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Nursing homes purge medicaid patients.
Link. They are nasty, but also medicaid reimbursement is too low.
To Do and Task apps: Microsoft’s solution is very 2020.
Link. Started out on loose leaf page, then Franklin Planner, then PalmPilot and DateBk4 …
The State of SwiftUI is bad.
Link. Hopeless?
“Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform was launched on Thursday by former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor and Elizabeth Neumann, another former senior Trump DHS official”
Link. Good.
COVID winter is coming.
Link. Give thanks for the administrations relentless focus on enhanced masks, air flow, telework, and support for outdoor socializing.
“flaw in Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol that could allow an unauthenticated attacker with network access to a domain controller to completely compromise all Active Directory identity services”
Link. Long weekend for many.
“Admiral Giroir did not respond to a request for comment Friday on the new guidance”
Link. Sit on it.
“Her project was to free both sexes, men as well as women, from the roles that society had assigned them and to harness the Constitution to break down the structures by which the state maintained and enforced those separate spheres.”
Link. Not just a loving obit, her biography in miniature.
“former Florida State basketball player Michael Ojo died of apparent heart complications while playing in a pro league in Serbia, shortly after the 27-year-old had recovered from Covid-19.”
Link. I want some expert opinions…
“My first discovery is that Disk Utility can’t create a disk image from an APFS volume at all, despite the promises in its Help book”
Link. Recommemds DropDMG.
How cities can manage the personal truck plague.
Link. Less parking most effective.
“We propose that through consumption of plant chlorophyll pigments, animals, too, are able to derive energy directly from sunlight”
Link. That’s different.
FBI Director: ” Mr. Wray’s descriptions of Russian interference and white supremacist efforts echoed a draft of a homeland security threat assessment that a whistle-blower said department leaders had blocked.”
Link. Disobeying der fuhrer.
“There’s a good workaround which you can use with Big Sur until asr is fixed and Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper! can clone its System volume.”
Link. Or stay on Mojave until asr is fixed.
“who should be tested for the coronavirus was not written by C.D.C. scientists and was posted to the agency’s website despite their serious objections”
Link. They need to leak more.
“The U.S. issued more than 61,000 skilled visas in January. That number fell to just 494 in April”
Link. I’m shocked.
“One of the major issues of the 2016 election was the claim that then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch had to recuse herself from any involvement in a charging decision with respect to Hillary Clinton because she briefly met with former President Clinton
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Firmware fundamentals: “Firmware doesn’t downgrade”
Link. You cannot truly roll a Mac back to a prior OS. Update thoughtfully.
VMware Fusion 12: “ take full advantage of Apple’s hypervisor APIs so that we no longer need kernel extensions to run Fusion on Mac”
Link. Love to know if Aperture/High Sierra works.
App Clips in iOS 14: “Bikes and scooters could be rented with a single tap of an NFC tag”
Link. Now I get it.
Wikipedia: value proofs.
Link. Why do so many profs hate Wikipedia? So screwed-up.
Authoring Mac Help Books in 2020
Link. If only Apple were not destitute.
Trump: “a lot of people think masks are not good.” Asked who said masks aren’t good, Trump replied, “Waiters.”
Link. Include this in the history books.
7 Trump election corruption tactics
Link. All grounds for impeachment.
Safari 14 is now available as a standalone update for macOS Catalina and Mojave users
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Trump and COVID: “This was a journey straight into a mountainside, with countless missed opportunities to turn away. A system was in place to save lives and contain disaster. The people in charge of the system could not be bothered to avoid the doomed c
Link. GOP.
“If Churchill and FDR could team up with Stalin, then surely we in the Resistance can temporarily ally ourselves with the rare Republicans who chose their stated principles over power when tested”
Link. Hug a Lincolner today.
Medal of Honor: Army soldier Thomas P. Payne.
Link. “Army” Delta force.
“46 percent of people ages 18 to 24 report experiencing pandemic-related “anxiety and stress disorder.” 6% over 65.
Link. Boomers should watch for people needing help.
“Trump and his campaign were violating Nevada’s ban on gatherings of 50 people or more”
Link. “Asshole” was invented for this. In a sane world Trump would get 5% of the vote.
Boeing 737: “grossly insufficient oversight by the FAA—the pernicious result of regulatory capture on the part of the FAA”
Link. Those who allowed FAA capture should stand trial
COVID Mab: “Just 1.7% of LY-CoV555 patients needed hospital care, compared to 6% on placebo,”
Link. Very preliminary but not bad
“Paul Alexander, Caputo’s science adviser — who was at the center of efforts to muzzle the department’s career scientists — also will be leaving HHS”
Link. Wow. WTF happened? Is Trump losing power?
Putin: “in twenty years in power, his approval rating has never gone below 65%”
Link. Trump wants this, but as screwed-up as we are I can’t imagine 65%. Why Russia?
Big Sur’s Transparent Menu Bar
Link. Apps to undo. Yet again.
Big Fish Casino.
Link. App Store crack.
Google Ad Numbers Don’t Add Up
Link. Fraud or incompetence?
The Venusians.
Link. A sober summary.
“makes perfect sense considering that the iOS 14 GM and Xcode 12 GM have been available since this afternoon”
Link. Don’t install iOS 14. Damnit Apple
China electoral interference intel likely fabricated.
Link. Similar to Cheney and WMD.
Gates on Hahn: “We saw with the completely bungled plasma statements that when you start pressuring people to say optimistic things, they go completely off the rails”
Link. People unaccustomed to Trump pressure.
Peak Oil: “oil demand will plateau at 2019 levels before declining in 2035.”
Link. Not the Peak we once expected.
Do Not Buy the Apple Watch Series 3 Over the Watch SE
Link. Good case, but how long do these things last?
“Trump, Thiel, Harder, Perkins, white nationalist fringe groups, authoritarian intellectuals – they’re all together for a reason”
Link. Thiel is Trump with more brains, more money.
Caputo: “career government scientists were engaging in “sedition” in their handling of the pandemic and that left-wing hit squads were preparing for armed insurrection after the election”
Link. What drugs has Putin given Trump and his pawns?
“Either the principle of equal treatment under the law or the tradition of a peaceful transition of power will be sacrificed”
Link. Tne approach is federal Truth commission without criminal prosecution, let states prosecute separately for other crimes.
Alexander Vindman: Trump Is Putin’s ‘Useful Idiot’ – The Atlantic
Link. Excellent reminder. Trump’s impeachment crimes alone should have killed his election chances. That it didn’t reveals depth of our crisis and bankruptcy of GOP.
non-COVID coronavirus: “We monitored healthy individuals for more than 35 years and determined that reinfection with the same seasonal coronavirus occurred frequently at 12 months after infection”
Link. Thoe viruses may be better adapted to humans but we will probably need to combine COVID and flu vaccines for years.
TiKTok rejected MSFT oversite of source code
Link. Oracle is a Trump ally, so lots of corruption opprtunities