Linkee-poo, who do you want me to be to make you sleep with me

The work just keeps coming.

"After seeing a successful Kickstarter project, Angus from Makers Muse has been experimenting with sphericons, unusual shapes that meander when they roll." (Grokked from Xeni Jardin)

"More than 400 years after Galileo Galilei discovered the first of Jupiter's moons, astronomers have found a dozen more — including one they've dubbed 'oddball' — orbiting the planet. That brings the total number of Jovian moons to 79."

"About 540 million years ago, the oceans were an alien landscape, devoid of swimming, or nektonic, creatures. Some scientists have hypothesized, based on fossil evidence, that swimmers suddenly dominated in the oceans during the Devonian Period, between 419 million and 359 million years ago. But an in-depth study of marine fossils now suggests that this so-called Devonian Nekton Revolution never actually took place." Mostly from reclassifying what we consider "swimming".

"Around 450 light years from Earth, a young star just feasted on a planet-sized meal… At least, that's what a team of astronomers believe occurred at RW Aur A, a star just a few million years old that has been studied by astronomers since 1937."

"Le Morne Brabant on the southwest coast of Mauritius has a cool optical illusion offshore: water flowing between two reefs pulls sand out to sea, giving the appearance of an underwater waterfall." (Grokked from Xeni Jardin)

"It's patient stories like this one that led Tapper to research liver disease in young people. According to a study published Wednesday in BMJ by Tapper and a colleague, fatal liver disease has risen, and young people have been hit the hardest… The study examined the number of deaths resulting from cirrhosis, or scarring of the liver, as well as liver cancer. Data came from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and covered the period from 1999 to 2016."

"When Charlotte Murphy slid into some brush while walking along a road in Vermont, she stood back up, brushed herself off and continued on her way. But her stumble came back to haunt her days later, in the form of several excruciating second-degree burns."

"Several common drugs that contain valsartan, used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure, were recalled in the United States on Friday due to an 'impurity' in the drug that poses a potential cancer risk."

"Israel's parliament has passed a controversial bill defining the country as the homeland of the Jews — asserting Jerusalem as the capital, Hebrew as the official language and that the right of national self-determination is 'unique to the Jewish people.'" This will not end well.

How goes the Brexit? "The Office for National Statistics said sales fell by 0.5% last month compared with May - below forecasts of a 0.2% rise."

"Musician Ted Nugent, a vocal gun rights advocate, reportedly barred guns from being allowed into a venue he performed at in Virginia on Tuesday night… According to the news outlet, the Berglund Center said that since it is owned by the city it is not allowed to ban guns from being carried into its facility unless a performer requests it." Just more of the same hypocrisy. (Grokked from Xopher Halftongue)

"Election Systems and Software is America's leading voting machine vendor… Kim Zetter asked them, on behalf of the New York Times, if their products shipped with backdoors allowing remote parties to access and alter them over the internet, they told her unequivocally that they did not engage in this practice… But now, in a letter to Senator Ron Wyden [D-OR], they admit that they lied, and that they 'provided pcAnywhere remote connection software … to a small number of customers between 2000 and 2006.'" (Grokked from Xeni Jardin)

"Officials within the Department of Veterans Affairs have moved to root out staffers who are believed to be disloyal to President Trump and his agenda, The Washington Post reported Wednesday." First they came for the VA… (Grokked from Jim Wright who asks "How much longer until they start purging PATIENTS who aren't Trump fans?")

"FBI Director Chris Wray suggested on Wednesday that he has previously threatened to resign — and pushed back against President Donald Trump's recent comments that cast doubt on Russian interference in the election."

"The President wrote in sharpie 'THERE WAS NO COLUSION' during a meeting with congressional members." (Grokked from Dan)

A blast from the past (2016). "A senior Donald Trump official told Bloomberg in a story published on Thursday that the campaign had 'three major voter suppression operations underway.'… The effort, according to the unidentified official, was aimed at discouraging three groups Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton needs to turn out at the polls — white liberals, millennial women, and black Americans — from voting." (Grokked from Kathryn Cramer)

Can't remember if I posted anything about this when it happened (from May, 2018). "The White House eliminated the position of cybersecurity coordinator on the National Security Council on Tuesday, doing away with a post central to developing policy to defend against increasingly sophisticated digital attacks and the use of offensive cyber weapons." (Grokked from Kathryn Cramer)

"Less than 24 hours after proclaiming Tuesday his 'full faith and support for America's great intelligence agencies,' Trump at first seemed to contradicted those agencies once again." (Grokked from Christopher Moore)

Basically the shit is coming so fast and is so contradictory, it's starting to feel like a plan. A DDoS attack on our brains, if you will. Plus the president is mulling allowing Russia to interrogate a former ambassador (who has diplomatic immunity) and a British citizen living in the US (he was born in the US so he could claim citizenship)(whom Russia has executed something close to 20 arrest warrant through Interpol, which Interpol, upon investigation, have thrown out) in exchange for allowing Mueller (actually his team) to "sit in" as Russian intelligence prosecutors interrogate the 12 Russians Mueller has indicted.