Link. Whoa. Must read.
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“The global economy runs on parties.”
Link. As long as there’s money.
“after starting out with a lot of hope of going with either Catalyst or SwiftUI I’ve ended up being somewhat disillusioned with both of them.”
Link. Try again in 2023.
“the only way to get a 4K or 5K Mac display with the proper resolution is to buy an iMac.”
Link.
“Even when it seems like members of the Trump regime are doing something off the top of their heads, there’s a good chance that it’s been planned and studied meticulously, especially when they’re lying.”
Link.
PDF Accessibility Fail.
Link. Adobe’s implementation unuseable, Apple should step up
Nuance Dragon has left ios and macos. There is no alternative.
Link. Maybe Nuance wants Apple to buy them?
“Swift can be used as a scripting language … it’s possible that Apple will anoint it as the Mac’s scripting language of choice at some point in the future.”
Link. Replace AppleScript.
Manage Google Calendar invitation scam.
Link. Argh.
Vegetarian diet and Crohns disease.
Link. Weird. I’m sure has been tried before.
Reprogramming the Trumpista.
Link. The cult framing works. Evangelicals simply swapped one Lord for Another.
“Company that runs immigration detention centers is top donor for three Texas congressmen”
Link. GOP. The party of business.
How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today
Link. Cloudflare is justly pissed.
GOP uses mistreatment of children to force funding that can be used for immigration raids.
Link. Evil of course.
Deep dive on Russian geopolitics.
Link. They hate LGBTQ, gay rights, and feminism and strongly favor autocracy and wealth for the ruling class. So pretty familiar.
Classic emolument: buy a house to rent to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
Link. Chilean billionaire knows this game.
Vaccinating against DM: “33 percent reduction in the incidence of Type 1 diabetes among those who completed the three-dose RotaTeq series”
Link. Some prior evidence. Worth digging further
Meharry Medical College repeats historic blunder of black colleges – funded by Philip Morris
Link. President should resign.
Mankiw calls for VAT to manage US debt
Link. Omits carbon tax. At least he’s give up on raising retirement age.
Electric car power units: “Companies have often gone their own way, rather than adopting universal standards.”
Link. Betting on lock-in.
“Donald J. Trump carried several key states on a vow to end manufacturing job losses. That has not happened.”
Link.
“attempts to weaken Congress are a huge gift to corporations and anyone trying to evade accountability.”
Link. House weakened by GOP cuts.
“today’s teenagers are getting tamer and more responsible, making better decisions and eschewing the dangerous choices”
Link. Is weird for us parents, we tend to assume trouble.
“PDF forms are a minefield, and even the most sophisticated of third-party products is guaranteed to be incompatible with some form formats.”
Link. Amazing anything ever works
“Apple’s app reviewers work for Apple. They’re paid hourly, have employee badges and get Apple benefits like health care.”
Link. Progress.
Apple’s after iTunes article doesn’t mention putting images on iOS devices.
Link. A significant missing piece.
Amazon ignores counterfeit books.
Link. Illegible medical texts sold. “This is not really negligence on Amazon’s part. It is the company’s business model.”
Catalina is a big change with few user enhancements
Link. I will probably skip it.
Bike: Combination rear vehicle approach radar and blinkie.
Link. $200. For an age where driver competence has plummeted to new lows.
Economics: Oil prices, war, and a bad corn crop
Link. Why we have agricultural economists.
The Middle Eastern Thirty Years War?
Link. Excellent review of history and the Iran-Saudi war.
Feedbin: “Micro.Blog icon on the top-right actually does”
Link.
Letter to Senator Amy Klobuchar on Apple’s Screen Time failures.
Link. iOS 12 Screen Time worked to assuage political and media pressure, but it’s effectively a fake solution.
When iOS 12 Screen Time stops working.
Link. I’ve seen this with my kids and with a test device. For no particular reason it will stop working. Never found a fix.
Japan: “Kyocera Corp.’s Amoeba Management, which operates its thousands of internal teams as individual companies (amoebas)”
Link. Theory of the Firm experiments. Amazing they are able to manage this. In US would be gamed and cheated to death.
Why Trump can’t be a populist.
Link. McConnell has principles. Of a sort.
Business Casual dress is bad for the world.
Link. He’s right and it hadn’t occurred to me.
“100 families own about 42 million acres across the country, a 65,000-mile expanse”
Link. GOP opposed to growing public lands.
“the “December solstice” side of the analemma is much larger, with bigger time differences, while the “June solstice” side is much narrower, with smaller departures from the mean time.”
Link. Interaction of tilt, ellipse, and orbital location.
Killbot review.
Link. Poison gas treaties worked for a long time. So Fermi-resolving killbot proliferation might take a while.
DNA microscopy: a new instrument
Link. Nobel?
Climate: Blue states jump ahead of red states
Link. Red states repeat historic mistakes, ceding tech future to the blues
This should be grounds for impeachment: “called Spravato, and manufactured by Janssen, a unit of Johnson & Johnson — came days after President Trump offered to negotiate a deal between the drug maker and the agency.”
Link. VA could do generic ketamine for nothing — if it were worthwhile. This is Trumpian corruption at work
“between 60,000 and 100,000 organs are transplanted each year in Chinese hospitals.”
Link. Based on best available statistics vast majority are taken from prisoners. Massive crimes against humanity.
Russian deputy foreign minister: “we once again are calling on responsible parties, if any are still left in Washington, to weigh all the consequences.”
Link. Do they regret electing Trump?
“President Trump has begun the process of withdrawing from the international postal union that establishes protocols for global mail delivery”
Link. Of course.
Vaccine Injury Claims: 1 in a million.
Link. Much safer than even I thought. I’d have guessed 10-100 times higher. Modern vaccines are amazing.
Dem women who prefer a male president: one anecdote
Link. Anonymous necessarily. “Some of my best lovers were married.” Entertaining. I think not rare, even in women under 70yo
Antivax conference – chiropractic orgs give cme credit.
Link. I’m fond of several chiropractors, but it is quackery.
Windows Live Writer was briefly Open Live Writer.
Link. WLW was the best blogging tool ever. Windows with some SharePoint support. Killed 2012. Leaned today was resurrected as Open LiveWriter. Looks like that died 2016. Farewell WLW, you were fine.