Link. IWTYA when I learned this.
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there may even be one or more stars that are shining several quintillion years from now: billions of times the present age of the Universe
Link. Red dwarfs from merger of brown dwarfs formed in late stage galaxy collisions.
It bodes ill for our democracy that those who cannot pay or choose not to are left with whatever our broken information ecosystem manages to serve up
Link. NPR is the important exception (despite their terror of GOP wrath)
APA poll on substance use: 16% think cigarettes not unsafe
Link. I’d love to interview those who think cigarettes are “safe”. The survey responses are mostly not credible; I wonder if it was a badly designed poll.
Maybe credible and startling: only 7% use alcohol daily but 13% use cannabis daily.
APA framing focuses on opioids and tobacco use, less concern about cannabis and alcohol.
“Cellphones are the worst thing thats ever happened to movies…”
Link. As in story telling rather than mobile calls disrupting movie watching.
If trade diversion is a problem then Japan is in luck because it could be a big beneficiary of the scramble to get electronics production out of China.
Link. Everyone loves Japan now. I do.
Using a friction shifter on a 10 speed cluster.
Link. Surprisingly it can work well.
By making the feasibility of full-time motherhood a purely biological issue Clark and Kirk and the rest allow the movement to redirect the rage and disappointment many of these women will feel at a target they can actually hurt: the LGBTQ community.?
Link. The warped world of Red womanhood.
“… the pride flag waves peaceful and steadfast in front of the convention center, against the blue Texas sky”
Jedeed: Turning Point USA is in my opinion one of the most dangerous organizations out there
Link. “… TPUSA feels fresh and new and fun, and they care less about the truth than any org I’ve encountered so far”
Microsoft Edge Removes Button to Remove browsing history.
Link. Tsai: “you can use the special edge://sync-internals URL to access a hidden button to Clear Server Data”
Race based affirmative action not supported by Dem base, class based is more popular.
Link. Asian 39%, White 47%, Hispanic 55%, Black 78%. “Today, Black enrollment stands at 5 percent. (Black residents make up less than 6 percent of California’s population.) The overall six-year graduation rate of Black students stands at 77 percent.”
Apple’s bug reporting is a joke: “I encounter enough issues that I could probably keep myself busy full time reporting them. But my expectation is that almost everything I write will likely be ignored”
Link. Apple engineers also think it’s broken.
Sonoma security: “sea change from largely static detection and protection to those based more on behaviours”
Link.
“Fires are burning in forests in all of Canada’s provinces and territories, except the province of Prince Edward Island and Nunavut, a northern territory that sits above the tree line”
Link. Good backgrounder from Chibougamau, 430 miles north of Montréal. Last few years they struggle to have outdoor ice.
“quarantine for anything returning from the moon was both necessary and futile: Humans would probably fail to contain a microscopic threat”
Link. Despite avowed “existential threat” NASA knew quarantine was mostly for show.
“This tendency to downplay existential risk — instead prioritizing likelier threats with lower consequences — shows up in fields like climate change, nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence”
Trump’s motive per Christie: ““I think it’s much more likely they’re a trophy that he walks around and says, look, I’ve got this,”
Link. Ego, insecurity, some senility.
iOS 17 password share: “If you want to remove a shared password but keep it in your own passwords, head to recently deleted, tap the password, and choose “Recover to My Passwords.”
Link. That won’t work.
Britain and several European countries restrict use of puberty delaying medications outside of clinical trials: “The clinic had seen a sharp rise in referrals, from 250 young people in 2011 to 5,000 in 2021”
Link. A puzzle.
DeSantis uses AI generated images to tie Trump to terrifying Fauci and Science.
Link. Intended to deceive but stupid and clumsy because DeSantis. I’m looking forward to Trump videos showing DeSantis calling for CO2 controls.
Let them fight.
macOS 14 Sonoma: “The team that develops Open Core Legacy Patcher (OCLP) is already hard at work preparing support for older Macs”
Link. I’ll be buying an Air shortly before Sonoma comes out so I can run Ventura until next March or so.
“even just a small taste of VisionOS made me feel confident that it is going to be the next major platform for Apple and Apple developers, alongside MacOS and iOS/iPadOS”
Link. Apple is such a large chunk of the S&P that the initial Vision Pro reviews have changed our net wealth. Which is insane.
“GPT-4, when told to repeat or otherwise process the string ” davidjl” (note the leading space character), treats it as “jndl” …”
Link. “This token might refer to Reddit user davidjl123 who ranks top of the league for the old /r/counting subreddit, with 163,477”
#chatgpt
UFO Evidence (xkcd).
Link. We could go from bored yawn to obsession in a picosecond. But it ain’t gonna happen.
The illusion of moral decline: “people in at least 60 nations around the world believe that morality is declining, that they have believed this for at least 70 years and that they attribute this decline both to the decreasing morality of individuals a
Link. Ever since the invention of language.
