On My Mind 

This is just sad, and will go underreported in the wake of Hurricane Florence.

The Gullah are the descendants of enslaved Africans who live in the Lowcountry region of the U.S. states of South Carolina and Georgia, which includes both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands.

It is doubly sad because they are a generally impoverished people – by our standards, who are living on mostly sustenance farming.

• With the devastation of their farmlands, and their ancestral homes and land, where do they start?  How can they start? :-> The Gullah-Geechee People Called Carolina’s Coast Home for Centuries. Then Florence Came.

Microsoft & All Things Windows

• Excellent points. A very good read. :-> Five lessons from Microsoft's Azure cloud outage

Business

• Facebook is trying to be just slightly worse than Google when it comes to stuff. -> ACLU files discrimination charges against Facebook for serving job posts to only men

Technology

• I am a complete un-Belieber in ARM-based server CPUs. I just don’t think they can handle standard workloads well. As said in that great Sci-Fi series, Fringe, “Show me” :-> Ampere’s Arm-based server chip is ready to challenge Intel in the data center
• With any other auto firm, this is a good thing. However, I am 100% sure that I don’t want my dashcam footage accessible to Elon Musk. :-> Tesla’s long-awaited dash cam functionality will arrive in the next software update
• Not a fan of the smart home, I am. :-> Nest doorbell locks man out of his home after mistaking his Batman shirt for an intruder

General Interest

• Sickening read! :-> Why white Americans have such a hard time picturing a middle-class black neighborhood.
• Has there EVER been any time in your life, where looking for a sapient thought, you slapped your forehead, and of all lifeforms on Terra, you shout" Eureka! Sean Penn!", as the bearer of wise, or even, sane thoughts? Me neither. #MeToo –> The Perennial Village Idiot known as Sean Penn Opines on #MeToo 

World

• These train trips surely do that! -> Three luxurious train journeys that put air travel to shame
• Rule-of-thumb: if you need AR to tell you your luggage is too big to fit, it is. :-> Will your carry-on fit in that overhead bin? Kayak’s new AR tool can tell you

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