Link. Obama focused on writing and building the future.
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Trump seeks end Iranian theocracy.
Link. Joint project with Saudi Arabia.
Enceladus: “a layer of floating organic material in that subsurface ocean”
Link. Wish we’d given it a simpler name.
NYT catalogs most recent Trump lies.
Link. They are getting good at this.
Texas soecial election: “extremely low-turnout election”
Link. Has turnout been high in amy special election?
“liberalism first died in the late 1870s”
Link. We persist. Empiricism, including science, should be recognized as a core component of liberal thought. Reality matters.
Trap-jaw ant jaw: 200,000 watts per kilogram, 140mph
Link. Springs.
Noah Smith’s Abbreviated Illustrated Guide to Travel in Japan.
Link. Urban focus.
“Mr. Trudeau seems at a loss when it comes to Mr. Trump’s motive for turning the United States’ neighbor and largest trading partner into a target”
Link. The GOP has gone mad.
Smartphones for All chapter excerpt: Music for iPhone Explorers.
Link. Spotify shared plans with Cellular data disabled may be most practical option.
Cleansing thermonuclear fire: it’s theoretically possible …
Link. Add oceanic deuterium and a billion ton bomb.
iOS 12: Restrictions becomes Screen Time with “family” support, definition of “child” is a concern for vulnerable users.
Link. Family sharing purchase authorization is under-18 only. Bad precedent for support of vulnerable adults.
Ebola contained: “None of those vaccinated became ill”
Link. Science.
US: “regional divides more seriously as a contributor to bigger problems”
Link. Similar everywhere.
China: required college classes in Maoism.
Link. A hard teaching gig.
“gravity could emerge from interacting qubits much like a phase of matter can emerge from interacting electrons”
Link. Suspect Sabine would not approve.
A Decision That Will Live in Infamy.
Link. Korematsu II. Remember Bush v Gore.
“federal proposal to factor pedestrians into vehicle safety ratings has stalled, with opposition from some automakers.”
Link. SUV, more than smartphone, cause increase in ped death last 10y. Tax them, use money to reengineer roads & mandate smart-stop sensors.
Kudlow caught being mendaciously stupid.
Link. Venal incompetence as a job requirement.
“As quickly as 60 seconds after the shots began, law enforcement authorities arrived at the newspaper office.”
Link. That’s impossibly fast.
Modern genomics: identifying 40 gene network in hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs).
Link. Rare disease, once we’d have thought 1 gene. Long research program!
My iOS medical references.
Link. Adult internal medicine. Anything I missed?
Dubs.
Link. If I get 10 I’ll throw a party.
“Google may be like the borg, unstoppable and unforgiving. But there are the implants and a decent community and on-going growth. Facebook is pure predatory.”
Link. Publishers loathe Facebook.
macOS: Batch-Rename Items in the Finder
Link. Old feature, great reference
Apple mapping effort using our bandwidth and power: “you can’t opt out, and you can’t measure how much of your cellular data is being consumed to update Apple’s maps”
Link. Potemkin opt-out.
AT&T More Than Doubles Administrative Fee
Link. Annoying because sly. Tsai switched to Boom.
iOS 12: Screen Time (replaces restrictions)
Link. Can a vulnerable adult be a “child”? Critical for special needs community.
Twitter: the short squeeze “the share price is driving the narrative”
Link. Sell.
John Scalzi on Harlan Ellison.
Link. An artist, but not a good person.
Narcolepsy and hypocretin
Link. Fascinating. Agree opioids won’t be useful Rx
Obama on GOP: “They worry about winning the seat and they are very systematic about work not just at the presidential level but at the congressional and state legislative levels.”
Link. Discipline.
“omnigenic model of complex traits … for some traits, “multiple” loci could mean more than 100,000.”
Link. Sort of like a zip file. Compressed data.
“This transition is known as cosmic reheating, and it marks the transition from an inflationary spacetime into the beginning of our hot Big Bang”
Link. Every time I read this story it seems different.
Why fight the doomed SCOTUS battle
Link. “You don’t win fights by not fighting”
The Mexican-American War. IOT podcast
Link. Looking forward to this.
Google & Facebook: Dark patterns in anti-privacy.
Link. Norwegian Consumer Council deserves more attention.
Atlas Obscura’s 2019 Trips.
Link. Travel porn.
Urban housing is very expensive to build
Link. How much can we subsidize? Amenities add little to cost.
Fixit on Apple’s laptop design blunder
Link. Keyboard bungle compounded by repair cost.
Civilty vs Republican strategy on Garland
Link. McConnell nuked “civility”
Russian state TV: “What trouble did we cause? We just elected Trump. That’s all.”
Link. Who could deny them this celebration?
AT&T adds $1.23 to your mobile plan administrative fee.
Link. Hidden.
Trump retreats from China
Link. They have so many ways to hurt him. EU can learn
H2B immigrant demand high. Trump very quiet
Link. Landscaping would use more machinery.
Rich white women for Trump gala.
Link. Shaming is effective here. Children and friends, colleagues, acquaintances.
GOP squeezes Facebook Nd Twitter.
Link. Diversity – more GOP engineers.
Credit card fees to quickly rise.
Link. Game theory prediction.
An 80s child rides a 50’s bike.
Link. I still ride my 1976 Raleigh International; very similar bike.
“When you create a family on Google, a calendar called “Family” is automatically create”
Link. Arghhh! We already had a Family calendar. Just realized we have two now. Messing up our planning.