A New Person Assigned to Polish That Turd

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Trump's campaign reshuffle shows he's figured out he's losing

whispering in your ear...

"All cruelty springs from weakness"

 --- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Scary Reminder

Just as a reminder - if the service is free, you are the product.

The Multi-Billion Dollar Industry That Makes Its Living From Your Data

Also of note - based on the rabbit hole I went down based on the article link above I now have a new book added to my ever growing list...

Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance

By Julia Angwin 

75 Years of American Finance: A Graphic Presentation 1861-1935

This is too cool not to share. An historical accounting of American capitalism's progress and failures

75 Years of American Finance: A Graphic Presentation 1861-1935

Taxi

I've become addicted to watching old episodes of 'Taxi' on Hulu.

Here's the original 'New York' magazine article that inspired the show

https://nymag.com/news/features/50177/

Still on Facebook?

Just checking in.

Yep.

Still glad I canceled all social media.

https://www.engadget.com/facebook-audit-civil-rights-hate-speech-134739868.html

"...It revealed that executive decisions by the company caused “significant setbacks for civil rights” and that the site could become an “echo chamber” of extremism if it doesn’t take stronger measures. “The company must recognize that failure to do so can have dangerous (and life-threatening) real-world consequences,” the report states."

Book list mid-year update

Update #4

Things have gone slower than I had hoped. Admittedly, Ive been distracted and haven't kept up with my book reading as I had hoped at the beginning of the year.

I still have my list to get thru this year and "Sync" keeps getting preempted by other interesting distractions. Last up was Giridharadas' book and now Im queuing up Jaron Lanier's book "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now"

The Phoenix library system rocks and they are making it easy for me to both grab and return books during this COVID-19 pandemic. I'll drop off the Giridharadas book and p/u Laniers without even leaving my truck. How sweet is that!

Oh, and I've also discovered a couple of new books to add to the list. :)

"The Privatized State" by Chiara Cordelli is coming out in November this year and "The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time" by Joseph Mazur. Both sound like excellent reads and (obviously) have nothing to do with each other - just stuff that gets me excited to hear more about.

Finished
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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Hardcover – by Gregory Zuckerman
November 5, 2010

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna
Bloomsbury USA, 2009

The Rich Don't Always Win
Sam Pizzigati
(2013-09-26)

Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world
 Anand Giridharadas
Alfred A. Knopf, 2018

On the Nightstand
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Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature and Daily Life
Steven Strogatz
Hyperion, 2003
 
Not Started Yet
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Number: The Language of Science
Tobias Dantzig
Plume, 2007

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences
John Allen Paulos
Hill and Wang, 2001

How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg
Penguin, 2014

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife
Penguin, 2000

A Tour of the Calculus
David Berlinski
Vintage, 1997

First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid [full-text]
Euclid, with annotations by John Casey
Project Gutenberg, 2007

Measurement
Paul Lockhart
Belknap, 2012

The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
Jimena Canales
May 26, 2015