November 23, 2016
Because he may have already decided on how many criminal offenses they’ll make. Kris Kobach, ineffective governor of Kansas, could be the next Secretary of Homeland Security. And he was photographed leaving a meeting carrying a “Plan for the First 365 Days” outside of its folder, allowing a discerning journalist a clear view describing some pretty heinous shit. / Esquire
“The reason that these particles are only momentarily real is that the particles are created in pairs that annihilate each other almost immediately, so the virtual universe giveth some energy and immediately yanks it back.” NASA’s super-hypothetical EM Drive generates many questions, and not so much thrust. / Ars Technica
An interactive map of those counties that “limit or prohibit” their cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows where exactly you need to direct your donations to local anti-deportation organizations. / CityLab
“When it comes to girls and burgers, it was an accident that we rolled into.” For your Wednesday morning no-work reading: An interview with the director of that Carl’s Jr. commercial, the one with Paris Hilton. / MEL
Particularly, the mobile share button, which Facebook added in 2012 as it sought to compete with Twitter as a source of news. That and other Twitter-imitation moves like Trending and hashtags created a hybrid platform that achieved massive publishing success while problematically retaining the editorial freedom afforded by “original sharing,” that was Facebook’s original meat-and-potatoes. / BuzzFeed
Copies of the Trump Foundation’s 2015 filings posted to GuideStar show the “charity” admitting to self-dealing—that is, using charity money to directly benefit now-President-elect Trump and his family. / The Washington Post
Among the movie stars, athletes, and philanthropists awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom this week were two pioneering female computer scientists: Margaret Hamilton, who wrote the software that allowed the Apollo 11 mission to land safely on the moon, and Rear Admiral “Amazing” Grace Hopper, who invented the first compiler, which translated real-language code into something computers could understand. / NBC News, The Boston Globe, Wired, The New York Times
Oh, good: the affordable Baja blanket, aka “the classic Mexican drug rug,” has been reimagined for hipster millenials and now costs $129. / gearinstitute.com
A puzzle to keep the entire family entertained (and confused) at the table once the coffee’s poured: Who owns the fish? / coudal.com
“My children have never sat down to a proper Thanksgiving dinner in my household, but we have an annual tradition of restaurant leftovers—capon, mash, gravy and pie—at the kitchen counter, with real silverware and long tapered candles, the day after. I find nothing dearer.” Gabrielle Hamilton, owner of New York’s Prune restaurant, says chefs have holidays, too, just not when the rest of us do. / New York Times
A supercut of Thanksgiving dinners from movies, all of them hopefully much worse than yours this year. / Vimeo
Noticing discrepancies in 2016 election outcomes between counties that used electronic voting machines and those that scanned paper ballots, election security experts say the Clinton campaign should challenge results in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. / New York
Conspiracy theorists beware: No evidence of hacking or other wrongdoing has been uncovered. As one of the experts, Alex Halderman, stresses, there are anomalies, and the only way to maintain election integrity is to force a manual recount: / Medium
Though Clinton’s campaign hasn’t moved on any of this yet, Jill Stein has announced her campaign will request recounts in the three states. / The Hill
Update: DecisionDeskHQ, the election analysts who handled BuzzFeed’s voter projections, similarly caution against allegations of hacking, and say the election results do make sense: / BuzzFeed