Miscellaneous Articles You Should Read (3 Viewers)

[pete]

http://nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opinion/sunday/how-to-tell-a-mother-her-child-is-dead.html

 

[pete]

Put the kettle on - this is a loooonnnnggggg read.

She was the PTA mom everyone knew. Who would want to harm her?

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Put the kettle on - this is a loooonnnnggggg read.

She was the PTA mom everyone knew. Who would want to harm her?

That was surprisingly gripping.

 

[nooleen]

i guess the wine and xanax her fictional heroine uses to deal with the stresses of life might explain some of it

 

[pete]

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[pete]

The president is sitting at his desk, and I’m sitting directly in front of him. I witness the president authorize the Air National Guard to shoot down the hijacked airliners. The conversation was sobering to hear. What struck me was as soon as he hung up the phone, he said, “I was an Air National Guard pilot—I’d be one of the people getting this order. I can’t imagine getting this order.” There was a greater degree of reality than many other presidents would have experienced.

‘We’re the Only Plane in the Sky’

 

[nooleen]

great picture of him pretending to use a phone

 

[pete]

Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet

 

[Lili Marlene]

Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet

don't know who is doing this, but it feels like a large a large nation state. China and Russia would be my first guesses

ehhh

It feels like a nation's military cybercommand trying to calibrate its weaponry in the case of cyberwar. It reminds me of the U.S.'s Cold War program of flying high-altitude planes over the Soviet Union to force their air-defense systems to turn on, to map their capabilities....The data I see suggests China, an assessment shared by the people I spoke with. On the other hand, it's possible to disguise the country of origin for these sorts of attacks. The NSA, which has more surveillance in the Internet backbone than everyone else combined, probably has a better idea,

Ehhh.... so it's clearly the NSA doing this.

 

[pete]

ehhh



Ehhh.... so it's clearly the NSA doing this.

schneier usually knows his stuff. at a guess, i'd say most of the companies he refers to are US-based, in which case the US government are almost definitely already inside and don't need to be probing them externally.

 

[Lili Marlene]

schneier usually knows his stuff. at a guess, i'd say most of the companies he refers to are US-based, in which case the US government are almost definitely already inside and don't need to be probing them externally.

fair point, well made

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I really like Riz Ahmed. One of my favourite actors working today.
Typecast as a terrorist | Riz Ahmed | The Long Read

 

[Lili Marlene]

I really like Riz Ahmed. One of my favourite actors working today.
Typecast as a terrorist | Riz Ahmed | The Long Read

that's a great piece!

 

[pete]

I don’t know anything about music. I know there are letters but sometimes the letters have squiggles; I know an octave doubles in pitch; I know you can write a pop song with only four chords. That’s about it.

The rest has always seemed completely, utterly arbitrary. Why do we have twelve notes, but represent them with only seven letters? Where did the key signatures come from? Why is every Wikipedia article on this impossible to read without first having read all the others?

A few days ago, some of it finally clicked. I feel like an idiot for not getting it earlier, but I suppose it doesn’t help that everyone explains music using, well, musical notation, which doesn’t make any sense if you don’t know why it’s like that in the first place.

Here is what I gathered, from the perspective of someone whose only music class was learning to play four notes on a recorder in second grade. I stress that I don’t know anything about music and this post is terrible. If you you so much as know how to whistle, please don’t read this you will laugh at me.

Music theory for nerds / fuzzy notepad

 

[pete]

Pickup Artists Preyed on Drunk Women, Brought Them Home, and Raped Them

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Pickup Artists Preyed on Drunk Women, Brought Them Home, and Raped Them

Ugh, that was bleak. These guys are vile scum.

 

[pete]

Ugh, that was bleak. These guys are vile scum.

Did you read the "field report" the article links to? He's not right in the head if that's what he was putting up on his blog under his own name.

 

[nooleen]

Jason-Berlin-BlogPost

'field report':

takes 'boner juice', multiple failed attempts to pick up women, passes out in the jacks, bit of rape, decides all of this is a good idea to make public

all in all a good night's work

 

[nooleen]

oh lordy

Mulvehill—known for wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the number of women he’s supposedly slept with (he claims “almost 500” these days)—had been a mainstay of a group of pickup artists in Las Vegas known as the “Vegas Pussy Massacre Crew.” But Mulvehill was kicked off of the strip in 2015, as part of a one-year suspended sentence stemming from a night in May of 2013 when he allegedly locked a woman in his car, took away her phone, and masturbated in front of her.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Did you read the "field report" the article links to? He's not right in the head if that's what he was putting up on his blog under his own name.

No, I didn't need to delve deeper into that particular nest of sex vipers.