Linkee-poo Wednesday

"Wiley cleared her throat. 'Duke University has instructed us to terminate the employees that were working that day,' she said." Contract work is wage-slave labor. (Grokked from Vincent O'Connor) "Cheerleaders for the Washington, D.C., NFL team are describing a uncomfortable topless photo shoot followed by a possibly mandatory night out with sponsors that took place in Costa Rica in 2013. The situation underscores the lack of power NFL cheerleaders have across the league."

"The doctors she saw told her that she probably had allergies. But this year, Jackson went to physicians at Nebraska Medicine and learned the real reason behind her nasal discharge: a cerebrospinal fluid (or CSF) leak caused by a small hole in her skull." After a car accident, go to your doctor (or the ER).

"The government of Congo declared a new outbreak of Ebola after at least two people were infected and possibly as many as 17 died — from the disease in the country's northwest." Rhut rho. I guess we're going to get a live test of that new vaccine.

"lmao... the White House/Melania Trump Be Best pamphlet about your kids being online is almost the exact same thing that the FTC published in Jan. 2014." In the designing world we call this "separated at birth." (Grokked from Dan)

Apparently, most of the content was also a copy. "First lady Melania Trump’s anti-cyberbullying campaign brochure was largely recycled from an Obama-era publication in 2014, with most of the material copied over verbatim."

"The average concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere just topped 410 parts per million, according to measurements from Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii." We're boned. (Grokked from Ken McConnell)

"[Eugenia Morpurgo] has created a portable, open-source batik bot that rolls along the floor and draws with wax, CNC-style, on a potentially infinite expanse of cloth. The hardware should be familiar: an Arduino Mega and a RAMPS 1.4 board driving NEMA 17 steppers up and down extruded aluminium." We welcome the robot overlords. (Grokked from Dan)

"The DOL will propose relaxing current rules—known as Hazardous Occupations Orders (HOs)—that prohibit 16- and 17-year-old apprentices and student learners from receiving extended, supervised training in certain dangerous jobs, said the two sources. That includes roofing work, as well as operating chainsaws, and various other power-driven machines that federal law recognizes as too dangerous for youth younger than 18." I don't see any possible way this could go wrong. (Grokked from Wesley Chu)

"In other words, just through this single shell company Cohen was receiving major payments from a Russian oligarch and additional moneys from various Fortune 500 companies looking for access to President Trump. On the US corporate side these are classic off-the-books pay-for-play payments to what appears to have been a slush fund. If you’ve spent any time covering political scandals you can’t look even at these initial details and not think this is the kind of story) that sends a bunch of people to prison." Somebody going to emergency, somebody's going to jail. (Grokked from Vincent O'Connor)

"The Senate Intelligence Committee… report finds that Moscow conducted an 'unprecedented, coordinated cyber campaign' against the nation’s voting infrastructure. Through its investigation, the committee found that Russia-linked hackers were in a position to 'alter or delete voter registration data' in a small number of states before the 2016 vote." We've reached "The cat is on the roof and won't come down." (Grokked from Chuck Wendig)