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“more than a dozen statues of Gandhi’s killer have been erected. Several Hindu temples are being converted into Godse temples”

Posted on February 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. You thought Trump worship was bad.

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“Downie is a Mac app from Charlie Monroe Software for downloading videos from Internet sites”

Posted on February 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link.

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The pending Egypt-Ethiopia water war

Posted on February 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Nile in dispute.

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Deutsche bank: “played a large role in positioning a strapped businessman to become president of the United States.”

Posted on February 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Kennedy’s son makes poor old Hunter look like Jimmy Carter. We are ruled by a crime family.

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Asia’s surgical mask fashion

Posted on February 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Becoming art.

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Hunting is fading away.

Posted on February 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Kids of my hunter friends rarely hunt.

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macOS Catalina Display Problems

Posted on February 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Worst release ever?

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Bezos shows why fines should be commensurate with wealth

Posted on February 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. He should have been fined $1 million per violation

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“for decades we have been missing the fact that normal whole blood apparently has ordinary mitochondria floating around in it”

Posted on February 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. WTF. What else, indeed.

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“Suspicious Package is a Mac program from Mothers Ruin Software for examining an OS X Installer package”

Posted on February 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Security measure.

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Putin: the positive spin.

Posted on February 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Trump’s master.

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Israel: “must keep talking about some sort of Palestinian state or else resign itself to being simply an ethnic tyranny”

Posted on February 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Ironic Israel.

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VISTA gigapixel mosaic of the central parts of the Milky Way | ESO

Posted on February 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Gigapixel. Zoom tool. Milky way.

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“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”

Posted on February 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Great point. A genuine marketing screw-up.

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iOS Transmit – why the Mac is far from replaced.

Posted on February 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. BUT – Apple needs to stop breaking older apps. Really.

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My advice for managing online credentials – for civilians

Posted on February 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. It’s not the usual. Like backup, an unsolved problem.

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Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic: latest NYT review.

Posted on February 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Very well done. It cannot be contained but it can be slowed in wealthier nations (including China) and that will help response.

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“Restorative practices” (interventions to keep black students in school) not super successful so far in St Paul MN

Posted on February 2, 2020 by jgordon

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.

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Dershowitz on Trump: “Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest,”

Posted on February 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Maybe there’s a legal definition of public interest such that this is not insane.

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Sondland-Trump’s Provenance Hotels – don’t stay here.

Posted on February 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Too bad, they seem pretty nice. Sondland of Ukraine extortion fame donated $1 million to Trump through covert intermediaries. Owns Provenance.

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“In “Towards a Human-like Open-Domain Chatbot”, we present Meena, a 2.6 billion parameter end-to-end trained neural conversational model.”

Posted on February 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. This will not be used to extract life savings of 25 million boomers.

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What tech companies should do about their content moderators’ PTSD – The Verge

Posted on February 1, 2020 by jgordon

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.

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[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”

Posted on February 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Bold claims.

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Glice: arificial ice year round: “one was put in the Canadian Embassy in Rabat, Morocco”

Posted on February 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Sad, but also brilliant. We absolutely need this in our new MN winters. Inventors deserve their money.

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Do You Think in Words?

Posted on February 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Similar discussion about visualization ability variation. Minds are more different than bodies

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Do not become a pharmacist.

Posted on February 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. CVS is the worst.

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MacBook Pro 16 Has a Fan Problem

Posted on January 31, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Uh oh

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Apple in 2019, software quality: “Grade: D+ (average score: 2.7, median score 3, last year: B-)”

Posted on January 31, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Must be horrible to work on Apple software

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Apple Maps update – MacInTouch

Posted on January 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Nice summary.

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Neanderthal: “1.8 percent in Asians, 1.7 percent in Europeans, and 0.5 percent in Africans.”

Posted on January 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Lots of mixing.

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“There’s no simple turning back the clock. Trump is much less the issue than the political environment in which he has thrived.”

Posted on January 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Our problems, now concentrated in the GOP, are profound. This struggle will go beyond my lifespan.

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Remembering Iraq’s mythical WMDs

Posted on January 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Cheney’s true believers became Trump’s troops.

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Surviving a child’s suicide.

Posted on January 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Count no one fortunate before their death.

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[toread] How to fix Split View in macOS Mojave and Catalina | The Robservatory

Posted on January 30, 2020 by jgordon

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.

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“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”

Posted on January 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Progress has been made despite the GOP.

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GOP “moderates”: “100% committed to acquitting the President no matter what”

Posted on January 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. They are on trial. They will be found guilty.

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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”

Posted on January 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Especially, I think, the last 10y.

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“Aperture is, for me, the very model of how a modern MacOS app ought to behave”

Posted on January 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Bad start, but good when Cook killed it. Why I dislike Apple.

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Aperture: an inside story.

Posted on January 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “The indiscriminate killing of features was a harbinger of things to come.” One of Apple’s greatest failures. Also my favorite Apple app.

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“In 2019, we each spent $640 on digital subscriptions like streaming video and music services, cloud storage, dating apps and online productivity tools”

Posted on January 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Similar to coffee bill for most. My family is below this currently. Cable not included but we don’t do that.

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Fantastical leaps cost to $40 a year

Posted on January 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Insane. No friggin way.

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“likely causal detrimental role of prenatal alcohol exposure on cognitive outcomes”

Posted on January 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Women at risk for pregnancy can’t drink. This is depressing

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So you think you can be a reality TV producer

Posted on January 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Stross delightful rant on broadcast TV and especially reality TV.

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Lowe on Charles Lieber China scandal.

Posted on January 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. He’ll have to plead.

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Micro.blog adds blog hosted replies.

Posted on January 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Standards based AMAP.

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PNG compression tools

Posted on January 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Preview mostly suffices.

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“force Facebook to forget everything it knows about your off-Facebook activity thanks to connections with apps and websites…”

Posted on January 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Now available

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How to Disable Multitasking on iPadOS 13.

Posted on January 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I don’t think is supported on my older iPad anyway

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iPad at 10 – Tsai roundup

Posted on January 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Meh.

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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”

Posted on January 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Other mail bugs remain. Catalina has been disastrous.

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