Trump and cohorts will have another very bad week

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It’s all coming crashing down on Trump and his fellow criminals. Each week now will be worse than the previous week for them. Yesterday: Maria Butina changed her plea to guilty and is cooperating. NRA executives stopped ranting long enough…

WordPress 5.0 launches with no drama

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This was maybe the most contentious WordPress launch yet. Many on social media thought it wasn’t ready. There was much gnashing of teeth. However, three days after the launch there appears to be few if any issues. Everything is going…

Mueller is coming for Trump

“And for all those little piggies, life is getting worse.” Hey, Donald Trump, Mueller has amassed huge evidence against you on a multitude of crimes. Many of your former associates are informing against you, and no doubt against your corrupt…

Using silicon in tanks to store renewable energy

Concentrated Solar Power, which uses heat from the sun to run turbines to create electricity, has long stored excess heat in molten salt to power turbines at night. MIT researchers have used that idea as a concept for a new…

Koch Brothers horseshoes. Paris riots

Twitter is a valuable source for intelligent well-documented research using tweetstreams, as witness these two examples. Were the Paris riots just homegrown leaderless discontent or did someone exploit and jack that discontent? Because the far right sure seems to be…