Link. By November 2001 I was convinced something like this was inevitable.
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How to mute Twitter keywords and hashtags.
Link. https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords. I thought it was only 3rd party clients. Not part of twitter.app.
macOS notarization is just the start
Link. Making malware deployment more expensive.
“total time sitting increased by about an hour per day from 2007 to 2016 (from about 6.4 hours to 8.2 hours a day).”
Link. Time spent sleeping decreased. Modern screens and modern food are irresistible temptations.
“his previous incarnation as a salesman for Purley Pools had turned before you could say ‘Hey presto!’ into a job as a stunt diver and underwater escapologist for a German circus”
Link. Obit. Lots of fun people out there.
Navy SEAL war crimes – and some courageous objectors.
Link. Trump calls for crimes like this.
File search broken in APFS.
Link. Ugh
“degradation in quality I’ve seen in Duck.com’s search results since last year”
Link. Google’s gravitational pull is strong.
GOP leader: “When God is ready for us to not have fossil fuels he’ll find a way and we’ll figure out how not to depend upon fossil fuels,”
Link. Many evangelicals have found the Noah contract comforting.
China Livestreaming.
Link. Low class culture.
Google index only 10y now.
Link. I’ve seen this too.
Trump’s victory: “Volume I would look very different if Manafort had come clean and fully cooperated.”
Link. Strip Presidents of the power to pardon.
Singapore’s peculiar health care system: “the days of spending significantly less than the global average of 10 percent are probably numbered.”
Link. High volume low touch specialty care.
“some scientists have run “shadow laboratories” in China while conducting N.I.H.-funded research in the United States”
Link. Violating employment vs grant rules?
“most free apps designed to help people quit smoking, or cope with depression, are sharing data with Facebook or Google”
Link. Free is not.
Healthcare reform 2020: Public option based on the VA healthcare model.
Link. Spartan but effective.
ArchiveBox self-hosted web archive.
Link. Could it archive my Blogger blogs?
Stoicism for better and for worse
Link. We know more progress than the Romans knew.
Dementia prevention: forget alzheimers, work on vessels
Link. We got nothing for alzheimers, but BP we can treat
Rat exercise and alz-like disease: “Histological studies showed that exercise imparted substantial neuroprotection (P < 0.001), suppressing neuronal apoptosis-like cell death in the hippocampal CA1 compared with the STZ control group (P < 0.001).”
Link. Swim or drown, so very high stress.
“exercise-induced, blood-borne biomolecules, such as BDNF and FNDC5/irisin, may be powerful agents mediating the benefits of exercise on cognitive function”
Link. Dementia prevention appeals tp 50+. Marketing opportunity.
“exercise-induced, blood-borne biomolecules, such as BDNF and FNDC5/irisin, may be powerful agents mediating the benefits of exercise on cognitive function”
Link. Dementia prevention appeals tp 50+. Marketing opportunity.
France’s Yellow Vests: view from a sympathetic aristocrat
Link. The Redundant Rurals Rebel.
Tossing out the autism label – 1 approach
Link. Names matter. Autism is not a useful research name.
Diver Who Helped Thai Cave Rescues Is Himself Rescued
Link. Siiting calmly in the dark waiting for rescue.
Satiety genetics: 6% unlucky, 6% lucky (in a good rich world)
Link. Wide range favors species survival. I suspect weight control in low satiety involves a lot of exercise and stoicism.
Mueller report as OCRd rich text – smaller, more readable.
Link. All gov docs I get now are scans of printed text. Crude but effective.
Quarantine flags in macOS: a mystery.
Link. Debris from an old civil war in Apple system dev?
737 Max: “dynamic instability,” and the only airplanes that exhibit that characteristic—fighter jets—are also fitted with ejection seats.”
Link. Great article.
Post-work ideology (too long but maybe important)
Link. Intellectual left divided between “guaranteed work” and “post work”. I’m in the former camp.
“A progressive capitalism based on an understanding of what gives rise to growth and societal well-being gives us a way out of this quagmire and a way up for our living standards.”
Link. Must read.
LA school district 2014 student “hack”: “removing a profile (that could be removed)”
Link. Media did a lousy job then. There are “parental control” apps with this problem sold today. I suspect Apple screwed them over but nobody’s talked.
White nationalist police: religious cult and evropa.
Link. GOP blocks FBI investigations of these groups.
“Mueller noted that Mr. Trump would lose immunity when he left office, and that his investigation had preserved evidence for that moment.”
Link. Best not lose.
Your reminder the McConnell was evil before Trump. Tobacco servant.
Link. Everyone suspects a trap.
James W. McCord Jr., Who Led the Watergate Break-In, Is Dead at 93
Link. Read this. Trump GOP is horrendous, but so was Nixon’s GOP.
“most countries have laws forbidding employers from insisting that employees receive immunizations.”
Link. Wow. Surprised.
French safety planners not looking good.
Link. Given the disaster, looking bad inevitable. But incompetent …
What Barr Did.
Link. He is both competent *and* vile. Bad combination.
“iCloud’s shared photo albums are stored here”
Link. Backing up what others have shared. Needs a utility
“For every hour of light exercise regularly done in a week, they specifically estimated, a person’s brain would avoid 1.1 years worth of shrinkage”
Link. Delaying dementia may be best way to sell exercise to 45+ Americans.
What Mueller Really Said On Obstruction: “reading the totality of the document, it’s pretty clear the Special Counsel did believe he did commit a crime”
Link. Needs a lawyer to review
Google Decides to Monetize Maps
Link. Apple Maps gets a chance.
“The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.”
Link. Opening of the Mueller report.
“The class divide that lies at the root of our political polarization is much starker, much more extreme than most people seem to realize.”
Link. We cannot grasp the power of the Celestials.
“The class divide that lies at the root of our political polarization is much starker, much more extreme than most people seem to realize.”
Link. We cannot grasp the power of the Celestials.
Foxification: “older relatives turning into someone who was “increasingly angry, bigoted, and paranoid”
Link. Inseparable from cognitive decline, increased vulnerability to deception.
The Economist: “There is nothing in the new report that will suddenly persuade Republicans in the Senate to abandon the president. It is nonetheless an extraordinary document.”
Link. Mueller team did their best.
CBD you buy probably 1/30 of a pharmacologic dose
Link. Quality placebo.
Japan, and How I Failed to Figure it Out — Wait But Why.
Link. He’s good at these.