Link. “… the day in 1784 when members of the Confederation Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War”
I knew nothing of it. Thank you Thomas Mifflin.
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“inflation is decelerating, and has gone from an emergency to a disquieting nuisance.”
Link. Another Biden win. Probably part of the Devil deal that made him Dark Brandon.
“between 2012 and 2019 the rates of cervical cancer dropped an astonishing 65% among women in their early 20s. This is the first cohort to be eligible for vaccination …”
Link. Vaccines and science win again. At this rate cervical cancer will be a disease of MAGA women alone.
“A woman who has never been to Texas was jailed for six days in Philadelphia on an arrest warrant from the Lone Star State based on an incorrect identification of her through her social media page.”
Link. It gets worse.
“Migrating an Aperture Library to Photos as a new Library is no longer supported on macOS 13 Ventura”
Link. Apple could have said something. Damn them. Otherwise not surprising.
“… the inflation news is really, really good.
Link. Artisanal indicators is a good term.
Examples of floating point problems
Link. “Several people mentioned issues with sending floats in JSON, whether either they were trying to send a large integer (like a pointer address) in JSON and it got corrupted, or sending smaller floating point values back and forth repeatedly and the value slowly diverging over time.”
Ok,that’s real bad.
Modeling the size of the observable universe – a 2022 take.
Link. Emphasis on OBSERVABLE. It’s likely the universe is far larger than what we can observe. I particularly liked that stars, in an odd way, are sparser than galaxies… ” If the Milky Way were a grapefruit in Seattle, WA, then Andromeda — the Local Group’s largest galaxy located 2.5 million kilometers away — would be a grapefruit in the same room, only about 10 feet … away” Recommend that vertical log map.
Walgreens CFO on shoplifting: “maybe [Walgreens] cried too much last year” about the issue, adding that the drugstore chain probably spent “too much” hiring private security companies.
Link. Oookkkaasyyyy.
“Instead of delivering sperm, the female’s gynosome vacuums it up as she mounts her mate.”
Link. “The gynosome’s prickly spines lock the penislike structure inside the male, keeping him snug during bouts of copulation that can last up to 70 hours.”
Montana: “If you want to live here … be a Christian.”
Link. Gov “Gianforte has belonged to a church in Bozeman adhering to a literal interpretation of the Bible that rejects evolution”.
“… democracy had “failed as miserably as socialism”
“Global warming projections made or recorded by ExxonMobil scientists between 1977 and 2003 closely tracked with observed temperature increases.”
Link. Relatively simple models of CO2 warming worked well.
Santos dark money fundraiser: “no evidence that RedStone Strategies was registered as a political group, and there do not appear to be any records documenting its donors, contributions or spending.”
Link. Campaign Finance rules are meaningless now.
Medium embraces Mastodon: “We are working on a “sign-up with Medium” option that will make it easy to get started on Mastodon, and to find people and topics that match your interests.”
Link. They have a Mastodon instance now. Great news.
A Fix for MobileDeviceUpdater’s “Installation Failed”
Link. I had this problem and couldn’t fix it. I can see why I couldn’t. So obscure.
“(macOS) General > Sharing.
Uncheck every service that’s enabled.”
iPhone Camera Over Processing
Link. I prefer photos from my old iPhone 8 over my 13 Pro.
That quantum factoring article is bogus: “Not by using Shor’s Algorithm, mind you, but by using the deceptively similarly named Schnorr’s Algorithm”
Link. Aaronson did his duty.
Mastodon RSS & Microposts: Feedbin support.
Link. Needs fix: “RSS auto-discovery has been broken on the latest Mastodon release for some time. To remedy this situation, Feedbin will do some extra work to help determine where the RSS feed is”
Also: “Feedbin now has the ability to post directly to your Mastodon account”
“When former Minnesota U.S. Sen. Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains on Aug. 31, 1940, he likely knew the Justice Department was investigating his part in a Nazi-driven plot to overthrow the U
Link. Good lede.
“the TOI-700 system is, by many metrics, a contender for the most likely system known today to be home to biological activity around it. It’s been around for more than 1.5 billion years.”
Link. Atypically peaceful red dwarf star.
“the lack of the 8458 Phone reporting to AT&T between 2:47 a.m. and 4:48 a.m. is consistent with Kohberger attempting to conceal his location during the quadruple homicide”
Link. Tower records rather than phone records. Not how he was found but a reminder of the traces we leave.
School lunch costs eat budgets: “inflation has made it hard for parents to pay for meals, and when they realize there’s no penalty for not paying for meals, “that makes them even less inclined to pay.”
Link. What do charter schools do?
