Flutterby™! From 2018-05-01 to 2018-05-31

Why it's important that encryption be the default on every communication: Iran's judiciary bans use of Telegram messaging app: state TV

[ related topics: Technology and Culture Television Cryptography ]

RT Gordon Padelford @GordonOfSeattle

Something to keep in mind: All walking and biking infrastructure is car infrastructure. Its sole purpose is to give people driving a way not to kill/injure people walking and biking. A street without cars doesn't need sidewalks, crosswalks, or bike lanes. (Idea from @merlinrain)

(Has a picture attached to the tweet, too...)

[ related topics: Automobiles Bicycling ]

Facebook's gonna start a dating app? And it's opt-in? How's that gonna impact my friend request list? https://arstechnica.com/inform...rberg-announces-facebook-dating/

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I think it used to be that John Smith was the most likely English name, but based on my Caller ID on my cell phone, Scam Likely has overtaken that...

[ related topics: Wireless moron ]

This looks interesting: Zora Neale Hurston's Barracon to be published.

Barracoon is testament to her patient fieldwork. The book is based on three months of periodic interviews with a man named Cudjo Lewis — or Kossula, his original name — the last survivor of the last slave ship to land on American shores. Plying him with peaches and Virginia hams, watermelon and Bee Brand insect powder, Hurston drew out his story. Kossula had been captured at age 19 in an area now known as the country Benin by warriors from the neighboring Dahomian tribe, then marched to a stockade, or barracoon, on the West African coast. There, he and some 120 others were purchased and herded onto the Clotilda, captained by William Foster and commissioned by three Alabama brothers to make the 1860 voyage.

[ related topics: Books Sociology Machinery Birds Race Real Estate ]

I was thinking Prime was getting too expensive and we should drop it, but my phone just notified me that my package is 6 stops away and I could view its progress on a map.

[ related topics: Maps and Mapping ]

The majority of yesterday's voice lesson was working on four notes (Re(+1) Ti La So). The human throat is weird. Or at least mine is.

(Song was "Just a Gigolo", in B♭ the two bits were "...part I'm playing" and "oooh, what they're saying", in the first case I'm moving the sound to the back of my throat in the "I'm", makng the "playing" squeezed, in the second case for some reason I was going "Re(+1) La La So", which still works, but isn't as musically interesting)

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment ]

It's a wonder modern society works at all

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It's called a play. Shouldn't it be fun?

David Goodall: Scientist, 104, begins trip to end his life:

Dr Goodall says he will travel to a clinic in Switzerland to voluntarily end his life. However, he says he resents having to leave Australia to do so.

[ related topics: Current Events Monty Python Travel ]

The Surprisingly Solid Mathematical Case of the Tin Foil Hat Gun Prepper:

Stepping through this, the average year for colony establishment is 1678, which is 340 years ago. Two qualifying events in 340 years is a 0.5882% annual chance of nationwide violent revolution against the ruling government. Do the same math as we did above with the floodplains, in precisely the same way, and we see a 37% chance that any American of average life expectancy will experience at least one nationwide violent revolution.

This is a bigger chance than your floodplain-bound home flooding during your mortgage.

[ related topics: moron Law Mathematics Guns ]

Reminder that May is National Masturbation Month, American Stroke Month, and Mental Health Awareness Month.

[ related topics: Sexual Culture Health ]

Huh. It's almost like broad pronouncements about sexuality reflect the culture of those making the judgments rather than accurately reflecting observed behavior or something... 'Unheard of' polygamous owl family consists of two moms, one dad and pair of owlets

As a species known to “mate for life,” birds have really been blowing up their monogamous reputation as of late.

[ related topics: Sexual Culture Sociology Current Events California Culture Birds ]

Santa Cruz Police Chief Warns About ‘Bad Batch’ Of LSD:

SANTA CRUZ (AP) — Authorities in Santa Cruz are warning residents about a bad LSD batch after officers came across four naked people running around screaming about seeing rainbows at night and flying unicorns.

[ related topics: Drugs Aviation Nudity Law Enforcement Sports ]

Hysteria over Jade Helm exercise in Texas was fueled by Russians, former CIA director says:

Gov. Greg Abbott's decision in 2015 to ask the Texas State Guard to monitor a federal military exercise prompted significant criticism. A former CIA director said Wednesday that the move emboldened Russians to next target elections.

