uspolitics

links, etc Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years - The New York Times on the heels of the recent discovery of a string trio arrangement by mozart this is pretty neat news. we can only really have these “discoveries” if there’s a durable medium for preserving creative outputs. in this case paper and pen. with everything being hidden on personal hard drives and in proprietary software/file formats these days, i do find myself wondering what creative bits (no pun intended) we’re going to lose to the ravages of time and bit rot....

links, etc in any other time, it strikes me that we’d be looking very much askance at the notion of a billionaire owning so much infrastructure that we’re increasingly collectively dependent upon. that the billionaire in question has exhibited so little regard for core western values has been (but shouldn’t be) shocking to me. that he seems to see himself as an agent independent of the government of his country of citizenship should make a lot of brows furrow....

links, etc The Truth About Hurricane Geoengineering - The Atlantic it’s absolutely bonkers to me that this is something that requires discussion.

links, etc Crooked Cops, Stolen Laptops & the Ghost of UGNazi – Krebs on Security this is a wild romp. The Right-Wing Plan to Make Everyone an Informant - The Atlantic texas has reinvigorated the red scare. the lessons of the cultural revolution were clearly not lost on the GOP. Wargame simulated a conflict between Israel and Iran: It quickly went nuclear - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists nothing about this report is comforting....

links, etc The Tech Baron Seeking to Purge San Francisco of “Blues” this disgorged from my reading backlog while on a roadtrip. i honestly don’t know what to make of this. people have vastly overestimated the intelligence of tech entrepreneurs. if this dude didn’t have a grip of followers on social media we wouldn’t have to be subjected to this. The Uncertainty this is one of the best “things” i’ve read recently on science messaging, though it’s not necessarily about science messaging per se....