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“Downie is a Mac app from Charlie Monroe Software for downloading videos from Internet sites”
Link.
The pending Egypt-Ethiopia water war
Link. Nile in dispute.
Deutsche bank: “played a large role in positioning a strapped businessman to become president of the United States.”
Link. Kennedy’s son makes poor old Hunter look like Jimmy Carter. We are ruled by a crime family.
Asia’s surgical mask fashion
Link. Becoming art.
Hunting is fading away.
Link. Kids of my hunter friends rarely hunt.
macOS Catalina Display Problems
Link. Worst release ever?
Bezos shows why fines should be commensurate with wealth
Link. He should have been fined $1 million per violation
“for decades we have been missing the fact that normal whole blood apparently has ordinary mitochondria floating around in it”
Link. WTF. What else, indeed.
“Suspicious Package is a Mac program from Mothers Ruin Software for examining an OS X Installer package”
Link. Security measure.
Putin: the positive spin.
Link. Trump’s master.
Israel: “must keep talking about some sort of Palestinian state or else resign itself to being simply an ethnic tyranny”
Link. Ironic Israel.
VISTA gigapixel mosaic of the central parts of the Milky Way | ESO
Link. Gigapixel. Zoom tool. Milky way.
“Catalina runs best on Macs with hardware specifications that Apple marketing isn’t yet prepared to make the baseline for models such as the iMac”
Link. Great point. A genuine marketing screw-up.
iOS Transmit – why the Mac is far from replaced.
Link. BUT – Apple needs to stop breaking older apps. Really.
My advice for managing online credentials – for civilians
Link. It’s not the usual. Like backup, an unsolved problem.
Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic: latest NYT review.
Link. Very well done. It cannot be contained but it can be slowed in wealthier nations (including China) and that will help response.
“Restorative practices” (interventions to keep black students in school) not super successful so far in St Paul MN
Link. “Limitations in data collection have made it difficult to assess whether the project is working.” There is so much in education like this. Good intentions, unclear outcomes, very hard to evaluate.
Dershowitz on Trump: “Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest,”
Link. Maybe there’s a legal definition of public interest such that this is not insane.
Sondland-Trump’s Provenance Hotels – don’t stay here.
Link. Too bad, they seem pretty nice. Sondland of Ukraine extortion fame donated $1 million to Trump through covert intermediaries. Owns Provenance.
“In “Towards a Human-like Open-Domain Chatbot”, we present Meena, a 2.6 billion parameter end-to-end trained neural conversational model.”
Link. This will not be used to extract life savings of 25 million boomers.
What tech companies should do about their content moderators’ PTSD – The Verge
Link. Casey Newton’s series on content moderation triggered Dr Drang’s Twitter break. Over the past decade we have learned grim truths about human nature. Civilization seems ever more miraculous.
[toread] “the new framework allows us to explicitly identify the relevant microscopic degrees of freedom—in other words, nature’s fundamental building blocks—participating in the emergence of spacetime”
Link. Bold claims.
Glice: arificial ice year round: “one was put in the Canadian Embassy in Rabat, Morocco”
Link. Sad, but also brilliant. We absolutely need this in our new MN winters. Inventors deserve their money.
Do You Think in Words?
Link. Similar discussion about visualization ability variation. Minds are more different than bodies
Do not become a pharmacist.
Link. CVS is the worst.
MacBook Pro 16 Has a Fan Problem
Link. Uh oh
Apple in 2019, software quality: “Grade: D+ (average score: 2.7, median score 3, last year: B-)”
Link. Must be horrible to work on Apple software
Apple Maps update – MacInTouch
Link. Nice summary.
Neanderthal: “1.8 percent in Asians, 1.7 percent in Europeans, and 0.5 percent in Africans.”
Link. Lots of mixing.
“There’s no simple turning back the clock. Trump is much less the issue than the political environment in which he has thrived.”
Link. Our problems, now concentrated in the GOP, are profound. This struggle will go beyond my lifespan.
Remembering Iraq’s mythical WMDs
Link. Cheney’s true believers became Trump’s troops.
Surviving a child’s suicide.
Link. Count no one fortunate before their death.
[toread] How to fix Split View in macOS Mojave and Catalina | The Robservatory
Link. “To use apps in Split View on other displays, make sure the “Displays have separate Spaces” checkbox is selected in Mission Control preferences.” Just don’t use it.
“We have had a lot of climate policy (and technological advancements) in the past 15 years, and RCP8.5 is much a much, much less likely outcome”
Link. Progress has been made despite the GOP.
GOP “moderates”: “100% committed to acquitting the President no matter what”
Link. They are on trial. They will be found guilty.
Riding a 90s mountain bike: “It’s just that I’ve been coddled by modern bikes, whose designers have learned a lot in 30 years”
Link. Especially, I think, the last 10y.
“Aperture is, for me, the very model of how a modern MacOS app ought to behave”
Link. Bad start, but good when Cook killed it. Why I dislike Apple.
Aperture: an inside story.
Link. “The indiscriminate killing of features was a harbinger of things to come.” One of Apple’s greatest failures. Also my favorite Apple app.
“In 2019, we each spent $640 on digital subscriptions like streaming video and music services, cloud storage, dating apps and online productivity tools”
Link. Similar to coffee bill for most. My family is below this currently. Cable not included but we don’t do that.
Fantastical leaps cost to $40 a year
Link. Insane. No friggin way.
“likely causal detrimental role of prenatal alcohol exposure on cognitive outcomes”
Link. Women at risk for pregnancy can’t drink. This is depressing
So you think you can be a reality TV producer
Link. Stross delightful rant on broadcast TV and especially reality TV.
Lowe on Charles Lieber China scandal.
Link. He’ll have to plead.
Micro.blog adds blog hosted replies.
Link. Standards based AMAP.
PNG compression tools
Link. Preview mostly suffices.
“force Facebook to forget everything it knows about your off-Facebook activity thanks to connections with apps and websites…”
Link. Now available
How to Disable Multitasking on iPadOS 13.
Link. I don’t think is supported on my older iPad anyway
iPad at 10 – Tsai roundup
Link. Meh.
macOS 10.15.3 runor: “fixes the bug where large numbers of messages stored “On My Mac” could be deleted when updating to Catalina or rebuilding Mail’s database”
Link. Other mail bugs remain. Catalina has been disastrous.