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Mojave looking kind train wrecky.
Link. Again. WTF Apple?
Replacement program for iPhone 8 logic boards.
Link. ARGHHH. Go check your serial number.
Google and Mastercard collaborate to track your retail and online behavior.
Link. Hope you paid cash for that bong.
Forget About Impeachment.
Link. This. Absolutely. I think odds of Dem taking House are no more than 50% though.
“Steele, Ohr, Strzok, Page … know things that endanger the President”
Link. US intelligence presumably knows as well. The “deep state”.
“Lionsgate, MGM, and Paramount haven’t joined the Movies Anywhere party.”
Link. Disney acquisition seems right.
Mojave – “a user-experience disaster waiting to happen.”
Link. If I upgrade will be late 2019. Fixed by then.
NetNewsWire reborn.
Link. RSS forever.
Differences vs disabilities.
Link. I dislike this well intentioned trend. I think it minimizes the challenges we face. Also euphemisms always annoy me.
iPhone independence for teens and adults with cognitive disability – state of the book.
Link. Year 3 of the 6 month project.
The booming economy.
Link. Why I expect GOP to hold the House.
Sun “4 million tonnes of mass into energy each second”
Link. How much ould do we burn per second? (yes, chrmistry)
Blog/RSS: “many of the favourite contributors from the Guardian’s hugely popular site will be found on The Cosmic Shambles Network.”
Link. RSS persists despite the enmity of Facebook, Twitter, and Google and the indifference of Apple and Microsoft. Cockroach tech. Unkillable.
“stellar mass of the Milky Way works out to just under 62 billion solar masses”
Link. How astrophysicists weigh and measure our galaxy from the inside.
Lettersmith_py: Python tools for static site generation
Link. Vinyl in the YouTube era. Maybe one day we will reinvent FrontPage.
Gordon Brander’s brain dump (via O’Reilly)
Link. Once the web was like this.
flight attendants: “unwanted touching and comments from passengers were common and that employees previously were reluctant to speak up out of fear of retaliation from employers.”
Link. Gender separation will continue to increase.
“NVMe over Thunderbolt is faster than an internal SATA SSD, and an easier upgrade, but that 30 to 40 percent bonus and halved seek times will cost you $400.”
Link. Thunderbolt 2/3.
Wil Wheaton was mobbed out of mastodon.
Link. Righteous anger is cybermeth.
“Apple Readability is probably the most capable reading mode parser available today.”
Link. Via Tsai. Great series. On iOS my safari default is readability.
Starting to realize Two-Factor Authentication sucks.
Link. IT DOES NOT SCALE to multiple services
CIA Network Exposed Through Insecure Communications System
Link. “People died because of that mistake.”
Khosla shows the problem with billionaires.
Link. Too much power, too little wisdom.
“what did David Pecker get for protecting Donald Trump?”
Link. Trump’s friends are not very friendly
Understanding 2016: WWC *evangelical* are Trump base, college gap even bigger than thought for non-evangelicals.
Link. The non-evangelical non-college woman is very much in play and will determine America’s future. Everyone will campaign to them.
Google Go will read web pages – selectively
Link. Not sure how useful this will be …
Ellison #metoo probes the limits.
Link. I don’t believe her. Hope Ellison wiser now.
“There are several hundred synthetic cannabinoids in existence, and they all stimulate cannabinoid type 1 receptors”
Link. Strongest argument to date for legalizing regulated cannabis.
Ketamine mood improvement relies on opioid receptors
Link. Not good.
Juul started with teen marketing, pivoted under pressure.
Link. If pressure eases they will pivot back. They need children.
“agreement reached with Mexico is simply a revised Nafta, with updates to provisions surrounding the digital economy, automobiles, agriculture and labor unions”
Link. Probably illegal to exclude Canada
Russian university closed for not supporting rightists
Link. May reopen. Template for GOP.
Russia may be returning to Afghanistan.
Link. MIG attack at Tajikstan border.
War: Saudi carelessness to extreme for some n US military.
Link. We share in their war crimes.
Too many tourists?
Link. Billions of people, exponential income growth, a species programmed to wander. Adapt.
Trump plays Enrique Peña Nieto like a violin.
Link. Do not underestimate Trump.
China breaks WHO agreement, won’t share H7N9 flu virus.
Link. We probably have via Taiwan. Suspect China wants to monetize.
Remove browser bar Autofill Entries.
Link. Chrome: “Shift and Function on a Mac—or just Shift on Windows—and tap the Delete key.”
mice: “neutrophils moving through previously undetected tunnels in the skulls of mice”
Link. I didn’t know skull marrow responded to brain injury. Migraines?
AirPort Express gets Airplay 2.
Link. Did not see that coming.
“Apple products will completely distrust Symantec certificate authorities, Apple has removed the Federal Common Policy Root CA from the Mac and iOS Trust Store”
Link.
John McCain: “mismatch between his professed ideals and the actual man. He never really lived up to them but he had enough moments to keep up the tension.”
Link. Wonder if he recognized this.
The GOP war on reality opens Google front
Link. This isn’t just Trump.
McCain’s short Farewell Statement is worth a read.
Link. Easy to see why Trump and GOP base dislike McCain.
Alcohol’s Risks: “there’s no safe amount of dessert”
Link. What’s worse – a glass of wine or a cup of ice cream?
Out of network billing – and a for profit hospitals extortion.
Link. St David’s is the worst actor here, but the system is broken.
Catholic conservatives assert gay priests are church’s root problem.
Link. Expect GOP allies. Trump?
“iPhone is taking shots that are notably better than those of a six-year-old dedicated [high end] camera”
Link. It is hard to beat an i8
“Argüelles had spent forty per cent of his waking life studying fifty-two languages”
Link. Hyperpolyglots typically disdain English.