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Visibility of even the grain elevator just across the river is obscured

'I’m Possibly Alive Because It Exists:' Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely on a CPAP Machine Hacker

An Australian hacker has spent thousands of hours hacking the DRM that medical device manufacturers put on CPAP machines to create a free tool that lets patients modify their treatment.

I Found the Best Burger Place in America. And Then I Killed It.

Some good musings on instant fame and "best of"s...

MeFi thread

Not even close to across the valley, even though the sky is relatively clear

Sucks again

Homeless veteran and New Jersey couple arrested in GoFundMe scam.

According to Coffina, McClure texted a friend less than an hour after the GoFundMe campaign launched, saying the story was "completely made up." McClure did not run out of gas on an I-95 ramp and Bobbitt did not offer his last $20 to help her. In the text exchange, McClure told her friends to "shh about the made up stuff," Coffina said.

Can't see across the valley

And it still looks ugly here

Feeling like there's been a sea change: The number of bitcoin and 419 and phishing scams in my spam inbox is being eclipsed by the LinkedIn recruiter requests...

Today in things that could have been phrased better: Seatbelts are awesome, but let's put a concerted effort towards not getting into situations where they'd save our lives.

Card skimming malware removed from Infowars online store — Infowars online store hit by brief Magecart incident that lasted around 24 hours. Less than 1,600 users may have been affected.

Infowars Infected With Credit Card-Stealing Malware, Alex Jones Claims It’s a Conspiracy

New York Times: Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis. How Facebook pushed the "funded by Soros" conspiracy theories, killed sex workers with FOSTA and SESTA, pushed anti-Google and Apple stories on the NTK Network, and more.

Is broadband responsible for falling teenage pregnancy rates? — Researchers find corresponding decline in STI transmission as high-speed internet access rolls out

Melanie Guldi from the University of Central Florida and Chris Herbst from Arizona State University conclude that “at least 13% of the total decline in the teen birth rate between 1999 and 2007 can be explained by increases in high-speed internet access” in the US.

Looks like the paper is at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-016-0605-0 with an earlier version at http://ftp.iza.org/dp9076.pdf