Link. I’m “very liberal”. Feature new to me. Good stuff.
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Abu Zubaydah of al Qaeda speaks.
Link. Torture means he cannot be tried, Forever War means he cannot be released.
Facebook’s emergent political ecosystem: “have two people in the Philippines who post for me”
Link. Facebook is deprecating this content in stream. Spam-like.
Mice and rat have different mrmory response to exercise induced hippocampal proliferation.
Link. Fascinating.
I think El Capitan resurrected this ancient “Connected As” bug.
Link. I can’t convince Finder to Disconnect a share so I can connect as another user.
Mac does not restart, shuts down instead: probably a FileVault 2 bug.
Link. I have this problem. Need to get around to fixing it sometime.
Uninstalling Synology Cloud Station Mac — and why you would never have installed it in the first place.
Link. Don’t put Synology stuff on your Mac. Really. Just don’t.
Zika causes widespread brain injury in infants.
Link. Everyone suspects children too. House GOP sabotaged funding.
DeLong: CitiGroup’s King is irrational.
Link. Or dupicitous. Don’t take econ advice from bankers.
Now Trump is Obama fan and acolyte.
Link. Why not?
“lowest overall mortality for women: Hawaii, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.”
Link. Minnesota vs Hawaii. Tough choice.
Free-market ideology has failed.
Link. What next?
Tsai on Vesper: “apps should have an export feature from the first version”
Link. Why I never considered Vesper.
Sudden death in epilepsy: 1/1000 risk.
Link. Taking meds reduces risk.
ObamaCare: Clinton needs to fight election over the public option.
Link. This fight is not done.
Weatherby Healthcare: My primary source of phone spam.
Link. They must spam every physician in North America. Pooh on them.
“Apple: If we’re forced to build a tool to hack iPhones, someone will steal it.”
Link. Apple 1, FBI 0. Post NSA breach, Microsoft fail.
“Election officials rely on a hodgepodge of data sources and name-matching tools to clear out ineligible voters”
Link. False positive rate will vary by culture-specific naming patterns.
How to choose a good hospital. Get a good doctor.
Link. Old school physician social networks.
Fast charging tech shortens battery life.
Link. Faster corrosion.
Stop Strava.app bike tracking app from auto-sharing all rides to Facebook.
Link. Really bad UX design.
Trumpism: Marshall demolishes white racism vs white distress dichotomy.
Link. Beautiful takedown. So much better than my own words. “Silly” indeed.
Vesper’s end.
Link. It never made sense to me.
Voter ID fraud remains very rare.
Link. GOP has no excuse.
Attu Island – the westernmost land of the US (wikipedia)
Link. But also the most eastern. Really must read article.
CarPlay sounds just grand.
Link. Yeah.
“But I do hate Verizon”
Link. I think ATT is better.
Academic tries to justify training unwanted neuroscientists.
Link. Walmart greeters?
Trump’s Empire: NYT investigates.
Link. His expertise is trading debt and isolating risk.
SMS messaging to small groups: Apple’s App Store comes up empty. Again.
Link. Tim Cook has failed.
Good enough healthcare: we are still on the journey (2006).
Link. We arrive when the hospital lobby fountain dies.
Oracle “astroturfs” Google.
Link. Quintessential Oracle.
Touring Proxima Centauri: not in your lifetime.
Link. Unless we eliminate aging. It’s a big Galaxy.
Atlantic review of US security.
Link. Non-partisan. 10-20% wasted, Brill wants dirty bomb focus. Voters need accept routine terrorism.
98 data points Facebook uses to show me GOP ads for Alaska.
Link. They’d do better with a coin flip.
Atlantic article on bottom 20% of whites.
Link. Omits prevalence of psychiatric and cognitive disability. Because eugenics.
“today’s 50 kilometer course is actually 50.05 km”
Link. An extra 50 m to prevent “short course”.
Mountain bikers fear GOP is using them to attack wilderness protection.
Link. Deal with the devil.
Siri Command Reference.
Link. SiriTalk. Kind of like AppleScript.
Manafort investigation may expose criminal Russian support for Trump business.
Link. Marshall again ahead of the curve.
What a solution for phone spam will look like.
Link. End of the legacy carrier system.
Manafort is facing jail time.
Link. FARA law forgotten but not toothless.
[toread] NIST gives us weapon against corporate password stupidity.
Link. Apple security question stupidity condemned.
FCC wants industry to fix robocall plague.
Link. Suspect would require big technical changes. Better to give up on phone calls.
Major olympic lesson: competitive female cyclists should not shave pubic hair.
Link. Turns out it’s physiologically useful.
Crab Bucket – via Terry Pratchett.
Link. It’s a useful metaphor.
Twitter turns on its trollish base: reputation filtering.
Link. Desperate times.
Neptune Bar in Pulau Sikeling, Indonesia.
Link. A special party.
The decades long soccer star who couldn’t play.
Link. Genius level con man.Not so long ago.
Sgt. Augmento: free Sterling short on the post-employment world.
Link. Enjoy. And be afraid.