Jane Kim, candidate for mayor of San Francisco, candidly fields some questions from the SF Chronicle that were apparently written by one of her opponents' campaign management.

It’s oppo dump time.

If you aren’t familiar with the term, it’s what happens when a rival campaign collects opposition research and dumps it into the hands of a journalist eager to make a saucy headline.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Bay Area Journalism and Media California Culture Fashion ]

How your workplace is killing you

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Bay Area Journalism and Media California Culture Fashion ]

Actors were paid to support Entergy’s power plant at New Orleans City Council meetings

[ related topics: Invention and Design Hurricane Katrina ]

Density is "the degree of compactness of a substance." Why do people talk about energy per weight and call it energy density? Gimme energy per volume, dang it!

Charlene and Kim have been busy today.

[ related topics: Photography ]

Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, José Lobo, Dirk Helbing, Christian Kühnert, and Geoffrey B. West (PDF)

Humanity has just crossed a major landmark in its history with the majority of people now living in cities. Cities have long been known to be society’s predominant engine of innovation and wealth creation, yet they are also its main source of crime, pollution, and disease. The inexorable trend toward urbanization worldwide presents an urgent challenge for developing a predictive, quantitative theory of urban organization and sustainable development. Here we present empirical evidence indicating that the processes relating urbanization to economic development and knowledge creation are very general, being shared by all cities belonging to the same urban system and sustained across different nations and times. Many diverse properties of cities from patent production and personal income to electrical cable length are shown to be power law functions of population size with scaling exponents, , that fall into distinct universality classes. Quantities reflecting wealth creation and innovation have 1.2 >1 (increasing returns), whereas those accounting for infrastructure display 0.8 <1 (economies of scale). We predict that the pace of social life in the city increases with population size, in quantitative agreement with data, and we discuss how cities are similar to, and differ from, biological organisms, for which <1. Finally, we explore possible consequences of these scaling relations by deriving growth equations, which quantify the dramatic difference between growth fueled by innovation versus that driven by economies of scale. This difference suggests that, as population grows, major innovation cycles must be generated at a continually accelerating rate to sustain growth and avoid stagnation or collapse.

Via this @michael_nielsen Twitter thread.

[ related topics: Religion Intellectual Property User Interface Theater & Plays Work, productivity and environment Machinery Economics ]

The evolutionary significance and social perception of male pattern baldness and facial hair Frank Muscarella, Michael R.Cunningham.

Abstract Both male facial hair and male pattern baldness are genetically based, suggesting that they contributed to fitness. The multiple fitness model provides an evolutionary interpretation of the social perception of male pattern baldness and beardedness in terms of the multidimensional meaning of physical maturational stages. Male facial beardedness is associated with the sexual maturation stage and is hypothesized to signal aggressive dominance. Male pattern baldness, by contrast, is associated with the next stage of physical maturation, termed senescence. Pattern baldness may signal social maturity, a non-threatening form of dominance associated with wisdom and nurturance. We tested these hypotheses on social perceptions using manipulated male facial stimuli. We presented faces with three levels of cranial hair, including full, receding, and bald, and two levels of facial hair, beard with moustache and clean shaven. Consistent with the model, a decrease in the amount of cranial hair was associated with increased perceptions of social maturity, appeasement, and age, and decreased perceptions of attractiveness and aggressiveness. Targets with facial hair were perceived as more aggressive, less appeasing, less attractive, older, and lower on social maturity than clean shaven faces.

https://doi.org/10.1016/0162-3095(95)00130-1

[ related topics: Ziffle Erotic Sexual Culture Sociology ]

Okay, another big abstract dump. Offshoring Bias in U.S. Manufacturing Susan Houseman, Christopher Kurz, Paul Lengermann, Benjamin Mandel, Journal of Economic Perspectives Vol 25, no 2, Spring 2011 (pp. 111-32):

