Interesting To Me Today……August 28, 2017

On my mind today……

• Sadly, he’s right! –> Henry Rollins: Get Ready, Because Another Charlottesville Is Coming
• Even with unemployment, racial imbalances and injustices remain! –> Unemployment in Black and White

Business & Technology

• Could Broadcom be in the crosshairs of mighty Intel? –> Can Networking Chips Revive Intel’s Start-Up Mojo?
• Stands to reason. What is generally forgotten is that so-called ‘big tech’ and ravenous consumers of financial technologies, especially those tax-reduction schemes. –> What’s Disrupting Traditional Finance? ‘Big Tech,’ Not Fintech
• A Bluetooth hula hoop. Stay stupid, folks!
• This is frightening! –> Nanoparticles from tattoos can travel to the lymph nodes
• Cool! Next stop, Moncler jackets. –> Nanowire array to stop soldiers freezing
• Insta360’s One is a 4K 360-degree camera that lets you shoot first, point later
• Hateful. But until we legislate or regulate the practice away, we’re stuck. –> How Big Pharma Secretly Funds The Fight To Keep Drug Prices High
• Drones with RFID-relays promise more accurate inventory tracking

General Interest

• The ‘trinketization’ of Christian bookstores with unbelievably tasteless kitsch, is probably a factor! –> The rise and fall of the Christian bookstore
• These racist bastards are the world’s greatest cowards! –> Fla. Charter School Principal Under Fire for ‘Racist’ Facebook Posts
• Kaepernick Activists Put a Spotlight on the Lack of Front-Office Diversity
• Religious science deniers. –> The Fundamentalists Holding Us Back from a Climate Change Solution
• Off topic, but funny. –> Taylor Swift and the Tale of Unstoppable White Privilege Meeting Immovable White Privilege
• Interesting. However. it won’t work. Dentists are used to being free agents, not under the shackles of insurance companies. Why should they change that? Especially for less remuneration? –> Could Your Next Doctor Be Your Dentist?
• Only in America could such abject losers be venerated! –> Confederate Memorials and the Unjust Geography of Memory
• Why 'Just Ignore Them' Is Terrible Advice for Dealing With Neo-Nazis
• Excellent. However, the increasing delta in price versus other places means smuggling cigarettes becomes more lucrative. Fueling crime further! –> NYC Boosts Cigarette Prices to $13, Bans Sales by Pharmacies
• These cowards…<smh/> –> Man Who Claimed He Was Stabbed For Looking Like a ‘Neo-nazi’ Actually Stabbed Himself, Police Say

World

• Britain’s generous post-war immigration policy. The door soon closed—but not before migrants had profoundly changed Britain

Politics

• Ratfckers. All of them! –> These are the historical myths about America that feed white supremacy

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