Yet more keen links one might want to share

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...is there beer in the fridge?

Not mine. I'm drier than Oklahoma in the 30's, too.

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Brilliant DIY Hospital Christmas Decorations

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Hilarious Horrible Christmas Design Fails<--Kinda/Sorta NSFW

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Both links full of genius

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Free Games From Smithsonian.

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9 minutes 53 seconds on the April 14, 2016 crossword.

Yeah, idk, that's the one that came up.

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Thanks for the games link, Bruce, or is it Scarface now?

Aaanywho...




38 moar tweets that just nailed marriage

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From Nature.Com An excellent read.

The science myths that will not die
False beliefs and wishful thinking about the human experience are common. They are hurting people — and holding back science.

Myth 1: Screening saves lives for all types of cancer
Myth 2: Antioxidants are good and free radicals are bad
Myth 3: Humans have exceptionally large brains
Myth 4: Individuals learn best when taught in their preferred learning style
Myth 5: The human population is growing exponentially (and we're doomed)

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Man Tweets Positive Things That Happened in 2017

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Even though it doesn’t seem like it, crime has decreased by 2.7% this year.

Yeah, but the crimes that did happen were yuge.

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Confraternity.

Hey, I learned a word.

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Confraternity = a group of people who should be in prison.

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UT, thought of you,

Social media is giving us trypophobia

In recent years there have been calls for regulators to have access to algorithmic blackboxes to lift the lids on engines that act on us yet which we (the product) are prevented from seeing (and thus overseeing).

Rising use of AI certainly makes that case stronger, with the risk of prejudices scaling as fast and far as tech platforms if they get blindbaked into commercially privileged blackboxes.

No one would now doubt these platforms impact and shape the public discourse. But, arguably, in recent years, they’ve made the public street coarser, angrier, more outrage-prone, less constructive, as algorithms have rewarded trolls and provocateurs who best played their games.

So all it would take is for enough people — enough ‘users’ — to join the dots and realize what it is that’s been making them feel so uneasy and queasy online — and these products will wither on the vine, as others have before.

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A lot of people are predicting self driving trucks will put a million or more drivers out of work. But some others are saying no, it will make jobs for more drivers.

This is interesting, but time will tell.

But a counter-narrative is emerging: No, skeptics in the industry, government, academia are saying, trucking jobs will not be endangered by autonomous driving, and in the brightest scenarios, as in new research by Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group, there may be an increase in trucking jobs as more self-driving vehicles are introduced.

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Swearing/cursing in Quentin Tarantino movies

That seems like a lot of info on the bad words in his movies.