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Google Products and Meltdown/Spectre – Chrome patch Jan 23
Link. Even Google is scrambling because release was moved up a week.
NYMag Fire and Fury excerpt: Trump didn’t want to win.
Link. Bookmarking as a reference. You’e already read of this.
Bannon on Trump’s Russian money laundering history.
Link. But her emails.
“We reported this issue to Intel, AMD and ARM on 2017-06-01”
Link. I’m sure no more like this.
Russia-Trump: “the core question about collusion has been answered in the affirmative”
Link. Looking deeper now
Whitewater world.
Link. If singularity then gets worse.
“third of living Native American DNA can be traced to a vanished people known as the ancient north Eurasians”
Link. China originally. State of knowledge review
Why we can’t have good things: frantic kernel patches due to Intel bug
Link. This is why iTunes sucks. So much goes to security.
2018: Rebuilding the social web
Link. Quiet rebels of rss.
Tom Brady is a quack
Link. Nutty guy. Love the ornithologist quote.
Sabine rant: nature is ugly. Get used to it
Link. Elegance not a good guide to physics
JanWorks Entering the Public Domain in the U.S.: 20y none.
Link. Canada?
“loss of information through quantum entanglement” drives arrow of time.
Link. Sean Carroll writes on this.
Raw water: unfiltered spring water.
Link. I used to drink from high mountain streams before we had portable filters.
Salvaging the wreck of iOS Podcasts.app
Link. ‘It’s very simple, it’s very stupid, it’s Apple 2017.”
A Minnesota take on Franken’s fall.
Link. Gillibrand’s presidential ambitions won’t fly in MN.
High Sierra SIP bug made for immortal malware.
Link. I’m going High in late summer 2018.
iOS configuration profiles and QR codes
Link. Apple could define profile for “simple-phone”
Simple manipulation of antiviral software to steal documents
Link. This isn’t Kaspersky specific.
“older, less educated voters who switched from Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016 were particularly susceptible to fake news.”
Link. NYT Hilary-attack and Murdoch-media bigger?
China’s traditional medicine comes for African donkeys.
Link. I REALLY want to know why counterfeits don’t fill demand.
Korea talks.
Link. If works will be a perversely good outcome of our maniac leadership.
Stross on slow AI paper-clip maximizers: corporations.
Link. And the original web-sin. Excellent, except conflating singularity with transhumanism.
Fiber effect: favoring symbiotic microbes
Link. Complicated
One approach to extreme old age
Link. Beyond 85 few go well
Blue states prepare to fight federal GOP.
Link. Truce broken, subsidies to red states at risk
Mac to iPad photo download is broken now (iTunes mediated sync).
Link. Certainly iTunes is broken, probably iOS as well.
The Polish-North Korean axis
Link. A weird vestige of Soviet occupation
iOS mystery: Contacts.app has both “phonetic” and “pronunciation” name fields.
Link. “Pronunciation” is newer. Maybe it’s how iOS is supposed to say the word?
Douthat continues reputation upgrade: recanting his Obama deficit criticism.
Link. What happened to him? He used to be unreadable.
Adtech exploit of browser password managers to track users.
Link. Diabolical. Have to appreciate the evil brilliance of the adtech engineer.
Minnesota’s lonely Republican “moderate” on the Women’s march.
Link. By standard modern GOP Carlson is radical.
Widespread issues with iTunes “sync” of photos to iOS devices.
Link. Photos.app for most, but Aperture/Sierra definitely has same issues. It’s a real mess.
SMS confirmation codes digit length grows
Link. A bad idea
“particular small city exists only because of historical contingency that sooner or later loses its relevance”
Link. Grim prognosis for much of rural America.
Even Trump Knows SALT.
Link. Blue state subsidies of red states get bigger.
Full text of Kay’s DynaBook talk transcribed (1972)
Link. On a German hypertext site. Very old web, reminds how much is lost.
Wired 2010 reprint of Alan Kay 1972 DynaBook essay.
Link. See also Vannevar Bush (memex): http://theatln.tc/2EfuBmt
Tech regressions: MORE, Quicken, PalmOS, iOS, Podcasts, Aperture, Music, iPad photo slide shows, and toasters.
Link. Sucks to be old … or a non-geek.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis relatives have 10-fold autism risk
Link. Genetic disorder with many manifestations.
Forcing molecules into cells: electroporation and microfluidic squeezing.
Link. Great update on mechanics of research.
The slow affirmation of the BFKL model of the strong force that binds nuclei.
Link. 40 years of grinding it down.
The afterlife of Google’s Book Scan & Search project. (4/17)
Link. It continues, with better scanning. “Orphan” texts still unread. Authors Guild unheroic role.
Stross, in happy days of 2010, on Future Shock and the authoritarian impulse.
Link. In 2017 personal technology change regularly breaks things I rely on. Often with no substitute.
The life and death of Ali Abdullah Saleh, a Trump unchained.
Link. Note how long he lasted.
Bicycling for health: brisk 15k a day minimum.
Link. Unscientific, but seems right. I love bicycling, but it is only efficient exercise as a daily commute.
Johnny Hallyday, French superstar with million person funeral.
Link. France is an island.
The bitter nocoiner.
Link. Neurotic retention of arithmetic.
Economist mini-obit collection
Link. Sample of humanity, often messy.