Interesting Items Part Deux

I've been a big proponent of clean water being a priority, so when we bought our house I bought both a whole-house Kinetico water purification (and softening) system...on top of that a 5-stage Reverse-Osmosis (RO) in the kitchen.

Check the article, these plastic fibers contaminants are 10 microns, that will pass thru a lot of filters even, certainly anything the city might use but RO's semi-permeable membrane is typically 0.0001 microns :-)  Also clearly they cannot be boiled away...unless of course you mean distilling your water (i.e. catching the water vapor) ;-)

Hard to say at this point what kinds of ailments drinking microscopic plastic fibers could lead to but we have been hearing about stranger and stranger ones in the last few decades.

https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/09/06/2020257/plastic-fibers-found-in-83-percent-of-worlds-tap-water-study-reveals

Changing gears, this is a very cool new hack called the Dolphin-Attack using hypersonic commands on all the Siri's and other voice assistants...we of course cannot hear past audible frequencies so we have no idea anything is even happening!

https://apple.slashdot.org/story/17/09/06/2026247/hackers-can-take-control-of-siri-and-alexa-by-whispering-to-them-in-frequencies-humans-cant-hear