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“Mr. Li is one of 59 people in the central city of Wuhan who have been sickened by a pneumonia-like illness”
Link. Hope China has learned from SARS. I suspect Trump-era CDC has been diminished.
Mexico: 61,000 Vanished
Link. A nation can fall a long way and still function. Sure it can happen hear.
“two-dimensional materials will be the linchpin of the internet of everything.”
Link. Antennae. Nanotech of course.
“Columbia University and Princeton said analysis of tax levies found “approximately 100 percent” of import taxes fell on Americans”
Link. GOP has implemted a VAT with corruption enhancements.
Trim Enabler for non-Apple SSD.
Link. Secersl new features. $15
“An 8-core or 12-core Mac Pro is marginal in terms of CPU performance relative to the 2019 iMac 5K.”
Link. The mini is a good compiler.
axios letter: why CEO firings change little and why tech ate everything.
Link. the corollary of tech success is many conpanies are dying because they can’t keep their tech working.
Bluetooth Audio: “wireless earbuds, such as Apple’s AirPods, your smartphone can actually only connect to one side.”
Link. I had no idea.
Dems need to force vulnerable GOP senators to show their true nature.
Link. Pelosi has given Dems the light of truth.
Trump’s “Biden card”: “Trump’s demand is based on a purely fabricated narrative of invented conduct that is utterly irrelevant to the corrupt conduct for which Trump is being tried”
Link. Trump is a genius at visceral psychological warfare. He thrives on it. TV news will succumb.
NAACP local chapters easy pawns for energy industry.
Link. Tobacco industry did the same.
Edward Lotterman covers economic history of world in a short newspaper column
Link. It’s actually good. World’s most obscure pop economist.
Bipolar becomes most accepted psychiatric disorder.
Link. Autism is contender.
Operating System resurgence
Link. End of the quiet Android/ios duopoly. What OS do AirPods use? Same as iPods?
“Catalina’s new per-file privacy protection is so complex that Apple has, as yet, been unable to explain it to either users or developers.”
Link. Complexity is why remote parental controls / family sharing is a dumpster fire. Apple needs older devs with more humility.
Chrome OS is stalled.
Link. Android apps perversely unhelpful.
Thirty years ago Boston police waged war on Black Boston – because a pregnany white woman was murdered.
Link. Of course you guessed the murderer was her white husband who blamed it on a black man in a track suit. 30 years isn’t that long ago.
Proton wiring in protein catalysis control: nanotech at work
Link. The blind watchmaker in action.
New carbon compound: “semi-metallic: it’s harder than stainless steel (although much lighter), electrically conductive, reflects light like a mirror, and is ferromagnetic.”
Link. Be cool if they can figure out volume production.
Biogen armtwisting FDA to approve aducanumab for Alzheimers
Link. Likely ineffective. Likely corrupt
Gordon’s Tech: Apple’s Family: The many surprises of creating an Apple ID with age 13 or under
Link. Apple should not have mixed remote Screen Time with Family Sharing. I understand why they did but the complexity is breathtaking.
“Holding impeachment articles and a Senate trial over Trump’s head could be the only way to keep his misconduct even vaguely in check heading into the 2020 election”.
Link. Sincerely — I don’t understand why this isn’t universally understood as self-evident. Even McConnell, who I consider worse than Trump, must find this leverage useful.
“Don’ts for women riders”
Link. Published 1895. “Bicycle face”. “Scorcher”. Not long after the civil war gender roles were changing.
Dr. Neesen’s book on wheeling (Published 1899?) – a wealth of cultural knowledge.
Link. Terrific scan, every page a gem. High school history paper writes itself. Page 33 describes the original energy drink – Kola. “Increased strength, endurance … as long as you continue … in ever-increasing doses, but when you stop …”
The Australian: Murdoch-owned newspaper accused of downplaying bushfires in favour of picnic races.
Link. Murdoch is one of the greatest criminals of the past 70 years.
“Night Mode” doesn’t actually work with the iPhone’s telephoto lens”
Link. OS hides truth that “zoom” is cropping wide angle.
“state and local minimum wage increases have probably been the difference between the wage growth just before the economic crisis and the wage growth that is now above that pace.”
Link. Not demand driven.
WordPress slides
Link. In the 90s i did a modest version of this with ancient HTML and JavaScript 2.
“It’s not just what the President did. It’s that he did it in full view of basically all his key foreign policy advisors and no one stopped him or did anything about it.”
Link. Entire GOP is broken.
Brain: “new kind of action potential that travels with the help of calcium ions”
Link. Not seen in other mammals? Primates?
Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Make Technology Work for People With Disabilities
Link. I’m writing a book on this for persons with cognitive disabilities. Legislation is needed, Apple won’t do it otherwise.
“C.A.P.E. reached 33 in January 2018 and is almost as high now, at 31 … has been as high or higher on only two occasions: 1929 … and in 1999″
Link. 401K funds are easy to shift.
The MOOC revolution that wasn’t (2015)
Link. Lost dreams.
“flawed implementations of RCS make it not much safer than the SMS system it hopes to replace.”
Link. Google looks quite mortal these days
“steal an RSA SecurID Software Token and to patch 1 instruction, which results in the generation of valid tokens.”
Link. RSA SecurID Software Tokens are is easy to hack.
The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade
Link. Not exactly as expected.
Software failure: “found some pretty vivid examples of how the ladder of abstractions has started to fall and nobody can do anything about it now because we all are used to work only at the very tip of it.”
Link. Software ownership changes can be fatal.
Terry Pratchett’s philosophy
Link. Iain Banks used similar approach to the big topics
I Love the 20s. xkcd.
Link. The decade starts here
Define Now: “Two to 3 seconds for integration might be a “fundamental component of human cognition”
Link. Years of cognitive science work on defining the meaning of the conscious present.
“If World War 2 were starting today, World War 1 would feel about as far back to us as 9/11″
Link. Perennial classic.
“Men tended to have more free time than women, older people more than the young, and African-American women the least of all. But no group reported less than about four and a half hours a day of free time.”
Link. Most have lots of time to exercise.
Military AI: current state.
Link. JPL a center.
IV BCG protects monkeys by Tb
Link. Inspired by recent novel malaria vaccine – but was discovered in 1960s and forgotten!
“Federal officials are investigating hundreds of cases involving the potential theft of intellectual property by visiting scientists, nearly all of them Chinese nationals.”
Link. What percent is that of active Chinese scholars in the US?
“United States finds itself in a position where few powerful Iraqis are willing to stand up for it and its role in the country.”
Link. MAGA.
Spying in the surveillance age is much much harder.
Link. Also, China hacked OPM comprehensively 6y ago. The US doesn’t seem to be able to secure anything anymore.
2010 recap: moral collapse of American conservatives.
Link. A quick revap. The perversion of the Evangelicals was faster and more complete than I imagined.
ProPublica forces IRS to confront Intuit scam.
Link. Avoid Intuit. They are the worst.