Link. They have faith.
Category Archives: share
Tillerson on America’s crisis of integrity
Link. Even the worst warn against Trump.
StopTheMadness Safari extension $5
Link. “great way to work around those banking sites that try to keep you from autocompleting passwords.” Chrome equivalent?
Pressure Inside a Proton.
Link. Wonderful physics.
Opioid crisis produces more transplant organs
Link. From 2000 to 2010 we wondered why drug use was down …
“rise of modern movement conservatism, which brought with it unequalizing economic policies, retreat from antitrust, financial deregulation, and more”
Link. 1980s took US down bad path.
Command-Shift-. toggles invisible files.
Link. High Sierra new?
“But you were the first man on the moon. I think that counts for something.”
Link. Gaiman on feeling fake.
“let’s celebrate the flippers”
Link. Buy, fix, sell, repeat.
20 Years of USB: Firewire was better.
Link. Yes.
“Mac App Store to thank for requiring paid updates to have a different bundle identifier and thus a different sandbox container”
Link. Sigh.
“Everything we’ve learned about the Trump children shows they are cut from the same transaction/ethical cloth as Donald Trump and Michael Cohen.”
Link. Mob rule.
“Israel has become as bad an actor”
Link. America may follow. Perhaps already has.
$500 M from China to Trump Project.
Link. Xi understands Donald.
The Eric Greitens Myth.
Link. With humans “too good to be true” always applies
“if this monster was at the center of the Milky Way it would likely make life on Earth impossible with the huge amounts of x-rays emanating from it.”
Link. 4 billion y post t0.
“The Earth is flat, and also hollow, and we are living in a hellish simulation, controlled by dark forces, reptilians, and shadowy elites; every shape, symbol, and word is a secret to be unlocked; everything you’re taught in school a lie; reality itse
Link. The Matrix melds with the traditional.
Blood Over Intent: emergence of a digital cult.
Link. Similar to Eckankar, moonies, etc – but atypically solitary. Lots of psychiatric disorders and vulnerable people
The cosmic philanthropists.
Link. Gates has a balanced mix. Whatever the sins of his early days he has earned redemption.
Trans Fats war
Link. Diet is the craziest problem
Pharma owns America’s politicians
Link. GOP especially. Deep corruption.
What Is “Fundamental”? Essays from some of my favorite writers.
Link. Sean and Sabine among them.
Trump’s closest advisors: “private-equity billionaire Stephen Schwarzman; media billionaire Rupert Murdoch; real-estate billionaire Tom Barrack; Patriots owner and also-billionaire Robert Kraft; and Hannity.”
Link.
“Reliably and easily encrypting e-mail is an insurmountably hard problem”
Link. I believe Schneier but would enjoy more details. “Easily” is a weasel word.
Google finally expands storage plans
Link. Similar to Apple shared storage
“Lead emissions rose in periods of peace and prosperity, such as the Pax Romana, which ran from 27 BC to 180 A.D. and dropped during the civil wars that preceded the Pax and the rise to power of the emperor Augustus”
Link. Anthropocene
Homo Naledi likely smarter than ape
Link. Smarter than homo erectus?
NYT tells Trump Pence is taking control.
Link. Will be well received
Apple and Global Accessibility: Nothing on cognitive disability
Link. Cognitive disability is the proverbial “child in the attic”
Fatal Crash Rate
Link. Intelligent boomers yearn for autonomous vehicles.
HTML Email client PGP implementation flawed.
Link. Unclear how bad this is.
Saturation diver: feel better about your job
Link. $1400/day isn’t nearly enough.
Jeju 4·3 insurrection: thousands died
Link. America significant responsibility
Swimming to vote: when women wore wool to swim
Link. Not long ago.
China turning “traditional chinese medicine” into a state religion.
Link. No criticism, no research
So this is kind of awesome.
Link. A sort of super hero.
Enabling SFP on Dreamhost accounts
Link. They have serious work to do
“Passwords of any length and any change frequency are almost a waste of time as a security device. Most password attacks now are not dictionary driven, but keyboard scrapes”
Link. Is this true? Fits Apple’s 2F squeeze. Wish 2F was less of a mess.
Gordon’s Tech: Google sent my family into email Hell. This is how we climbed out.
Link. Abandon hope.
Auto makers are dog that caught the California car.
Link. Paid GOP to gut emission controls, now paying to keep them.
Finance 2.0: private equity funded lawsuits creates a fraud industry
Link. Remember when we made things?
“College officials say they are constrained by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or Ferpa, a federal law governing student privacy, in reaching out to parents.”
Link. The flip side of “helicopter parent”.
$200 laptops: “I don’t expect Apple to go that low, but they’re not even in the game.”
Link. I wish Cook’s strategy had failed.
Duplex Skepticism
Link. He has a point.
Recreating Neanderthal: neural tissue analysis.
Link. Next, integrating the Neanderthal neural organoids into AI frameworks. Because.
Zika fades.
Link. That was unexpected.
“major wireless carriers in the U.S. provide data to a location aggregator called LocationSmart. That information is sold to 3Cinteractive, a telemarketing company”
Link. Et tu, T-mobile?
Gurkhas of Nepal.
Link. Fascinating article despite rough editing
Humans used these caves for 78ky.
Link. Worldwide tech explosion 55ky. Monolith activation.
Assume China can access your tech.
Link. No practical defense.