare cyberattack death...
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STUDY: Loneliness Linked To Diabetes...
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Judge halts ban on WECHAT downloads...
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New blood, computer brains, frozen heads: How billionaires 'will live forever'...
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TIKTOK ban postponed after Trump gives 'blessing' to ORACLEWALMART deal...
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Down the 1619 Project's Memory Hole
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1776 Commission Is Proof U.S. Spiraling Toward Fascism
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Fracking Is On the Ballot in November
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The Tragedy of the West Coast Wildfires
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O'Brien and Trump Score a Year of International Triumphs
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Trump Betting Big on the Suburbs, But Is Strategy Working?
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Amy Barrett--Immediately, If Not Sooner
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McConnell Is Inventing Excuses to Grab Ginsburg's Seat
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De Blasio Failed New York City Kids
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Google Pushes Conservative News Sites Far Down Search Lists
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This Is No Time for Senate Republicans to Go Wobbly
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The Right's Tortured Logic About Replacing Ginsburg
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Will the Election Turn on Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
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Ginsburg's Death and the Dangerous Politics Ahead
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Senate Must Confirm Ginsburg Successor Before Election
Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.
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On the Use of a Life
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Make School (YC W12) Is Hiring a VP of Finance
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The Little Things: Speeding up C++ compilation
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The Social Dilemma
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Let's Encrypt's New Root and Intermediate Certificates
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Why Not Rust?
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Kraken Wins Bank Charter Approval
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Tracing the NYC Trip in “The Warriors” (2006)
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We need physical audio kill switches
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Basic Printing on OpenBSD
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FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks
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Sarcophagi buried for 2,500 years unearthed in Saqqara
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Communicating with Interactive Articles
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Tarsnap – cleaning up old backups
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Laid Off, Now What?
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The government prepares to tighten Israel’s lockdown
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US-brokered Israel-Lebanon talks on sea & land border disputes off to a good start
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Trump to appoint a woman to replace the late Justice Ginsburg
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Envelope with ricin addressed to Trump intercepted
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The US restores UN arms embargo on Iran
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US reinforcements push back against Russian drive into NE Syria
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Trump orders flags flown at half-mast in mourning for Judge Ginsburg
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, first Jewish woman, to serve on US Supreme Court, dies at 87
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Steady rise in seriously ill covid cases and patients on ventilators
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To enforce the lockdown, 7,000 police mustered and 1,000 soldiers
Prepared for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
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The United Arab Emirates Has Become a Force in the Middle East
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Proposed U.S. Sales of F-35 Jets to UAE Prompts Israeli Fears of Mideast Arms Race
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Israel's Accords with Gulf States Are Vital for Countering Iranian Expansionism in the Middle East
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U.S. Threatens to Sanction Arms Makers that Sell to Iran
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Arab Muslim Philosopher Fights Against Islamic Fundamentalism
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Iranians Charged in Cyber Theft of National Security and Nuclear Information
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What Bahrain's Deal with Israel Really Means
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Russian Fighter Jets Operating in Libya
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EU Discriminates Against Israel over Illegal Construction
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Prime Minister Netanyahu to UAE and Bahrain: Thank You for Joining Us in Bringing Hope to All the Children of Abraham
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When Tel Aviv Was Bombed - by the Italians
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Israeli Arabs See Opportunity in Accords with Bahrain and UAE
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Trump: Accords between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain Show Nations "Breaking Free from the Failed Approaches of the Past"
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Palestinians in Gaza Fire Rockets at Israel during White House Ceremony
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The Importance of the Israel, UAE, Bahrain Deals Ceremony
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Science cities seek new connections
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A guide to the Nature Index
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Nature Index’s top five science cities, by the numbers
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Beijing, the seat of science capital
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The top cities for research in the Nature Index
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New York and Boston maintain their lead
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Editorial Expression of Concern: Living annulative π-extension polymerization for graphene nanoribbon synthesis
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Author Correction: Coupling dinitrogen and hydrocarbons through aryl migration
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Microscopy illuminates charcoal’s sketchy origins
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COVID research updates: Musicians and a monk are tied to superspreading in Hong Kong
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Daily briefing: Genes map how the Vikings spread across Europe
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Daily briefing: We still don’t fully understand fire
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Who gets a COVID vaccine first? Access plans are taking shape
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How the giant stinging tree of Australia can inflict months of agony
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Receptor binding and priming of the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 for membrane fusion
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Lebanon suffers another record in COVID-19 cases
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Russian jets strike Syrian rebel-held bastion in heaviest strikes since cease-fire
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US to impose ‘snapback’ sanctions on 24 targets linked to Iranian weapons
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UAE reports 674 new COVID-19 cases, a decrease from the previous day
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Egypt discovers 14 ancient tombs at Saqqara
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Burhan heads to UAE for talks with US officials
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Turkey may resume talks with Greece, warns against EU sanctions
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‘Political paralysis’: Lebanese patriarch points at Shiite leaders for cabinet delay
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Iran dismisses US efforts at UN sanctions as currency drops
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Yemeni government calls for Iran’s arms embargo to be extended
A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.
