Reality Checks: Stopping Clocks, Bringing Ball Ballgames, Torvalds Learns Empathy, and Dismissing Deaths in Puerto Rico

Elizabeth — September 18, 2018

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Trump is turning off federal radio stations that broadcast the time. (via Voa News)
Bringing back a pre-columbian ballgame. (via NPR)
Linux adopts a code of conduct and Torvalds is taking time off to learn empathy. (via Ars Technica)
The head of FEMA is blaming spousal abuse for deaths in Puerto Rico. (via Salon)

Featured image credit: Joe Haupt via flickr

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Elizabeth is a professional belly dancer, a flaky computer scientist, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Georgia (the state of the U.S., not the country) but is nonetheless somehow not a combination of stereotypes from Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. Her personal blog is Coffeefied. Operafied. Fluffified. Beglittered.

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