“the perception of moral decline is pervasive, perdurable, unfounded and easily produced”
IPad Standby – it uses lots of power now: “what I’d like is for it to automatically go into Airplane Mode when I turn off the screen”
Link. That would work for me.
GWB did one big good thing: “PEPFAR … program, started by President George W. Bush, paid for antiretroviral medications for millions of H.I.V. positive people in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean”
Link. Many well intentioned people thought it was a waste of money. One of America’s biggest wins.
“political costs and benefits will often beat out economic ones — even when that might seem irrational.”
Alcohol use 20% less in concert goers“: They’re either eating edibles before they come or there’s more of a sober, mental health”
Link. I’d like to know the edibles / sober ratio. Even if it’s mostly a shift to edibles that seems a good thing.
Apple Vision Pro – an early user experience.
Link. An incredible R&D effort but still years from my use.
Snowden Ten Years Later: “You become convinced that only the insiders know what’s really going on, because the news media is so often wrong. Your family is ignorant. Your friends are ignorant. The world is ignorant. The only thing keeping you from ign
Link. Fascinating Schneider essay.
WaPo carjacking article dances around the juvenile problem.
Link. If numbers don’t fall we are going to recreate juvenile detention facilities.
Insanely idealistic NYPD cop Sue’s department over Police Benevolent Association license to kill cards.
Link. The corruption runs real deep.
Marble Run (xkcd)
Link. We all have the same destination.
Apple implements identity sharing with iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma.
Link. – share passkeys, passwords, verification codes, and notes
– edits and updates seamlessly sync between group members
– end-to-end encrypted
– share with family, friends, and other close contacts
I will be happy to get rid of 1Password.
China science often fake: “China seems to be the number one contributor in sheer volume (over half the faked papers globally, and it along with Russia, Turkey, Egypt, and India rank highly for faked papers as a percentage of a country’s total output.”
Link. Hundreds of thousands of fake articles. China’s science is in bad shape.
Beef inflation: it’s the monopolies.
Link. A lot of our current inflation is the unfixing of prices allowing oligopolies and monopolies to use their power.
With Ag it gets even more complicated…
Spy whale: “We don’t want to deliver an easy lunch to orcas by sending a tame whale who doesn’t know any better,” Ms. Haug said.”
Link. South of where he should be. He has his own advocacy group looking out for him.
Jack Dorsey is a nutcase.
Link. I knew he was eccentric but he’s truly nuts. Endorsing JFK jr!
“iCloud Drive now effectively keeps its own Document Revisions database, making versions available to all Macs and devices accessing them.”
Link. Didn’t used to work. I don’t think versions are worth the complexity.
Lovecraft’s Shoggoth (with smiley face mask) as AI meme: “visual shorthand for powerful A.I. systems that seem suspiciously nice”
Link. Now we are hip.
US will require automatic breaking systems in future vehicles: “automatically stop and avoid hitting pedestrians at speeds of up to 37 miles per hour”
Link. Bicycles not mentioned. Hope is will offset lethality of giant SUVs. Years away still.
F.D.A. Approves Pfizer’s R.S.V. Vaccine for 60+
Link. Guillain-Barré syndrome is a concern; it’s been a vaccine side-effect before. Vaccine will be more likely used in higher risk patients.
Russia tries to exhaust Kyiv’s amazingly successful air defense.
Link. Russia needs more civilian terror.
Evolution of feathered flight: “Theropods could not use their early wings to fly. Some horse-size species sported wings the size of laptop screens.”
Link. Courtship display presumably.
International Underwear Model and Insurrectionist gets 32 Months in Prison: “Strand’s sentencing could be a case study of why defense lawyers generally don’t recommend that their clients testify in trials.”
Link. He’s an idiot of course.
GOP research: “the swing toward Democrats is primarily being driven by both new and independent voters who are focused on abortion”
Link. Election outcome level swing.
“… widening of gene pools which resulted from this process means that the biologist Steve Jones ranks the invention of the bicycle as the most important event in recent human evolution.”
Link. Bold but I like it.
“Evidence from card swipes suggests that only about half the office space in major U.S. cities is currently in use, with little indication of a return to prepandemic norms”
Link. St Paul (MN) downtown need more foot traffic in 2019. It’s an echo chamber now.
“rising use of telephones went hand-in-hand with rising business travel: Workers began interacting more with people in other cities, but solidifying these contacts required occasionally meeting them in person.”
We suffered a lot during COVID from lack of true in person interaction. We are primates still.
Debt deal: Biden wins. Again.
Link. Maybe he is good at his job.
“While some food aid recipients aged 50 to 54 will now face work requirements, many others who are veterans or homeless will be excluded for the first time.”
“investors have flocked to the $24 trillion Treasury market just about whenever they have needed a haven”
Link. 24 trillion is just 8 Apples. Not so much really.
App.net archive exists.
Link. 44 million posts, hosted by micro.blog service.