- Meaningful work not created, only destroyed, by bosses, study finds (ScienceDaily) I wonder what you current and former organizational consultants (Hi Dad) out there think about all this.
- Side-channel attack: PC Hardware is physically leaking encryption keys through the operating noise it makes (SeenThis) I guess we need to make our hats anechoic in addition to tinfoil.
- ‘Clinton as president is danger to world peace’ – far-right French leader Le Pen (RT America) The irony is obvious.
- As Hillary Slams Trump University, Right Wingers Go After Bill for Making Millions From For-Profit Laureate Universities (Alternet) Don’t know if there is any “there” there, but it will be yet more sh%$ flung against the wall during the campaign.
- The Value of the Humanities (The Baseline Scenario) This trash lit reading engineer agrees.
- Democrats Will Learn All the Wrong Lessons From Brush With Bernie (Rolling Stone) Matt Taibbi, as usual nails it. It is said that Republicans fear their base, and Democrats hate their base. The incestuous, self absorbed, and delusional behaviors of the party “leaders” proves him right.
- The History of Pho (Lucky Peach) While its origins go back further, it’s only about 100 years old.
- Understanding The European Union’s Facade Democracy (Social Europe) Makes the point that the EU is not just undemocratic but antidemocratic, by design and culture, and as such, it is progressively losing the people and fostering the growth of the wing opposition movements.
- What Milton Friedman Got Wrong: Biologists Destroy Homo-Economicus (Evonomics)* A devastating takedown of Friedman’s seminal work The Methodology of Positive Economics. Basically, Friedman used evolution as an explanationm and he got evolution and adaptation completely wrong.
Here is an interesting technique for choopping up an onion. I will have to try this at Trial By Fire on July 4th weekend, when I will be making Cornish Pasties, because it looks a lot easier than what I have been doing.
Full disclosure: I know, and have discussed medieval cooking with Milton Friedman’s son, David.