Gov. Charlie Baker decks yacht clubs' rent breaks buried in state budget | Boston Herald
7.28.2018
Oops, busted
In my pantry…
…I have WD-40, liquid nails, a bag of screwdrivers, an emergency bag of potato chips, and a 1940s-era Boy Scout knife.
Be prepared.
7.27.2018
This is a marvelously self-correcting system
Humans have ruined almost all of Earth's oceans
Too many of these "human" people running around, dropping their plastic drinking straws in the ocean, and the planet will just kill a bunch of them off.
There. Fixed.
Don't believe me? http://own.li/BT9j
7.26.2018
Maybe it's not a bug, maybe it's a feature
Amazon's Facial Recognition Tech Falsely Matched 28 Members Of Congress With Arrest Mugshots
Fortunately we still have food stamps
Mark Zuckerberg Lost $15.1 Billion in 5 Minutes | Time
And we're just now finding this out?
Dozens heard Amelia Earhart radio for help after crashing into Pacific: report | Fox News
They want to suck your blood
No, wait. Saliva? Ewww.
Drug giant Glaxo teams up with DNA testing company 23andMe
It's the biggest partnership yet aimed at leveraging the increasingly popular home genetic testing market, in which customers pay for mail-in saliva tests that are analyzed by various companies. 23andMe dominates the market.
And it's raining again, too
How Facebook's $151 Billion Rout Could Rewrite the History Books - Bloomberg
Facebook Inc. has racked up plenty of milestones in its pioneering journey. Now the social-media giant is poised to add one it would doubtless rather avoid: the biggest stock-market wipeout in American history
7.25.2018
Sharks! Yikes!
You can track sharks along the east coast with this interactive fishing watch map.
Global Fishing Watch | Sustainability through Transparency
7.24.2018
Ooops
The internet isn't why Trump won, Stanford and Brown study finds.
For all the hand-wringing about fake news, Russian trolls, Infowars, and Cambridge Analytica, the internet may not have helped elect Donald Trump after all. That, at least, is the strong suggestion of a new study from economists at Stanford and Brown universities.
You, darlin, are the human attack surface (cool, huh?)
Phishing in the Deep End: The Growing Threat of Attacks Beyond Email - Infosecurity Magazine
Cyber-criminals are turning more and more to such methods which exploit the human attack surface…
So what are these guys doing with security clearances anyway?
Trump Weighs Stripping Security Clearances From Officials Who Criticized Him
Former high-ranking officials in defense, intelligence, diplomacy and law enforcement usually maintain their clearances to advise those still in government, former officials said. A clearance also serves a more personally profitable function: helping departing officials get jobs at security contractors or similar firms.
Ah. Right.
Italics mine. The rest of it:
{Warning: Paywall.}
Security clearances have always been about need to know. Getting a high-paying job as a lobbyist is not need to know.
But don't call them squarer circles
Android apps are heading to a whiter future with rounder rectangles
- The Verge
Pays to have an oar in
Gold buried in budget for yacht clubs | Boston Herald
Yacht clubs on public land along the Charles and Mystic rivers and Boston Harbor could see their state rent payments slashed by nearly 40 percent thanks to a few lines buried in the state budget that would, in all, save the boat clubs $115,000 a year.
Even then, V was in a twist
Copy of Ben Franklin's newspaper with 'Join or Die' political cartoon up for auction - Philly
While the cartoon would later become associated with the Revolutionary War, its original intent was to rally the British colonies to join together against the French and their American Indian allies during the Seven Years' War between Britain and France.
7.23.2018
Me, I think he's just worn out all the lower-case letters on his phone
'NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN,' Trump tweets in warning to Iran's Rouhani - The Washington Post
Plus, who else do we have to worry about any more? He's already fixed Syria, North Korea, Russia…what other foes do we have left besides Iran and, of course, that something something EU?
There are now so many I-words…
…I can't keep the T-word of them.
7.22.2018
(Much) more about pigs
From the Washington Post:
A sad day in Hamtown: Smithfield Foods closes the only smokehouse making genuine Smithfield ham
A sad day in Hamtown: Smithfield Foods closes the only smokehouse making genuine Smithfield ham
SMITHFIELD, Va. — The local charity run is the Hog Jog. The mascot for the wine festival is Pig-o-noir. October brings the Bacon & Bourbon Fest. The town museum promises the “World’s Oldest Ham.” The rescue truck at the volunteer fire department is named “Hamtown Heavy.”…PLUS, as an extra added bonus today only (or whenever)…
A look at the World's Oldest Ham via the Ham Cam.
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