Apple Maps added bicycling directions — in Aug 2022
Link. I had no idea until I saw a notification on a new phone.
“If they did not have press freedom,” quipped the KGB’s disinformation chief in 1964, “we would have to invent it for them.”
Link. 1964!
1866 “The Civil Rights Act became the first significant legislation in American history to become law over a president’s veto”
Link. Remarkably good summary of “reconstruction”
Casual cruelty of online comments (2016): “Humans… have a fundamental need to create and maintain a narrative for their lives in which the universe is not implacable and heartless, that terrible things do not happen at random, and that catastrophe can b
Link. Most people, but especially Republicans, have very limited imaginations.
Switching from Comcast to Century Link – including how to return Xfinity equipment
Link. So far not as bad as expected. Will update when things go wronger.
Escaping the Malthusian Trap: animation of GDP vs population in England 1270 onwards.
Link. Black Death move is noteworthy.
“Now the FTC has embraced the idea that noncompetes are a threat to competition, proposing a total national ban on the practice:”
Link. MN has egregious non-competes and can’t fix them.
“Gaetz later explained away his willingness to accept McCarthy after vowing never to support McCarthy by saying “I ran out of things I could even imagine to ask for.”
Link.
“As of 11:00 tonight, neither House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) nor Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) had any comment on the events in Brazil.”
Link.
“23.2% infection rate for short-term visitors from China to Korea”
Link. I suspect US flights are 2-5% active disease. Article fails to clarify PCR vs antigen and recent vs active.
“To date, there have been zero memory safety vulnerabilities discovered in Android’s Rust code.”
Link. New Android code is 21% Rust.
gathio: a fediverse ActivtyPub event planner without ads.
Link. I’ve been looking for this but ran into a nasty design error immediately. So needs more time.
Thai collects notes on Fediverse.
Link. “boosts seem a lot more intrusive and repetitive than retweets on Twitter”.
I think lack of Quote Tweets drives boosts and that the despised algo helps. Mastodon show everyone’s boost. I boost rarely.
Recovery mode problems: “if the worst comes to the worst, you can start the Mac up in DFU mode, connect it to another Mac running Apple Configurator 2…”
Link. Good to know the options.
Online tax services send poorly obfuscated income data to Facebook to guide ad placement.
Link. Includes TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and H&R Block. It’s not clear if either Facebook or the tax companies fully understood how this worked. A side-effect of Facebook Pixel code.
The Overture Maps Foundation: Yet Another Global Map.
Link. Against Google hegemony. But it’s hard. Terrific history in this blog post.
Advanced Phishing Attack
Link. Fairly standard attack but well executed. Most people would get hacked.
Musk gave journalism a test. It failed. How to salvage something.
Link. “a combination of journalistic cowardice, inertia and calculation, business as usual prevailed.”
Musk owns American journalism now.
Dealing With Google’s Malware Robocop: “Google don’t even admit to the possibility of a false positive. All their processes are heavy on gaslighting you into believing you are the problem.”
Link. Welcome to the AI era.
“the great majority of users are oblivious of the detection and remediation of malware on their Macs, which occurs in complete secrecy”
Link. Apple likes it that way. Maybe fewer support calls.
Tesla going down. Down. Down.
Link. If I were a devoted Tesla investor I’d sell now and buy in 6m or so. Price has a long way to fall. (I’m not buying Tesla at any price.)
“We’ll see what happens when Tucker and Sean Hannity and Ben Shapiro start beating up on these guys.”
Link. Murdoch will choose the speaker. Who will obey Murdoch.
“South Korea is in a really bad spot security-wise right now, and it needs to find a way out ASAP.”
Link. Kind of like Flash if it were never patched.
“A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can—although they have not yet done so—break 2048-bit RSA.”
Link. Don’t worry, the paper is flawed.
“Halteria in a small pond may be able to eat as many as 10 trillion chloroviruses a day”
Link. “[Viruses are] made up of really good stuff: nucleic acids, a lot of nitrogen and phosphorous,”
Jedeed’s New Republic piece on Patriot Academy: “deeply Christian founding and to religious men such as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson”
Link. I love her writing. She knows of, course, that neither were religious men.
“No matter how many times you tell people they may not like everything you have to say about them, they never really believe it until they see it in print
Link. Laura Jedeed has a big one in The New Republic. “No one will force you to be a Christian in Rick Green’s America. But you will largely need to live like one.”
The Next Ukrainian Offensive.
Link. Persuasive. “US military aid to Ukraine so far is less than the annual cost of its long war in Iraq, and about one-tenth of the current US defence budget. This is the best bargain in American military history.”