Link. Ancient Roman protection against undead since removed.

Link. I wouldn’t touch it. Modern Thunderbolt APFS SSDs are very complex.

Link. Try backing up your macOS Notes. Apple’s Cloud-sync tech reduces data loss for many but makes true backup harder.

Link. MacFUSE based cloud file system.

Link. They know vendors will invent new dark patterns and they have anticipated obvious evil.

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Link. CGPT 4 helps build the code to build CGPT 5. Don’t worry, it’s not a positive feedback loop. #beafraid

Link. Protista!

Link. A few players sell and provide health care services and negotiate for payment. Costs are higher of course.

Link. A sane GOP would have helped.

Link. National salvation makes a better rationale than wealth and power. It’s a happy accident that they lead to the same actions.

Link. Did this for my daughter, I like it. Put it in iOS notes. Contrary to what I hear everyone say changing a flat can be the hardest thing to do on a bike. Sometimes bleeding hydraulic brakes I easier.

Link. “Previously, I had said if Trump was arrested or under the threat of a perp walk, 100,000 patriots should shut down all routes to Mar-a-Lago…. Now I’m retired. I’ll pray for him though!”

Link. “Putin’s arrest warrant for war crimes, centered in crimes against children, will make it harder to spin his authoritarianism as a virtue, especially as they claim their policies are designed to protect children.”

Link. How worthless is American law?

Link. Modern GOP is just more of what it always was.

Link. If only the government had likewise progressed.

Link. Among a reasonably large number of cis gender pairs I’ve known this is a common pattern.

Link. That means more cardiac issues. Surprising and bad. I wouldn’t use it. If results hold up it’s gone.

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Link. “Fallujah gleams with new apartments, hospitals, amusement parks, a promenade and a renewed gate to the city. Its markets and streets are bustling. But officials were wary of letting Western reporters wander the city without an escort.”

Link. “Glory to Ukraine,” the Ukrainian says calmly. He is quickly shredded by bullets from multiple directions.”

The My Lai massacre was in 1968. The American heroes who opposed it were only rewarded in 1998. We are so similar.

Link. An opportunity to share a grim story and its lessons.

Link. If you don’t tear up you are a stone. Also, thank you evil big pharma and academia both.

Link. HOWEVER: “Preliminary figures suggest maternal deaths dropped to roughly prepandemic levels in 2022”

I got whiplash reading this. 7x number is early pandemic. The anecdote is about a woman who declined vaccine and all-but died; she and her child did well with superb medical care.

Link. However in the absence of bank runs that may be offset by higher returns on deposits.

Link. But Thiel didn’t post on social media.

Link. “The price of admission paid for the staff, and parents owed the park nothing for the care of their baby … nurses made sure that the newborns received regular feedings from wet-nurses …. local newspapers covered their progress at the unit by giving them nicknames. Nearly all of the babies sent to the Incubator Institute survived.”

Link. Started 2011 and I only learned of it today. The about page is a good start.

Link. “The relevant support article recommends using https://apple.co/3JIBQav, but that has only a 90 day history. Each family member can see their own transaction history on their Apple device, but there is no web interface I know of to review this history.”

Link. I use Siri several times a day and I’m generally happy with how it works. It does simple things well.

Link. It’s not just me. Other people are awed and afraid. The old term was singularity.

“I recognize that entertaining these possibilities feels a little, yes, weird. It feels that way to me, too. Skepticism is more comfortable.”

Link. Colorectal cancer path.

Link. Files are going away….

Link. The Mac is drifting towards being a single user device like the iPhone.

“There are two good ways to discover which users are owners, and have Secure Token…”

Link. Great history here from when the Republican Party was with Lincoln.

Link. “Patels are estimated to own between 80 and 90 percent of the motels in small towns.” From India Abroad. The article embraces ethnic stereotypes.

Link. In 2006 McNeil thought a catastrophic avian influenza pandemic was very likely. He was wrong then. Now he cautions against both complacency and panic. The last paragraph is morbidly amusing.

Link. “I retired in August of 2022 so I think I’ll focus on mountain bike trail maintenance and, like Superintelligence’s Carol Peters, on the needs of friends and family.”

Link. “President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.” Started under GWB. Cheap at 7.5 billion. Sometimes we do good things.

Link. I regret not buying that cabin in the remote wilderness.

Link. We need liability and lawyers.

Link. “malware checks for available firmware upgrades every 10 seconds. When an update becomes available, the malware copies the archived file for backup…”

Link. Why a first-tine journey seems much longer than subsequent trips.

Link. History meets genomics.

Link. I had to dredge up old knowledge to fix this one. There are odd things happening but I think the email bounces have been fixed for now.

Link. It’s disturbing and sad when a friend forgets things I did with them. It’s also normal. I forget too. We evolved in a cruel reality.

Link. I’m a hardcore woke-lib. BUT this stuff drives me crazy. There’s an endless list of well intentioned things my team does that are obviously stupid from the beginning. I would love to have a sane GOP opposition.

Link. VCs went utterly bonkers because they never imagined they’d actually need something government does (very well).

Link. The writing is poor; it’s not a ban on serving aboriginal people, it’s community based. I believe some US First People communities have had similar limits, but i think they were set by tribal authorities.