Short Shorts Redux The First

• Politico interviews Trump's biographers to understand his motivations
  

  So he has this deep fear that he is himself not a legitimate president, and I think that’s why he goes to such great lengths to delegitimize even the intelligence community, which is the president’s key resource in security, and he’s going to do this demeaning and delegitimizing behavior rather than accept what they have to tell him.

  
  
• Data Can Lie—Here's A Guide To Calling Out B.S.

  [T]hanks to the emergence of big data and the increasing availability of tools that help more people work with it, the amount of bullshit appears to have increased; with so much data out there, there is simply more potential for data scientists and designers to shape it to fit their own conclusions—or even intentionally mislead their audience.

•  Learning the Video Game Canon - How to deal with over 40 years of backlog?
  

  How many people write about Fallout 4 without ever playing Fallout 1? About Skyrim without ever playing Daggerfall? About Legend of Grimrock without ever playing Dungeon Master or a single 90's blobber?

• Architectural Relics: When Demolition Leaves Behind Nonsensical Structures