Link. Why am I reading a cogent analysis of a recent research study in my weightlifting blog? What has the world come to? (I don’t believe the study but it is an intetesting claim.)
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“FBI, which apparently asked them to pay the ransom so its officials could follow the money trail”
Link. Colonial. These stories are getting hard to follow.
Iain Banks: a 2013 review by a SF writer.
Link. Banks died June 2013 after a short illness. Miss him a lot.
“Autofill of Two-Factor Authentication Codes”
Link. I wish Apple would move faster on replacing 1Password.
“Apps supporting account creation must also offer account deletion.”
Link. Thank you Apple.
“Taiwan was initially hardly touched by the pandemic, thanks to tight travel restrictions and a world-beating contact-tracing system. However, infections are now rising exponentially”
Link. I wonder what’s happening in China.
iOS 15: Find My network can still find your iPhone when it is powered off, or factory reset
Link. “with iOS 15, the phone is not really fully ‘powered off’ At last the conspiracy folk are correct.
iOS 15’s new ‘SMS spam filtering’ feature is limited to Brazil
Link. This explanation makes no sense. Surprised there isn’t more complaining. Maybe Apple is relying on authenticated SMS for other markets?
M1 recovery is so much better than Intel recovery.
Link. Been a while since macOS got a lot better! (APFS … eventually)
Why did the patient’s leg swell up?
Link. Add painless RSD to differential of unilateral leg edema following a minor knee injury.
Anatomy of an elite law school quasi-scandal.
Link. Our culture has changed a lot in past 20 years.
The Four Americas: Free, Smart, Real, and Just.
Link. Obviously I’m the second one; Obama was the ultimate Smart president. I have few friends in Free or Real but I do have friends in Just.
Alpha COVID stealth: “Orf9b makes a viral protein that locks onto a human protein called Tom70.”
Link. And that suppresses interferon release.
SCOTUS ducks drafting women.
Link. Every politician likewise runs for the hills. America is a long way from gender equity.
“The risks with aducanumab involve brain swelling or bleeding experienced by about 40 percent of Phase 3 trial participants receiving the high dose.”
Link. We STILL have nothing for Alzheimers.
Manchin’s base: “White voters without a four-year degree …. made up 69 percent of voters”
Link. If you want to move Manchin, then move this base. BUT “ Mr. Manchin had just a 33 percent approval rating in October 2020, while 51 percent disapprove of his performance.”
“people with aphantasia don’t do as well as others at remembering details of their own lives“
Link. Maybe why I love my family photo slideshow. Are people with hyperphantasia more prone to false memory?
“The senators secured only limited cooperation from key agencies, including the F.B.I., the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department and the House sergeant-at-arms”
Link. Subpoena power needed.
iPhone 6s supported by ios 15?!
Link. That’s crazy. Would not advise.
“number of seated diners during the pandemic relative to those on the corresponding date in 2019.”
Link. We are already back to pre-COVID, despite California being mostly restaurant closed.
“We sat down to wait, too. And then, without warning, the waiting room took off.”
Link. Maciej 2014. Hire him to do more like this.
“whatever value Trump offered to Russia was compromised by his incompetence and limited ability to grasp firm control even of his own government’s foreign policy”
Link. I consider the operation to have been amazingly successful. The House GOP is a Russian asset now.
“firms check for clients’ difficulty navigating security protocols or need for frequent password resets. In such cases, a designated family member might be informed.”
Link. Obvious in retrospect. Your browser knows you are demented.
The fate of the new atheists.
Link. Varying degrees of assholery, ODD, and libido — Pinker caught in the current. Evangelical atheists are much like evangelical theists.
“three guys showed up at the party targeting her 16-year-old nephew.”
Link. A lot of the most stupid and lethal crime in MSP now is by ages 11-16. The price of ending F2F school and sports programs in a society that worships guns.
Zoom effect: “much easier for elected officials to avoid questions and accountability when journalists and concerned citizens aren’t in the room.”
