Saturday Links, Late August
Links: everything is terrible, no commentary edition.
- Wikipedia: Imminent lawless action
- New York Times: A Pardon for Arpaio Would Put Trump in Uncharted Territory - Narrator: and here we are.
- NPR: A Reformed White Nationalist Speaks Out On Charlottesville
- Reuters: U.S. state election officials still in the dark on Russian hacking
- 4 Thoughts About Trump’s Phoenix Speech And The Media
- The Baffler: The President of Blank Sucking Nullity
- ProPublica: Despite Disavowals, Leading Tech Companies Help Extremist Sites Monetize Hate
- Wired: The Alt-Right Can't Disown Charlottesville
- Globe and Mail: There aren’t ‘many sides.’ There is only one right side, and Trump is not on it
- The Verge: Medium will now pay writers based on how many claps they get
- Track Changes: Decentralize It! - I clapped several times for this.
- Did This Book Buy Its Way Onto The New York Times Bestseller List?
- A Designer Life: Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 App Analogy
- MIT Technology Review: Eliminating the Human
- Wired: The Great Tech Panic: The Internet Is the Uncanniest Valley
- Data & Society: Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online
- EPJ Data Science: Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression
- Google will offer help when searching for 'clinical depression'
- Longreads: Here at the End of All Things
- The Believer: Destroy All Monsters
- Ready.gov: Nuclear Blast
- Racked: How Washing Your Hair Could Help You Survive a Nuclear Blast
- Business Insider: Nuclear fallout safety: Getting in a car is the worst thing you can do