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NYT says WaPo struggling ahead of planned layoffs.
Link. Biden admin is a balm for America — but not for WaPo revenue.
Why Amazon stopped Smile program: “Matt Gratz … Southern Poverty Law Center to help it weed out some beneficiaries, saying that conservative and Christian groups had been excluded.”
Link. House GOP was going to investigate Amazon for excluding hate groups.
Daring Fireball: App Store Rejection of the Week: “I don’t generally call for anyone to be fired, but an App Store reviewer who cannot see how Ice Cubes “differ[s] from a mobile web browsing experience” is an embarrassment to the company,”
Link. I bet Apple outsources App Store reviews to an overseas low cost provider. We need a non-Apple App Store because Apple is incompetent.
“If you occupy a privileged position in the attention economy, as Megan McArdle does now, and as I once did in a more limited way, then no, you won’t see Mastodon as a viable replacement for Twitter.”
Link. Udell’s sympathetic portrayal of those who can’t quit the Twitter dopamine fix. (McCardle’s time is passing — happily.)
What About “Log in With Twitter”?
Link. Don’t get rid of your password manager.
“the Internet’s role in a (broader) major transition for humans is more than just an analogy, and that looking at it this way informs our understanding of our troubled times, of the risks we face, and of how to address them”
Link. We used to talk like this in the 90s. Fun to see again. Via Udell.
Bike helmets getting better — and more expensive. $300 Giro Ares.
Link. The tech will go downmarket. Impressive progress supported by Virginia Tech ratings program and an informed market with money.
GOP flat tax arithmetic: “if something sells for $100 plus $30 in tax, then it’s a 23% tax—because $30 is 23% of $130”
Link. You cannot imagine how dumb they are.
Methodology Trial – subgroup analysis test. XKCD.
Link. Make this part of every clinical research methodology class.
JFK near catastrophe: “airline pilots “arm” the automatic braking system in their Boeing or Airbus airplanes, to slam the plane to an immediate, skidding stop if they have to execute an RTO.”
Link. The Delta flight made a HARD stop. Hope all laptops were stowed and belts tight. Also hope no infants in laps.
“Indian women have been racing into higher education, with government figures from 2020 showing they now enroll at higher rates than men. And yet India is still one of the most male-dominated economies in the world.”
Link. This is going to get stressful.
Another HIV vaccine fails (but failure was expected).
Link. Will be 3-5y before next attempt has results.
“the two charged pions that arise from a neutral rho decay are also entangled, marking the first discovery of two distinct, non-identical particles to display entanglement properties”
Link. I think this was expected?
“The Ukrainian army uses about 90,000 artillery rounds a month, about twice the rate they are being manufactured by the United States and European countries combined”
Link. Stockpiles provide the rest. For now. “the United States is helping Ukraine use ammunition more efficiently.”
“mounting tension between Greene and Boebert reached its boiling point. According to multiple sources, the two women were nearly in a screaming match in the Speaker’s lobby ladies room just off the House floor.”
Link. Boebert falls as MTG leaves Q behind, but MTG serves Putin and Boebert does not.
The Villages of Florida: “Lake Sumter Landing, focused on the eponymous lake and its canal, which extends south for a few hundred feet, complete with locks, and then turns into a stream that runs for a few hundred more feet before ending”
Link. Like living in an orbital habitat.
California storms: The damage and the amazing deluge, by the numbers.
Link. Astonishing numbers.
Another Nepal Airlines crash: “Nepalese flights have been banned in the European Union since 2013 citing safety concerns including training and maintenance standards”
Link.
“prophylactic vaccine that protects honeybees from American foulbrood, an aggressive bacterium that can spread quickly from hive to hive”
Link. First insect vaccine used in America. More coming especially for bees. Insects lack antibodies. “… identified the specific protein that prompts an immune response in the offspring”
Russia to send replacement for Space Station’s broken return capsule: “damage was caused by a micrometeoroid about one millimeter in diameter”
Link. All agree to be quiet.
No Increased Stroke Risk Linked to Pfizer’s Covid Boosters.
Link. The vaccines are safe and effective.
F-16s to Turkey: “… such a sale would not be a “quid pro quo” for Turkey’s approval of NATO membership for Sweden and Finland”
Link. But many suspect Erdogan is lying.