Link. Same for business and creating and anything. We are primates. (Or maybe this is my Oldness talking)
“Biden will have no choice but to put real infrastructure bill up for a vote and simply dare Manchin to vote it down.”
Link. It will fail but yes, the only choice.
“Italygate was among several unfounded conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 elections”
Link. Unfounded is a variant spelling of lunatic.
“had he not been able to block a great deal of mail-in voting in 2020, Biden would have won Texas.”
Link. That’s quite an admission.
M1racles: M1ssing Register Access Controls Leak EL0 State
Link. I wonder if this somehow contributed to multiuser hard system crashes in Big Sur. Unintended cross-communication.
“politicians will be subject to the same content rules as other users”
Link. Facebook goes to war with the GOP.
“mistake for Apple to ever hook up a company-wide Slack”
Link. “Social business” will succeed when it adopts the Xi model.
“mistake for Apple to ever hook up a company-wide Slack”
Link. “Social business” will succeed when it adopts the Xi model.
“Whereas black Americans were 1.3 times more likely to get infected than white Americans, Hispanic Americans were 2.4 times as likely to catch the virus.”
Link. Very unlikely to be genetic. So something environmental or cultural. Or a data problem. Or all 3.
15 Unmistakable, Outrageously Secret Signs You’re an Extrovert
Link. 2013 classic. Via Conor on Twitter
Aducanumab for alzheimers: “a massive waste of money based on false hopes”
Link. We still have nothing beyond avoid concussions and control vascular disease and maybe exercise.
“the site was attracting fewer visitors than the pet-adoption service Petfinder and the recipe site Delish.”
Link. Maybe the GOP is overestimating Trump’s appeal.
Sinovac experiment shows even modest vaccine can stop COVID.
Link. Impressive. Also, again, our models of this suck.
“But mobile devices are gaining in importance as PCs wane, relatively, and for the web, “mobile’s a disaster.”
Link. Next: CSS was a very bad idea.
“The narrative of stagnant or falling living standards in the neoliberal age is false.”
Link. I would like to do one restricted to non-college.
“In the decade leading up to the pandemic, American companies spent more than $6 trillion to buy their own shares”
Link. Instead of investing in inventory redundancy or cybersecurity. Because we thought giving CEOs share price incentives was a good thing. Machine learning optimizes unexpectedly.
“Apple makes a huge profit from the App Store but vehemently denies knowing that it does.”
Link. Cook is the McConnell of tech.
Last Week on My Mac: How it took 6 months for M1 Macs to work properly.
Link. Howard is focused on boot disks, but our M1 Air has only recently become somewhat reliable. Apple has gotten very good at controlling their reviewers.
“On many days, Biden then summons his brain trust, including Klain and top advisers Mike Donilon, Anita Dunn, Bruce Reed, Steve Ricchetti and Cedric L. Richmond”
Link. Lots of fun and quirky details. He is who he seems to be.
COVID’s gifts: a flurry of RNA vaccines in development.
Link. Science.
“Sparta was – if you will permit the comparison – an ancient North Korea. An over-militarized, paranoid state which was able only to protect its own systems of internal brutality and which added only oppression to the sum of the human experience.”
Link. Myth of Sparta not nothing.
“Google continued collecting location data even when users turned off various location-sharing settings, made popular privacy settings harder to find, and even pressured LG and other phone makers into hiding settings precisely because users liked them.”
Link. Don’t be evil.
“Part II of our seven part look at Sparta (I, III, IV, V, VI, VII).”
Link. One of the worst of human societies. A cautionary tale.
Guide to vaccinating the reluctant and disadvantaged.
Link.
RSA’s 2011 “air gap” that wasn’t: “But in fact, Leetham says, one server on RSA’s internet-connected network was linked, through a firewall that allowed no other connections, to the seed warehouse on the manufacturing side”
Link. An egregious fail.