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Links:

• New York Times: El Capitan, My El Capitan - Amazing story!
• Ars Technica: You’ll never guess where Russian spies are hiding their control servers - Instagram comments. (Saved you a click.) But go read for the details.
• BBC: The hidden ways that architecture affects how you feel
• The Official Delicious Blog - With del.icio.us in new hands, someone is writing about the history of the bookmarking service.
• A Book Apart: Color Accessibility Workflows
• DigitalOcean Cloud Firewalls - Happy to add this to UFW for managing access.
• Eugene Register Guard: Eclipse expert tells Eugene audience: Don’t miss the moment of totality on Aug. 21
• Monument Valley 2 - Sequel to the beautiful iOS game.
• Designer News: Redditors design worst volume sliders possible

And in other news:

• The Intercept: Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election
• TheHill: DOJ: Trump can accept payments from foreign governments - Corruption.
• Vice: What My Father the Pathological Liar Taught Me About Trump
• @hodgman: "Here's what seems plausible to me..." - John Hodgman's tragic hilarious (tragilarious?) Twitter take on Comey & Trump during Comey's testimony.

More links for your weekly link pile:

• Benedict Evans: Not even wrong - ways to dismiss technology
• reddit careerquestions: Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job... - Take a minute and make sure this can't happen wherever you are.
• @mtsw thread on 'Pittsburgh vs. Paris' - Hey, I drive a Prius.
• Noahpinion: The Shouting Class
• Pinboard Acquires Delicious - See also: @delicious is a human now.
• Daring Fireball: Fuck Facebook - Seconded, thirded, and agreed.
• Atlas Obscura: The Hypnotic Allure of Cinemagraphic Waves
• Archive.org: MIT Press Classics Available Soon - Information still wants to be free.

And in other news:

• Washington Post: How Congress dismantled federal Internet privacy rules
• The Nation: The Covfefe Is Often Worse Than The Crime
• Fusion: Stop Enabling the Nihilist Republican Shrug
• Vox: Don’t just blame Trump for quitting the Paris deal...
• Rebecca Solnit: The Loneliness of Donald Trump
• Washington Post: Trump addresses London attack by tweeting about gun control, travel ban
• George Lakoff: Disaster Branding: The Importance of Naming

And a chaser, la hora sonó, la hora sonó: