Link. It’s barely documented on Windows; users don’t seem to know it exists. It’s the best app work Microsoft has done in 20 years and I want to cry now.
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Pages — how to make images insert inline
Link. More layout/desktop publishing than wordprocessor. Also, nobody at Apple can be using this thing.
“configure your CCC backup tasks to unmount the destination volume at the end of the backup task”
Link. Don’t mount on startup and don’t store mount pw in boot keychain. Even then it can be attacked during a backup, so how useful is this advice?
Protect backups from ransomware: “3-2-1 rule states to have three different copies of your media, on two different media, one of which is off-site”
Link. And offline! So who else besides me does this? (Also, I still don’t trust my backup strategy.)
Opioid: “prescription overdoses have dropped in the U.S. to the lowest level since 1990″
Link. I bet 90% have no idea this happened. Action is bitcoin fueled fentanyl now.
The Joy of Hatred: “He’s not afraid to say what he thinks. And what he says is what the rest of us are thinking”
Link. I don’t agree this is of US history. Tribal hatred is ancient, deep, universal. Our history just gives it a particular spin, and an ironic political party.
“Trump’s national story is much closer to the Russian national story than it is toward our own.”
Link. Why Trump-Fox GOP, and Rupert Murdoch, love Putin.
Dark energy and making universes: “In order for inflation to end, that energy has to get converted into matter and radiation”
Link. Turtles++.
“fungal cells formed an elaborate, interconnected 3D network, enabling them to communicate with each other and exchange nutrients”
Link. Cordyceps fungi, 400 insect-specific zombifier species.
Facebook content moderation tech could be a lot better.
Link. Would cost more and would decrease engagement.
Urban Dictionary: egirl, e-girl.
Link. The rewiring of the adolescent human brain is a brutal biological hack. Our brains need another million years of evolutionary optimization.
Endgame alternate stories
Link. Writers finding a way.
Image somehow related to Quantum Entanglement.
Link. It’s just a bug in the Simulation.
“During the summer of 1988, utilizing rigid 26” wheeled mountain bikes with rear racks and a single packraft, Roman, Carl Tobin, and Jon Underwood rode out of the remote mining settlement of Nabesna for the equally remote village of McCarthy”
Link. Suspension is for wimps.
“President Donald Trump made false accusations against both Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Ilhan Omar”
Link. Widely repeated.
Planning the Cold Peace with China.
Link. American business should look to Africa, India, Indonesia. Not China.
Cost Disease in healthcare, education … and construction.
Link. Compare Canada? Finally this is getting some high powered thought.
Maggots and why Anti De Sitter (AdS) space is dumb.
Link. We don’t have a good use for our vast cognitive surplus.
“genius of these tools is that you can also get the wifi passwords for various airport lounges”
Link.
Trump Is No George Wallace. He’s Worse.
Link. Much worse actually.
“Delta customers traveling with surfboards, bicycles, golf clubs, scuba gear and other large-sized sporting equipment will now be allowed to check them as part of their standard baggage allowance.”
Link. Golf was always standard for me, but big savings for bikes.
Autism heritability: “ranging from 50.9% (25.1%-75.6%) (Finland) to 86.8% (69.8%-100.0%) (Israel)”
Link. Overall 80%. More than schizophrenia. Finland odd outlier. Genetic relatives usually have traits; do traits make parents more susceptible to anti-vaxxer beliefs?
ADX – America’s torture prison.
Link. Trump didn’t come from nowhere.
“If Trump says it, the GOP will fall in line behind him, either with cowed silence or explicit assent”
Link. Has any prior President dominated his party so completely? Maybe Reagan?
“adding up to 32 feet (10 meters) of ice per year over the course of 10 years would be enough to protect the West Antarctic glaciers from completely destabilizing”
Link. Aloha Manhattan
“the commercial stem cell clinic business is still shady and full of hype, profiteering, and outright fraud. Overflowing with all of those, actually.”
Link. The new alternative medicine.
Google tool for interpreting email message header (trace).
Link. Bookmark.
“Corporal Chudzinski and other firefighters happened to be behind a wall when a fireball hurtled through the attic. It probably saved them.”
Link. Details on Notre Dame fire. Key staff person had 3 days experience and was on double shift. Amazing fire fighters lived.
One brain into two – conjoined twins
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.