https://boingboing.net/2018/08/29/aid-workers-use-computer-model.html/amp

Modeling storms and temperature let’s aid workers in Yemen know where to focus vaccines for weeks in advance. Amazing.

Every time identity politics has been used by any faction in human history for any reason violence eventually follows.

(from “Unpacking Peggy McIntosh’s Knapsack”, William Ray, https://quillette.com/2018/08/29/unpacking-peggy-mcintoshs-knapsack/)

The Democratic platform http://scripting.com/2018/08/29/132634.html

Simple and correct. Let’s not mess it up.

After upgrading to 18.04LTS, I’m finding that the Wayland screen compositor is faster and shows much less screen tearing than the new XOrg default. Canonical says XOrg is more stable and feature-rich; maybe true, but it’s visibly worse on my laptop (Lenovo X1 Carbon)

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/the-polarization-contagion/567422/

If this is right, we are screwed. The third branch of the government gets eaten by the same factional disease as the other two have been.

In combination with reading Dan Rather’s post on the wars against the fourth estate, it’s hard to see how we get out from under.