Link Posts - The Media And Copycats
How the media influences suicide and mass shootings.
CSI - In an article at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Stuart Vyse examines the connections between media reporting on mass shootings and celebrity suicide and increased rates of both in recent years. He is quick to point out that the media isn't solely responsible and there are public health steps that can improve these trends as . . .
Link Post - The US Isn’t The Only Government Bad For Tech
EU Regulating copyright like its 1999
Boing Boing - When you look back at this era, regardless of how the results are, this will be defined by the fight to save the Internet from government overreach and massive monopolies.
Link Post - Restoring Your Mac's Function Keys
Fixing One Of The More Annoying Things In My Life
Stack Exchange - This is something that always annoyed me since you need F11 and F12 to trigger BIOS on VM's, step through the debugger in Powershell ISE, and a host of other enterprise functions frustratingly out of reach.
Link Post - Failures In Skepticism
Pink Slime, Ick Factors, And Other Adventures In Science Education
CSI Blog - This is an interesting thought that going directly after peddlers of pseudoscience, Skeptics give a bigger platform and legitimacy to scaremongers like the Food Babe. It isn't bad as shills like Oprah and Dr. Oz who flagrantly profit of bullshit, but different tactics are needed to keep people from being fleeced.
Learning Diary: Python
The first in an ongoing series on learning a new coding language.
Swift Playgrounds on the iPad is an easy way to play around with the Apple's newest coding language. The app includes three Learn To Code modules that give you activities to learn syntax as well as basic coding concepts. Swift is fairly easy to pick up and use, although I haven’t built much beyond a program that plays around with math and . . .