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Quite a few links in my pile of links to share. Here they are in no particular order:

• The Register: 'I feel violated': Engineer who pointed out traffic signals flaw fined for 'unlicensed engineering' - Oregon has laws against pointing out flaws.
• Mic: Inside the elite meme wars of America's most exclusive colleges
• Google Research: Experimental Nighttime Photography with Nexus and Pixel - What if phones but too many night pictures averaged together?
• First Round Review: Fralic's 7 Rules for Making Memorable Connections
• Sarah Kendzior: The tale of the dictator’s daughter and her prince
• SSH Port - come gather round the terminal and hear the story of how one core service got its port.
• BBC: Sheep are not stupid, and they are not helpless either - Get woke on sheep, sheeple lemmings.
• New York Times: Comey Tried to Shield the F.B.I. From Politics
• Salon: Kindergartners get little time to play. Why does it matter? - The push for success starts early.
• The Atlantic: Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria - Another take on the failure of Google Books.
• Maciej Cegłowski: Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and Mass Surveillance - A talk about strategies for ethical progress in tech.
• What city is the microbrew capital of the US? - Fun use of IP geolocation to personalize the headline.
• Waxy: The Flagpole Sitta Lip Dub Turns 10
• How To Host Your Own Private Git Repositories

In the grand tradition (two is a tradition) of posting links on Wednesdays, here is some fine reading to tide you over until the weekend:

• Buzzfeed: Mark Zuckerberg's Makeover Is a Political Campaign Without the Politics
• Buzzfeed: Climbing Out Of Facebook's Reality Hole
• The Verge: Instant recall - Facebook Instant didn't save publishing
• Song Sleuth - Shazam for birdsong! (Though $10 is steep and the early reviews aren't good. )
• Lauren Hallden: Ask me what I do
• Kate Imbach: Fairytale Prisoner by Choice
• Vox Video: CNN treats politics like sports
• NYT: How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off
• Matt Haughey: The Flickr Explore page is still really amazing - (Inspired by Tim Carmody's stint on kottke.org gathering the best of the Web. Go there too!)

And here are a bunch of links! (I really need to get rid of the title requirement for link posts.)

• Webstock: Emoji for fun and profit
• Is Trump At Mar-a-Lago - Useful single-serving site.
• Globe and Mail: Trump craves praise. We praise him for bombings. What possibly could go wrong?
• New York Times: As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw - Let's go.
• BBC News: Saturn moon 'able to support life' - Let's go.
• Ars Technica: Why one Republican voted to kill privacy rules: “Nobody has to use the Internet”
• Jeff Bezos: State of Amazon Letter
• Buzzfeed: Over 550 Amazon Employees Are Pressuring Leadership To Cut Advertising Ties With Breitbart
• Waxy: Closing Communities: FFFFOUND! vs MLKSHK - I enjoyed both of these communities. Indie Web come back!
• Wired: Like Twitter But Hate the Trolls? Try Mastodon
• Bryan Boyer: America Loves an Underdog - A nice look at reusing civic spaces.
• Wikipedia: Chesterton's fence - Understand why a system exists before you set out to remove it.
• Samsung Internet Developers: Think you know the top web browsers?
• Hacker News: Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support - Scraping just got more powerful, thanks Chrome!

I usually post links on the weekend. I guess these are supplemental links.

• Backchannel: How Google Book Search Got Lost
• Harvard Business Review: A New, More Rigorous Study Confirms: The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel
• Medical Xpress: Social media tools can reinforce stigma and stereotypes
• Quartz: Remote work: For programmers, the ultimate office perk is avoiding the office entirely
• The Concourse: The Corporation Does Not Always Have To Win - good rant about United and human dignity.
• Simple Icons - a rainbow of SVG brand icons.

Here are some links I've been meaning to share:

• The Washington Post: Mitch McConnell, the man who broke America
• The Intercept: Top Democrats Are Wrong: Trump Supporters Were More Motivated by Racism Than Economic Issues
• Fusion: The Long, Lucrative Right-wing Grift Is Blowing Up in the World's Face
• Ars Technica: Is the dark really making me sad?
• Wired: Tech Bigwigs Know How Addictive Their Products Are. Why Don’t the Rest of Us?
• The New York Times: How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons
• DDC Hardware typeface - I love this new (old) font. I'm using it on my site at this moment!
• Content Design Centre: Example content strategy
• Deep Photo Style Transfer - The examples here are amazing.
• Hackernoon: Mastodon - The creator of Mastadon on what the heck Mastodon is. (It's a distributed alternative to Twitter that people are using to be social rather than whatever people are doing on corporate social media.) See also:
• Motherboard: Mastodon Is Like Twitter Without Nazis, So Why Are We Not Using It?
• weinre - A great tool I've been using to debug sites on an iPhone while developing on Windows.
• NetData - Nicely designed server monitoring tool.
• Mozilla Hacks: Do not let your CDN betray you: Use Subresource Integrity
• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017

The soundtrack to these links is Avant Gardener by Courtney Barnett. Still love this song more than I should.