{"id":12369,"date":"2023-08-20T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=12369"},"modified":"2023-08-20T11:54:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T17:54:44","slug":"8-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=12369","title":{"rendered":"8.20"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OPEN LETTER from a San Francisco legacy business. This letter, a full-page newspaper ad published today. It summarizes what majority of residents lament. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2WlcSHTrxR\">pic.twitter.com\/2WlcSHTrxR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Richie Greenberg (@greenbergnation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greenbergnation\/status\/1690784075320287232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(75, 85, 99); color: rgb(75, 85, 99); font-family: ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont,\" segoe ui roboto neue arial sans sans-serif color emoji symbol font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>Have you ever <\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(75, 85, 99); color: rgb(75, 85, 99); font-family: ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont,\" segoe ui roboto neue arial sans sans-serif color emoji symbol font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdftool.org\/en\">asked<\/a><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(75, 85, 99); color: rgb(75, 85, 99); font-family: ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont,\" segoe ui roboto neue arial sans sans-serif color emoji symbol font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:> yourself what happens when you upload your PDFs to one of the many sites that offer PDF modifications on the internet? You should! We modify your PDF files in your browser, no upload required.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/extraordinary-story-world-deepest-submarine-rescue-1598186\">heard<\/a> about the rescue of Pisces III about fifteen years ago from a ship&#8217;s captain while on a cruise around the Aeolian Islands, off the coast of Sicily. I filed it away and two years ago decided to dust the idea down and explore if it would work as, what I imagined, could be a &#8216;non-fiction thriller.&#8217; What appealed to me was not only the plight of the men at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean but this international &#8216;Brotherhood of the Sea&#8217;\u2014teams from Britain, Canada and America\u2014who all came together to work on the rescue mission.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot was forced to spend about two hours flying over the desert and the sea to dump around 80 tons of kerosene to enable the aircraft to land safely, prompting questions about the environmental damage caused by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/791937e4-ac6a-4a26-a3be-9480afd199a0#comments-anchor\">Green minister\u2019s trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0)\">Today, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/thecfhk\/eu-passes-resolution-calling-for-the-release-of-jimmy-lai-and-repeal-of-hknsl-10369577?e=0094e9757d\">Judge Andrew Macrae reported that he and other judges<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0)\"> on the Hong Kong Court of Appeal unanimously overruled the convictions against Hong Kong pro-democracy activists Jimmy Lai, Martin Lee, Margaret Ng, Lee Cheuk-yan, Leung Kwok-hung, Cyd Ho and Albert Ho for organising an unauthorised assembly in 2019. Their convictions for participating in an unauthorised assembly were upheld.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Take time to listen to President Eisenhower\u2019s 15-minute-long farewell address.<\/p>\n<p>Here are 4 clips of what he warned us about that have all come true. Amazingly prescient.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenRonJohnson\/status\/1691099792523567104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p id=\"66ce\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph kp kq ev ks b kt mu kv kw kx mv kz la mw mx ld le my mz lh li na nb ll lm ln eo bj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); word-break: break-word; font-style: normal; line-height: 32px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria,\" times new roman serif font-size: font-variant-caps: normal orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba text-decoration:>Developer <a href=\"https:\/\/marcochiappetta.medium.com\/yes-you-should-test-on-production-61f6dc61908b\">experience<\/a> is how much your (present and potential) devs want to work on a specific project. Poor developer experience is a byproduct of dissonance between perceived complexity of a project and tangible complexity of the systems and processes related to it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2 tracts sold $30K\/acre today on James R. and Mary Ann Weisenborn Trust virtual online farm land auction in Adams County, IL by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bidsullivan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bidsullivan<\/a>. Video clip of Dan Sullivan selling. Info: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3gmV1ZDfOT\">https:\/\/t.co\/3gmV1ZDfOT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K1Nd0dPt3f\">pic.twitter.com\/K1Nd0dPt3f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Peterson (@MachineryPete) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MachineryPete\/status\/1691589436738318600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The origin of this disaster is <a href=\"https:\/\/cliffmass.blogspot.com\/2023\/08\/the-origin-of-hawaii-firespreventing.html\">now becoming clear<\/a>:&nbsp; massive amounts of dry, dead fuel (mainly grass), strong downslope winds produced by strong trades interacting with local mountains, and human ignition, most probably from powerlines.<\/p>\n<p><meta charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 20px; text-align: left; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: UntitledSerifWeb, Georgia, Garamond,\" times new roman serif font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba text-decoration:>That means she <a href=\"https:\/\/newconsumer.com\/2023\/08\/elly-truesdell-new-fare-partners-interview\/\">explored the thousands<\/a> of new food and consumer brands, picked the best ones, and helped them launch and scale their products in Whole Foods stores \u2014 a life-changing opportunity for many businesses. Also an incredible experience in data-gathering, deal flow, and network-building for a future investor.