Anticipating the Sickle Cell Cure.
Link. It’s not yet a simple procedure — but the end of the disease is in sight.
China’s demographic crisis comes early: “We will start to appreciate China, in terms of its population, as an old and shrinking population.”
Link. All birth incentives failed. Party won’t do immigration. Try freedom?
Stage Manager for the unimpressed: 3 Apps and windows
Link. Finder has been a confusing mess for non-experts — I don’t think this helps. Will be interesting to try later this year when I go to Ventura.
“The New York Times now allows quick online cancels, no longer need to chat or call anyone”
Link.
COVID: “Why have we avoided the typical winter surge? Because the U.S. population has, collectively, built up immunity to the virus.
Link. We are frequently exposed now. And even hosp rate is misleading… “Massachusetts officials estimate that only about one-third of people hospitalized with Covid are actually there for Covid-related illness.”
Crash Detection false alerts from skiers stresses 911 centers.
Link. Park City gets 3-5 false alerts a day. I could never enable this feature.
Switzerland’s ski industry is dying: “warming at more than double the rate of the global mean and its glaciers lost 6 percent of their volume in the last year alone”
Link. In the US many XC ski resorts have closed. Emily and I finally surrendered to snowshoes.
Experian security disaster: “until the end of 2022, Experian’s website allowed anyone to bypass these questions and go straight to the consumer’s report. All that was needed was the person’s name, address, birthday and Social Security number.”
Link. The identity theft market suffers from a glut of potential victims.
1887 ‘Children’s Blizzard’: between 250 and 500 people died in the blizzard.
Link. Casualties of Krakatoa, 5 years late.
“Kennedy controller, also urgently: Delta 1943, cancel takeoff clearance! Delta 1943, CANCEL TAKEOFF CLEARANCE!”
Link. Damn.
Hacking (good way) Mastodon: Steampipe relationship graphs.
Link. Udell is having fun.
More reasons why we need an App Store other than from Apple.
Link. Apple really sucks at managing the App Store.
“By default, when Apple does something new these days, I fully and quietly expect it to be broken.”
Link. They could never ever do anything like Aperture again.
Stills from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Tron — as imagined by Midjourney.
Link. “If, as Mr. Gurdjieff taught, creation leads to the development of one’s soul, whose soul is being developed here?”
The last days of humanity.
MLK and gay rights: neutral leaning towards acceptance?
Link. Not bad for his day.
Red states attack their own Blue cities.
Link. If you live in a Red state you should look at moving to a Blue state.
BOA Lifetime warranty: independent of shoe warranty
Link. I just learned Boa does it’s own warranty. I have Boa on mountain bike and snowshoe. They send a repair kit.
Twitter via RSS
Link. I use Feedbin.
Amazon selling cheap 16 Terabyte Portable SSD: “micro SD card slotted into a circuit board acting as a USB-C adapter”
Link. Amazon is scammy.
Managerial Positions Created to Avoid Mandated Overtime Pay.
Link. Had not occurred to me but seems inevitable. “businesses are not required to pay overtime to salaried managers who make more than $455 per week or $23,660 per year”. Need to make that 40K/y.
FCC broadband coverage maps lie: “dependent on self-reported data from ISPs”
Link. Not a surprise.
Ocean heat: “This year’s record surpasses the ones set previously in 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2017”
Link. 2018 disappoints.
Changing section 230: making services liable for user content.
Link. It’s hard to see how Mastodon would survive — liability insurance, legal costs…
“Jason Voorhees … remains chained to the bottom of Crosby mine pit”
Link. “I got him down to the bottom where I wanted to chain him to the pipe and grabbed the cinderblocks to move him over closer to the pipe, to chain him on. And when I did that, the rope broke…”
“ambroxol can raise levels of GCase, leading to the hope that it could then indirectly lower levels of abnormal alpha-synuclein in people with Parkinson’s.”
Link. It’s an insignificant old medicine used in cough syrup. So this is out of left field.
Noah repost: service-sector productivity boos from the internet. It takes decades. (Free)
Link. We are still trying to organize around the inventions of the 90s.
“This is not your father’s inflation …. whether you annualize the last three, four or six months, the current rate of price increases is 1.9% a year.”
Link. A politically neutral and pragmatic take from a “no name” (but excellent) MN economist.