Link. Most humans are not rational actors.
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Franken goes down.
Link. I will miss him greatly. A great win for the GOP.
NK fishermen adrift to Japan
Link. Poignant
MSNBC: ‘Sometimes You Just Get One Wrong’
Link. This was a completd face plant
Big winner in GOP tax plan is real estate.
Link. Cruise lines do fine.
Salmon dismantles Vanguard-to-big article.
Link. “a series of bonkers non sequiturs”
“U.S. prosecutors have charged eight current and former Volkswagen executives. Six of those remain at large.”
Link. VW profits up.
NYT eliminating blogs and RSS feeds?
Link. This siunds very bad
AlphaZero studies chess 4 hours, defeats leading chess software.
Link. Don’t worry, superhuman AI is still 40y away. Ok, 30. Umm, 20?
Rupert Murdoch on global warning.
Murdoch, master of Fox and the WSJ, tweeted this:
Whether he is immensely stupid, demented, crass, evil, or a mixture of all of these doesn’t change the bottom line.
We are still screwed.
HF Holidays: low cost U.K. and European adventure travel
Link.
BI claims Ives knows we hate MacBooks.
Link. Nice call out to Tsai!
Apple employee sat continues to fall
Link. Software quality similar
Mismatch between migration, labor demand, and housing costs.
Link. Why don’t corporations move?
GOP “sound science” – “phrase was adopted by the tobacco industry in the 1990s to counteract mounting evidence linking secondhand smoke to cancer.”
Link. Tobacco is essential GOP.
Weinstein, The Enquirer, Pecker and Trump – a curious set of friendships.
Link. Bannon and Breitbart must be in there too.
“younger women … who claim to understand exactly where to draw the line between legitimate behavior and abuse”
Link. Only a woman could write this.
John Anderson – a sane conservative. Obit.
Link. I liked him then. Wish obit said more about his opinions of GOP in 90s.
NYT on Harvey Weinstein and his collaborators and enablers.
Link. It goes on … and on. Sociopath with a genius for intimidation and manipulation.
Google RCS rollout continues agonizingly slow pace.
Link. This is taking far longer than I naively imagined.
Google v Amazon: video wars
Link. Amazon plays rough
GOP: “persistent belief among the party elite in the most radical version of supply-side economics.”
Link. A core GOP belief. Culture always beats science.
MarsEdit 4 Is Here
Link. I will buy of course
President Can Obstruct Justice
Link. GOP argues Trump above law.
MN resident over 200K income – taxes go up
Link. Hope not Trump voter.
“The Deutsche Bank subpoena is certainly about probing the President’s financial ties to Russia”
Link. Why did DB loan to a notorious deadbeat?
“Hit Shift-⌘- to enter the Safari “Show all tabs” mode”
Link. They could market this better.
Text Replacements Now Sync Reliably Between Macs and iOS Devices Via CloudKit
Link. Noteworthy as exception to dismal Apple quality
“Klanaheim” and “Miss 100 Percent America” – we were here 100 years ago.
Link. Book review – when KKK dominated rural America.
Kill radius of black hole merger much smaller than I’d thought.
Link. Almost benign.
Andromeda’s black hole bomb to explode within 1000 years.
Link. Tomorrow basically. How many neighboring systems will be sterilized?
Google DeepVariant: “deep learning technology to reconstruct the true genome sequence from HTS sequencer data”
Link. It has only begun.
“when science and culture clash, culture always wins”
Link. African immunization, American climate change.
Bannon, white nationalist, talks Trump every 2-3 days
Link. Kelly shares this ideology or he’d quit
Solar Panels: when to mount them.
Link. Pithy and persuasive
Nest Protect Home Security System
Link. My urban neighborhood has significant break-ins
Facebook messenger for children.
Link. I hope it can be used by vulnerable adults. Elderly, special needs. Video calls worrisome.
Doctorow book review: Facebook is not inevitable.
Link. Reform has succeeded many times before. Despite the right.
Women dems running – often in low-hope districts
Link. But will WWC women vote for them?
Vile corporations using lawsuits to break scientists
Link. Anti-slapp protections undermined by bad judges.
Acetominophen and pregnancy: worries about the brain
Link. Correlation. Need animal models. Damn.
Activity trackers can discourage the non-elite.
Link. Strava comes to mind.
Aaronson is getting worried: “ I no longer put AI too far behind that other stuff”
Link. He used to see risk @2080. Lot closer now
CalConnect: the standards group that tries to make calendars work
Link. Heroes of the net
Another requiem for the internet.
Link. When, I wonder, was peak Net? 2008?
Canon EOS Rebel SL2: switching the paired iOS (or Android?) device (WiFi, bluetooth)
Link. Couldn’t find this documented anywhere. Every time you switch phones …
Hatch on CHIP: “have a rough time wanting to spend billions and billions and trillions of dollars to help people who won’t help themselves — won’t lift a finger — and expect the federal government to do everything.”
Link. While enriching billionaires. In many ways more despicable than Trump.
Was NRA a player in the Russian hack of America?
Link. Nothing is preposterous these days.
Why human birth is often too damn hard: research summarized.
Link. Every section I attended I gave thanks to surgery
Not both parties, it is GOP that broke Congress
Link. Really, it is white men and women that broke America