Link. Good point.
Author Archives: jgordon
China’s terror program: “member of the Chinese political establishment who requested anonymity brought the documents to light”
Link. Brave
“number of patients who had heart attacks was 276 in the stent and bypass group, compared with 314 in the medication group, an insignificant difference.”
Link. Meds have gotten better, stents & surgery stagnate.
Best practices in passwords – 2019 version.
Link. Nothing new to those paying attention but a great public ref.
All the startup modes for a Mac.
Link. Includes NVRAM and SMC resets.
“Your long butterfly keyboard nightmare is over. The new Magic Keyboard in the 16-inch MacBook Pro has an almost identical look and feel to much older Apple devices”
Link. I guess I’ll buy an Air in 2020 once it switches over.
Chrome Remote Desktop: includes remote control of MacOs machine from iPad
Link. How is Google making money from this?
macOS Catalina: “Apple has dropped support for booting from FireWire devices”
Link. My update to Catalina timeline just went from 1 year to many years.
Twin Cities facility for special needs strength and fitness training.
My #1 is doing their special Olympics strength training at Built on Bravery, located at the Mendota Height MN Lions United Fitness Center (map):
Lions United is a new kind of training center, designed specifically to prepare people with disabilities for exceptional performance in individual competitions, team sports and life, especially people with autism, down syndrome and cerebral palsy. We’re dedicated to Special Olympics’ Project UNIFY and Unified Sports®, which means we bring people of all abilities together to strengthen individuals, relationships and communities.
This new facility is first in Minnesota to focus on persons with cognitive disabilities. Special needs fee $20/month, reimbursed by National Independent Health Club Association if workout 8+ a month. Others $40/m or $20 if 8+. Family memberships.
There is a big unmet need for health and fitness support of special needs teens and adults. Diets are often worse than average and there are few welcoming places to go. (Several CrossFit gyms are welcoming, but that’s a big climb. This facility has grant support.)
We need more like this!
45 Trump lies about his protection racket.
Link. Funny to see all the variants on the word “lie”. Journalists mocking an editorial policy.
“The Russian contempt for Trump is understandable, but showing it so publicly is self-indulgent and quite untypical. They clearly have some hold over the man, but why flaunt it?”
Link. Russians are too honest.
Global protests – generational?
Link. Ok boomer with fatalities
Cameron: “this war is about which FOREIGN language people speak!”
Link. Ireland.
China appears to be faking organ donation stats to hide prisoner organ trade
Link.
“I would like to see a list of top-quality consumer apps developed by software companies that took lots of VC money.”
Link. Can’t think of any
“you buy a Mac with a T2 and fixed internal storage, then AppleCare is a wise investment,”
Link. Board, T2, SSD must be replaced together.
Gen Z turns on Gen X.
Link. Boomers are grandparents so safe. Right?
How Morales fell
Link. Helpful summary. Nobody surprised
There are several US hostages held by terrorist organizations and Iran
Link. More than I had realized.
“SoftBank’s Vision Fund is an emblem of a broader phenomenon known as “overcapitalization” — essentially, too much cash”
Link. Glut of cash and glut of talent.
Having normal BP by nature or med: “12 percent reduced risk for dementia and a 16 percent reduced risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease”
Link. Exercise effect is probably partly BP
17yo vaper “What I saw in his lungs is like nothing I’ve seen before, and I’ve been doing lung transplants for 20 years”
Link. Amazing toxicity.
eBike study: “Most of the volunteers also accumulated more time in the saddle than had been asked of them for the study, presumably because they were enjoying themselves.”
Link. They got fitter and loved it. I’m an “avid cyclist” but in my late 80s I hope to ride an eTrike.
“In 2003, when Mr. Sinclair worked on “Batman: Hush,” he digitally colored the main characters and painted the watercolor backgrounds by hand.”
