https://www.fastcompany.com/90524809/these-5-services-will-automate-all-your-most-tedious-tasks

https://www.fastcompany.com/90525132/i-spent-a-year-leading-a-team-in-complete-isolation-in-antarctica-here-are-4-strategies-you-need-right-now

As the city grapples with new restrictions on online speech, American tech giants are on the front line of a clash between China and the United States over the internet’s future.

“Is this someone who reads? Someone who likes a story? Operates on visuals?” Sanner said. “You figure out before you go in what that person needs from you.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/06/trump-intelligence-briefer-breaks-silence-349936

Detention camps are an abomination,” van Spronsen wrote. “I’m not standing by.”

Whether that’s a legitimate cause, van Spronsen’s words suggest a premeditated attack in service of a political goal — to federal authorities, that makes him a domestic terrorist. And a particularly rare one.

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/23/893533916/i-am-antifa-one-activist-s-violent-death-became-a-symbol-for-the-right-and-left

Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the Psychology of Authoritarianism

https://www.paragkhanna.com/home/2016/10/18/technocracy-in-america

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/us/politics/trump-putin-russia-taliban-bounty

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/us/politics/russian-bounties-warnings-trump

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-26-2020

Russia – Bounties – US Forces

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CRISPR enables scientists to make changes in DNA much more easily than before.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/23/877543610/a-year-in-1st-patient-to-get-gene-editing-for-sickle-cell-disease-is-thriving

Genome editing with CRISPR–Cas nucleases, base editors, transposases and prime editors

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-020-0561-9

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How Revolutions Fail

https://medium.com/better-marketing/screw-your-opinions-give-us-your-analysis-672d92715405

Paul Graham – Four Quadrants

http://paulgraham.com/conformism.html

Greg Satell – Support

Why Innovation Takes More Than Genius

Franklin Templeton – Distorting Language

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/commentaries/2020/07/29/they-blinded-us-from-science

Topol – Church Spread Tweet

https://twitter.com/erictopol/status/1292189076431331328-44

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