Link. I wonder what the legislators thought they were doing and how the newspapers wrote about it. Before civil war, clearly inflienced by culture of black enslavement.
Turn off Live Photos for existing pictures.
Link. Photos.app feature.
DEVINNUNES2020.COM
Link. Power to the cow. Buy the shirt.
And Trump corrupts the National Archives.
Link. Satanic.
MarsEdit gives up on Blogger.
Link. Google sucks.
““as a culture we are barely coming to grips with the power of YouTube, Facebook, and to some degree, Twitter, as means of spreading mass-market disinformation”
Link. The feedback loops, delivery velocity, and evolution are all novel.
Flash eulogy.
Link. Where it came from. How it fell from grace.
MSP Bicycling history.
Link. Lots of bike paths before the car.
Apple TV: the Apple ad plague begins.
Link. Feel the hate.
Free public transit begins in America
Link. Hell yes.
“The current domestic terrorism statute does not carry any criminal penalties.”
Link. why not?
Swatting a tool of white racist terrorists.
Link. Clever.
Prometheoarchaeum: a new ancient microbe.
Link. Pre-eukaryote?
GOP Opportunity Zone tax break is a font of corruption.
Link. Shock.
“it did prove the existence of one channel where an iPhone could be forced to update to a compromised version of iOS”
Link. What the FBI wants
“scientists could repair the damaged livers, clearing them of fat deposits and facilitating tissue regeneration, for example.”
Link. Awesome work
“GRU operatives began hacking into various subsidiaries of Burisma Holdings, apparently looking for emails or other documents”
Link. Planting “evidence” more likely.
YouTube RSS: “The combined URL + Channel ID is the Feed URL of that YouTube channel, and can be added to my feed reader”
Link. RSS is the best
Typewriter Keylogger: Soviet brilliance
Link. The engineers should get a special award
SMS hacking is easy: “all 5 carriers used insecure authentication challenges that could easily be subverted by attacker”
Link. American banks rely on SMS because they hate us.
Report: The FBI recently unlocked an iPhone 11 Pro with GrayKey, raising more doubts about the Pensacola case
Link. It smells
“a 15-year-old girl attempted to swim off Mr. Epstein’s island and escape after she was forced to engage in sex acts with Mr. Epstein and others. The girl was found, and held captive on the island”
Link. We are way off the sane timeline now.
Apple’s AirPods Pro: “last oddity was fixed by a recent firmware update”
Link. Best review.
Dark Mode isn’t wonderful.
Link. Marketing driven.
Xenobots: “organisms come pre-loaded with their own food source of lipid and protein deposits, allowing them to live for a little over a week — but they can’t reproduce or evolve.”
Link. Famous last words.
xkcd: JPEG2000
Link. I remember all the better paths not taken.
Robert Clary – “Yes, there’s something dark in the human soul. For the most part human beings are not very nice. That’s why when you find those who are, you cherish them”
Link. From Buchenwald to Hogan’s Heroes. via Twitter. I watched that show.
125 years ago, deadly ‘Children’s Blizzard’ blasted Minnesota.
Link. Last victims of Krakatoa.
“the cheap 4K TV you bought three years ago is just about as good as the newest ones coming to market”
Link. I think we barely have HD. Don’t even care about 4K.
McConnell’s reelection depends on complete fealty to Trump.
Link. Trump has absolute control of GOP voters in Kentucky.
Hikikomori: Extreme Social Isolation isn’t uniquely Japanese
Link. Initially comfortable but then not.
“Foxx also has raised the standard for prosecuting felony shoplifting charges from a minimum of $300 to $1,000 in stolen goods”
Link. Won’t this induce retailers to leave the city? What about package theft?
“As wombats arrange these feces to mark territories and attract mates, it is believed that the cubic shape makes them more stackable and less likely to roll, which gives this shape a biological advantage”
Link. Wombats are big – up to size of a 12yo.
Sinofsky reviews CES. 2020
Link. Best ever.
America and Argentina: lessons from totalitarian murder.
Link. The right finds our concerns amusing. They don’t read much – or they favor this.
“Cross-word puzzles and the radio have been given as the reason for a marked decline during recent months in the demand for books at the Ottawa public library”
Link. “Meow meow” required research. 1920s. No TV.
Our Invisible Poor | The New Yorker. 1963.
Link. A critique of Galbraith. Friend recommemded. A worldview both familiar and alien.
“Puerto Rico is squeezed between the border of the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates.”
Link. Geology
“Analysts with Morgan Stanley have said they expect urban air taxis to be common by 2040″
Link. Autonomous presumably
British tabloid press are truly weird
Link. The nut here is a whacko tabloid veteran whining about meghixit and what he was owed
“slowest 10-year population growth since the first census was taken in 1790,”
Link. Insane to halt immigration now
Star Wars Voyager 1
Link. We did something amazing once.
Russia’s science academy exposes widespread fraud and corruption in Russian science.
Link. China worse. Too many scientists, not enough science demand.
“states that raised their minimum wages by $1, reduced the suicide rates by 3.4 percent to 5.9 percent among adults between the ages of 18 and 64, whose highest educational attainment was a high school diploma or less”
Link. Veterans
Soleimani Assassination: ensuring support of key GOP Senators.
Link. Trump wants 100% GOP support in his trial. Consistent with his effective political strategy.
‘Macintosh HD’ persists.
Link. A last bit of Apple’s soul.
Federal Program Offers Free Phones For the Poor, So Long as You’re OK With Chinese Malware
Link. This program needs to die.
Cars switching to CO2 based cooling systems
Link. It’s complicated.
Cancer Death Rate in U.S. Sees Sharpest One-Year Drop
Link. “reduced smoking rates and to advances in lung cancer treatment. New therapies for melanoma of the skin”. GOP states will have more cervical cancer due to HPV antivaxxers.
“based on limited testing data, this season’s flu shot does not look like a good match for the B Victoria flu and may not be very effective”
Link. Darn