Link. “Funding for the operations came from a donor who has not been publicly identified.” UK neurosurgeon: Noor ul Owase Jeelani, Great Ormond Street Hospital in London
“Amazon is starting to remind me of one of those liquidation store brands that I remember being super popular in the late 1990s to early 2000s”
Link. Alibaba.
Keyboard geek overview
Link. Progress has been made
“don’t remove the pericardium during human surgery”
Link. May contain novel cells that help healing
“Intuit chose to dupe and take advantage of its most vulnerable customers is supremely shitty”
Link. Bad culture.
“if this President relays an anecdote in which he has someone referring to him as “sir,” then some major component of the anecdote is very likely to be wrong.”
Link. If Sir absent only 50% wrong.
OpEd from future: “It was signed into law by government officials in the nation’s capital of Minneapolis, “
Link. SF short published in NYT.
Terry Pratchett and Political Philosophy.
Link. Nostalgic. So many great lines
“there’s no equivalence between even the most foot-dragging Democrats and the G.O.P.’s raw racial incitement, and anyone who suggests otherwise is acting destructively.”
Link. Or simply serving Trump. Or Putin.
“Twitter does not view Trump’s tweets Sunday as a violation of its hateful conduct policy.”
Link. Shocker.
SilentKnight 1.0 takes over from EFIcienC for checking and updating security data
Link. EFIcienC brand ends
Most “Free” VPN Apps Secretly Owned by China
Link. Popular with high school students
New MacBook Air includes 35% slower SSD compared to 2018 model.
Link. WTF Apple
State DMVs Earn Millions by Selling Personal Data to Brokers and Marketing Firms
Link. Remember.
“U.S. put a dozen men on the surface of the Moon with computers that had exponentially less power than an iPhone is the coolest thing we’ve ever done.”
Link. Looking back ever more amazing
NYT squeamishly tiptoes around Dem concerns a woman can’t win Wisconsin
Link. This is #1 worry. HRC was a very strong candidate
NYT has incoherent preview of Biden ACA reforms
Link. Public option is key, but they barely refer to it. Reminds me of their HRC coverage
“The city had backup files for all its data, but they were on the same network — and also inaccessible.”
Link. I have yet to find any news article that describes encryptionware resistant backup strategies. I have looked.
Ross Perot Dead at 89.
Link. I remember his charts. Had positive press until paranoia kicked in.
“Republican lawmakers, by and large, did not rush to the president’s side on Sunday either, but neither did they jump forward to denounce him.”
Link. GOP needs the white racist vote. It has no hope.
“private pharmaceutical companies have no role in a well-functioning health-care system.”
Link. Presumably applies to distributors as well (or more so?).
“one of Apple’s biggest failings: its complete inability to communicate effectively with its users”
Link. Apple has had low activity blogs, but overall this is a weird cultural problem for them.
“All taxes collected by the state of Minnesota, including those paid by businesses, have fluctuated in a band around 8 percent of total personal income for 40 years.”
Link. Stable
“latest Republican effort to destroy the Affordable Care Act, which appears likely to reach the Supreme Court in the heat of the 2020 Presidential race.”
Link. Perfect timing for team Dem.
Microsoft’s Hypocrisy: pretty words and money to McConnell.
Link. Is Apple better?
WannaCry is still spreading.
Link. If the kill switch fails…
“Keep the Internet Free”: Facebook-Google campaign to preserve universal surveillance.
Link. Chromebooks users are on the wrong side.
Economic anxiety in the American Upper Class
Link. Even the 10% feel it. Different world.
The Cranberry Caucus Is Insanely Powerful
Link. Government at work.
IoT garage program update started closing my garage door every night at 10pm.
Link. Test script accidentally shipped in last update. We were in garage and door closed on us. Took days to figure out what happened, delete the test script.
“Lynn Margulis, the discoverer of the origin of mitochondria (and Carl Sagan’s first wife), died a 9/11 truther”
Link. So many smart whackos. We need research on these people.
“Tap V for Wiki on your Watch, tap the Nearby button, and discover things around you.”
Link. Why not on iphone?
Moment Camera Lenses for iPhone: A Review
Link. Best review I’ve seen. Convinced me not to do external lens.
How Apple’s malware removal tool works.
Link. Bot a terrible idea to restart your Mac each morning.
FaCebook fined a modest fraction of earnings.
Link. American law can’t handle MegaCorp.
What really happened to the bison?
Link. I have wondered too if it was disease rather than bullets.
“Universal Links let certain HTTP links (e.g. Dropbox and Twitter, or hypothetically Zoom) open directly in an app instead of in the browser”
Link.
Local 1Password iOS Vaults No Longer Free
Link. Lack of competition is root problem.
iOS App Store Subscription fraud.
Link. Apple could fix by making pricing much easier to spot.
Do NOT use iOS 13 beta unless you are a pro.
Link. All data wants to die, Cloud data lusts for death.
Apple Privacy reviewed
Link. If consumers don’t care they will lean what a social credit culture means.
The P3 color gamut.
Link. What does Photos use? (Aperture was configurable.)
Busing worked. America failed. Joe Biden did badly.
Link. Booker is the better Biden.
“The 2016 election laid out graphically what is in essence the loss of Christian America”
Link. It’s dead Jim.
Room temperature superconductors – lessons is commercializing research.
Link. Expectations off by factor of 10. Like autonomous vehicles.
Atomic force microscopy of molecular deformation.
Link. Yes, IBM still does pure research.
“since the 70s, adults increased average consumption by 500 calories per day, and children began eating 350 more calories per day.”
Link. Sensible diet.
Amazon nomads scavenge rural America’s retail.
Link. Different worlds.
iMessage can now kill old versions of iOS
Link. Heck of a bug.
Apple Lowers SSD Prices
Link. Surprise