Link. It isn’t just Trump. Or Pruitt. This is the GOP.
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Making Sense of CDC’s Report on Increased Incidence of Autism
Link. Yes. Autism is an almost meaningless concept now.
The reality of 2018 speech recognition
Link. You have to learn the dialect and command set of each device. Like programming.
Use camera to add credit cards to Safari’s AutoFill on iPhone
Link.
Review: Gmail’s new Web Interface.
Link. Does it break mail.app?
Amazon “price-earnings ratio somewhere north of 200”
Link. Next: $1000/yr Prime.
Deer CWD can’t infect chimps
Link. Suggests humans can eat deer.
“there are more than 3,000 sheriff’s offices across the country, and they’re a prime place to go looking for muck.”
Link. A bad system.
Megan McCardle: Paywalls everywhere.
Link. I often find her unreadable. This is well done, if obvious.
MarsEdit – don’t enable all post sync if you have a very large number of posts
Link. It loads all posts across all blogs into memory.
Appigo Todo Cloud.app – don’t forget to unsubscribe when you leave.
Link. For now I’m using Reminders and Trello.
Reasons to leave Amazon.
Link. Breitbart funder.
OmniFocus has no family sharing: The curse of in-app purchases.
Link. Omni *wants* to enable family sharing, but they *need* the in-app purchase model. Apple doesn’t support family sharing for in-app purchases. This is on Apple do fix.
Aaronson on education: a respectful response to Caplan.
Link. It cheers me that I always agree with Aaronson.
Will low income whites realize Trump is hurting them
Link. Fox isn’t going to tell them. So no.
Ryan and Trump have similar values and policies
Link. Not “two parties”
Anazon Prime cost increases again.
Link. I don’t value anything but shipping. Without Prime shipping now very slow
Facebook closes scam accounts — after NYT outs them.
Link. Tax the ad clicks now.
“Trump is a transactional person, and many have made transactional decisions to work for him”
Link. Jackson’s willingness was proof he was broken.
NYT tiptoes around Kanye West’s mental health
Link. Drawing a picture
Reassuring signs that humans consider iX too expensive.
Link. All my 8 needs is a headphone jack
Climate engineering, China style
Link. One response to CO2
MacBook Pro Keyboard: “one of the biggest design screwups in Apple history”
Link. Class action?
“Officers arrived and “quickly determined that this was not a police issue,”
Link. A different flavor of metooo.
Chinese opera in Thailand
Link. “I was sold by mother for 6,000 bat”. I heard this in 80s.
Pruitt defense: “E.P.A. officials who were reassigned or demoted after challenging his spending all had performance issues.”
Link. Convinced me.
Finland declined UBI
Link. What did the data show? Article omits that
American Lynching Memorial.
Link. Progress, even in time of GOP rule.
Twitter doing better
Link. Longer tweets was a great move.
America’s corporate leaders bend the knee
Link. Would Jobs have gone?
6,399 reasons why 2014 iMac is good
Link. Apple value is not high.
tmutil: command line time machine control.
Link.
QuickTime can record your Apple TV
Link. Was this intentional?
“It is very hard to sell anything on Amazon if you play fairly,”
Link. Same root cause as GOP/Trump. Most people are easily deceived.
Brexit: stupidity is strong.
Link. NYT tries to be sympathetic but confirms “idiot”
HIV: long-term nonprogressors have a defect in their dendritic cells’ ability to form tunneling nanotubes.
Link. New biology to me. Cells astound.
Quicken 2007 replacement
Link. We also chose Quicken 2018.
Blogs to read 2018
Link. Many I follow. Great to see Tsai getting kudos. My favorite Apple blog.
Tech is cutting out the crappiest middleman – the Banks.
Link. Finally.
UK: “At least one in three heart surgeons has refused to treat critically ill patients because they are worried it will affect their mortality ratings if things go wrong.”
Link. It’s like watching the millionth test of gravity.
WordPress API, no: “viable authentication model for 3rd party clients”
Link. Lock-in everywhere. Tumblr news too.
Evangelical social status officially in free fall.
Link. They stand for nothing now.
Obama’s non-recreational activities
Link. Foundation focus on young
Shockingly GOP tax cuts were great for banks.
Link. Do ATMs vote?
“Garmin has decided to take all navigation apps – with a few exceptions – off the market as of May 14th, 2018”
Link. They had bought NAVIGON, but it’s all apps.
Kellyanne Conway caught out.
Link. Smart journalism. She’s shameless but maybe it will trigger Trump.
Two possible bugs in iOS 11.3 to watch out for: enable purchases by Touch ID, change iTunes & App Store account
Link. The bug that enabled Touch ID purchasing is going to cost some families real money.
One bank:,“90 percent fraud rate on Zelle transactions”
Link. Crap. So I have to watch my account for unexpected Zelle transactions?
TidBITS CompuServe Forum – 1993.
Link. A side-effect of the recent TidBITS system migration meant that Google resurfaced this when I searched on their new forum. Those were the days my friend.
How to reconcile two Apple IDs – migration.
Link. I’m going to have to bite the (antimatter) bullet on this one.