Link. Synced to 15 mph. Trying to reduce death rates.
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“Genotypes known to be strongly associated with lower socio-economic status and lower cognitive ability were found more often in the poorer areas.”
Link. Mass disability. Now that you’ve asked your question, what do you do with your answers?
“Mr. Sondland and Timothy Morrison, the senior director for European and Russian affairs at the National Security Council, both indicated to him that the aid was conditioned on Ukraine opening the investigations sought by the president.”
Link. What else has Trump done that we haven’t yet heard about?
Giuliani’s Russian allies bribing GOP camdidates to obtain cannabis investments.
Link. Campaign contributions
“bacteria on ants make several antimicrobials at once.”
Link. Multi-drug prevents resistance. As in HIV therapy.
Pedophile psychology: “Most get stuck on the same-age boys or girls who first attracted them at the start of puberty”
Link. A curse.
US highway deaths fall in 2018 … “But pedestrian deaths rose 3.4%, and the number of people killed on bicycles and other pedaled vehicles went up 6.3%”
Link. Smartphones.
Invisible scroll bars create “perfect crop” bugs
Link. Has happened to me.
All Trump needed to take out Biden was for Ukraine to announce an inestigation
Link. Senate GOP acquittal will cement their place in history.
“If a tweet elicits far more hostile replies than likes or retweets—meaning that there is a high ratio between criticism and approbation—it has been duly ratioed”
Link. Now I know too much.
“while the mutation did make the bacteria better at fighting the last-resort drug, it also appeared to restore its weakness to some drugs it had previously resisted”
Link. Human ingenuity has not yet begun to fight.
Security keys and TOTP weaknesses.
Link. I much prefer TOTP, but if I had to worry about China I’d do a security key. (In the past I was of interest, but not now.)
“Standing with Trump means standing against those (particularly in mass communication and academia) whose jobs happen to entail presenting facts”
Link. Superb essay in a rich genre.
Free Software failed to make us free.
Link. The bad guys won. “Open-source software is more widely used, but platforms and services are increasingly locked down. Free software didn’t bring the expected freedom.”
Apple’s broken development explained.
Link. This is really bad. They need new dev leadership. Keep making noise.
Fentanyl and the murder rate.
Link. Early days, but watch this space. Don’t be surprised if cryptocurrencies are banned.
Feds walk back anti-opioid campaign
Link. Americans always overcorrect
CDB users testing positive for THC.
Link. “TFAA when used by a GC-MS machine was unable to discern between CBD and THC.” Also some CBD products do contain THC.
Euthemasia rates plummet in American animal shelters
Link. Minnesota vacuums up dogs fron across the South
Offshoring US work slowed or stopped
Link. Nowhere near the preficted impact
Running 32 bit apps on Mojave — boot from an external drive?
Link. “Whenever I find the need to run them, I boot from an external Mojave system to access them. I’m pleasantly surprised that I can launch them directly from the Catalina volume.” Wow. Amazing this works if it truly does.
Tom Tomorrow cartoon captures the essence of our moment – the Dumb Mob.
Link. Trump’s expression in the last panel is perfect.
“Mawson’s experience distills the Victorian age of Antarctic exploration to its essence, combining an unbelievable personal fortitude with the overall pointlessness of the endeavor.”
Link. Australian hero.
“I don’t know what Putin has on him, whether it’s both personal and financial,” Clinton said. “I assume it is.”
Link. Something where the statute of limitations would not apply.
Catastrophic men theory of history: “On the small matters as well as the large, political incompetents mirror military incompetents”
Link. Some times summon the utterly incompetent. Via Charlie Stross.
China’s Fentanyl enterprise.
Link. Doesn’t mention bitcoin — that’s a big miss. The thousands of Hong Kong shell companies and secretarial firms are a powerful shield.
“Car sales are 5 percent of China’s economic output, according to official statistics, meaning they play a bigger role in China’s growth than exports to the United States.”
Link. China turning into mature nation
Death on an Airplane
Link. Nobody legally dies on an airplane. I think legal complexity reasons.
Trump blocks Navy’s attempt to fix broken SEALs
Link. McConnell too.
“75 petabytes of internal data stored in nearly 7,500 Oracle databases,”
Link. Moved to AWS. Amazon IT may be best in world.
“51 American children have died so far this year from heatstroke after being left or getting trapped in cars”
Link. I had a cord clipped from my belt to the car seat. If i fogot a kid it would rip my belt off.
53 Cards: understanding the infinity drive.
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The Zuck bill: “Under the bill, executives who knowingly lie to the FTC about privacy violations could face up to 20 years behind bars,”
Link. McConnell will save his friend
“has almost 720 sexes, can move without legs or wings and heals itself in two minutes if cut in half,”
Link. Slime molds are pretty cool.
“Modern Melanesians, who today inhabit the geographical region stretching from New Guinea out to Fiji, have retained a disproportionate amount of archaic DNA from both Neanderthals and Denisovans”
Link. More contacts.
Fat accumulates within ling tissues.
Link. Maybe new way obesity contributes to disease. No idea how large impact is.
Mulvaney is a member of FoxGOP Seth Rich conspiracy lunacy.
Link. The venality and stupidity of the powerful exceeds my most extreme expectations.
After China’s bikeshare bust.
Link. That was a heck of a party.
“before upgrading to Catalina, ensure that your Mac boots from an SSD”
Link. When did Apple stop selling Macs with HDs?
“very strong likelihood that Donald Trump’s corruption and lawlessness has already infected relationships with numerous countries abroad”
Link. Normal humans cannot imagine his mind.
Men’s Journal RSS feed.
Link. Lots of feeds. For middle aged and old men and women.
Catalyst in Catalina: a comprensive deb survey
Link. Not clear is Apple will fix it, kill it, or let it fester
Catalina Screen Time reports are fake news
Link. “Mac remains a product in our lineup.” Burn.
“If you have macOS or other Apple installers, chances are that they’ll be signed, or use as an intermediate certificate authority, by a certificate which expires very shortly.”
Link. Oh, crap. What a screw-up.
Detecting laptops in cars: “They turn on bluetooth scanners and follow the beacon to find electronics”
Link. Break-ins. Power down
“Republicans’ continuing support for Trump is a rejection of democracy and the rule of law.”
Link. For the GOP there really isn’t any law any more. Democracy in America is in critical condition.
Massive child exploit site busted – “Two users of the Darknet market committed suicide after the execution of search warrants.”
Link. 23 children rescued. Hundreds arrested. The IRS is good at this.
Aftermath: what viral feels like
Link. Remember the Butterfly Effect?
“Looking back, the era since the fall of the Berlin Wall seems like one of complacency, or opportunities lost. Enormous inequalities – of wealth and opportunity – have been allowed to grow”
Link. Wrong path taken.
Global Map of the Internet
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