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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 7 – October 7, 2019 802 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 41 · Issue 280 Get it by email ↓
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The Smithsonian's Lonnie Bunch: Learning from history

Lonnie G. Bunch III is enamored of American history. Last June he was named Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, which he calls "part of the glue that holds the country together." Bunch, who oversaw the creation of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, is in charge of 19 museums, 21 librari…

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Systems Thinking in Practice (2016)

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    What Is Good About Haskell?

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Creating the Go Programming Language [audio]

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Back surgery saved him from paralysis. Then the bills arrived: over $650,000

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 55 stories

  1. WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO

    wsj.com · 2 outlets

  2. 94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  4. California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  2. WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  3. Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  4. 50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  5. 20,000 Startup Ideas

    unawaz.github.io · 1 outlets

  6. If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Parking Lot

    skyclerk.com · 1 outlets

  7. Hackers Hit Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a ‘SIM Swap’

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  8. MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud

    krebsonsecurity.com · 1 outlets

  9. New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DNA databases

    sciencemag.org · 1 outlets

  10. Belgian startup Magnax has found a way to mass-produce the axial-flux motor

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

Sports 38 stories

  1. Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen devices

    reddit.com · 2 outlets

  2. Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)

    jonathanwhiting.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Almost one in five men admits to having no close friends, a survey has found

    thetimes.co.uk · 1 outlets

  2. Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  3. Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. EFF Wins Access to License Plate Reader Data to Study Law Enforcement Use

    eff.org · 1 outlets

  5. WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Bot Land, a game where you fight others via code

    bot.land · 1 outlets

Technology 593 stories

  1. Richard M. Stallman resigns

    fsf.org · 5 outlets

  2. China Seeks to Buy Control of Hong Kong Companies

    nytimes.com · 3 outlets

  3. Interview with Edward Snowden

    justice.gov · 7 outlets

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  1. The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)

    broadcast.listennotes. · 1 outlets

  2. California bans private prisons

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  3. Serverless: slower and more expensive

    einaregilsson.com · 1 outlets

  4. Sunsetting Python 2

    python.org · 1 outlets

  5. Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  6. Culture Fit Interview Questions

    github.com · 2 outlets

  7. Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption

    buzzfeednews.com · 1 outlets

  8. France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra

    reuters.com · 2 outlets

  9. Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.?

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. Google contractors in Pittsburgh vote to unionize

    m.pghcitypaper.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: See a Satellite Tonight. No Telescope Required

    james.darpinian.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Show HN: Best of Show HN

    augmented-ui.com · 4 outlets

  2. Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D

    3dforreddit.com · 2 outlets

  3. Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook

    ft.com · 1 outlets

  4. Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Ledonardo, my light painting hardware project

    stavros.io · 1 outlets

  6. MoviePass will shut down for good on Sept. 14

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

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