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“Clubhouse uses Chinese company Agora, which provides a real-time voice and video engagement platform, to supply its back-end infrastructure.”

Posted on February 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. All you data belongs to Xi.

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Scott Alexander responds to NYT article.

Posted on February 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. As a judge in this trial I find that the NYT did not lie, but they were misleading and a bully. (I alao find that Mr Alexander is a conservative of the non-insane variety. That is not a crime however.)

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Big Sur Mail search broken.

Posted on February 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Temp fix: “force killing the process ‘corespotlightd’ in Activity Monitor”. Common with multi-user machines. Smart folders stop working. Emily has it. I read of it with Catalina too.

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America is cracking up: “Republican voters without college degrees and White Christian evangelicals”

Posted on February 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We were always a bit cracked but we have really lost it the past few years.

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How QAnon was enabled by former military and intelligence professionals – a list.

Posted on February 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. These people aren’t very important, but we *really* need to understand if they were always whacko or if something happened to them.

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Noah takes on the NYT Rationalist article.

Posted on February 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Noah agrees with me that Siskind is basically conservative. His strongest critique, which I agree with, is that Metz exaggerates the popularity of Slate Star Codex.

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“All of his concentration was on thwarting the count so that the Vice-President would be forced to say there’s a need for a contingent election.”

Posted on February 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. It was a straightforward strategy.

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“In the Phoenix video, the officers bemoan the proliferation of body cameras, which one says “has taken the job down the drain.”

Posted on February 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The panopticon has benefits.

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Aaronson responds to NYT Codex article.

Posted on February 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I read the new Codex and it is Libertarian-conservative. I think Scott is in a bit of denial there.

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Xi’s China: ever more like Mao’s China.

Posted on February 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. But does he have Mao’s popular support?

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“Massachusetts launched a first-in-the-nation experiment, offering vaccinations to younger people who accompany people who are 75 and older to mass vaccination sites.”

Posted on February 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Fascinating. Would it work for reluctant groups?

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The NYT on Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist movement.

Posted on February 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. As a young person I *might* have found SSC interesting, but for older me it was boring. I scanned the Substack reboot and it’s fundamentally conservative-libertarian.

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Bezos: “… said that at Amazon, employees are not free to choose whether to work “long, hard or smart.”

Posted on February 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Work-life balance is for losers. (I’m a content loser so far; enough money and a balanced life. Of course may judge differently in the future.)

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“movement led by hundreds of people who believe they can channel supernatural powers”

Posted on February 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. American evangelical prophecy movement. This comes and goes. Be nice to have historical data.

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CDC school guidelines: “puzzled, however, by the lack of emphasis on air quality, and what they said was a misguided focus on cleaning surfaces, given that experts now believe that the virus is largely transmitted through the air.”

Posted on February 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Umm, sounds like they kind of suck.

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“Cold” coronavirus antibodies don’t help with COVID.

Posted on February 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “There’s no difference in the infection/hospitalization rates of the people who had cross-reactive coronavirus serum antibodies ready to go versus those who didn’t.”

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Contextual Computing, Workflow Thinking, and the Future of Text – Ryan Boren

Posted on February 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I have a 1990s book on hypertext that’s like this. Semamtic networks. Bidirectional links. We used to imagine better things. BYTE was keen on it, esp Jon Udell.

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“He’d work 18‑hour days and send emails all through the night. When he wasn’t at the office he seemed to live at the gym”

Posted on February 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Wired different.

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“a more open approach works just fine. macOS’s anti-malware features have never been better.”

Posted on February 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Tsai is persuading me that the Apple App Store has failed and may be unfixable.

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“Big Sur’s built-in Spotlight importer for Rich Text files has a bug, in which it can fail to index the contents of RTF files correctly”

Posted on February 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. It’s not a simple bug though.

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Undoing Apple device locks.

Posted on February 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Good to see more options.

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“The wind chill hit 60 degrees below in Langdon, N.D., early Friday morning.”

Posted on February 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I would totally go ourside to experience that.

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“If you put $1000 into Bitcoin the day Covert’s article came out and held on, you are now a millionaire.”

Posted on February 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I did not do that.

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hematology – Why are red blood cells considered to be cells?

Posted on February 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Platelets are even more dubious.