In this paper, we show that the substitution of imported for domestically produced goods and services—often known as offshoring—can lead to overestimates of U.S. productivity growth and value added. We explore how the measurement of productivity and value added in manufacturing has been affected by the dramatic rise in imports of manufactured goods, which more than doubled from 1997 to 2007. We argue that, analogous to the widely discussed problem of outlet substitution bias in the literature on the Consumer Price Index, the price declines associated with the shift to low-cost foreign suppliers are generally not captured in existing price indexes. Just as the CPI fails to capture fully the lower prices for consumers due to the entry and expansion of big-box retailers like Wal-Mart, import price indexes and the intermediate input price indexes based on them do not capture the price drops associated with a shift to new low-cost suppliers in China and other developing countries. As a result, the real growth of imported inputs has been understated. And if input growth is understated, it follows that the growth in multifactor productivity and real value added in the manufacturing sector have been overstated. We estimate that average annual multifactor productivity growth in manufacturing was overstated by 0.1 to 0.2 percentage point and real value added growth by 0.2 to 0.5 percentage point from 1997 to 2007. Moreover, this bias may have accounted for a fifth to a half of the growth in real value added in manufacturing output excluding the computer and electronics industry.

Via Quartz: The epic mistake about manufacturing that’s cost Americans millions of jobs.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama tolkien Invention and Design Consumerism and advertising Work, productivity and environment Economics ]

I don't wanna jinx anything, but that was the second week in a row where the one square Vallejo Pioneers had two squares of dancers!

Four Women Accuse New York’s Attorney General of Physical Abuse:

Eric Schneiderman has raised his profile as a voice against sexual misconduct. Now, after suing Harvey Weinstein, he faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own.

And three hours after publication of this article, Schneiderman has resigned.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Invention and Design Law Current Events New York ]

It's "telephone calls from real estate agents asking if we want to sell" season. I love the chance to tell them "I hope to die in this house" and see how morbidly they take that...

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Phreaking Real Estate ]

FOSS4G next week. Who do I know who's going?

Computer just told me the printer had a "Media Jam", and I didn't think it was that hip to the news business.

[ related topics: Current Events Consumerism and advertising Journalism and Media ]

Background Briefing on President Trump's Decision To Withdraw From the JCPOA (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is the Iran nuclear deal)

Addendum: Holy fuck, the administration is getting played by North Korea... Oops! Mike Pompeo refers to North Korean leader Kim as 'Chairman Un'

Homeland Security claims DJI drones are spying for China

Drone deal: Microsoft partners with DJI to develop new aerial Internet of Things technologies

Your cyberpunk libertarian future where nation states are obsolete and replaced by multinational corporate conglomerates is here.

[ related topics: Politics Humor Libertarian Microsoft Invention and Design moron Net Culture ]

Chicago Sun Times: Cicero cop shooting tied to gun Chicago P.D. should have destroyed.

How did a gun Chicago cops were supposed to have kept in a locked custody room and then destroyed end up all of those years later at the scene of a police shooting in Cicero, on a patch of pavement next to the body of a 22-year-old Latin Counts gang member named Cesar A. Munive?

[ related topics: Current Events Law Enforcement Guns Java ]

This is hilarious: Cyber Gold: Understand Cryptocurrency With ClickHole’s Guide To Bitcoin.

[ related topics: Douglas Adams ]

Qt WTF of the moment: I'm setting all rows in a QTableWidget to hidden, but something is setting all rows above 1000 back to visible. Bizarre.

I'm looking forward to electric buses if only because they can maybe program out some of the hysteresis in the drive train that beats the crap out of passengers.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Software Engineering Machinery Trains Public Transportation ]

A short Twitter thread RT Noah Smith @Noahpinion:

1/OK, just for fun, let's evaluate the demands of The Communist Manifesto in terms of modern economic theory:

[ related topics: Economics ]

Pedestrian deaths up 46 percent since 2009, mostly due to bad design of roads and vehicles. Some interesting points: Higher horsepower to weight ratios are associated with speeding, the switch to SUVs and pickup trucks has put more vehicles with a blunter front end on the road, and, of course, issues with the road design trends towards longer sight lines and wider lanes.

