Notes

Isn’t it nice to imagine airports following shopping malls into irrelevance? #trainsbeforeplanes https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/10/limburg-buys-maastricht-airport-for-e1-after-limiting-expansion-plans/

Oh, this seems like a fine time to get rid of the people who hold the White House accountable for preserving records. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/white-house-guts-infosec-team-posturing-itself-to-be-compromised-again/

Technology will not save us, but technophobia may kill us.

Blanket fear of GMO is harmful similarly as anti-vax sentiment: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/26/gm-golden-rice-delay-cost-millions-of-lives-child-blindness

I find it slightly disturbing that the description for this warfighter readiness assessment program cites “92 percent of adults in the United States”. https://www.darpa.mil/program/warfighter-analytics-using-smartphones-for-health

I guess we don’t get to Lock Her Up. But at least we prevented her from becoming President. 😬

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/22/20924795/hillary-clinton-emails-new-york-times-state-department

This is the time of year when I wistfully recall Bradburian childhood memories, get nostalgic about campfire ghost stories, and become inconsolably angry about “trunk or treat”.