Notes

America’s next president is going to have some hard decisions to make about defending far-flung allies from swarm forces: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-army-navy/

I’ve never gotten the word “patriotic”, even when I was a young conservative Boy Scout. It has always seemed to stand only for “supporting the same authority we do”. https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1123346471477219333

Topics the algorithmic demons of Twitter have deemed relevant to me:

• Data Visualization
• Information Security
• Software Engineers
• Technology VC
• United Nations

Is anyone tracking these, ontologically, as @alexismadrigal did with Netflix?

I think it’s time the US Congress withdraw the Corwin Amendment.

TIL that “indentures” has an amazing etymology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirograph

Microsoft Excel may have jumped the shark with the latest update:

Insert animated 3D graphics to see hearts beat, planets orbit, and T-Rex rampage through the workbook.