Addendum: Washington Post: Pedestrian deaths soar 46 percent, insurance group finds:

The pedestrian deaths occurred mostly when it was dark and mostly on roads designed to funnel urban or suburban traffic onto freeways, the institute says. The crashes generally occur where there are no intersections or poorly designed crosswalks that tempt pedestrians to dash across multiple lanes of swiftly moving vehicles. The crashes often involved SUVs or vehicles with a lot of horsepower, which suggests that many of the crashes also involved excess speed.

“This analysis tells us that improvements in road design, vehicle design and lighting and speed limit enforcement all have a role to play in addressing the issue,” IIHS President David Harkey said in a statement.

"improvements".

[ related topics: Graphic Design Machinery ]

Researchers say a breathalyzer has flaws, casting doubt on countless convictions

She may be obnoxious and wake me up in the middle of the night and abuse the other cat, but... Wait, where was I going with this?

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I'm telling ya, cannabis Doritos. We'll make a billion.

In "I can't believe this needs to be legislated" news: Kansas governor signs bill banning police officers from having sex during traffic stops:

Sexual relations are now outlawed for police “during the course of a traffic stop, a custodial interrogation, an interview in connection with an investigation, or while the law enforcement officer has such person detained,” The Kansas City Star reported Thursday.

Of course New York closed a similar loophole last month. Gulp.

[ related topics: Politics Erotic Sexual Culture Movies Invention and Design moron Space & Astronomy Current Events Law Enforcement New York Aviation - Helicopters ]

USA Today: We read every one of the 3,517 Facebook ads bought by Russians. Here's what we found

[ related topics: Current Events ]

New York Times: Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too. On a company called Securus Technologies that uses and marketing data to track any cell phone, and former Missouri Sheriff Cory Hutcheson who used the service to spy on a judge.

ZD Net: Senator wants to know how police can locate any phone in seconds without a warrant

[ related topics: Wireless Privacy Invention and Design Law Consumerism and advertising Law Enforcement Marketing New York ]

Gate agent just announced that my flight was boarding at 4:20. Unfortunately that means something very different in Texas than it does in Northern California...

[ related topics: Aviation California Culture ]

In St Louis for the FOSS4G conference. The hotel is in a food desert, just touristy stuff. Ugh.

[ related topics: Photography Food Travel Conferences ]

Not the worst view from a hotel room...

[ related topics: Travel ]

Blocky Tai Chi

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I wanna climb that bear like a badger up a telephone pole, but booboo...

[ related topics: Photography Phreaking ]

Aloe Plaza fountain is undergoing maintenance

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More from Aloe Plaza...

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Even more from Aloe Plaza...

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Even more from Aloe Plaza...

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Schneie r runs down the risks of that PGP (email plugin + automatic HTML rendering) issue that's scaring everyone.

EFF announcement, which is a little alarmist.

Short take: Don't read HTML email, especially if your reader automatically loads links.

[ related topics: Weblogs Graphics Cryptography Archival ]

Pinocchio

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The last Toynbee tile in St Louis

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Courthouse and arch at night

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Current talk: SensorUp Smart Calgary air quality sensor information.

Look, guys, I realize it's been 20 years, but doing the "It's Something About Mary" hair gel forelock thing just reduces us olds to helpless giggles. #kidsthesedays

Presentation at tonight's closing party was on the St Louis Map Room. Seems like the basic setup is to lay out a big piece of canvas, project a base layer on the canvas (this can vary: roads are obvious, but schools, parks, hydrology, depending on the audience), give people a prompt and a key with a pack of colored markers, and let them go...

Tonight's prompt was "the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) geographic community", the key had 3 colors, past, present and future. The basemap was a rough outline of North America. It was fun.

Other possible keys and prompts that were described were, for school kids, "places that make you scared, or happy". Family. Tired.

Apparently in the original there was then the option to let people create their maps, and then overlay other data on it and see what sort of aha moments resulted.

But I totally want to bring this back to my community. I'm thinking with bring something like this to Rivertown Revival or some other large community gathering. Maybe two, a North America or world map with prompts about how people relate Petaluma to the world (where have you been, where did your family come from), and one of Sonoma County with prompts about fun or exciting or what-have-you.

Needs a little brainstorming, but I think this could be an amazing project.

