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Alleged QuickType shortcut for sending location
Link. Does nothing on my i8! I have QuickType enabled
AI based employment screens.
Link. Smells like a great scam.
Hey, Siri: 142 useful voice commands.
Link. On quick scan I didn’t see “delete all my alarms” and the like.
Prion disease latency is decades
Link. Fascinating and horrible.
Ransomware: it sounds very profitable.
Link. Only half who pay get data back
“We are cautiously optimistic that quantum supremacy can be achieved with Bristlecone”
Link. History.
Backup “3 copies of your data, on 2 different media, with 1 off-site backup.”
Link. Hah! That is too trusting. I say also use two different backup software, 3 for photos.
StormyGraphic: a reference to Dennison and others.
Link. Small stuff compared to wrecking State, but amusing
Wolfram Language & Mathematica 11.3
Link. Blockchain inevitably. Lots more.
Sickle Cell trait is 7,300 years old
Link. Spread fast.
“In rare circumstances, Alexa can mistakenly hear the phrase ‘Alexa, laugh,”
Link. 2020: “In rare circumstances, Alexa can mistakenly hear … “fire at will”
Workflow 1.7.8 Adds ‘Mask Image’ Action, Things Automation Support, PDF Text Extraction, and More.
Link. Instapapered.
Trump support remains solid
Link. His reelection chance is good, as is GOP majority retention.
“fake news has more to do with human nature and its attraction to novelty than anything”
Link. We reward virality, and the truth is too dull to be viral.
“Trump’s Russia money channel … is built by Michael Cohen and Felix Sater and run by them”
Link. A bought man.
Adult hippocampus has no neurogenesis.
Link. Why your memory sucks
“Trump has largely governed like a traditional Republican on policy”
Link. The attacks on US government functions, are not typical GOP.
Where Trump helps: uniting the world.
Link. As protection against Trump true, but still good.
AI war: drone swarms now.
Link. Defeating jamming defense requires autonomy.
Thiel talks to NYT.
Link. Sounds pretty dim.
Omega-3 don’t avert heart disease.
Link.
Buy AirPods, better save serial number.
Link. Needed to replace case.
Another Putin murder attempt in UK
Link. Trump sure Russia innocent.
Hard Times in VHS Country.
Link. Brilliant.
“Sunlit is one of the lowest friction ways I’ve tried to create a photo blog”
Link. For WordPress and micro.blog
Stolen Apple ID logins sell for $15.
Link. There is a limit on how many Apple IDs can be created from a device …
iPhone X too expensive.
Link. I bought an 8. Main change from 6s is I miss headphone jack.
AirTV edges towards OTA recording.
Link. Like we had in 1982.
The substantial advantages of newspspapers
Link. Much higher knowledge/time ratio
AI era: “in the easily foreseeable future retrosynthesis and synthetic organic chemistry planning are going to be taken out of the hands of chemists.”
Link. Bang.
Nakesha Williams conundrum
Link. She would be declared disabled without her agreement, then supported as a person with low IQ.
VA at war: Secretary Shulkin vs Koch Bros.
Link. He is a very stubborn man
Tiny cohort of science-based GOP students talk carbon tax.
Link. Seriously, is this, like, 100 Republicans nationally?
Artificial neuroscience
Link. Similar to retina models
We are screwed: sophisticated phishing attack post iphone theft.
Link. Phone in Algeria, attack to get iCloud password
Move spotify playlists to Apple Music
Link. Data freedom.
Apple’s security lockout logic is extreme
Link. Serious attackers can apparently defeat this
“replace the word “ride” or “race” with “drinking binge.”
Link. Rather persuasive relationship advice.
“I exercise and weigh myself every day to stay within a two-pound range appropriate for my height”
Link. This is the current establishment approach. Boring healthy food, caloric awareness, exercise.
Montreal 40 years after the language wars
Link. A Westmounter! Was rougher where I grew up.
Fibrosing cardiomyopathy killing captive gorillas.
Link. Difficult puzzle.
“Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or Cfius … investigates mergers that could result in control of an American business by a foreign individual or company”
Link. Born in 70s of Japan-fear.
“Trump decided against nominating Mitt Romney as Secretary of State at the direction of the Kremlin”
Link. Comrade Tillerson has sabotaged State Dept response to Kremlin’s 2018 intervention.
Emperor Xi: “mistakes will accumulate nevertheless, and stagnation awaits.”
Link. Singapore did well with their Emperor.
“situation in Syria is coming to resemble the devastated and depopulated German lands in the final decade of the Thirty Years’ War”
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“decoupling the United States from the major states and economies of Western Europe has been the central foreign policy goal of Russia for about 70 years.”
Link. Comrade Trump.
Tillerson’s wrecked state department acquiesces to Russian hacks
Link. Vote Dem or learn Russian
SF Dorm living for the professional class.
Link. Sounds good to (younger) me.
Frederick Douglass. Podcast. IOT.
Link. One hell of an opening statement by first guest. Must listen.