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More links for your weekly link pile:

• Benedict Evans: Not even wrong - ways to dismiss technology
• reddit careerquestions: Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job... - Take a minute and make sure this can't happen wherever you are.
• @mtsw thread on 'Pittsburgh vs. Paris' - Hey, I drive a Prius.
• Noahpinion: The Shouting Class
• Pinboard Acquires Delicious - See also: @delicious is a human now.
• Daring Fireball: Fuck Facebook - Seconded, thirded, and agreed.
• Atlas Obscura: The Hypnotic Allure of Cinemagraphic Waves
• Archive.org: MIT Press Classics Available Soon - Information still wants to be free.

And in other news:

• Washington Post: How Congress dismantled federal Internet privacy rules
• The Nation: The Covfefe Is Often Worse Than The Crime
• Fusion: Stop Enabling the Nihilist Republican Shrug
• Vox: Don’t just blame Trump for quitting the Paris deal...
• Rebecca Solnit: The Loneliness of Donald Trump
• Washington Post: Trump addresses London attack by tweeting about gun control, travel ban
• George Lakoff: Disaster Branding: The Importance of Naming

And a chaser, la hora sonó, la hora sonó:

Today is Memorial Day in the US. It can't hurt to read about the history of Memorial Day on Wikipedia. Here are some other links from the last week or so:

• The Pulse: Transcript of New Orleans Mayor Landrieu's address on Confederate monuments - See also: The Memory Palace, Episode 73.
• Brian Harry's blog: The largest Git repo on the planet - Windows source code is now on Git.
• SSHFS Windows 10 | Mount Your Remote Hosting as a Local Disk Drive - I wish this worked in Ubuntu on Windows, but alas, no FUSE.
• Medieval Fantasy City Generator - This is a neat start at generating random RPG cities.
• Nick Craver: HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road - The technical details of Stack Overflow's move to all-HTTPS.
• Motherboard: Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship
• Wired: Get Ready for the Next Big Privacy Backlash Against Facebook - A leaked document shows that Facebook was doing research into targeting ads to teens who feel vulnerable.
• New York Times: ‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It
• Pixel Envy: Google’s Proprietary Fork of HTML Is Taking Over the Open Web - *smacks forehead*. Yes, this is true. (See also: Russian Hackers Are Using Google's Own Infrastructure to Hack Gmail Users)
• Seldo.Com Blog: Are we making the web too complicated? - Yes and no.
• Resilient Web Design - A book about Web design by Jeremy Keith, in Web form.
• These Are The Victims Of The Portland Train Stabbing Attack
• @RabbeseKing: Yeah Yeah Beebiss I - NES game mystery.

And in other news:

• Washington Post: Russian ambassador told Moscow that Kushner wanted secret communications channel with Kremlin

A few recent links:

• mltshp faq - mltshp is mlkshk reborn! I'm pb over there.
• Remembering Chris Cornell... - John Roderick writes about Chris Cornell just before the world discovered him.
• JSON Feed - RSS alternative. But is there enough interest in syndication?
• New paint colors invented by neural network - This cracks me up. Sign me up for future machine learning comedy. (See also.)
• Download 200 Free Art Books, Courtesy of the Guggenheim - Information still wants to be free.
• The Guardian: How physical exercise makes your brain work better
• The Interconnected: Redefining Web Brutalism - Makes me wonder if this site could be defined as brutalist.
• The Washington Post: FCC votes to start rolling back landmark net neutrality rules
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to d3.js - Nice intro to the web native data visualization library.

And in other news:

• Time: Washington AG: President Trump’s Aggression Will Be His Undoing - "Ferguson is an internationally rated chess master and the attorney general for Washington State."
• New York Times: The Election Is Over, but Trump Can’t Seem to Get Past It