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“IBM sought to eliminate older workers by requiring them to move to a different part of the country to keep their jobs.”
Link. All of tech does age discrimination. IBM was impatient.
Progress in adulting (special needs)
Link. Progress is not dramatic, but it continues.
Sturmfist 4 Winter Cycling Gloves With Aerogel Insulation
Link. Trusted sources love this glove. On my wish list. For now my Dogwood Poagies make my lobster gloves good.
Music app features in iOS 14.5
Link. Since leaving Spotify this is suddenly relevant.
“Uber is (still) a bezzle (“the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it”)”
Link.
“This class of bug—an update opting users back into something they had opted out of—seems to be really common for Apple.”
Link. Olympian.
Skeleton: “The sliding is physically brutal: Athletes endure four to five G-forces of pressure around turns and must withstand the rattling vibrations of the track.”
Link. “by the end of the season, for one or two months you just can’t think clearly”
Winter Olympic sports are extreme.
“the crowd had thinned somewhat, with empty spaces where trucks had been.”
Link. Winding down. Premier senses this is politically bad for him; protesters are his base.
“I can’t think of any single zoonotic virus with an equivalently broad host range,”
Link. No way COVID goes away. And there will be others.
“New York Times in six days published as many cover stories about Clinton’s emails as they did about “all the policy issues combined in the 69 days leading up to the election.”
Link. NYT journalists really disliked HRC. They thought she’d win and looked forward to years of revenge. Humans are like this.
Does China think long-term while America thinks short-term?
Link. Smashes that myth. Kissinger was a doofus though.
“You can create up to 3 different Apple IDs on 1 device.”
Link. Huh? That’s weird. There are so many FairPlay rules.
Series I Savings Bonds – inflation adjusted, max 10K per year.
Link. These are really weird but seem a reasonable alternative to cash.
How to add an Apple Store order to your Apple ID after purchasing as guest.
Link. “From your account page, choose Your Orders. Since your order doesn’t show, choose “Find it Now”. This displays the Order Lookup Screen. Enter the order information and you will be given the option to add it to your Apple ID account.”
Buying an iPhone from online Apple store: “AT&T activation fee if choose “connect to a carrier now?”
Link. It’s a bloody mystery. Not getting an answer I chose the old SIM swap option.
“A tumor growing on her right ovary had stimulated her immune system to produce millions of antibodies, which mistakenly attacked crucial receptors in her brain.”
Link. Psychosis gets a new look.
“Black Death might have been caused by two strains of the bacteria Yersinia pestis, which could have caused different levels of devastation.”
Link. Some areas relatively spared, others devastated. It went on and on.
F.D.A. Rejects Lilly’s Cancer Drug: “An analysis by the F.D.A.’s staff of the trial results in China was scathing on methodological grounds.”
Link. Nobody trusts Chinese clinical trials.
Debunking false claims about the Canadian convoy protests.
Link. Musk tweet: “image was from a 2018 convoy demonstration in the Canadian province of Alberta — a demonstration in support of Canada’s oil and gas industry. Tesla makes electric vehicles.”
CalDigit 18-port TS4 for Mac.
Link. I could accept that.
“Nowhere has anyone, on any media outlet, latched on to and covered the story about the Webb telescope.”
Link. Or the massive job growth.
Minneapolis’ policy on ‘no-knock’ search warrants.
Link. Decent explanation but doesn’t say whether police think no-knock is safer for them.
Hyundai and Kia to owners of almost 485,000 recalled vehicles: Park them outside due to fire risk
Link. “Dealers will replace a fuse. In addition, Hyundai dealers will inspect the control modules and replace them if needed.”
When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord: “They seek deals on apartment buildings, slash costs or hike rents to boost income, then unload the buildings at a higher price.”
Link. Similar in healthcare. PE is yet another modern plague.
AlphaCode: another modest step to the end of humans.
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“likely that we would not see any benefit from tailored booster shots unless we are dealing with a coronavirus variant that’s still further away in its sequence than Omicron”
Link. “Antigen sin” is misnomer. Antigenic or immune imprinting better. Great explainer. Original booster good.
Physicians are broadly suspicious of recreational cannabis.
Link. Almost all support decriminalization. Most think medical indications are zero. Most think recreational use will cause harm to at least some.
“The explosion of the Imperial Gunpowder Workshop, or the Wanggongchang, was the most horrifying public catastrophe to take place in Beijing during the final decades of the Ming Dynasty.”
Link. Destroyed much of the capitol.
“MMT is a set of political memes to push for more deficit spending”
Link. NYT needs new editors.
How to Switch From Spotify to Apple Music.
Link. SongShift has remarkably poor reviews on App Store but he lists other options.
Relentless beeping when plug iPhone into MacBook USB port.
Link. Usually this is hardware issue, maybe it is now. Might need to dig into the console log.
TN: She was told she could vote again after felony convictions. Now she’s in prison for trying.
Link. Good this is getting national coverage. Opportunity for Biden pardon if not timed.
We need non-Apple App Stores – because Apple’s store has trash like Luni Scanner App.
Link. A dark pattern turns into $5/week subscriptions to a trash app – enabled by Apple’s inattention. We need a quality App Store.
Amazon: “Enough people purchased the preservative to attempt suicide that the company’s algorithm began suggesting other products that customers frequently bought along with it to aid in such efforts.”
Link. Laissez-Faire.
“On the rare occasions when I experience glitches with iCloud, all I do is save all open documents, log out, and go for a walk”
Link.
African Coups: “major transit point for Latin American cocaine heading to Europe and the Middle East”
Link. Desperately poor and getting warmer.
Covid-19 Commission: “Mr. Zelikow, who led the Sept. 11 panel, has laid the foundation for a commission to investigate the pandemic, with financial backing from four foundations and a paid staff that has already interviewed hundreds of public health exp
Link. Obvious need
“In 541 bubonic plague arrived in Egypt and went on to kill around a third of the population of the Byzantine empire.”
Link. COVID is just a taste.
“Amazon said it was raising the annual price of its Prime shipping club to $139, from $119.”
Link. It will continue to increase.
Hang Up and Call Back: The scammers will get you.
Link. Banks have lousy security.
Zuck: “balance of content that people see in feeds is shifted a little bit more towards stuff that isn’t coming from their friends … shifting towards more public content”
Link. Groups. So give me a friends only filter!
Facebook’s middle-age: “first quarterly decline in daily active users on record”
Link. I like middle-aged Facebook.
“Qurayshi detonated a bomb that killed himself and family members, U.S. officials told reporters.”
Link. Zawahiri is one that got away.
New Industrialism in America.
Link. I remember Andy Grove NYT OpEd on this. Maybe 2010-2022?
MacOS: Copy and Paste. Working around lack of clipboard history.
Link. Old but still good. macOS need built in clipboard history though. Windows does it well.
The Misaligned Incentives for Cloud Security: Amazon, Google, Microsoft and more
Link. “Cloud companies take the chance that they won’t get hacked, and past experience tells them they can weather the storm if they do.”
Iceland Tourist Advice.
Link. I bet this is excellent.
“Get a reminder while messaging someone”
Link. I learned several things in this short article. Worth a read.
ISS 2031: “Point Nemo is known as the “spacecraft cemetery” because so much space junk has been sent there to avoid hitting inhabited areas.”
Link. Book your cruise seat now.