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I still am trying to find the right way to share these links. Failing to do anything in this space for the last two weeks shows that this was at least keeping me writing. So for now here's a massive list of some interesting stuff from the last few weeks. I am leaning toward doing a post per link in the Daring Fireball/The Loop style, which makes it a little easier to get more posts out per day. Summer bike rides and a busier day job schedule has made it a bit more difficult to keep up. I am going to try to do at least two longer posts per weeks in between the various links. If you have any ideas on improved formatting feel free to reach out.

ARM Rumor Time Again - MacRumors says that Pegatron is going to manufacture the upcoming ARM Macbook. My money is that this is an iPad pro with a permanent keyboard. I think it is still too soon for ARM to try and replace Intel even for casual users.

The Simplest Diet - It is always funny that people trying to sell you on expensive diets and supplements try and foist the specter of big pharma and big Agra on people, despite the fact that their own industries are in the hundreds of millions.

Ars Sci-Fi War - In an attempt to get nerds to battle in the streets Ars Technica lists their favorite ships ahead of the Millennium Falcon.

Apple Steps On A Rake - Steam making your games available on your phone, iPad, or Apple TV is a great idea. Apple deciding to cancel that app to protect its business of selling you games is not a great look, no matter how white the room you announce if from is.

Dimspirations - Brett Terpstra takes a break from making cool Mac scripts to make mock inspirational posters. Taking this piss out of the cult of positivity that most office jobs are bathed in is always fun, especially so with Brett’s dark sense of humor.

Retro Computer Rundown - With most of the people who grew up in the beige box era solidly in late middle age, it shouldn’t be surprising that there is a lot of nostalgia for classic computers. I can’t talk, I’ve got a Luxo iMac and a classic Mac sitting on top of my bookshelves.

Steady Diet of Numbers - A fairly well-researched argument that most dietary research is misleading and contradictory because their statistical rigor is inadequate. (If this actually holds up this may explain some of the reproducibility crisis.)

Sickle Beats - A series of videos that detail the evolution of Industrial music inside the USSR. It starts a bit slow, but there are a few great tracks to be found.

Reboot Gone Bad - Namco tried relaunching Splatterhouse in the 360/PS3 era as a grizzly M rated horror franchise. It did not go well.

Kicking At The Pricks - A war between Twitch trolls and a banana robot has a creator finding every possible way to parse a variety of racial slices, epithets, and curse words to beat back constant raids by a group of trolls from Twitch. It’s pretty impressive handiwork, and that he had the patience to stick with it.

GDPR By The Book - A lawyer from the EU explains the GDPR and tries to debunk some common myths.

A Different Kind Of Logos - Kottke links to a short video from TED that gives a great 100 level introduction to Stoicism.

Gaming For Everyone- I am a sucker for accessible technology stories. With social-media-induced dystopia dominating technology news, it’s good to remember that technology can be empowering.

Don't Trust That Email - Schneier reports on the new flaw in PGP and S/MIME that threatens email security. This should be an interesting one to watch.

The Right To Be Stupid - Aeon has an excellent essay that argues you don't have the right to hold an opinion refuted by facts. There is a difference between belief and knowing.

Reclaiming Your Voice - Anil Dash argues that we need to reclaim the web from social networks and aggregators. Learn how sites are built again; host your own site. Rebuild the web of a thousand small voices, instead of filtering them through the lens of Zuckerberg. It’s a strong argument from a guy who really knows his shit.

AI And Ethics - Many Google employees resigned after the company announced an AI partnership with the Pentagon. It will be interesting to see if the military applications of AI come under scrutiny in the same way nuclear tech does. Some people point out that this tech is developed to reduce the collateral damage that is the hallmark of the drone program, but the other side is saying that empowering the US military with AI ends up having it pointed back at citizens.