PSA: if you or someone nearby are being brutalized by a police Spot robot and can get a hand or something underneath, grab this handle and yank it forward. This releases the battery, instantly disabling the robot. Keep your hands away from joints, Spot WILL crush your fingers. twitter.com/nypost/status/…

Достаточно случайно наткнулся на научную статью 1985 года про слушания в американском сенате по поводу Уотергейтского скандала: "Talking Social Structure: Discourse, Domination and the Watergate Hearings".  В статье подробно разбирается как задавались вопросы свидетелям на на этих слушаниях. Как формулировка этих вопросов влияет на получаемый ответ и позицию в разговоре.

Статья скучная, но зато в ней есть очень хорошо сформулированная мысль:

> The first face of power is the capacity to prevail in explicit contests (ball games, wars, debates over where to eat dinner). [...] A second face of power (somewhat less visible) is the ability to set agendas, to determine the issues over which there will be any explicit contest at all [...]. Our third face of power is the most basic of all; it is the ability to determine the very grounds of the interactions through which agendas are set and outcomes determined; it is the struggle over the linguistic premises upon which the legitimacy of accounts will be judged. It is…

This episode is part of our remastered greatest hits collection and features Richard Hipp, the creator of SQLite, talking with us about its history, where it came from, why it has succeeded as a database, how it’s development is sustainably funded, and the how and why of it being the most widely deployed database engin...