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I hope the five people following my ‘misc’ repo on github are happy recieving an email containing only the placeholder commit message ‘xxx’ like 30 times a day.
So tumblr emailed me and told me I had reblogged posts by kremlin psyops socks. Anybody else get this?
How not to replace email https://jamey.thesharps.us/2018/02/16/how-not-to-replace-email/
Somebody wrote an email bot to waste scammers‘ time / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/11/08/somebody-wrote-an-email-bot-to.html
The scientists persuading terrorists to spill their secrets | News | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/13/the-scientists-persuading-terrorists-to-spill-their-secrets?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
How a tax haven is leading the race to privatise space | News | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/sep/15/luxembourg-tax-haven-privatise-space?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
Some Crypto-Capitalists Just Want to See the World Burn http://gizmodo.com/some-crypto-capitalists-just-want-to-see-the-world-burn-1798667463?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Proactive Paranoia — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/proactive-paranoia/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Ethereum‘s Biggest Hacking Problem Is Human Greed - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywwbvw/ethereums-biggest-hacking-problem-is-human-greed?utm_medium=email&utm_source=digg
The Problems With Internet Platforms Policing Hate - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2017/8/22/16180026/charlottesville-politics-hate-speech-internet?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Why Everyone Is Hating on IBM Watson—Including the People Who Helped Make It https://gizmodo.com/why-everyone-is-hating-on-watson-including-the-people-w-1797510888?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Are Index Funds Bad for the Economy? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/are-index-funds-evil/534183/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
How Fast Food Chains Supersized Inequality | New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/144168/fast-food-chains-supersized-inequality?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Why We Can’t Have the Male Pill - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-03/why-we-can-t-have-the-male-pill?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
Nobody Knows What Lies Beneath New York City - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-10/nobody-knows-what-lies-beneath-new-york-city?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God http://splinternews.com/how-fossil-fuel-money-made-climate-denial-the-word-of-g-1797466298?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Why Are There No New Major Religions? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/08/new-religions/533745/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Not Fuzz — The Atavist Magazine https://magazine.atavist.com/not-fuzz-police-impersonator-santa-monica-steve-farzam?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
America’s midlife crisis: lessons from a survivalist summit | US news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/02/preppers-survivalist-summit-constitution-americas-midlife-crisis?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
The Handshake | New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/143633/handshake-why-yousef-muslet-face-life-prison-everyday-gesture?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
World‘s First Computer Store: Early Tech Retail http://tedium.co/2017/08/03/early-computer-retailers-history/?utm_source=Tedium&utm_campaign=Tedium_08_03_2017&utm_medium=email
Humans are the only animals who crave oblivion through suicide | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/humans-are-the-only-animals-who-crave-oblivion-through-suicide?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=08e7309df2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-08e7309df2-68693017
Point-of-Sale System History: When Tech Hit Retail http://tedium.co/2017/07/20/point-of-sale-retail-history/?utm_source=Tedium&utm_campaign=Tedium_07_20_2017&utm_medium=email
How work changed to make us all passionate quitters | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-work-changed-to-make-us-all-passionate-quitters?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7f26aee3ac-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-7f26aee3ac-68693017
Inside the Gaming Library at Gitmo, America‘s Controversial Military Prison - Waypoint https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/a3d9jg/inside-the-gaming-library-at-gitmo-americas-most-controversial-military-prison?utm_medium=email&utm_source=digg
England’s Mental Health Experiment: No-Cost Talk Therapy - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/health/england-mental-health-treatment-therapy.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
How to tell a bad person from a person who did a bad thing | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-tell-a-bad-person-from-a-person-who-did-a-bad-thing?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=79140b7e03-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-79140b7e03-68693017
The Anti-Waiter Sentiment That Made Automat Restaurants Go Mainstream - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/automat-20th-century-waiterless-restaurants?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
One Man’s Two-Year Quest Not to Finish Final Fantasy VII | The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/one-mans-two-year-quest-not-to-finish-final-fantasy-vii?mbid=synd_digg&utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
How a Group of ‘70s Radicals Tried (and Failed) to Invade Disneyland - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/disneyland-yippies-1970?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
How Cold War philosophy permeates US society to this day | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-cold-war-philosophy-permeates-us-society-to-this-day?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ba66c731ab-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-ba66c731ab-68693017
The Bots Beat Us. Now What? | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-bots-beat-us-now-what/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
A Violent 15th-Century Freshman Hazing Ritual Involving Boar Tusks and Razors - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/deposition-hazing-ritual?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=149faf3a75-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-149faf3a75-63252673&ct=t(Newsletter_7_12_2017)&mc_cid=149faf3a75&mc_eid=fb147c2f0d
How did usury stop being a sin and become respectable finance? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-did-usury-stop-being-a-sin-and-become-respectable-finance?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=bdfe024e86-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-bdfe024e86-68693017
The Best Demon Illustrations of All Time - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/demons-illustrations-dictionnaire-infernal?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=149faf3a75-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-149faf3a75-63252673&ct=t(Newsletter_7_12_2017)&mc_cid=149faf3a75&mc_eid=fb147c2f0d
People are intensely loyal to groups which abuse newcomers. Why? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/people-are-intensely-loyal-to-groups-which-haze-newcomers-why?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=064f5afcfd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-064f5afcfd-68693017
Are halophytes the crop of the future? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/are-halophytes-the-crop-of-the-future?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=46fc5c5dfd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-46fc5c5dfd-68693017
How the village feast paved the way to empires and economics | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-the-village-feast-paved-the-way-to-empires-and-economics?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=03ca3d03df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-03ca3d03df-68693017
What’s the best way to find common ground in public spaces? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/whats-the-best-way-to-find-common-ground-in-public-spaces?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b7923167a1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-b7923167a1-68693017
Why We Lie: The Science Behind Our Deceptive Ways http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/lying-hoax-false-fibs-science/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
The Politics of Pie Cutting at West Point‘s Mess Hall - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/west-point-mess-hall-pie?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c2839fb4bc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-c2839fb4bc-63252673&ct=t(Newsletter_6_29_2017)&mc_cid=c2839fb4bc&mc_eid=fb147c2f0d
I Can‘t Believe It’s Butter That Was Buried in a Bog! - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/make-your-own-bog-butter-ireland?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c2839fb4bc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-c2839fb4bc-63252673&ct=t(Newsletter_6_29_2017)&mc_cid=c2839fb4bc&mc_eid=fb147c2f0d
Scientists crack mystery of ancient Roman concrete’s 2,000-year life span - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/04/ancient-romans-made-worlds-most-durable-concrete-we-might-use-it-to-stop-rising-seas/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=nextdraft&utm_term=.2b76b2885c2a
https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/07/why-is-the-alt-right-so-angry-about-architecture/532470/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/07/why-is-the-alt-right-so-angry-about-architecture/532470/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
How Liberal Portland Became America’s Most Politically Violent City - POLITICO Magazine http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/30/how-liberal-portland-became-americas-most-politically-violent-city-215322?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
The Rise of the Thought Leader | New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/143004/rise-thought-leader-how-superrich-funded-new-class-intellectual?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
This Is Why The Minions Are So Popular https://www.buzzfeed.com/danielspielberger/how-the-minions-took-over-the-world?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email&utm_term=.veNr7beDV#.acdKNDV4O
The U.S. fertility rate just hit a historic low. Why some demographers are freaking out. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/06/30/the-u-s-fertility-rate-just-hit-a-historic-low-why-some-demographers-are-freaking-out/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email