Link. African swine “flu” sounds more like Ebola than influenza. Me, I would worry about human transmission.
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Making AMP less despicable.
Link. Burn it.
‘Is This Copernicus Coming Back to Haunt Us?’
Link. A gentle hint that it really is a Simulation.
Horsemanship: “The aims of the dressage … ceased to make much sense … against the machine guns”
Common Sense Horsemanship, 1951. Vladimir Littauer.
The personal anecdotes jump out from this extraordinary book on becoming a horse person. Not my thing, but fascinating nonetheless. Great gift for a scholarly rider.
Spinal muscular atrophy (maybe) cure: $2 million.
Link. Insurance can handle such a rare disorder … but in time we may need to shorten patent protection.
UberLyft Trip Tips
Link. Some new to me. Especially at end.
“Huawei is essential for many wireless carriers that serve sprawling, sparsely populated regions because its gear for transmitting cell signals often costs far less than other options.”
Link.
“T2M2 analyses your logs to discover whether Time Machine backups have been running normally, reporting any worrying signs or errors”
Link. Getting this.
Cirrus & Bailiff: iCloud diagnostics.
Link. Otherwise opaque.
Trump’s Air Force One: “televisions are streaming Fox News constantly.”
Link. Murdoch is dying, but his monster lives on.
The Fine Structure constant is only sort of constant.
Link. New only to me. At high energies closer to 1/128. Math in muon moment calculation deserves a video.
John Carter and the Origins of Science FiA Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Link. Free on Project Gutenberg. I got it
Button Battery Ingestion: “For over age 1, Honey 10 ml given every 10 min while awaiting emergent endoscopy may prevent further mucosal erosion, perforation”
Link.
Google: “34% of users could not recall their secondary email address.”
Link. Mine be any one of at least 20.
WordPress has problems.
Link. Where are they going?
“until you see me actively pissing on the House floor or pressing a broken beer bottle up to [Minority Leader] Kevin McCarthy’s dumb face, you dipshits can rest easy knowing I’ve been sober as a goddamn judge.”
Link. I like the broken bottle image.
Apple “Ask to Buy” isn’t useful for managing app installation by children or Explorers.
Link. It’s only useful for managing initial purchases by an under-18 Family Sharing member.
How To Fix Spotlight Forever Indexing issue in Mojave.
Link. I have this after the very latest OS update.
GOP moves to doctor government stats.
Link.
Barr’s new power to attack Trump’s enemies.
Link. Only the beginning.
SSD Showdown: Seagate Fast vs Samsung T5
Link. T5 wins
Mac Open Web: RSS, blogging, open social.
Link. Missing: WordPress, web page editor (SeaMonkey)
Google social – the hints of public events.
Link. Part of Android maps, not yet in iOS. Doesn’t seem to have relationship to Google Calendar, not yet a rival to Facebook Events. AFAIK Apple has nothing.
Gabapentin reassessment.
Link. Likely overused. Without opioids we got (almost) nothin’ for pain.
“even at American prices, health care is still a bargain”
Link. One reason price keeps rising – positive ROI.
Now GOP will attack nations when their currency falls sgsinst the dollar.
Link. It will get worse, and McConnell-Trump could eadily win. The world should unite against America.
Memorial day story.
Link. One standing in for more.
Dem voters: women prize winning over everything else.
Link. Me too The worst Dem candidate is vastly better than Trump-McConnell.
Trump loves Jackson. Tubman not so much.
Link. Trump is growing into his evil, and the GOP is completely his (save one).
The evolution of psychiatry.
Link. I think … the human mind is a brittle evolutionary hack working at the very extremes of biology. It is amazing we function at all.
Facebook Provides Sensitive User Data to Corporate Partners
Link. Tax the externalities.
Trump saves us.
Link. From Trump.
The “Somali mob” – how the right creates hate.
Link. Not known Russian agents.
Safari “Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution”
Link. Hope Edge & Mozilla implement.
Trumpista exploit fake Pelosi videos
Link. This is the GOP.
The unFreedom Caucus.
Link. We have always been at war with Oceania.
HTLV 1 transmission by “blood-shedding religious rituals practiced in Iraq, India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom.”
Link. Humans.
Win 10: new clipboard history, emoji kb.
Link.
Civil war plant use in wound care.
Link. Would any random plant work as well?
“three out of the four successful Duplex bookings were made by humans.”
Link. I didn’t realize Duplex had actually launched.
Equifax negligence might impact financials. Maybe.
Link. Should have been bankrupted.
“only curved on scales that are ~(250)^3 times (or more than 15 million times) larger than our presently-observable Universe is.”
Link. Smallest the universe can be given how flat it appears.
The 6 Best Gyms in Minneapolis–St. Paul – CrossFit St Paul and Minneapolis
Link. My box makes the list.
Why cyclists are going gravel.
Link. Because drivers suck more than ever. In MSP we have a great separated trail network, but those aren’t usually suited to fast heads down riding. It’s weird to drive to bike though.
America’s geography and political structures favor Biden.
Link. Rural areas keep successful Dems centrist.
China caught violating ozone protocol
Link. Sanctions?
NYT covers Baltimore hack without mentioning backups.
Link. Incompetent journalism.
How to find all your 32-bit apps: “32-bitCheck and ArchiChect as being the closest and most complete guides”
Link. He doesn’t even accept donations.
“If you’re forced to use SMS 2FA, and probably even if you don’t, you should have a transfer PIN on your wireless account.”
Link. I didn’t know I could do that. Also SMS 2FA sucks.
Trump tariffs: “we are redistributing income away from agriculture and manufacturing firms that rely on imported components and sending it towards mining industries and manufacturers that rely on domestic resources.”
Link.