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brandon Johnson on August 2:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m becoming popular because other, like, you know, major stars are saying like &#8216;what&#8217;s going on in Chicago,&#8217; people are excited about it.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jULP1avlJz\">https:\/\/t.co\/jULP1avlJz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chicago Contrarian (@ChicagoContrar1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChicagoContrar1\/status\/1691676064085422537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stanley McChrystal probably should have left this bit out of his memoir.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, all the big Al Qaeda attacks of the 1990s were directed by a Special Forces sergeant based at Fort Bragg who was also a CIA and FBI asset. But that was a long time ago. Better to not mention it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TtzyT3Np9e\">pic.twitter.com\/TtzyT3Np9e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Seth Harp (@sethharpesq) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sethharpesq\/status\/1691657408953696349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last week, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/thespectator.com\/newsletter\/media-begins-shoring-up-bidens-network-flank-08-15-23-bad-press\/\">announced<\/a> the hiring of Jamaal Simmons, fresh off his role as Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s communications director. Her office has yet to replace Simmons, seemingly aware that CNN is taking on that job for Harris. Only two weeks prior to the Simmons hire, CNN announced that former Biden White House communications director Kate Bedingfeld had been hired as an on-air commentator and contributor.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BryceSpaceTech?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BryceSpaceTech<\/a>, SpaceX lifted nearly 10 times as much mass to orbit in the second quarter of this year as its closest competitor, the nation of China.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2HXcqt9wYe\">https:\/\/t.co\/2HXcqt9wYe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L6QtJCsaZd\">pic.twitter.com\/L6QtJCsaZd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SciGuySpace\/status\/1691836079869960374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"Mt(60px) Mt(30px)!--sm Mt(30px)!--xs Mb(30px) Mb(20px)!--sm Mb(20px)!--xs \" data-component=\"ArticleHeader\" style=\"margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 60px\">\n<div class=\"Mb(20px) \" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px\">\n<h2 class=\"My(0px) Fz(24px) Fw(400) Lh(32px) Fz(20px)!--sm Lh(24px)!--sm Lh(24px)--xs Fz(18px)--xs C(engadgetBlack) serif\" style=\"font-family\" guardian egyp serif antialiased font-weight: color: rgb font-size: line-height: margin-top: margin-bottom:>Dennis Giese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/robot-vacuum-security-privacy-irobot-cloud-133008625.html\">taught<\/a> DEFCON attendees how to secure their robot vacuums.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chang <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2023-08-19\/tsmc-the-most-important-company-in-the-world\/102728172\">thought<\/a> the tech companies should focus on designing the microchips, and outsource the actual manufacture to a company that specialises in it. Chang suggested this to Texas Instruments over and over, but they never budged. Eventually, he&nbsp;was shifted sideways into a dead end role, and he quit.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 6,000 data <a href=\"https:\/\/restoreprivacy.com\/protonmail-data-requests-user-logs\/\">request orders <\/a>\u201ccomplied with\u201d in 2022. To ProtonMail\u2019s credit, the organization publishes a transparency report going back to 2017. In it, we find the following statistics detailing legal orders for user data.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">yup this is true <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mAe7j32ORb\">pic.twitter.com\/mAe7j32ORb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CarDealershipGuy (@GuyDealership) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuyDealership\/status\/1692888939479138622?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s funny how the only people who even try to defend first the Australian and now Canadian news link laws really don\u2019t understand the issues.<br \/>\nThey always start by saying it&#8217;s &#8220;paying to publish news&#8221; and when you point out that&#8217;s untrue they go straight to insults and deflection<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benedictevans\/status\/1693204683014262784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family\" segoe ui roboto neue arial sans sans-serif color emoji symbol font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba text-decoration: display: inline float:>As a result of the <\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family\" segoe ui roboto neue arial sans sans-serif color emoji symbol font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba text-decoration: display: inline float:><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc15.com\/2023\/08\/20\/two-pedestrians-hit-leads-large-crowd-downtown-madison\/\">crash<\/a><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family\" segoe ui roboto neue arial sans sans-serif color emoji symbol font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba text-decoration: display: inline float:>, a large crowd gathered and multiple people began to obstruct paramedics, firefighters and police, according to MPD.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPEN LETTER from a San Francisco legacy business. This letter, a full-page newspaper ad published today. It summarizes what majority of residents lament. pic.twitter.com\/2WlcSHTrxR \u2014 Richie Greenberg (@greenbergnation) August 13, 2023 Have you ever asked yourself what happens when you upload your PDFs to one of the many sites that offer PDF modifications on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12369"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12369"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12406,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12369\/revisions\/12406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}