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Amazon to Drop Prime Cancellation Dark Patterns in Europe.
Link. Greed.
What Happened to Michael Flynn?
Link. He was once exceptionally effective.
“One after another in my interviews, people who know Flynn speculated about the possibility of cognitive decline or a psychological disorder, then shied away.”
Travel chaos in Europe.
Link. “Everyone’s asking, where have they all gone?” pondered Tim Clark, the boss of Emirates airline, according to Bloomberg. “And the answer is always: Amazon.”
“Protocol of Pakistan randomized and observational trial to evaluate coronavirus treatment among newly diagnosed patients with COVID-19: Azithromycin, Oseltamivir, and Hydroxychloquine”
Link. Crap COVID science was rampant in much of the world.
“Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter celebrated their 76th wedding anniversary”
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American gun death: “White men are six times as likely to die by suicide as other Americans. Black men are 17 times as likely to be killed with a gun fired by someone else.”
Link. Old white men, young black men. 60% gun death is suicide by mostly old white men.
“Internet Explorer had 99 percent market share in Korea between 2004 and 2009”
Link. SK still trying to escape IE. They had essentially mandated it as a standard. Lessons.
SCOTUS: “It is hard to see how a democracy functions, long-term, with such limitless power in such unrepresentative and unaccountable hands.”
Link. Jefferson got it wrong.
Haiti gets worse.
Link. At some point can UN occupy Haiti?
“The girls were 8 and 9 when they died last year after viewing the challenge, which encouraged users to choke themselves until they passed out.”
Link. TikTok should go.
Bug Out Bag Packing List for Families.
Link. We have one!
Walking Venice.
Link. “Venice had made sense once, long ago, and now no longer did. It had become an epicenter of senselessness.”
“the only type of Disk Image which can be relied on to deliver acceptable write performance is the sparse bundle”
Link. Bugs.
Hailstones the size of a soccer ball.
Link. Sample from new XKCD what-if book.
“Supreme Court justices in the majority in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision that overturned Roe v. Wade ignored the actual history those organizations provided the court”
Link. SCOTUS just made shit up.
Witness intimidation: “I’m protecting who I need to protect, you know, I’ll continue to stay in the good graces in Trump world”
Link. Trump really is above the law.
Disable Live Text for Easier Selecting in Preview
Link. Obscure setting location.
Pruning iOS “System Data”
Link. “classic Apple situation: remove the ability to directly access files to make things simpler and more foolproof, but then if something goes wrong the only tool you have is nuking it from orbit.”
“Unlike in states where cannabis is legal and heavily regulated, in Minnesota you don’t even need a special license to sell THC edibles”
Link. It’s a novel approach.
M2 Mac Overheats.
Link. Apple’s perennial sin. Never buy new hardware without reviewing heat issues.
“For about $200,000, an unidentified person or group is offering what is described as data on a billion Chinese citizens”
Link. Every Intel org that doesn’t have a copy just bought one.
Shootings here, shootings there, shootings everywhere.
Link. Vote Dem.
“Dinosaurs living at high latitudes just so happened to already have winter coats [while] many of their Triassic competitors died out.”
Link. Very high CO2 and huge sulfur clouds made Triassic earth a hellhole. Poles only refuge.
Literate non-Olds surprised TikTok marketed products are counterfeits.
Link. Premature dementia.
Write speed, macOS: “encrypted disk image the worst of all, at less than 1%”
Link. Wow. That’s insane.
“she was waiting for Murdoch in the UK when she received an email from him telling her that their marriage was over and that she should only communicate with him through his lawyers”
Link. I’m going to have to start reading tabloids now.
2700 Tour Divide “race”: “There is no entry fee and no prize”
Link. I know people who tried this year. Mostly hike a bike in snow.
Map Age Guide
Link. XKCD classic.
“We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our states.”
Link. 1964. When Dems were bad guys.
COVID inspired reflections on economics
Link. Science has done awesome things. In 2022 there are Freer’s stents though – statins work.
Cannabis hyperemesis: “Capsaicin cream may work on vanilloid receptors in hypothalamus (similar to the action of a hot shower). “
Link. Very weird.
“TSH elevations are often transient in the elderly (often during non-thyroid related acute conditions).”
Link. Easy to overtreat.
States take hostages: Griner and more.
Link. They don’t pay a price. China, S Korea, Russia, Venezuela, Iran…
Urine acidity in alcohol diuresis in man. 1946.
Link. This 1946 study would be easy to repeat and I suspect pH drop contributes to LUTS.
GOP blackmails Google into distributing their scamware.
Link. Malice for sure, but they are so stupid. So both.
“May 2017, he reported owing between $60,004 and $200,000 on three credit cards and a loan against his retirement account.”
Link. Kavanaugh lived well. He has since done well for his owner.
“Graphing Calculator began in 1985 in C for the 128K Macintosh”
Link. “… still uses the Classic Mac OS 9 cooperative threading APIs in order to run code frozen in the 1980s”
“But here we are. It got passed and we are going to do our best to support it”
Link. “board also does not have a lab to test hemp-derived THC products, but Phillips said the board is working to set up one.”
MN Board of Pharmacy abruptly regulating edibles.
US government: “only a country with as much already in its favor as the U.S. has— size, location, assets, natural riches, ability to absorb endless waves of newcomers and become the platform for their success—could have gone so far for so long with
Link. Obsolete.
“Webarchives are now making their way into Apple’s open source WebKit”
Link. Webarchive needs to become a standard.
Disinflation signs.
Link. Encouraging.
HCR summarizes the SCOTUS crisis.
Link. The filibuster will end.
Delta Air Lines paid $10,000 a person for bump volunteers.
Link. The new rules work.
Set price alerts for cheap flights
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PowerPhotos fills in some Photos gaps.
Link. There’s a PhotoKit API. I used predecessor years ago. Sounds essential.
“anyone who can get into your Apple ID account and either see your phone notifications or redirect an SMS message can delete all your passkeys”
Link. Is your passkey provider specified on initial connection to a site?
F-16s to Turkey after NATO agreement.
Link. Arms were twisted, deals made. As it should be.
“Two different ancient wolf populations, one in Asia and another in the Middle East or surrounding area, contributed DNA to modern dogs.”
Link. Given wolves dogs are kind of inevitable.
Firefox now automatically removes tracking parameters from URLs to enhance privacy
Link. Want this everywhere.