Link. We are way off the sane timeline now.
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Apple’s AirPods Pro: “last oddity was fixed by a recent firmware update”
Link. Best review.
Dark Mode isn’t wonderful.
Link. Marketing driven.
Xenobots: “organisms come pre-loaded with their own food source of lipid and protein deposits, allowing them to live for a little over a week — but they can’t reproduce or evolve.”
Link. Famous last words.
xkcd: JPEG2000
Link. I remember all the better paths not taken.
Robert Clary – “Yes, there’s something dark in the human soul. For the most part human beings are not very nice. That’s why when you find those who are, you cherish them”
Link. From Buchenwald to Hogan’s Heroes. via Twitter. I watched that show.
125 years ago, deadly ‘Children’s Blizzard’ blasted Minnesota.
Link. Last victims of Krakatoa.
“the cheap 4K TV you bought three years ago is just about as good as the newest ones coming to market”
Link. I think we barely have HD. Don’t even care about 4K.
McConnell’s reelection depends on complete fealty to Trump.
Link. Trump has absolute control of GOP voters in Kentucky.
Hikikomori: Extreme Social Isolation isn’t uniquely Japanese
Link. Initially comfortable but then not.
“Foxx also has raised the standard for prosecuting felony shoplifting charges from a minimum of $300 to $1,000 in stolen goods”
Link. Won’t this induce retailers to leave the city? What about package theft?
“As wombats arrange these feces to mark territories and attract mates, it is believed that the cubic shape makes them more stackable and less likely to roll, which gives this shape a biological advantage”
Link. Wombats are big – up to size of a 12yo.
Sinofsky reviews CES. 2020
Link. Best ever.
America and Argentina: lessons from totalitarian murder.
Link. The right finds our concerns amusing. They don’t read much – or they favor this.
“Cross-word puzzles and the radio have been given as the reason for a marked decline during recent months in the demand for books at the Ottawa public library”
Link. “Meow meow” required research. 1920s. No TV.
Our Invisible Poor | The New Yorker. 1963.
Link. A critique of Galbraith. Friend recommemded. A worldview both familiar and alien.
“Puerto Rico is squeezed between the border of the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates.”
Link. Geology
“Analysts with Morgan Stanley have said they expect urban air taxis to be common by 2040″
Link. Autonomous presumably
British tabloid press are truly weird
Link. The nut here is a whacko tabloid veteran whining about meghixit and what he was owed
“slowest 10-year population growth since the first census was taken in 1790,”
Link. Insane to halt immigration now
Star Wars Voyager 1
Link. We did something amazing once.
Russia’s science academy exposes widespread fraud and corruption in Russian science.
Link. China worse. Too many scientists, not enough science demand.
“states that raised their minimum wages by $1, reduced the suicide rates by 3.4 percent to 5.9 percent among adults between the ages of 18 and 64, whose highest educational attainment was a high school diploma or less”
Link. Veterans
Soleimani Assassination: ensuring support of key GOP Senators.
Link. Trump wants 100% GOP support in his trial. Consistent with his effective political strategy.
‘Macintosh HD’ persists.
Link. A last bit of Apple’s soul.
Federal Program Offers Free Phones For the Poor, So Long as You’re OK With Chinese Malware
Link. This program needs to die.
Cars switching to CO2 based cooling systems
Link. It’s complicated.
Cancer Death Rate in U.S. Sees Sharpest One-Year Drop
Link. “reduced smoking rates and to advances in lung cancer treatment. New therapies for melanoma of the skin”. GOP states will have more cervical cancer due to HPV antivaxxers.
“based on limited testing data, this season’s flu shot does not look like a good match for the B Victoria flu and may not be very effective”
Link. Darn
Limits of focusing on high risk patients.
Link. Next is to look at a sligjly lower risk tier and focus there.
“Iran has a dismal success rate in assassinating foreign officials.”
Link. Their hackers do better and can be deniable, so cyberwar retaliation more likely.
How black holes grow when time stops for incoming matter/radiation.
Link. Feels like Zeno’s paradox, but simpler. The particle stops, but the event horizon grows and eats it. Of course, quantum.
Unicode’s zero width space and file names.
Link. Why does unicode need this?
“In Kathmandu, as in much of South Asia and parts of the Middle East, South America and sub-Saharan Africa, these men and their tanker trucks sometimes prevent entire cities from running dry”
Link. Deeply researched and broadly sympathetic.
“average body temperature decreased by 0.03 degrees centigrade, or about 0.05 degrees Fahrenheit, per birth decade.”
Link. We run cooler now.
GOP defers killing ACA until after election.
Link. Smart.
“Would you put your family on a Max simulator trained aircraft? I wouldn’t,” one employee said to a colleague in another exchange. “No,” the colleague responded”
Link. Boeing’s culture died about 15-20 years ago, but they kept on making big money. Makes me think of Apple.
“Since the end of World War II, per Eurasia Group, the U.S. has been at war in every year bar 1949 and 1985.”
Link. It’s a drug. We’re hooked.
“conservatives with high scientific literacy and numeracy are especially likely to be climate deniers.”
Link. American conservatism is a brain worm.
“Trump is the perfect president for Mitch. For the past three years, the senator from Kentucky has basically been running the government.”
Link. Tobacco guy runs America. Super smart, very evil.
Apple is documenting products?!?!??
Link. Wow. Feels so retro. iCloud too! No EPUB I could find.
Adding Apple’s holiday calendar feeds for foreign nations.
Link. Clever! Sad Apple doesn’t provide more easily.
Murdoch’s Australia: Denialism in media and politics.
Link. Murdoch is old and perhaps dying, but the culture he built will damage humanity for decades to come. He is one of the great villains of the 21st century.
Murdoch’s Australia: Denialism in media and politics.
Link. Murdoch is old and perhaps dying, but the culture he built will damage humanity for decades to come. He is one of the great villains of the 21st century.
Facebook aligns with GOP: continues lie exception
Link. Lying more acceptable in GOP
“OneTravel web page she was browsing was simply designed to claim that between 28 and 45 people were viewing a flight at any given moment. “
Link. Scams everywhere
[toread] How to rip DVDs and Blu-rays in macos – 2020 update.
Link. just in case
CES 2020: Tech Trend summary
Link. 5G, AI, AR, lots of devices. The usual.
Mercury Elite Pro Dock: combination storage device and Thunderbolt 3 dock
Link. RAID options
Ivanka Trump Speaking at CES: it’s a business.
Link. “Matt declined to give his full name, given the political nature of the topic, but punctuated his speech with many deep, existential sighs.”