Link. Denialists will deny, some to the end.
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Revenge of the patriarchy: part of global authoritarian surge
Link. Goes along with anti-rationalism.
Tuning spacetime to focus on a specific gravity wave property.
Link. Treating space like a radio tuner.
Barr: Be nice to cops or bad things will happen.
Link. Russia was very good at exploiting #BLM and the GOP won big. GOP will do everything possible to collaborate with Russia on BLM resurrection.
Dumpster baby – the sequel.
Link. Firstly, a story to celebrate. Secondly, your birth circumstance does not define you.
“The Washington Post has spoken with 48 people who had worked illegally for the Trump Organization at 11 of its properties in Florida, New Jersey, New York and Virginia”
Link. The weirdness and the orangeness.
Oral contraceptives and changes to the brain.
Link. I wrote a paper discussing societal implications @1981.
StarTech Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter
Link. Apparently it works
“After a swollen battery in my iPhone X and two HomePod faults, I have to say that my faith in Apple’s quality control is at an all-time low.”
Link. I buy reluctantly.
Halamka and Mayo Digital Health Frontier.
Link. Amazon Health competitor.
“the two-body problem in General Relativity — cannot be solved exactly.
Link. GR math.
We all want Apple to pay billions to the butterfly class action lawsuit.
Link. 50 billion would be nice. They might rethink things.
Time Machine: 1 How it works
Link. Sierra was pretty buggy.
Common Core has failed.
Link. First understand why Black Minnesota students lag.
Pain is in your head.
Link. In the brain specifically, which means partly in the mind.
Dexcom diabetes monitor have 2nd outage, late communication
Link. Surprised FDA does not suspend sales.
“About 15 percent of all deliveries in urban areas fail to reach customers because of package theft and other less frequent issues”
Link. 15!?!!
“blue-state residents can expect to live more than four years longer than their red-state counterparts.”
Link. Even Texas is falling behind. Not Utah though.
Activation lock causing Apple device waste.
Link. Few understand how to unlock. Apple has a financial incentive not to fix this.
Catalina kills older ScanSnap support – no good alternatives.
Link. Stay on Mojave. Catalina is a lot of pain and expense.
Lung Health Institute pioneers new medical scams
Link. Every physician there should lose their license
“Walmart opened its first Health Center, a medical mall where customers can get primary care, vision tests, dental exams and root canals; lab work, X-rays and EKGs; counseling; even fitness and diet classes.”
Link. Extremely low cost cash visit for “primary care”.
“The president of the United States is calling me names to the entire world. He’s demeaning me and my career. It’s sickening.”
Link. I didn’t hear of the fake orgasm. Clinton was right about the deplorables, but none of us imagined how many there were.
How to create a file system reference to an iCloud Note.
Link. View in iCloud, save webloc, it will display in macOS Notes.app.
Dark energy might not exist after all.
Link. “calls into question a Nobel Prize winning discovery”
Unable to use MarsEdit with Blogger – OAUTH failure
Link. I wonder if it only works on Catalina now?
Removing encryption from PDF on macOS with Chrome.
Link. Crappy web site, crappy PDF, but Chrome will strip encryption.
Statin use associated with worse OA?
Link. Weird.
OA as mitochondrial disorder
Link. Is there really maternal inheritance?
“Add-on treatment of HCQ effectively improved glycemic control in T2DM patients uncontrolled on multiple antidiabetic drugs.”
Link. Huh? Would need to see this somewhere else
Hydroxychloroquine retinopathy usually reverses with early detection.
Link. Small numbers but encouraging. Previously thought not reversible.
Faster lookup in macOS — disable Siri Lookup suggestions (3 finger tap).
Link. In iOS 12 dictionary lookup is from context menu and it’s also MUCH faster if you disable Siri Lookup in Settings.
“The War of Jenkins’ Ear.”
Link. Sailing Drake’s passage to wage piracy upon Spain.
“adjusted job-switching rate is only moderately lower than it was 20 years ago”
Link. Doesn’t explain wage stagnation.
.Org Domain sale: corruption in ICAAN and ISOC.
Link. Trump culture.
“without warning, according to colleagues, Chief Gallagher pulled a small hunting knife from a sheath and stabbed the sedated captive in the neck.”
Link. Murdoch and Trump.
“The Mac is now in the midst of a documentation crisis”
Link. The Web killed print documentation, but then the web died. It’s everywhere, not just Mac. I remember BYTE.
Dropper Seatpost Buying Guide.
Link. Great ref.
“Roof pointed to his discovery of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens website as the beginning of his journey into radicalization.”
Link. Online has been great for hate.
Online text: programming basics.
Link. The later chapters interest me. Artifact of the web that was when Giants walked.
IINA – open source macOS media player.
Link. Worrisome: no mention of Catalina, screen shots “coming soon”.
“Soule was murdered on April 23, 1865. His death, for which no one was ever brought to justice, occurred only two months after he testified against Chivington before the Army commission.”
Link. Even in the dark and bloody vastness of America’s brutal history there are heroes.
Kerry climate initiative: “Moderate Republican lawmakers like Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former governor of California, and John Kasich, the former governor of Ohio”
Link. Those 2 truly RINO now. Key point: The Trumpista pushback in curiously weak. Almost like something is close to falling…
“ten years later, Bluetooth is actually good.”
Link. Took far longer than anyone imagined
“Sierra introduced a new logging system and Console is now of very limited value.”
Link. What was Apple’s reasoning?
Andrew Sullivan, Internet Society CEO, Arrogantly Deflects Questions About the Sale of the .Org Registry to a Private Equity Firm
Link. This is Trump-level bullshit.
“United Daughters of the Confederacy” fights to preserve terrorist monuments.
Link. Beyond deplorable.
“Considering Airbnb’s lax enforcement of its own policies, who could blame the scammers for taking advantage of the new world of short-term rental platforms?”
Link.
“Using simplifications enabled by TensorFlow, we managed to bring the total number of known (stable or unstable) equilibrium solutions for one particular type of M-Theory spacetime geometries to 194″
Link. I need physicist commentary.
Astrophotography with Night Sight on Pixel Phones
Link. “Milky Way as seen from the summit of Haleakala volcano on a cloudless and moonless September night”