- Can DNA be used to hack a computer? Proof of concept now exists. (H/T MJR)
- Brad R. over at Wendy’s place on ways to de-Google your online life.
- As you watch the Perseids this month, remember with good cheer: they may eventually kill us all. But not any time soon.
- The New Yorker notices the uncomfortable (and unsurprising) truth about affirmative action and Asian-hyphen-Americans. UPDATE: And Scott Greenfield answers.
- Jim Bovard says, “Hey, guess what. Trump has a good foreign policy idea.”
- Roomba, Bose headphones, Alexa … something must be done about all the domestic spying. (Tip o’ hat to FH)
- Good cop diplomacy.
- “What we are seeing, and what we haven’t seen for four centuries, is not religion as accommodation, but religion as resistance. It’s not religion making its peace with the world, but religion opposing the world, challenging the world or simply withdrawing from the world.” And this brings harrowing choices.
- Outraged veteran is outraged over snowflake students being outraged over everything. 🙂
- How to make a Caesar salad. 🙂
I’s like a good Caesar salad!
Seems to me–and has, since its beginning–that Affirmative Action is a way of insulting a group by telling them that they can’t make it on their own.
Snowflakes? My question remains: What will they do when they can no longer hide from reality while in school? There are no safe zones in the Great Out There.
I guess they’ll have to get jobs at Google.
Comet Swift-Tuttle won’t hit Earth for at least 2,400 as long as nothing out there beyond Pluto nudges it unexpectedly. It probably won’t happen, but it isn’t as much a sure thing as might be believed.
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That cop who rescued the girl did a good thing. Good job!
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It’s not just people who have to make decisions about choosing between religion and society, but religions have a similar choice: between supporting The State and choosing their principles.
Claire, thanks for the link to my blog post. FYI, I’ve posted a slightly-updated list, with a few more links, at my own site: http://www.goodbyemicrosoft.net/news.php?item.813.4 I hope to enlarge that from time to time.