The GOP Tax Plan Will Destroy Graduate Education
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/11/07/the-gop-tax-plan-will-destroy-graduate-education/#6ebc79e63d2f

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An Economic Geography of the United States: From Commutes to Megaregions (2016)
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=info%3Adoi/10.1371/journal.pone.0166083

(submitted by SQL2219)

Kremlin-Owned Firms Linked to Major Investments in Twitter and Facebook
https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/kremlin-owned-firms-linked-major-twitter-facebook-investments-icij/

(submitted by kmfrk)

Do social media threaten democracy? – Scandal, outrage and politics
https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21730871-facebook-google-and-twitter-were-supposed-save-politics-good-information-drove-out

(submitted by dredmorbius)

Some people on Twitter can post 35k-char tweets
https://twitter.com/Timrasett/status/926903967027785728

(submitted by mschuster91)

The Disappearing American Grad Student
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/education/edlife/american-graduate-student-stem.html

(submitted by lnguyen)

GOP tax bill would tax tuition wavers for grad students
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Republican-Tax-Proposal-Gets/241662

(submitted by stochastic_monk)

Audacity 2.2.0 Released
http://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-2-2-0-released/

(submitted by conductor)

“realdonaldtrump’s account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error”
https://twitter.com/TwitterGov/status/926238960594178048

(submitted by danso)

Stack Overflow reducing headcount by 20%
https://twitter.com/AndrewBrobston/status/926141946015420416

(submitted by cjCamel)

The underground story of Cobra, the 1980s’ illicit handmade computer
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/the-underground-story-of-cobra-the-1980s-illicit-handmade-computer/

(submitted by gk1)

House Republicans propose to scrap $7,500 electric vehicle credit
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-vehicles/house-republicans-propose-to-scrap-7500-electric-vehicle-credit-idUSKBN1D2282

(submitted by rippsu)

Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
https://www.neustadt.fr/essays/against-a-user-hostile-web/

(submitted by livatlantis)

The Improbable Origins of PowerPoint
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/the-improbable-origins-of-powerpoint

(submitted by danso)

Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/education/edlife/stem-jobs-industry-careers.html

(submitted by stablemap)

On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit [pdf]
http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf

(submitted by fermienrico)

Security Analysis of Telegram [pdf]
https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2017/project/19.pdf

(submitted by lainon)

Why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network (2008) [pdf]
http://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/articles/Gerovitch-InterNyet.pdf

(submitted by lainon)

Reddit.com/etc/passwd
https://www.reddit.com/etc/passwd

(submitted by bdz)

Facebook employees just opened a privately shared Google Sheet
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/79x7u3/facebook_employees_just_opened_a_privately_shared/

(submitted by dredmorbius)