Reality Checks: Congratulations Margaret Hamilton! Warrants and Hacking Extents, Talking to Aliens, and the Shrinkage of Mercury

Elizabeth — November 24, 2016

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How to talk to aliens. (via Vice)
Based on one warrant, the FBI hacked 8k users in over 100 countries. (via Ars Technica)
Mercury may be shrinking. (via NYT)
Margaret Hamilton awarded the presidential medal of freedom! (via the Mary Sue)

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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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