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Mojave 10.14.6 “there has been extensive updating in PhotoLibrary and iCloud Photo support”

Posted on July 23, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Curious.

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iOS email apps: learn to love mail.app

Posted on July 23, 2019 by jgordon

Link. “we don’t trust Airmail anymore”. There’s only room for 1 Google.

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Machine leaning will create novel kinds of emergent error.

Posted on July 23, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Interactions between systems that are very accurate until they get weird.

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Orange Holiday Europe: Cheap 4G SIM for Your European Vacation

Posted on July 22, 2019 by jgordon

Link. AT&T gets expensive.

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White Supremacists Warn Idealistic Trump Some Compromise Will Be Necessary

Posted on July 22, 2019 by jgordon

Link. “if Trump truly wants to see the purity of the white race protected, he should step back and listen to his Republican colleagues who have been working towards that goal for decades.”

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“Patrick Leahy, the veteran Democrat from Vermont, said that his decision to seek Franken’s resignation without first getting all the facts was “one of the biggest mistakes I’ve made” in forty-five years in the Senate.”

Posted on July 22, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Gillibrand & Klobuchar, we remember.

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“91 percent of men and 84 percent of women have had at least one vivid fantasy about killing someone”

Posted on July 21, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Really? Seems very high …

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“hard to fathom why Warren and Harris are ceding leadership on health care to Sanders, and even to Biden”

Posted on July 21, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I favor Biden’s plan. So do most health wonks

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“The Raft” – “With four men and six women, he’d set sail on a boxy steel raft with no motor across the Atlantic Ocean, to better observe human conflict”

Posted on July 21, 2019 by jgordon

Link. This really happened?! Was never told?!

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“63 percent of voters in the 2016 Democratic primaries were white, 51 percent identified themselves as moderate or conservative”

Posted on July 21, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The base.

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“Appalachian regions of West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and western North Carolina show per capita use of around 150 oxycodone or hydrocodone pills per year.”

Posted on July 21, 2019 by jgordon

Link. White, non-college, rural. Per capita! Staggering numbers though some must be trafficing.

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“The last time the planet had a cooler than average month, Ronald Reagan was president”

Posted on July 20, 2019 by jgordon

Link.

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Breeding a longer lived dog – 1997

Posted on July 20, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Been 20 years since I posted this on usenet. I thought somebody would take this on … Doesn’t seem to have happened.

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Office “tell me what you want to do” is still not available on Mac.

Posted on July 20, 2019 by jgordon

Link. It’s barely documented on Windows; users don’t seem to know it exists. It’s the best app work Microsoft has done in 20 years and I want to cry now.

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Pages — how to make images insert inline

Posted on July 20, 2019 by jgordon

Link. More layout/desktop publishing than wordprocessor. Also, nobody at Apple can be using this thing.

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“configure your CCC backup tasks to unmount the destination volume at the end of the backup task”

Posted on July 20, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Don’t mount on startup and don’t store mount pw in boot keychain. Even then it can be attacked during a backup, so how useful is this advice?

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Protect backups from ransomware: “3-2-1 rule states to have three different copies of your media, on two different media, one of which is off-site”

Posted on July 20, 2019 by jgordon

Link. And offline! So who else besides me does this? (Also, I still don’t trust my backup strategy.)

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Opioid: “prescription overdoses have dropped in the U.S. to the lowest level since 1990″

Posted on July 20, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I bet 90% have no idea this happened. Action is bitcoin fueled fentanyl now.

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The Joy of Hatred: “He’s not afraid to say what he thinks. And what he says is what the rest of us are thinking”

Posted on July 20, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I don’t agree this is of US history. Tribal hatred is ancient, deep, universal. Our history just gives it a particular spin, and an ironic political party.

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“Trump’s national story is much closer to the Russian national story than it is toward our own.”

Posted on July 20, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Why Trump-Fox GOP, and Rupert Murdoch, love Putin.

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Dark energy and making universes: “In order for inflation to end, that energy has to get converted into matter and radiation”

Posted on July 20, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Turtles++.

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“fungal cells formed an elaborate, interconnected 3D network, enabling them to communicate with each other and exchange nutrients”

Posted on July 20, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Cordyceps fungi, 400 insect-specific zombifier species.

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Facebook content moderation tech could be a lot better.

Posted on July 20, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Would cost more and would decrease engagement.

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Urban Dictionary: egirl, e-girl.

