Being a Victorian Librarian Was Oh-So-Dangerous | JSTOR Daily
8.11.2018
Librarians are heroes, as we've always said
8.09.2018
Football
The Patriots play the Slur tonight in what is apparently the first game of the pre-season season, in Foxborough, MA. I usually don't watch the Pats as a matter of principle but since it's only a pre-season game and since the drought has been long I might make an exception just this once.
Actually, although tonight's game is the first pre-season game it's not exactly the first game—the Chicago Bears played one of those bird teams in the Hall of Fame game a week or so ago. I don't watch the Bears as a matter of boredom so I only watched a few minutes of that game, on a replay. And it was.
I wouldn't mind changing my opinion of the Bears, though.
Actually, although tonight's game is the first pre-season game it's not exactly the first game—the Chicago Bears played one of those bird teams in the Hall of Fame game a week or so ago. I don't watch the Bears as a matter of boredom so I only watched a few minutes of that game, on a replay. And it was.
I wouldn't mind changing my opinion of the Bears, though.
No wonder they're so scary
What Happens When China Exports Its Surveillance Technology to the Rest of the World?
Slate
If American cities and states are laboratories of democracy, China's remote provinces have become laboratories of authoritarianism.
China is even using facial recognition to prevent the overuse of toilet paper in some public bathrooms.
(Shared from Apple News)
(Also, it might be time to start re-thinking your attitudes about privacy. You might have more to hide than you think.)
8.08.2018
Romans: What we need to finally get that expressway fixed
How 2,000-year-old roads predict modern-day prosperity - The Washington Post
Roman roadways were massive infrastructure projects even by modern standards. They consisted of several base layers, including stone, gravel and sand, over which large stone slabs were laid. At the empire's peak in 117 A.D., scholars estimate, the Romans had built more than 80,000 kilometers of roadway across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Many of them have lasted well into the present day.
(Emphasis mine.)
Smile
"Washington, D.C., now has more than forty-eight hundred government surveillance cameras, and Chicago has seven hundred. In 2006 a report indicated that 25 percent of U.S. cities were investing in surveillance camera systems, and since then the number has continued to increase."
–From the book, Nothing to Hide: False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security, by Daniel J. Solove, published in 2011.
Corrupt? Heavens!
Top Trump Campaign Aides Are Portrayed as Corrupt at Manafort Trial - The New York Times
8.06.2018
Family values
Osama bin Laden's son marries 9/11 hijacker's daughter
Hide the silverware
Tech Firms, Embattled Over Privacy, Warm to Federal Regulation
The Wall Street Journal
U.S. tech companies are hoping to get ahead of the public and legal fallout by working with policy makers to help shape potential new federal privacy legislation. Read the full story
Shared from Apple News
The last thing you want is Facebook and Google writing your laws.
What people do
Fishy Fish Pills
Paul Greenberg’s newest book explains why omega-3 supplements may be useless for you and terrible for the environment.–Slate
Or…
–Wikipedia
Building bigger and better fires in California
The reason that California wildfires are worse than ever
The Mercury News
"People think, 'I am in suburbia, and my house won't burn.' "
These guys should have stuck to stagecoaches
Wells Fargo says mistake led to hundreds of foreclosures
The error in the bank's underwriting tool lasted from 2010 until it was fixed in late 2015, an internal review found.
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