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A Progressive Pioneer
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Heiresses on the Barricades
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Critical Race Theory in American Classrooms
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Show Us Your Systemic Racism, Princeton
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Playin’ in the Rain
Between Covid and the weather, can a musician get a gig anymore?
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A museum is auctioning off a Jackson Pollock to raise money to diversify its collection. Laudable goal, bad plan
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Was Beowulf a bro? A new, feminist version of the epic paints a fierce picture of masculine weakness
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The tempo of life reaches a frenzy, and yet we feel stuck. One balm for our internet-accelerated age: read old books
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Stanley Crouch, the jazz critic whose outsize opinions were rendered in scalding, pugilistic prose, has died. He was 74
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It’s been said that the correspondence of great artists and idealists is mostly about money. Van Gogh is no exception
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The internet is not what you think it is. For one thing, its intellectual roots go back to 19th-century conjecture on snail copulation
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When Waltham was radical. How a suburb of Boston became an unlikely fount of new currents in leftism
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Fourteen ancient tombs discovered in Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis during dig
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Biden blasts Trump’s plan to push for Supreme Court nominee ahead of election
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Bobcat fire approaches 100,000 acres, making it one of LA County’s largest blazes in history
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Yoshihide Suga affirms US-Japan alliance in first phone call with Donald Trump
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death could mean end to legal abortion in America
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‘It will be a woman’: Trump wastes no time to replace Ginsburg on US Supreme Court
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Former Canada PM John Turner, who was in office for 11 weeks, dies at 91
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Envelope addressed to White House contained deadly ricin
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US triggers ‘snapback’ process to declare Iran UN sanctions back in force, but world yawns
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Protesters in major cities target coronavirus measures as global death toll approaches 1 million
Brain candy for Happy Mutants
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This 1080p pocket-sized projector may just be your new media hub at home or on the road
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Spaceships with the same ID number argue in "Floaters"
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A firefighter is fighting conspiracy theories about forest fires on TikTok
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Hypnotic wooden kinetic sculptures
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Assange lawyers: he was offered a Presidential Pardon if he helped "resolve" the DNC hack
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Synchronized fire dancers really put on a show
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These 20 apps are on sale at Cyber Monday prices right now for an extra 40% off
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Save an additional 60% off these best-selling online training courses and bundles
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Lori Loughlin's college admissions scam prison offers yoga and ukulele lessons
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Tucker Carlson's drug addiction, Jeffrey Epstein's secret marriage, and Duchess Kate's stolen dream, in this week's dubious tabloids
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Here are 20 fun, cool, mind-expanding DIY projects that are all on sale at Cyber Monday prices
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Playing Minecraft as a fish
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UK politicians' bodyguards keep leaving their guns on planes
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Man draws "Hardest kanji"
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America fact of the day
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Sunday assorted links
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What does QAnon stand for?
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Claims about antibodies and T-cells and Sweden
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Saturday assorted links
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Our Antigens, Our Selves
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Papers that have come from Fast Grants
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What happened to the mandate, the third leg of the stool?
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*How to Make the World Add Up*
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Friday assorted links
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University of Pennsylvania update and correction
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What I’ve been reading
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The educational culture that is Dutch
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No economics Ph.D admissions for U Penn next year
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Thursday assorted links
Where the design community meets.
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Prosaic: an intentionally simple, static blogging platform
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SHOW DN: GrayGrids 2.0 on Product Hunt
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What is Bootstrap CDN?
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19 Incredible Photographers to Follow on Instagram
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3D Icons Trend 2020
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Design System Starter Kit & Wireframes builder & 120 customizable illustrations. Tetrisly + Whoooa! great bundle 25% off.