Posted on July 20, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The rewiring of the adolescent human brain is a brutal biological hack. Our brains need another million years of evolutionary optimization.

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Endgame alternate stories

Posted on July 20, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Writers finding a way.

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Image somehow related to Quantum Entanglement.

Posted on July 20, 2019 by jgordon

Link. It’s just a bug in the Simulation.

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“During the summer of 1988, utilizing rigid 26” wheeled mountain bikes with rear racks and a single packraft, Roman, Carl Tobin, and Jon Underwood rode out of the remote mining settlement of Nabesna for the equally remote village of McCarthy”

Posted on July 19, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Suspension is for wimps.

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“President Donald Trump made false accusations against both Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Ilhan Omar”

Posted on July 19, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Widely repeated.

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Planning the Cold Peace with China.

Posted on July 19, 2019 by jgordon

Link. American business should look to Africa, India, Indonesia. Not China.

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Cost Disease in healthcare, education … and construction.

Posted on July 19, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Compare Canada? Finally this is getting some high powered thought.

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Maggots and why Anti De Sitter (AdS) space is dumb.

Posted on July 19, 2019 by jgordon

Link. We don’t have a good use for our vast cognitive surplus.

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“genius of these tools is that you can also get the wifi passwords for various airport lounges”

Posted on July 18, 2019 by jgordon

Link.

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Trump Is No George Wallace. He’s Worse.

Posted on July 18, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Much worse actually.

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“Delta customers traveling with surfboards, bicycles, golf clubs, scuba gear and other large-sized sporting equipment will now be allowed to check them as part of their standard baggage allowance.”

Posted on July 18, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Golf was always standard for me, but big savings for bikes.

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Autism heritability: “ranging from 50.9% (25.1%-75.6%) (Finland) to 86.8% (69.8%-100.0%) (Israel)”

Posted on July 18, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Overall 80%. More than schizophrenia. Finland odd outlier. Genetic relatives usually have traits; do traits make parents more susceptible to anti-vaxxer beliefs?

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ADX – America’s torture prison.

Posted on July 17, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Trump didn’t come from nowhere.

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“If Trump says it, the GOP will fall in line behind him, either with cowed silence or explicit assent”

Posted on July 17, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Has any prior President dominated his party so completely? Maybe Reagan?

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“adding up to 32 feet (10 meters) of ice per year over the course of 10 years would be enough to protect the West Antarctic glaciers from completely destabilizing”

Posted on July 17, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Aloha Manhattan

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“the commercial stem cell clinic business is still shady and full of hype, profiteering, and outright fraud. Overflowing with all of those, actually.”

Posted on July 17, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The new alternative medicine.

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Google tool for interpreting email message header (trace).

Posted on July 17, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Bookmark.

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“Corporal Chudzinski and other firefighters happened to be behind a wall when a fireball hurtled through the attic. It probably saved them.”

Posted on July 17, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Details on Notre Dame fire. Key staff person had 3 days experience and was on double shift. Amazing fire fighters lived.

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One brain into two – conjoined twins

Posted on July 16, 2019 by jgordon

Link. “Funding for the operations came from a donor who has not been publicly identified.” UK neurosurgeon: Noor ul Owase Jeelani, Great Ormond Street Hospital in London

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“Amazon is starting to remind me of one of those liquidation store brands that I remember being super popular in the late 1990s to early 2000s”

Posted on July 16, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Alibaba.

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Keyboard geek overview

Posted on July 16, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Progress has been made

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“don’t remove the pericardium during human surgery”

Posted on July 16, 2019 by jgordon

Link. May contain novel cells that help healing

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“Intuit chose to dupe and take advantage of its most vulnerable customers is supremely shitty”

Posted on July 16, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Bad culture.

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“if this President relays an anecdote in which he has someone referring to him as “sir,” then some major component of the anecdote is very likely to be wrong.”

Posted on July 16, 2019 by jgordon

Link. If Sir absent only 50% wrong.

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OpEd from future: “It was signed into law by government officials in the nation’s capital of Minneapolis, “

Posted on July 16, 2019 by jgordon

Link. SF short published in NYT.

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Terry Pratchett and Political Philosophy.

Posted on July 15, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Nostalgic. So many great lines

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“there’s no equivalence between even the most foot-dragging Democrats and the G.O.P.’s raw racial incitement, and anyone who suggests otherwise is acting destructively.”

Posted on July 15, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Or simply serving Trump. Or Putin.

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