Link. Enormous tax dodges for the monied.
“crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds”
Link. Dinosaurs. How smart were them raptors?
“Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750. He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much
Link. Poor Donald.
Remembering Peter Thiel’s passion for the blood of the young.
Link. QAnon channels Trump and hallucinates about Libs taking blood from kids. Trump and Thiel are best buds. Trump accuses others of his own sins. So he’s getting blood donations from Thiel?
“Senate Democrats neither to meet with Barrett nor participate in the confirmation process at all”
Link. Don’t take Trump’s hook.
No more JS frameworks (2014)
Link. This is neat to read with hindsight. (via Jon Udell)
Udell on web components and particularly custom elements.
Link. He’s been thinking about this kind of problem for a long time.
State of the COVID-19 Pandemic – Fall 2020.
Link. In which, to clarify my own thinking, I write about where we are at for better and for worse.
COVID-19–related myocarditis: a review.
Link. Quite readable and interesting.
Things I miss: drag and drop link creation.
Link. Progress is discontinuous.
Gordon’s Tech: iCloud backup and my lost authenticator codes.
Link. Progress is discontinuous.
iOS Keychain Access: “A simple shortcut I made that you can use to put the password manager on your home screen”
Link. Ricky Mondello does password stuff for Apple, this is basically Apple’s password manager. You can also use “Hey Siri, show me my passwords”. https://bit.ly/3cC8VTh.
“You can restore Google Authenticator with all accounts ONLY on the device where you activate this accounts(by scanning QR). Because this accounts tied to your device hardware.”
Link. Discovered the hard way when my i8 was replaced. Lost my authenticator codes. Now I store in 1Password instead.
“With everything going on and child abduction,” he said, people in the city wanted to verify what the vehicle was doing there.”
Link. Eitzen MN, QAnon stronghold. Racist too.
“panel of Black doctors will vet the federal review of companies’ vaccines, said Leon McDougle, president of the National Medical Association”
Link. Need this and more.
China skips efficacy testing on vaccines.
Link. Odds are some will work somewhat and others will be worse than nothing. Xi, Trump and Putin are wuite similar.
macOS 10.15.7: “remaining Mail data loss bug (dragging and dropping IMAP—and possibly Exchange—messages deletes them)”
Link. Nobody will miss Catalina.
iOS 14 Back Tap: ideas for use.
Link. Google Assistant for me.
Tech sucks and we live with it.
Link. My adult kids expect me to fix it.
Cameron, McConnell’s Black protegé.
Link. He’s in the wrong party.
“Minnesota has dropped into the “uncontrolled spread” category of the COVID-19 Exit Strategy website, joining neighbors Wisconsin, Iowa and the Dakotas”
Link. Well, at least our predictions are accurate.
Protists may eat viruses.
Link. How many calories in a coronavirus?
“resolves a bug that prevented apps from showing up in Spotlight searches.”
Link. I saw this one.
“Birx has told people around her that she is “distressed” with the direction of the task force, describing the situation inside the nation’s response to the coronavirus as nightmarish.”
Link.
QAnon infects health and wellness: “whose members have already proven themselves over the years to be remarkably susceptible to unverified and refuted claims on everything from vaccines to toxins to supplements”
Link. They want to believe.
The science of synchotron x-ray visualization.
Link. Huge benefits inevitable.
Non-FDA approved OTC nootropics about what you’d expect.
Link. Allowing these things decades ago was beginning of the end.
“Health officials already know of at least three cases where students have tested positive and showed up to class anyway”
Link. Inspired by Trump.
“President Trump on Tuesday said he had expanded a ban on racial sensitivity training to federal contractors.”
Link.
“you can save yourself a lot of the stress of moving apps by moving one or more of your Dock apps to a temporary spot and then using the Dock as a holding zone.”
Link.
Aperture comversion: Avalanche for Lightroom (1.3.1), for Luminar (1.2.1), Unlimited (1.2.1) – Stay on top of your photos
Link. Check the missing features.
“the public beta program is now a marketing tool—a way to get Apple enthusiasts hyped about the new releases”
Link. Bugs unfixed.
Trump sabotages Russian trolls.
Link. They can’t match him.
“the question of whether an illness spreads by droplets or aerosols drives two different sets of protective practices, touching on everything from airflow within hospital wards to patient isolation to choices of protective gear.”
Link. Droplet/aerosol is a false dichotomy but embedded in contracts and regulations and law so impossible to dislodge.
Rand Paul is not a board certified ophthamologist.
Link. No quality hospital would accept him on staff. Litigation risk too high. The article confuses his board status with his degree however.
State unemployment system crash wasn’t COBOL problem.
Link. This should be presentstion to Biden era Senate.
Firmware and the iMac Retina 5K 27-inch Late 2015 (iMac17,1): a hardware fault? – The Eclectic Light Company
Link. Very likely Apple knows and doesn’t want to pay for a recall.
Michelle Tidball is Kanye VP on my MN ballot
Link. Kushner pick.
Remote education basically a disaster.
Link. Tries to be upbeat but this is real bad.
“most of the $1 billion that Congress allocated under the Cares Act for purchases of medical equipment and protective gear under the Defense Production Act was shifted to the Defense Department, which spent most of the money — $688 million — on semi
Link.
“Even though Derkach is a former member of a pro-Russian party who attended the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB in Moscow, Giuliani has consistently defended his relationship with Derkach”
Link. Giuliani probably thinks a KGB agent is his friend. Kind of sad.
Why N95 masks are still in short supply months into covid-19 pandemic?
Link. Trump. Of course.
“Dr. Redfield’s responses to the emails said that he would call senior aides sounding resigned to the orders and asking how to navigate Mr. Caputo’s demands. Often, he tried to delay or ignore Mr. Caputo until the tension subsided.”
Link. Caputo and Alexander should have been running a car dealership.
Colds are back.
Link. I’m seeing them. We’ll get to see how confection plays out.
The Jet-Propelled Couch: psychosis, delusion, and psychotherapy.
Link. “Those of us who treat patients with this degree of dysfunction more regularly understand that there is a much more complicated dance, rather than a simple black or white dichotomy, between combatting and joining in the delusions.”
Strongbox: “a password manager for Macs and iOS devices that’s compatible with KeePass and Password Safe vault formats”
Link. Not cheap but I like a lot about it.
CDC screwup: “Experts with knowledge of the incident said on Monday that the latest reversal appeared to be a genuine mistake in the agency’s scientific review process, rather than the result of political meddling. Officials said the agency would soon
Link.
QAnon cult: the feminine side.
Link. The 70s were like this.
How China controls foreign journalists.
Link. We need a lot better than Trump to manage China.
“Cuba, a police state with a strong public health care system, was able to quickly control the coronavirus”
Link. But then tourism collapsed.