Link. Comic book artistry is part digital, mostly analog
“Mr. Williams had died from complications of vertebro-spinal injuries, as well as starvation and dehydration.” In a prison
Link. 10 million dollar award. No mention of prosecution of prison system.
Amazon protests $10 Billion JEDI Contract.
Link. They will win.
“Mr. Bevin could then formally contest the election. The last time this happened in a governor’s race was in 1899; the declared winner was shot and killed afterward.”
Link. Even McConnell wants Bevin to go away.
Smith & Wesson Brands will become its own PTC
Link. In the killing people business.
“the Zygnematophyceae are the closest living relatives of land plants.”
Link. Algae stole bacterial genes to move to land
How Trumpista appointees went after career bureaucrats
Link. Getting damned hard not to laugh at mandated federal ethics training.
“Everyone talks about the (still absent) SD Card slot in relation to photography, but I liked having it for secondary storage and Time Machine.”
Link. Damn. Why am I not doing TM that way?
“USC officials told the Times that four to 15 students die in an average academic year at the school of 47,500 students, and that six student deaths occurred last year.”
Link. 1 in 5000, 1/mo during school year. Routine for leadership. Not something I’d thought about.
“It’s not feasible to use Tasks in Outlook for iOS application.”
Link. Wow. That’s honest. Outlook’s codebase must be a nightmare.
Relax – Australians are as dumb as Americans.
Link. We are not alone.
Laws block automated detection of child porn.
Link. Legislators never imagined the need to train an AI.
“de-Jony-Ive-ification of the keyboard”
Link. I was never an Ive fan. This is why.
The World Is Awash in Financial Capital.
Link. And also in human talent. Both induce distortions.
“Analysis of 20- to 30-million-year-old rocks called zircons found at the Nile’s mouth showed that they seem to match the rocks found in the Ethiopian plateau at the source of the Nile, suggesting the river is at least that old.”
Link. World’s oldest river.
“start with SQLite, scale with Postgres”
Link. Smart contrarian.
Disney+: “download an unlimited number of files to up to 10 devices at a time”
Link. Apple has 10 device limit for purchased media but this is unprecedented for streaming video. Maybe streaming anything.
“Trump’s congressional allies are preparing to defend Trump by claiming Mulvaney did all the bad stuff behind Trump’s back”
Link. Will Mulvaney take the bus or sqauk?
“Tamsulosin has a long half-life (between 10–14 days), and a constant receptor blockade may result in atrophy of the iris dilatator smooth muscle…data suggest that Tamsulosin has an irreversible effect on the iris”
Link. Flomax brand. Bit worrisome!
“even a bachelor’s degree is no longer enough to reach the middle class”
Link. 55% of Americans can’t make it. Mass disability.
Built on Bravery – special needs athlete training (Mendota, MN)
Link. I’ve seen some special needs training at 1-2 CrossFit gyms, but this seems pretty novel.
“As a Princeton student, Bezos attended O’Neill seminars and ran the campus chapter of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space.”
Link. My Aunt Barbara was secretary for O’Neill’s High Frontier .org at the time. I could have a 1 degree to Bezos.
NYT’s preview of impeachment.
Link. Stark terms. No punches held.
“Rep. Devin Nunes, who is consistently hostile and angry and pushing the wildest kinds of conspiracy theories”
Link. Nunes is both stupid and crazy. Witness his cow-phobia.
“the constitution is very clear: treason, bribery or acts of omission. In this case, it’s clearly one of those.”
Link. Schiff is not a fool.
“while Congress was considering whether to authorize the Iraq War, the head of the White House economic council, Lawrence B. Lindsey, was forced to resign for telling The Wall Street Journal that the all-in costs might be as high as $100 billion to $200
Link. 2015 essay, GWB admin. Eventually was trillions. Trump didn’t come from nothin.
Self-cutting epidemic: best managed by therapy.
Link. Suspect is Net propagated but now fairly established. Adolescent therapists in demand.