• Jer Thorp — In the Map Room
• St Louis Public Radio: Redrawing boundaries — real and imagined — with digital artist Jer Thorp at the St. Louis Map Room

Also, a picture from tonight's event, in-progress. So much interesting about how this map progressed: That identification was airport codes. Some houses, birth places, many gatherings. Some geographic features. Some interesting quibbling about locations and projections. Eventually some non-US-anians started drawing the Mexico wall in purple for "future"...

https://www.flutterby.net/Image:2018-05-17MapRoom.jpg

Even more at https://twitter.com/stlmaproom

[ related topics: Free Software Children and growing up Software Engineering History Sociology Current Events Art & Culture Community Maps and Mapping ]

Paul Ramsey — FOSS4G NA 2018 SQL Festival, cool things to do with Postgres, PostGIS and mapping data.

[ related topics: Open Source Maps and Mapping Databases ]

Using OpenShift to move your geoweb development to containers

SensorUp - Citizen sensing. Distributed air quality particulate pollution sensing for cheap.

Smart Calgary

Keras: The Python Deep Learning library

Keras is a high-level neural networks API, written in Python and capable of running on top of TensorFlow, CNTK, or Theano. It was developed with a focus on enabling fast experimentation. Being able to go from idea to result with the least possible delay is key to doing good research.

[ related topics: Language Humor Books Microsoft moron Monty Python Sports Education Artificial Intelligence Python ]

Kaggle Datasets

Kind of amazing how a $80/night hotel offers an included breakfast (with fresh waffles) and working WiFi, and a $180/night hotel has a Starbucks in the lobby and charges an extra $10/night for crappy WiFi.

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment Travel ]

It's like they're trying to make vaping more attractive to risk takers: Vape pen explosion pierces Florida man's cranium killing him

[ related topics: Sociology Current Events Monty Python ]

Flight delay meant I spent the night in SFO, and became even more aware of how US airports are full of anti-patterns, designed to be just barely tolerable for for very short times.

[ related topics: Aviation ]

Twitter thread on why "end demand" or "the Nordic model" hurts sex workers

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Magnets colliding in slow motion (YouTube). And a million special effects animators just creamed themselves as they found reference video for the next generation of small robots swarming something movie sequences.

Via MeFi.

[ related topics: Movies Robotics Video ]

So there was this Washington Post article making the rounds a few days ago, and I'm linking it here because I know I'm gonna want to find it at some point: 2018 has been deadlier for schoolchildren than service members.

Which is true, and, of course, there's some data normalization that's not happening in that, but if we're gonna compare apples to kumquats: Both are more likely to be shot than police officers.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Politics Current Events Law Enforcement ]

I really need to get my workflow down for multiple users in the same X session. Even if it's just being smarter about segmenting my work user from my personal user so CLI tools like aws which store global config work better.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Work, productivity and environment ]

Want to figure out the rules of sexual consent? Ask sex workers.

Related: Reflections on Real Name Policies

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Current Events Gambling ]

Older article, but it just came across a The Spatial Community Slack channel: Why Map Portals Don't Work: Part I

A little musing on why command-line interfaces (in the form of search boxes) are a necessity; slippy maps don't do everything.

That's related to Few Interact With Our Interactive Maps–What Can We Do About It? from last year, talking about ways other than slippy maps to present data.

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment Community Maps and Mapping ]

You can’t just put homeless people in tiny houses. A quick look at the "tiny house" movement and the push to permit "accessory dwelling units" (ADUs) in places with serious housing crunches.

I'm watching this space with interest, many advocates for "tiny homes" are just trying to sell trailer parks to a new demographic, but the notion of creating infill and density by allowing additional units in back yards is an intriguing one.

[ related topics: Invention and Design Space & Astronomy Marketing Real Estate ]

Feature request: Offices and coworking spaces should have Tempest shielded rooms, so that when Bluetooth pairing you can figure out which mouse is yours.

[ related topics: Wireless ]

FBI repeatedly overstated encryption threat figures to Congress, public:

The FBI has repeatedly provided grossly inflated statistics to Congress and the public about the extent of problems posed by encrypted cellphones, claiming investigators were locked out of nearly 7,800 devices connected to crimes last year when the correct number was much smaller, probably between 1,000 and 2,000, The Washington Post has learned.

