Link. “Many people have the physiology but I believe my experiences as a member of the U.K. special forces unit — the Special Boat Service — gives me an unequaled edge.”
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“Mass funerals, wounded children, displaced families. This is what we found in northeast Syria after the U.S. withdrew”
Link. Fox drones hear heavenly reports
FDA report on drug shortages disappoints everyone
Link. Why so useless?
Pixel on device speech rec: “managed to shrink its language processing model down to a small enough size for it to fit on the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL”
Link. Big advantage over iphone.
“school security business now is a $1.5 billion industry”
Link. MAGA.
“Google Search will stop supporting Flash later this year. In Web pages that contain Flash content, Google Search will ignore the Flash content.”
Link. Flash lives on in government web sites and training materials.
“early modern humans were likely replaced by Neanderthals in this region by around 170,000 years ago”
Link. Ten years of discovery and reinterpretation
“Mattis saw himself above all as a general, not as a cabinet secretary whose obligations to the public and the Constitution superseded his military creed.”
Link. The fundament flaw.
Mankiw leaves Trumpism.
Link. Sane Republicans exist, but most are not celebrities. Mankiw may lose money for this.
Einstein’s cosmological constant was a mistake, but also weirdly true.
Link. “The accelerated expansion that we see today indicates that dark energy’s behavior is indistinguishable from a cosmological constant’s behavior”
Continuity Sketch – iPad to Mac
Link. Requires Catalina
Snoring Solutions
Link. Empiricism.
Redownload Archived macOS Installers
Link. And a way to trick the cert tests on older versions
Technical Deep Dive: How does Retroactive work? – Tyshawn Cormier
Link. Aperture in Catalina.
“Retroactive app can modify Aperture, iPhoto, or iTunes to run on macOS Catalina”
Link. Wow.
“Dr. Kvist suggests letting the leech fill up and fall off on its own, but even he doesn’t believe anyone will follow this advice.”
Link. Sounds reasonable.
How to Disable Raise to Wake on iPhone.
Link. I think an iOS update made it more sensitive, casing false awakening, pocket activation, etc.
“Mr. Carter and Mrs. Carter, 92, became the longest-married presidential couple last week”
Link. He’s finally coming to the end.
All the matter of the universe could fit within the orbit of Saturn.
Link. If you could pack protons side-by-side.
“almost all of Apple’s existing installers and updaters now lie in tatters, their signing certificates expired, because Apple did too little too late. It failed to plan for the progression of time.”
Link. Like climate change, a simple problem humans suck at.
“raw sweet potatoes inflicted an impressive amount of damage on the microbiome of the mouse gut”
Link. Antibacterial destroyed by cooking.
ISIS leader: “he was described as “shy,” “reserved,” “isolated” and “quiet.” He found his place, they said, at the local mosque, where his father enrolled him in a Quranic memorization class.”
Link. I am always curious how monsters are made. I wonder if a reaction to something he feared and hated in himself. Gender preferences?
GOP responds to student voting as one expects.
Link. White Evangelicals are morally bankrupt. Shocker.
“Financial incentives are nowhere near as powerful as they are usually assumed to be.”
Link. Every generation reinvents “pay for performance” incentives. Every generation relearns they are a mistake. Culture matters far more.
Charles Schwandt main donor to covert anti-Obama group.
Link. Billionaires speak loudly.
“Trump administration hellbent on purging the Obama-appointed security specialists tasked with defending White House computers”
Link. I’m amazed they lasted as long as they did.
“Smith started writing in 1915, began focusing on his fiction in earnest in 1919, with his first novel being The Skylark of Space”
Link. I read the entire Lensman series in early 70s.
Barr syndrome: “malady known as Fox News Brain Rot, the symptoms of which are an extreme susceptibility to absurd right-wing conspiracy theories and an inability to believe anything that contradicts them. “
Link. Barr is both smart and profoundly stupid. It is a weird psychology summoned from a fetid swamp by Trumpism.
Antivax movement Facebook fueled.
Link. First web, then social media, enabled anti-science.
Paperwork requirements cut kids from healthcare.
Link. We have seen this with our special needs son. The paperwork is absolutely insane. Broken system, bad leadership.
Trumpism resurrects the “terrible man” view of history
Link. The wrong person in the wrong place and time can destroy a nation
“We’re lucky … All of our furniture got washed away, so there’s not much to clean up.”
Link. Seems very Japanese.
“outbreaks of cVDPV — which stands for “circulating vaccine-derived polio virus” — have struck nearly 20 countries.”
Link. Threading a fine needle.
A Turkish prisoner and a writer.
Link. Erdogan. Trump.
“The pediatrician treated all six of Imtiaz Jalbani’s children, four of whom contracted H.I.V. His two youngest, 14-month Rida and 3-year-old Sameena, have died.”
Link. Thousands likely infected. Syringe reuse. Pakistan.
“Trump called Mattis in the summer of 2018 and directed him to “screw Amazon” out of a chance to bid on a $10 billion cloud networking contract.”
Link. Microsoft won. Possibly honestly. Oh, BTW, impeachable.
Civil rights leaders angry with Facebook’s Trump-lie exemption.
Link. Elect Elizabeth Warren. Break up Facebook.
Healthcare algorithm biased against uninsured.
Link. Racial bias gets headlines, and that is useful. Was primarily bias against uninsured. This kind of bias is ancient in stats models.
“if you have three (or more) screens connected to a Mac, you can mirror two of the three by Option-clicking one and dragging it on top of another”
Link. Once there were Giants.
“Google’s repeated, persistent, tragic-on-a-Greek-scale failure to get its messaging products right.”
Link. Probably stupider than MacBook keyboards.
Redownload your Sierra and later installers
Link. Certs.
iTunes Library.xml v. ITLibrary
Link. Apple dumped XML but also neglected the API alternative
“Harold Robbins’s less-than-subtle signal for the orgy to begin”
Link. Thanks Om for link. A pop icon of my childhood.
Rampant health care burnout.
Link. This is a trivially fixable problem. Pay by the hour.
“Around 1 a.m., he took a thermal photo of a cornfield, and captured a line of hundreds of dedicated volunteers.”
Link. Cry like a baby. I did.
Congress may criminalize animal torture.
Link. I’m not into the death penalty. But sometimes one must make an exception.
Rat. Go-Kart. Races.
Link. Franchise.
“grievance and resentment … are the taproots of the version of American conservatism we now call Trumpism”
Link. Trump has transformed America.
Quantum supremacy: the state of combat
Link. Most of this is superficially comprehensible. History made.
In a modern construction disaster everyone iscto blame
Link. Given current practices lots had to go wrong