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Science says: corruption works on politicians.
Link. Has been tricky to measure.
Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete”.
Link. New problem: passwords must be tappable so can’t be random.
Review: “Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed,” Lisa Duggan
Link. I didn’t know of Rand’s Queer appeal but I believe. Never read her, but Emily did.
“Mitch McConnell, said he would not bring any election security bills to the floor for a vote.”
Link. Betting on Putin’s help.
“@TEN_GOP, an account pretending to be Tennessee Republicans, was retweeted over 6 million times and almost all of the retweets were outside of the Russian accounts”
Link. Easy to see why McConnell blocked action
Physician identity theft is very profitable.
Link. Insurance fraud scams.
“Support for FTP URL scheme is gone”
Link. ios Safari supported ftp://?! Lots of odd details in this post.
change-password-url/explainer.md
Link. Used by Safari and iOS 12. Smart.
Eclectic Light Company Menu – all his free utilities.
Link. Exceptional work.
Music.app: scriptable, No Column Browser
Link. It will be at least a year before I have to suffer.
Williams syndrome and the genetic history of human domestication.
Link. Rapid hypothesis generation.
“Christians are going to have to rethink their conception of the End Times because President Trump is on the verge of creating a literal utopia on earth.”
Link. Trump as AntiChrist fits disturbingly well.
“Voice Control may be one of the most important improvements in Catalina and iOS 13.”
Link. TidBITS review makes Catalina sound appealing. Same hardware as Mojave
iOS 13’s “Silence unknown callers” feature.
Link. Other than fixing Screen Time (no news on that so far) this is what I care about most.
Catalina: “We are not sure how the Photos would work. There may not be a direct sync function here since Photos are available via iCloud.”
Link. I worried about this. PITA to lose direct photo sync
Uber’s has lost “fourteen billion dollars in the last four years.”
Link. Bad idea
Photos.app: “all photo editing options are available with videos as well, including cropping and rotation, so you can fix videos accidentally taken in the wrong orientation without resorting to iMovie on the Mac.”
Link. Sounds like it is *finally* getting attention.
McConnell-Trump replay the worst of the 1920s.
Link. We haven’t hit bottom yet.
Proposed Screen Time API
Link. We absolutely need this. Apple belly flopped on Screen Time.
“we’ll end up much worse off than if they’d just kept the Mac in maintenance mode for a while.”
Link. Yes. MojavePlus for the win. Enhance Photos.app instead
Plan S: open publication of science
Link. Slow progress but still moving
Graduate schools are wild west of educational economics
Link. Masters degrees in debt. Not a typical vulnerable group.
“even the most efficient cruise ships emit 3 to 4 times more carbon dioxide per passenger-mile than a jet.”
Link. Bicycles rule.
“YouTube never set out to serve users with sexual interests in children”
Link. An unbiased algorithm executing its mission as designed.
Living with the Mississippi.
Link. Sounds like Davenport couldn’t leave the flood plain to flood.
Apple Car is dead.
Link. Autonomy is decades away
Trump’s healthcare proce transparency initiative.
Link. I bet goes way of his infrastructure plans.
MBZ, trillionaire, ruler of UAE, ally of Trump, owner of GOP: “he is obsessed with two enemies, Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood. ”
Link. He can easily buy Trump’s obedience.
737 Max: “after the first crash, they were stunned to discover MCAS relied on a single sensor.”
Link. Lessons will be learned.
“Hence sticking with the truth is the best strategy for gaining power. Unfortunately, this is just a comforting myth.”
Link. Machiavelli should be read more.
In praise of iTunes
Link. Smart Albums are the work of lost gods that we cannot comprehend.
Remembering Murray Gell-Mann – by another genius
Link. “He was a strange mixture of gracious and gregarious, together with austere and combative”
“Sometimes, at night, I dream about the boat.”
Link. “an entirely unofficial translation of “Иногда ночью мне снится лодка”
“there was a thriving Armenian population in Dhaka during the 17th and 18th centuries”
Link. Obscure indeed.
Metformin for OA?
Link. Every doc’s favorite med.
Autism Mouse Models for the Microbiome? No
Link. Junk science.
The Trump stain now covers America.
Link. If only McConnell were to pay a real price.
We need to hold Musk criminally responsible for Tesla autopilot crashes.
Link. The bartender pushing booze on the drunk driver. He should face jail time for this.
Elizabeth Warren Wants Congress to Ensure Presidents Can Be Indicted.
Link. A heroic voice.
“In the span of 30 days, Mr. Trump has enacted or threatened what amounts to a nearly $200 billion annual tax increase”
Link. McConnell might be getting nervous.
“American right and far right have been very effective at scaring Google and Facebook and Microsoft into not doing anything for fear of being accused of having a thumb on the scale.”
Link. America’s enemies favor the GOP, and the GOP favors power above all.
“It will take hundreds of trillions of years for the first stellar remnant to cool completely, fading from a white dwarf through red, infrared and all the way down to a true black dwarf”
Link. Neutron stars will be batteries for vastly longer. Make your reservation now. (Of course your current Simulation is neutron-star powered.)
What Truck Drivers Think About Autonomous Trucking
Link. Covers the range. Excellent point about main challege to AI: human drivers are often incompetent, sometimes malign.
NYT article on UNC surgery concerns doesn’t discuss ethics of breaching quality review projections.
Link. The taped deliberations were all protected for very good reasons. In part of article I read NYT never discussed this.
New horizons in DeepMind – capture the flag.
Link. Cost rising quickly, may be hitting limits of current tech.
Non-college single mothers working more.
Link. Many LPN.
Ag economists “shipped out of town as retribution for producing work that clashed with the administration’s agenda.”
Link. GOP learned a lot from losing war on smoking. First kill the scientists.
macOS: UUID and UTI
Link. UTI identify file types. I love identifiers.
What I Learned Trying To Secure Congressional Campaigns (Maciej)
Link. iOS.