Link. Better than Alzheimers though.
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Verubecestat for Alzheimers: a sane appraisal.
Link. 20% chance we learn something helpful?
“no glueballs = something else is wrong with the Standard Model”
Link. Don’t despair, the standard model will die.
Apple security fail: fake apps from China infest App Store.
Link. Big mess.
Clintonomics: predistribution and labor market monopsony.
Link. Part of the response to worker demand deficit.
Android’s device security makes resale weird.
Link. iOS is far better at this.
Zapier: how to structure a day.
Link. Wish I’d read this 30 years ago.
Scriptarian: another doomed attempt at fixing AppleScript.
Link. Automator was a real disappointment.
Instapaper’s mysterious business model.
Link. Pinterest gets “parsing improvements and aggregate information”?
After Trump: information wants to be free, but knowledge is expensive.
Link. “The New York Times costs $200 a year … Breitbart is free — supported by AARP ads.”
A review of my predictions (2011).
Link. I’m not very good at this.
Google Trends: CrossFit stable, rapid growth over.
Link. A hobby of mine.
RSS: Google Trends 2004-2016
Link. If you squint real hard might there be a slight up trend? Sigh.
Google’s Sprint-only RCS announcement.
Link. Everyone wants a lock-in.
Fakespot: navigating Amazon’s shady neighborhoods.
Link. Bezos libertarian theology blocks Amazon fix?
Turning Trumper: resolving cognitive dissonance.
Link. I’m voting for Trump. He is awful. So HRC must be worse. She kills people…
16GB is a huge amount of memory for a modern SSD Mac.
Link. Slack and Chrome are memory hogs because they are badly made.
Trumpers can learn from facts, but they can be swayed to distrust sources.
Link. Wee bit of hope.
“More than 800 polling places across the South closed since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013”
Link. Disillusioned.
Apple’s Lenovo: another call for a manufacturing partner.
Link. Dell?
Pros plead with Apple: save the Mac Pro.
Link. Their hope fades. It should have died with Aperture.
Trump has not “behaved”.
Link. Journalists are bored and tired of reporting him. The new normal.
Typical example of “classified” Clinton email.
Link. Gov classification rules often ludicrous.
Authoritarian propaganda.
Link. “The mob really believed that truth was whatever respectable society had hypocritically passed over, or covered with corruption”
Dalai Lama: “a wealth of opportunities for meaningful work”
Link. We need work for the 40%. Capitalism doesn’t have a solution.
“I don’t know the source of this information,” she wrote of Trump, “but if even half of it is true, he is an amazing person.”
Link. Believe.
Dyer: Half the Jobs Are Going
Link. Economist still doubt this. I believe it.
Apple shocked by our reaction to MacBook Pro.
Link. Apple isn’t in our reality.
SMS replacement flames out.
Link. The carriers had ONE job. Maybe Google can implement without them?
There’s A Problem at the FBI.
Link. Strong man wanted.
AIDS will last in Africa: “pre-marital and extra-marital sex is commonplace”
Link. No vaccine in sight.
“created a form of HIV studded with Ebola’s surface proteins”
Link. Ebola-HIV hybrid. Modern disease research is edgy stuff.
SKS Fatboard Fender Set: review.
Link. $55 fenders for fat bikes. He likes.
Microsoft flow: competition for Zapier and ifttt.
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“Donald Trump is America’s existential threat. “
Link. White non-college may burn the house down.
Upskilling: data on forces pushing non-college wages down.
Link. Trumpista desperation is merited.
Douthat to GOP: Don’t take Satan’s deal.
Link. He tried.
Embedded ios device trackpad.
Link. Apple is inscrutable. Cool idea.
“people would be completely content just using a classic MacPro case from 10 years ago”
Link. Industrial Macs made by Lenovo to Apple spec.
Australian interior: “site was settled approximately 49,000 years ago”
Link. 50-55K years ago humans changed and seamed the world.
iCloud calendars have a 5yo unpatched spam vulnerability.
Link. Wonder what defense would look like? Wouldn’t this work on gCal too?
China’s wealthiest author: “been writing all this time because of the money. From the beginning, it was never about the money”
Link. Money is mostly from licensing and paper books, but begins with phone readable installments.
Cultural transition: “whiteness is just a race like any other”
Link. White studies might become a thing – eventually. Professionally identify with role, non-college with race.
“fake news has become a business”
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“Trumpism is basically the emergence of white nationalism and authoritarianism as the driving forces on the American right today.”
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“Facebook generated endless suggestions of other militia pages”
Link. America’s military extremists – undercover journalism.
FBI behaving very oddly.
Link. WTF.
Touch Bar: a huge Apple investment.
Link. Wise or not.
iOS 10: lock screen camera access, swipe left.
Link. Don’t unlock! Slower access then.
nvALT 2.2.5 — yet another release.
Link. Post-Sierra a bunch of bug fixes. I’m on El Cap so I’ll wait until they settle down.