There really are no good guys.

[ related topics: Politics Law Enforcement Mathematics Cryptography ]

4 things that led to the myth that organic farmers use more pesticides than conventional farmers

The Weather Channel has stopped publishing videos to Facebook:

“We went along for the ride every single step of the way,” Katz said. “But we noticed, over the course of two years, that we were being paid in all types of currencies — followers, shares, views — that did not feel like money.”

[ related topics: Journalism and Media Currency Video ]

Matthew Hankins tweets "Gammon People", a Boris Johnson version of "Common People".

Saved for later watching: The Porn Star Feminist: What I Wish I'd Known About Porn

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Movies Space & Astronomy Aviation - Helicopters ]

An Oral History of Action Park. I never did get to ride the loop water slide...

Whiteboard Picture Cleaner - Shell one-liner/script to clean up and beautify photos of whiteboards!. Uses ImageMagick:

#!/bin/bash

convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG - level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

[ related topics: Photography Dogs ]

Argh. I apparently can't get pfSense doing IPv6 with my Pace 5268AC. Which I guess means I'm gonna have to drop the firewall and use the crappy Pace device which doesn't have a true passthrough mode directly. Ugh.

Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared user’s private audio. In which the Alexa device apparently thought it heard "send message", and did so.

1. It happened at all.
2. What, exactly, is in those logs: "Our engineers went through all of your logs. They saw exactly what you told us, exactly what you said happened, and we're sorry"

[ related topics: Books Music Woodworking ]

Rosie the Riveter’s Journey from Propaganda to Feminist Icon

I was reading an article on the history and context of Rosie the Riveter, and suddenly realized that this poster is more pertinent than ever in the current political climate...

[ related topics: Politics Photography moron Global Warming ]

I'm not generally much on the "trafficking" label, it's often used for bullshit reasons, but I'll allow it here: HHS Official Says Agency Lost Track of Nearly 1,500 Unaccompanied Minors

In 2014, at least 10 trafficking victims, including eight minors, were discovered during a raid by federal and local law enforcement in Portman’s home state of Ohio. As FRONTLINE examined in the recent documentary Trafficked in America, HHS had released several minors to the traffickers. The committee said the case was due to policies and procedures that were “inadequate to protect the children in the agency’s care.”

[ related topics: Children and growing up Law Law Enforcement ]

US CERT Alert (TA18-145A) Cyber Actors Target Home and Office Routers and Networked Devices Worldwide

Cybersecurity researchers have identified that foreign cyber actors have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and other networked devices worldwide [1] [2]. The actors used VPNFilter malware to target small office/home office (SOHO) routers. VPNFilter malware uses modular functionality to collect intelligence, exploit local area network (LAN) devices, and block actor-configurable network traffic. Specific characteristics of VPNFilter have only been observed in the BlackEnergy malware, specifically BlackEnergy versions 2 and 3.

Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group Blog: New VPNFilter malware targets at least 500K networking devices worldwide

[ related topics: Weblogs Movies broadband Invention and Design Law Enforcement ]

This dude was eating the nectars by the Hidalgo pump house.

[ related topics: Photography Real Estate ]

More of the hummingbird by the Hidalgo pump house

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At the National Butterfly Center

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More from the National Butterfly Center

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I think these are Queen butterflies

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More Queen butterflies

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Yet still even another Butterfly from the National Butterfly Center

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One last butterfly

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Visiting a lot of campaign sites to make voting decisions tonight. Autoplay video is an immediate disqualifier.

[ related topics: Video ]

It has a crossing sign and a beg button so it must be pedestrian friendly

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One from Shadow: DIY Coffee Table From One Sheet Of Plywood | #rocklerplywoodchallenge (YouTube video). Shadow observes "shout outs for the product placement". It's a bit of a stretch to call this one sheet, the top is a big ol' second piece of acrylic. I found it interesting that he power carved the big curves, seems like hitting this with a band saw would be a better way to get rid of all of that stock.

The design is a little too dust-catchy for my own tastes, but it's always interesting to see how other people solve some of these same cut issues...

[ related topics: Movies Graphic Design Video Economics Furniture Woodworking ]

Nope. Still unfollowed...

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