Link. The fraudulent academia industry is generating ChatGPT papers.

Link. He’s got a tool for most macOS gaps.

Link. I’m still traumatized by the Pawlenty years but few states have done so well. Arne Carlson was a Democrat in disguise.

Link. I miss . I think was Netscape only.

Link. I like to wait until Apple insists I update. Usually takes a few weeks.

Link. “identify large, older snapshot(s) in the list, select them, and click on the – tool below to remove them”

Link. Not a lot new really. But that’s often a good thing.

Link. Old school paths lie nowadays.

Link. I think higher education is just a rough proxy for cognitive and emotional capabilities. It’s increasingly dominated by women.

Link. Peak Oil of a different sort. Why Saudi oils will be $20/barrel.

Link. The papers got ahead of themselves.

Link. Dyer is straining to see a way out. It’s been a bad few decades. (Eventually the king is gonna go.)

Link. “Big Meat also knows that Big Oil managed to go on making huge profits for fifty years after it knew the writing was on the wall.”

Link. Letterman leaves some wiggle room around monopolies but I’m persuaded.

Link. This is getting close. I really want to replace 1Password. Maybe this year.

Link. A failure of leadership.

Link. Most of us are more cautious than Dyer in claiming proof of extraterrestrial “life”.

Link. Montréal is again the premier bicycling city in North America. MSP is in second place.

“number of cars have doubled in the last five years in the Montreal metropolitan area.“

Link. Basically sucks. It’s a problem made for an AI solution.

Link. Anthropic’s Claude does a superb job.

Link. Bundle documents don’t work because Apple hasn’t adopted the FileProvider interface they make everyone else use. I think this means it won’t work for Photos Libraries; you still need to download all images.

Link. “I worry that, one way or another, Salesforce is paying Google to bypass Google’s email filters”.

Link. Only two OS per machine.

Link. A good overview. He thinks controls help.

Link. Superb discussion. Great reference.

Link. How is this different from Apple’s cloud apps?

Link. Hoakley likes Sonoma and feels recent betas were solid. I’m unlikely to upgrade before 2024.

Link. Historically pretty common everywhere but Russia more than most.

Link. I trust this reviewer. I expect mjtsai will have comments. You can store locally or in iCloud.

Link. “small web” typically refers to the non-commercial part of the web, crafted by individuals to express themselves or share knowledge without seeking any financial gain”

Michael Tsai seems to approve. It’s $5/m but you can do a limited number of searches for free. It does seem to index my old school ad-free blogs.

Link. I remember the fortress sketches. Sounds like it was conflated with a Zhawar base built with CIA help during earlier Soviet occupation. NYT messed up.

Link. CDC recommendation determine if insurance pays for 64yo me.

This is a great discussion. ID specialists are not terribly worried but lean to the vaccine.

Link. That’s what I remember reading in the NYT weeks before Isaacson’s mistake was repeated in the WSJ and became viral.

Link. Taiwan is not going to keep its chip tech in Taiwan. For the usual reasons AND to keep the west committed to Taiwan’s security.

Link. Somehow I have money stuck in my Apple Account, aka Apple ID account. If you want this to ever get used you need to make it the default payment method per this post.

My current payment methods are: Apple ID -> Apple Cash -> Apple Card -> Visa.

You can’t see Apple ID cash balances from the web, so if you have an unused Apple ID you’d need to create a macOS user account to view it.

Link. China only 23%. This article tiptoes around the fact that India’s internal safety oversight is very bad. Wealthy nations rely on separate programs.

Link. Key target for antitrust. Stop the payments.

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Link. Colleges now favor male applicants but fear lawsuits. “The Supreme Court gives parties more leeway to discriminate on the basis of gender than it does on the basis of race.”

I know one woman who ruled out the college I liked because it was 2/3 women.

Link. I wish Musk would leave us for Mars, but this doesn’t fit the Musk transphobia narrative.

Link. I’m sure there are no more iMessage security bugs.

Link. All volunteers I expect.

Link. Jordan staffers are likely quite dumb, but even they are not dumb enough to try a response.

Link. I suspect this is true of many sites that allow comments.

Link. Objectively the economy is great and the Biden admin is basically genius.

I think people are genuinely frightened and unhappy, but it’s not the economy. It’s their tech environment. They just think it’s the economy.

Link. Krugman beats the same drum. It’s not hard to fix CO2 emissions now and the fix comes with economic growth.

“The instincts of the Biden administration — to use industrial policy to scale up renewables — are correct, and the inherited intuition from the debates of 2010 is out of date.”

Link. Odd to see the word bigotry in use again.

Link. Mostly gas powered. China’s switch to electric means ICE cars are dumped on Russia and other markets.

“Shipyards up and down the Yangtze River, with thousands of workers, clang and rattle from dawn until far into the night.”

Link. Apple is more serious about addressing this than they are about most things.

Link. Crazed abortion law. Don’t live in a red state. Don’t study at red state schools.