The author of “Command and Control” on the cheery topic of the degradation of the USA’s control systems and the possibility of cyber attacks. Also touches on Trump/Putin. (tags: warhistorynuclearICBMdonald-trumpvladimir-putincold-war)
“The Stop Funding Hate campaign is gaining traction and giving brands difficult decisions to make.” If you want something you can do, this is something you can do. (tags: daily-mailnewspapershatedaily-expresspolitics)
Authoritarian social attitudes and the rate of change of minority population in an area are better predictors of Trump/Brexit voting than poverty. (tags: trumpbrexitpsychologyauthoritarianismpolitics)
The US military won’t stop a president from using nuclear weapons, the system is designed to make sure they can do so, not to prevent them. (tags: politicsmilitarynuclearpresident)
Interesting discussion from UK armed forces people on Trident and whatnot. Found in a comment on the aforementioned Charles Stross blog post. (tags: VulcannuclearTridentICBMSSBNV-forcewar)
"I’m going to talk today about what goes on in inside developers’ heads when they make estimates, why that’s so hard to fix, and how I personally figured out how to live and write software (for very happy business owners) even though my estimates are just as brutally unreliable as ever." via Andrew Ducker (tags: softwareprogrammingscrumestimationdaniel-kahneman)
Sam Harris on martial arts, meditation and atheism: "No one’s ever accused me of being an optimist, but I think reason and intellectual honesty will win. They’re just too useful." (tags: religionatheismmartial-artsmeditationsam-harris)
Many doctors aren’t good at having "the Conversation". A doctor uses film to illustrate patients’ options at the end of their lives. (tags: filmethicsdeathhealthmedicineintensive-care)