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Minnesota clinic shooting suspect latest in long line who raised red flags before attack – The Washington Post

Posted on February 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Gun restrictions are good, but as a society we don’t have an answer for high risk people who effectively need full-time monitoring.

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“Republican politicians have lost all credibility on fiscal matters.”

Posted on February 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Also no credibility on cultural or moral or scientific matters or anything really. They got nothing. That matters.

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“The vaccine program was in much, much worse shape than my team and I anticipated,” Mr. Biden said.”

Posted on February 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Much of government is crawling out of the wreckage.

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“Prohibiting outdoor activity is unlikely to reduce the spread of the virus, nor is urging people always to wear a mask outdoors.”

Posted on February 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Things aren’t too crazy in MN thankfully.

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Black Diamond Guide Finger Mitten

Posted on February 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. For winter ski and fat bike

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Fully vaccinated people can skip Covid quarantines, CDC says – CNN

Posted on February 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I missed this.

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“It is the first interplanetary mission undertaken by an Arab country.”

Posted on February 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I didn’t know it until a few weeks ago.

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“SolarWinds increased its profits by increasing its cybersecurity risk, and then transferred that risk to its customers without their knowledge or consent.”

Posted on February 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Private equity and software are oil and water.

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“oil production peaked in 2019”

Posted on February 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. This did not play out the way we imagined it would.

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Brain organoid experiment hints at neanderthal vs modern brain differences.

Posted on February 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Fairly dramatic difference.

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“At 2:24 p.m., two minutes before Pence is seen being evacuated in this video, former president Donald Trump tweeted, “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done”

Posted on February 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Biden could grant Pence amnesty so he talks.

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“A Big Sur installer comes in only one form, that’s a full installer, as there’s no such beast as a standalone Big Sur updater.”

Posted on February 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Serious broadband required.

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Houston Doctor Fired for Giving Away Doses of Covid Vaccine

Posted on February 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The district attorrney serms a bit off.

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Millions of Counterfeit N95 Masks Were Bought in 5 States.

Posted on February 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Law enforcement officials have seized more than 10 million counterfeit respirators and hundreds of shipments of prohibited drugs and medical supplies, according to 3M and Homeland Security Investigations.” Now fake vaccines.

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“it’s actually easier for scams and malware to proliferate if they aren’t caught by App Review.”

Posted on February 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. In some ways Apple App Store facilitates scamware.

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“The mean change in body weight from baseline to week 68 was −14.9% in the semaglutide group as compared with −2.4% with placebo”

Posted on February 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Whoa. Hell of an effect. Lifestyle intervention for both – for what that is worth.

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“President Joe Biden recently signed an executive order to create a Civilian Climate Corps.”

Posted on February 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “work restoring public lands and waters, planting trees, improving access to parks” I hope open to special needs adults.

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“Sullivan was in the middle of patting Chauvin down when he was interrupted and told to stop by Steve Lydon, the jail’s superintendent who replaced him with White officers.”

Posted on February 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. My county. Sounds like a strong case.

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University: “online instruction, no matter how you slice it, is less efficient than in-person instruction”

Posted on February 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I am surprised this is controversial.

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ITP after COVID vaccination.

Posted on February 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Apparently this happens with MMR! Some cases are likely pure coincidence, some vaccine could be a trigger.

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“The soaring prices may be accelerating the shift to electric cars, analysts said, noting that catalytic converters now make up a much larger proportion of a gasoline-powered vehicle’s cost than they did even just a year ago.”

Posted on February 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Lots stolen in St Paul MN

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“I saw more kernel panics in a couple months of using Catalina than in probably the entire previous decade.”

Posted on February 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Tsai lists many Catalina bugs. Staying on Mojave was one of my best decisions. Worst ever macOS version?

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iOS web content filter is stupid.

Posted on February 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Apple does a surprising amount of bad work.

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“anyone who can’t wipe their M1 Mac and restore it in DFU mode would be wisest not to install any further updates to macOS.”

Posted on February 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Apple users in a pickle.

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“macOS Big Sur upgrade is not checking to make sure enough free HD space is available. The upgrade will start, then run out of space and fail. If FV2 encryption is enabled, you will be locked out of your data.”

Posted on February 8, 2021 by jgordon

Link.

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Developer exposes multiple scam apps on the App Store, some bringing in millions of dollars in revenue

Posted on February 8, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Apple needs to be made legally liable with fines a fraction of earnings.

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