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Marker - Open source hand-drawn illustrations
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Why empathy is vital in design
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How to Design Mobile Product Pages for Greater Sales
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Free sketch welcome and onboarding email templates
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Introducing the Overflow plugin for Figma
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Landing Page 101: How to design a landing page that converts
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7 Principles Of Icon Design
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DesignerNews is billing my credit card and not displaying the job post
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The Most Important Rule in UX Design that Everyone Breaks
Rumors and news on everything Apple since 1997
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How to use the Translate app in iOS 14
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How to use Sleep Mode and tracking in iOS 14 & watchOS 7
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Testing out Apple liquid silicone Solo Loop and yarn Braided Solo Loop
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Judge blocks Executive Order banning WeChat from App Store
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Apple will use 'U1' in 'AirPods Studio' to sense how headphones are worn
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Hands on with the new features of Apple Watch Series 6
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TikTok ban delayed as Walmart, Oracle confirm deal
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President Trump gives approval 'in concept' for Oracle-TikTok deal
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How to get the most out of Apple Music's updates in iOS 14
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How to use Scribble on iPadOS 14 on your iPad
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How to use the Handwashing feature on the Apple Watch
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How to use picture-in-picture on the iPhone in iOS 14
Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.
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Announced: Brand New will Shift to Subscription Model
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Spotted: New Logo for Blue Islands
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Linked: Louis Vuitton Architecture
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Noted: New Name and Logo for St. Louis City SC
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Reviewed: Friday Likes 339: From Studio MPLS, Wade and Leta, and Unifikat Design Studio
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Spotted: New Logo and Identity for Vitkus Clinic by Tandemo
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Spotted: New Logo and Identity for Netgen by IDnaGroup
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Linked: Biden &Harris &Decimal
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Noted: New Logo and Identity for Correos de México by Carl Forsell
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Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for BERA by How & How
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Spotted: New Logo for Playtika
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Spotted: New Logo and Identity for The 19th by Page 33 Studio
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Linked: Objects may be Closer than they Ap-pear
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Noted: New Logo and Identity for Zappos Adaptive by Eric&Todd
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Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for Lot61 by Smörgåsbord
Biting the hand that feeds IT
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Tencent in talks for 'longterm solution' to WeChat mess as injunction keeps the app alive
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Oracle Zooms past rivals to run TikTok’s cloud and take stake alongside WalMart and ByteDance investors
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Wanna live on the edge and play with a multi-core system crammed with 5G, AI? Here's a dev kit Qualcomm has in mind
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 debut derailed by website glitches, bots, lack of supply
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Let's go space truckin': 1970s probe Voyager 1 is now 14 billion miles from home
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Das Keyboard 4C TKL: Plucky mechanical contender strikes happy medium between typing feel and clackety-clack joy
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Online fraud prevention biz fails to prevent CEO's alleged offline fraud
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Your anti-phishing test emails may be too easy to spot. NIST has a training tool for that
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It's IPO week and one of Wall Street's own is raising the spectre of a stock market crash
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Top 5 billionaires find that global pandemics are good for business – and their wallets
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Bad news for 'cool dads' trying to bond with their teens: China-owned TikTok and WeChat face US download ban by Sunday
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Did this airliner land in the North Sea? No. So what happened? El Reg probes flight tracker site oddity
experiments in refactored perception
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Notes: The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower
This next book has probably my favorite so far of my pandemic reads. Kenneth Brower’s The Starship and the Canoe. It’s a strange paired biography of physicist Freeman Dyson and his son, adventurer and historian George Dyson. The “starship” refers to the nuclear powered Orion rocket program that Dyson Sr. helped conceive and lead, while […] -
Wittgenstein’s Revenge
A short series by Mike Elias We treat facts like they’re “atoms of truth” — small, indivisible, solid — and if you add them up, you get “big truths.” But like atoms, facts are mostly empty space, and the closer we examine them, the less solidity we find. It may be time to graduate from […] -
Hyperreality Prevails
To picture a rhinoceros in Renaissance Portugal, consider the unicorn. Whether conflated with the oryx or the narwhal at its southernmost and northernmost coordinates, the unicorn was no less of a shapeshifter than Dionysus, who came from the East―the two sharing goatlike renditions; the axis, as Pliny described it, being “sacred to Bacchus.” The unicorn […]
