Link. They did it the natural way.
Loser Journalists: Winning Musk.
Link. Sad.
Murdoch media pushing story on JFK’s hooker love.
Link. Source aside, interesting to consider what has changed and what is same. I don’t care about Trump’s similar habits. Today’s Fox coverage is similar to JFK’s media coverage. NYT has changed.
What the heck is Transit.app’s business model?
Link. Expensive to maintain, very well done, venture funded. Where’s the payoff? Apple acquisition?
VPNFilter attacks routers
Link. Any comcast owned devices impacted?
Environmentalism: It is ALL about voting
Link. We need to make non-voting despicable.
NYT on another Trump lie: “said and has continued to say the exact opposite.”
Link. I think we need to keep calling these out. Even if nobody is listening.
“100 different low-cost Android devices from manufacturers like ZTE, Archos, and myPhone come with malware pre-installed”
Link. If I bought Android I’d get Google hardware.
“our pathetic human airways are always very close to obstruction”
Link. This is an excellent observation. I wonder varies by ethnicity at all (mandible shape). A genuine evolutionary weirdness.
Apple 2FA supports up to 25 Google-like “App-specific passwords”.
Link. Like Google’s. I don’t think they are necessarily “app-specific”; they are basically revocable backdoor passwords. Unfortunately you can’t use them with iCloud.com.
Disabling Two-Factor Authentication for Apple ID.
Link. If you are managing a dependent’s smartphone you may need to do this.
“machine-assisted compound development, very much analogous to what Gary Kasparov has termed “centaur” chess”
Link. The AIs are here.
“another sign of the president’s total takeover of the GOP — and Republicans’ unwillingness to fight back”
Link. Resistance will be long and hard
An intellectual gadget-loving approach to life transformation.
Link. I suggest just join a CrossFit gym, but this is a great Apple-centric guide to life transformation.
Physician stress.
Link. Most of us think the prevent-burnout-by-meditating advice is deeply dumb.
Fluoroquinolone Troubles: Mitochondria are a lot like bacteria
Link. Genetic variation in metabolism. Use as 2nd line drug.
“Russian mercenaries and their Syrian allies were in the wrong part of the world to try a simple, massed assault on an American military position”
Link. Reads like Pentagon press release.
Why the GOP can relax.
Link. The economy.
Growing number of iPhone X users report easily cracking camera lens
Link. My i8 “7s” has been perfect.
Top 20 Research Studies of 2017 for Primary Care Physicians.
Link. The abstract has all the lessons. I knew young Dr Ebell.
iPhone video: “the well containing the last photo or video is replaced by a white circle you can tap to take a still photo during video recording”
Link. Didn’t know that.
The Trump campaign: “major party presidential campaign that had either been infiltrated by or was colluding with a hostile foreign power.”
Link. Russia was attacking – with GOP support
EmDrive: “induced fields by the electrical wires”
Link. Physics unscathed. Again.
Mirror Protein Crystals: “three-dimensional space has 230 different space groups:”
Link. I read Spock Must Die.
New ranking of bike cities
Link. Washington and NYC ahead of Minneapolis? That’s just wrong.
Appigo’s last tweet was Sept 2017.
Link. Time of their last blog post. I think they’re dead.
More people hospitalized after smoking random chemicals.
Link. A good argument for legal, regulated, weed.
Henry f* Kissinger writes on AI.
Link. He is afraid. That almost makes me doubt my own fears. Prosaic ideas, but, really, Kissinger?!
Pruitt’s EPA: “security guards grabbed the reporter by the shoulders and shoved her forcibly out of the EPA building.”
Link. #twilightusa
Remembering Eudora.
Link. I miss it too. No spam then!
Notability for iOS adds handwriting search & conversion
Link.
Duplex demo substantially fake
Link. I fell for it.
Trump sabotaging Pence/Pompeo path to catastrophe.
Link. We are toast.
Apps Apple keeps running in macOS.
Link. Aperture has 4 accommodations.
Murdoch’s WSJ publishes incoherent denialist article on sea level rise.
Link. Evidently WSJ readership is cognitive disabled.
More evidence for Planet Nine.
Link. Any day …
Mosaicism common in human genomes
Link. Rampant imperfection.
We No Longer Have An Independent Justice Department
Link. Time to think about a place in the country
Autonomous Car sensors
Link. Still feels 20y away.
“what’s wrong with Europe is, in a deep sense, the same thing that’s wrong with America. And in both cases, the path to redemption will be very, very hard.”
Link. Resist.
scam engine: “… dating sites for almost any niche you could imagine—runners, marijuana enthusiasts, fishermen, bowlers, short people, geeks”
Link. Fake profiles. Monthly fees.
“my father’s inventions horrify and appall me”
Link. Athena seizes Scalzi blog from absent father.
“agile, decentralized genocide as a cloud service on our victims.”
Link. Stross is in a really bad mood.
“New York power and predator class”
Link. #metoo is straw in the wind
DES was a powerful modifier of epigenetics
Link. A side-effect not imagined when it was released
Castro 3, podcast client
Link. Base free, $9/y sub. I’ll try.
Dupuytren’s disease: state of confusion
Link. Many disorders fragment on close inspection
Why wages don’t rise: “combination of downward nominal wage rigidity and monopsony power”
Link. Need more employers.
US: $2.8 trillion on counterterrorism since 9/11
Link. Ubiquitous surveillance.
Tejate, a beverage of Oaxaca.
Link. Worth exporting.