john spurlock 2016

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2017: year of the roosterpourmecoffee on Twitter:"America is back, feared and respected."Golden Trump rooster statues become icons around China""twitter.com

"When you finally got read in, you signed an NDA that let you see the NDA that had the code name on it."Engineer who wrote 6% of OS X kernel shares a few snippets about iPhone secrecy | 9to5Mac9to5mac.com

"The Black Book presents nuclear retaliatory options as cartoon-like illustrations that can be quickly understood."World War Three, by Mistake - The New Yorkernewyorker.com

"alexa, do the dishes"

"Its current annual output capacity is less than 10 units"Apple's Search for Better iPhone Screens Leads to Japan's Rice Fields - Bloombergbloomberg.com

"post-cloud"

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell"Why time management is ruining our lives | Oliver Burkeman | Technology | The Guardiantheguardian.com

Today I Learned: Smishing

(Phishing via SMS)

"These goals are ambitious, they will not be easy to achieve and they will cost money. But we have no choice"CRTC declares high-speed Internet a basic service, creates $750-million fundfinancialpost.com

Every second of your life will safely fit inside a unique 8-hex-digit number

"Computerized scanning of comms shouldn't be considered a search requiring a warrant for Fourth Amendment purposes"Yahoo email scan shows U.S. spy push to recast constitutional privacy | Reutersreuters.com

"I like building small, focused modules which get released frequently, often multiple times per day..." ⌘ ←Nice and easy module releases – JavaScript Studio – Mediummedium.com

"They build square airplanes to avoid learning aerodynamics, then add ten extra engines to make up for it"Electron considered harmful - Drew DeVault’s Blogdrewdevault.com

🏝TrumpLand and Clinton Archipelago - Vivid Mapsvividmaps.com

Next up: Amazon deploys #machinelearning to remove final barrier to 💯 cloud adoption: skeptical internal managementNew – AWS Application Discovery Service Console | AWS Blogaws.amazon.com

"calling in rich"

"no shipping to: Afghanistan, North Korea, Iran, Russia, Sudan, Syria"

"urban trail mix"

"Zuckerberg also built a bot to communicate via text, and found it preferable to communicating with it via voice"Zuckerberg’s Jarvis home AI is like an Alexa that learns your musical tastes | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com

"He also smashed framed photographs hanging on the art gallery's walls."

"cyber-security detectives"

WHHHEE AWWWWWWWWWWWWAdam Powell on Twitter:"RT if you still remember the difference between a handshake that was going to get 56k vs downgrade to 28.8 or lower"twitter.com

Today I learned: "word sex"KUER's RadioWest on Twitter:"Language is something that is happening rather than something that is. Linguist @JohnHMcWhorter 7p. Tune in at 90.1!"twitter.com

Will information-negative language like "important changes" & "invaluable feedback!" ever be more widely ridiculed?Google Contributor as we know it is being unceremoniously shut down | Android Centralandroidcentral.com

"An attack on StackOverflow would be worse. Should probably be protected as area of national strategic importance."GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 | Hacker Newsnews.ycombinator.com

"The convenience of the smartwatch is outdone by its inconveniences."Smartwatches Are Dying Because They Are Worthlessgizmodo.com

"He had meant to type that it was an “illegitimate” email, an error that he said has plagued him ever since."The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S. - The New York Timesnytimes.com

Today I learned: "Beat-Sweetener"Peter Kafka on Twitter:"Talked Trump (of course) w/@Sulliview, plus life at @nytimes and @washingtonpost"twitter.com

"npr install"

"Facebook spends more on beer and ping-pong tables than on people vetting the quality of material shown to users."2016: the year Facebook became the bad guy | Technology | The Guardiantheguardian.com