Link. What a bozo conspiracy. It worked though.
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Pleasantly grouchy article on new bike tech.
Link. Much of the great new stuff is more expensive to maintain and parts harder to get. Fun read, esp on tire size.
China hacks of corporate IP target supply chain via software vendors.
Link. Doesn’t mention hardware backdoors.
“try not to think about all of the Bluetooth applications that can’t be updated.”
Link. Security is hard.
Speech recognition “systems are going to work best for white, highly educated, upper-middle-class Americans, probably from the West Coast,”
Link. Older SR could be trained. A way to teach accents for language learners though.
Prader-Willi syndrome sibling: love and sorrow.
Link. Short and wise.
“Mr. Trump is right that “without trade, we could have piles of money,” Mr. Lincicome said. “But we’d have no food, clothing, housing, etc. So the money would be worthless,”
Link. Murdoch wants this idiot?
“many European nations are now themselves effectively using wartime detention to solve their ISIS citizens problem — by outsourcing imprisonment to the Kurds.”
Link.
Facebook’s problems known to advertisers months ago
Link. The ads in my feed are dumb
Remote destruction of a life by “… a complete stranger who had been offended by a comment Glennon had made about a news article on Facebook.”
Link. Must read.
Juul & its House of Smoke & Horrors.
Link. “utter bullshit”
Google moves on Facebook Events.
Link. Surprised it took so long. No G+ of course.
“When you’re not using your [google] Smart Display, the screen can serve as an always-on digital photo album.”
Link. Apple screwed iPad’s photo frame functionality. This is the elder accessory I wanted years ago.
Google-Lenovo Smart Display
Link. Smells interesting.
“making mortgage payments can, in theory, be a way to accumulate wealth almost as effectively as contributing to a retirement fund.”
Link. Mostly because of forced savings.
The gutting of local news: not eviler owners, just end of monopolies.
Link. Winner take all world. Basically NYT and things owned by billionaire hobbyists.
Amazon’s Face Recognition False positive: “for non-white members of Congress, the error rate was 39 percent”
Link. WTF?
“Google has built YouTube to run well specifically in Chrome”
Link. By deliberate or emergent design.
2018 MacBook Pro and iMac Pro suffering kernel panics
Link. I never buy fresh Apple hardware.
“Mental illness among attackers inspired by the Islamic State is so common that analysts have coined the term “loon wolf,”
Link. Often cognitive disability too — Richard Reid.
Wages rise in Europe
Link. Hidden unemployed finally depleted?
GOP caught doing MI gerrymander: “concentrating “Dem garbage” into four of the five southeast Michigan districts that Democrats now control, and of packing African-Americans into a metropolitan Detroit House district”
Link. The best people.
ABLE Plans and Special Needs Trusts.
Link. ABLE plans have pretty high fees.
Cardiomyopathy in dogs on gluten free diets.
Link. Taurine levels low. Still being sorted out.
Some GOP join assault on House extremists.
Link. Interesting.
Fearing midterms GOP rescues ObamaCare. For now.
Link. I suspect many are ready to rename and declare victory.
Cardiac benefits from exercise … serious exercise.
Link. CrossFit, competitive athletes, bike club riders … not walkers
“stark example of how Mr. Trump and his aides have used falsehoods as a shield against tough questions and unflattering stories”
Link. Caught with pants on fire.
Melania goes rogue: now her own TV.
Link. I think we know who she will vote for.
Leishmaniasis becomes Anerican disease.
Link. Ugh. More tropical medicine to learn.
75% of drivers should lose their license.
Link. Matches my impression of majority incompetence.
“two more TVs for himself and Melania Trump to watch in their separate hotel rooms while traveling.”
Link. For Melania I have pity.
Neglect and abuse at US border control facilities.
Link. Similar to US adult prisoner treatment. Low quality staff.
Google Cloud – a tricky business partner.
Link. Always have a plan B.
The Yoga vote strategy
Link. Giving up on the non-college white.
Gaming Brexit: “the crisis will end with the UK crashing back into the EU”
Link. On the bright side Britain will be wiser for 40 years.
“carmakers are creating an “artificial increase” in emissions values for 2020, a transition year when a new baseline will be set for emissions against which future cuts will be measured.”
Link. Hard to avoid this problem
Viagra should not be used to prevent stillbirth.
Link. Stop until more data. Animal model results misleading?
Hannah Arendt writing about Fox, Facebook, and Gaslighting.
Link. 1930s equivalents anyway. I wonder often what Rupert Murdoch intended.
Google Nest explores support for aged.
Link. Also applies to cognitive disability all ages. This has taken so long to get to …
WhatKamala Harris for 2020: her options.
Link. I don’t think viable given rural bias to electoral college.
Climate change: more suicide.
Link. Everything affects suicide rates.
1200 genes for IQ-equiv makes genetic engineering of intelligence challenging.
Link. The system appears impossibly complex.
Putin’s power: billions and billions
Link.
25 Productivity Apps for iPhone.
Link. Ref
1Password travel mode.
Link. We still do local sync, this makes online sync more valuable.
Complementary medicines no too harmful as long as you do your chemo.
Link. Steve Jobs is the shining example of doing it terribly wrong.
1271 genes related to “educational years” in Euros.
Link. IQ, roughly. Pretty much what we expected, lots of tweaks.
Azar turns on pharma?
Link. Curious how this evolves.
Heat-related Performance Problems with Intel Core i9 MacBook Pros
Link. What is Apple doing?!