Link. “Reparations” in effect but never in name.

Link. And suddenly we aren’t in Kansas any more.

Link. Gee, when I advocated taxes as a solution to negative externalities of the ad-supported internet I couldn’t even get a retweet.

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Link. Must read.

Link. Roe is toast. Red states will eliminate access. GOP rule will bring national restrictions. Not necessarily good for GOP.

Link. It’s quite well done.

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Link. I agree with all of this. Good to see it noted that America fully embraced a very effective surveillance state. Resistance was sporadic and easily crushed.

Link. It’s old school amazing. How has it avoided the usual Apple software lobotomy?

Link. Yes.

Link. Thiel is Ann Coulter ally who hates “globalization”. (? non-euro? asian?)

Link. “ Information gathered by private investigators is often laundered through public relations firms, which then shop the material to journalists.”

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Link. Hope not a surprise.

Link. A stubborn woman.

Link. This feels very squishy. Not enough data to act on it. What do animal models show? How would this even work?

Link. Need iPhone 11 or 12 to be truly useful. Not great for tracking stolen bikes and the like.

Link. Diskutil command line has useful powers, this tells how to delete TM Snapshots to free up space.

Link. You’ve already forgotten haven’t you? Ironically Biden would succeed where Trump failed.

Link. Are they really more vulnerable to intrusion? “ the finer details of how the system works are no longer understood.” Not just the finer details.

Link. Resembles 1970s medicine. I wonder if more consistent today.

Link. At least the meetings are brief.

Link. Black voters of Georgia triggered an existential crisis. Never again says the GOP.

Link. Personal Information Management returns.

Link. The explainer I wanted. The gap between Kelly and alt-right cartoonist Ben Garrison is oh so fine. Via a reply to @cstross.

Link. Excellent discussion. Redefining “full adult” as 25yo makes a lot of sense — the age of car rental.

Link. Looking back it seems so predictable, like simulations of continental drift.

Link. “White women voted 48% for Mr Biden, two points higher than the share that supported Hillary Clinton”. White men shifted more.

Link. Friend of the Black man.

Link. Billions believe in supernatural deities and lead perfectly mundane lives. Aliens would be easy to ignore.

Link. This is so obviously the right move.

Link. “Zalonka, who is an amateur fashion model and the communications director for the American Medical Marijuana Physicians Association”.

Her book is going to be big.

Link. Mostly for good cause but detours need work.

Link. Breathing through the butt.

Link. We can still do great things.

Link. *symptomatic* is key. Many more will test positive with PCR if timing is right.

Link. “Slack, Zoom, or gaming, simply weren’t usable for me, even when I was seeing the fastest speeds”

Link. Lots of insider information here. Four historians?

“rarely exhibits the smoldering anger or sense of deep disappointment that advisers to Mr. Obama became familiar with”

Link. Rather than have CIA testify to the Bush-Cheney torture program he will be released.

Link. None very sick but this is a bad time to be unvaccinated.

Link. We should fine companies that pay ransom 100 times the ransom paid. It’s cheaper to pay ransom than to have failover backups.

Link. So what does it tell us?

Link. Seen. I’m reformed Inbox Zero.

Link. Bug unfixed in Catalina. In Big Sur force reindexing.

Link. Obama was an aberration. A less incompetent Trump would rule now, so Biden is also an exception.

Link. Real number is less than 1%, probably much less.

Link. She has a new book out. Piranesi.

Link. Ominous for China.

Link. TidBITS recommended.