What a fucking surprise. I’ve been routinely moving the decimal place one to the left for any government claims about “cyberattacks” (for private industry, one to the right) and resulting damages for years; too many people just have too much invested in scaring the hell out of you. Report: FBI Inflated Stats About Encryption

It’s not so much the presidential will to fascism that’s dangerous, as it is that in *combination* with popular culture priming the public to demand more. NFL’s new policy on national anthem: Players, teams can be fined if they don’t stand

Let’s all stop to remember that what got us here was “but her emails,” and then listen to the lovely popping noises of our heads exploding.

Pwn All The Things on Twitter

‘The Onion’ Has Finally Read Michael Cohen’s 2013 Email Regarding His Client Donald Trump And Would Like To Discuss The Matter Further At His Convenience

Bill Napier and Terrence Ryan breathe sighs of relief, adjust Google Express shipments to include more eyes of newt, cauldrons, and robes.

Google Removes ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Clause From Its Code of Conduct

Turns out, there’s a very logical reason why we can’t have stricter gun control: Jesus.

Landon Schnabel on Twitter

Breaking: wealthy neighborhood in favor of spending a billion dollars to benefit residents of wealthy neighborhood. Let’s build a piazza in Dupont Circle!

Anyone who wants a sneak peek at what I’ve been doing for the last six months of my life: the slides based on my forthcoming book (hopefully just a few weeks away) are here.

ACEs 2018 slides | The Vast Jeff Wing Conspiracy

Oh, as if the BASIC we first used was fancy enough to have lowercase characters.

Bell Labs on Twitter

Executive summary for the non-technical: there is some very scary and stupid shit going on here. Online voting is impossible to secure. So why are some governments using it?

Now I’m going to spend all day obsessing over what kind of resort Tyler Phillips Place would be.

https://ift.tt/2HQY37T The Tyler Place Family Resort