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“Inflation is fundamentally the outcome of the distributional conflict, between firms, workers and taxpayers”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. This is a good K article. (Free at this link)

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Minneapolis violent crime down some: “Carjackings dropped from 655 to 524, gunshots fired reports declined from 11,536 to 9,097,”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Kids back in school? Carjacking numbers and gunshot numbers insane. We need years of much greater declines.

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UI Inconsistencies in Windows 11: “ODBC Data Sources utility there is a Windows 3.1-styled folder selection window!”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. I’ve seen that! Is so funny. I don’t mind the bold UIs, some are better than current fashions.

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“Benjamin Bratton, described TED’s influence on intellectual culture as “taking something with Valium and substance and coring it out so that it can be swallowed without chewing.”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. I saw one that wasn’t bad very early on but then lost interest. The style annoyed.

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“There is just a 20-millisecond interval in the heart’s cycle when a strong blow can cause an arrhythmia”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. I didn’t know of the diastole timing. “Precordial thump” was an old and ineffective approach to cardiac arrest.

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Can you rely on macOS Ventura for malware protection?

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. He say most of us can. For now.

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From 2008: “Andrew Olmsted, who also posted here as G’Kar, was killed yesterday in Iraq. Andy gave me a post to publish in the event of his death; the last revisions to it were made in July.”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. So long ago, so near at hand. Via a Mastodon post. Obsidian Wings is and was a multi-author blog. Still active, still old school.

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“The dreams of the 90s are alive in the Fediverse”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Excellent overview from Ars Technica. ActivityPub fediverse includes Mastodon.

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“how the bipartisan infrastructure law is rebuilding the country, providing jobs that don’t need a four-year college degree”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. The gap between 20/h and 80/h. Biden hasn’t forgotten the non-college.

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Using iOS Drafts app to create Mastodon threads with unlisted self-replies.

Posted on January 2, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Some reports of bugs however.

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“The Chinese manufacturer BYD has raced past Tesla in electric vehicle sales in China”

Posted on January 2, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Wait until BYD starts exporting. Tesla shares have further to fall.

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Beyond McCarthy – McHenry. “He is the only Republican lawmaker whose name has been floated as a possible candidate for speaker who voted to certify the 2020 presidential election.”

Posted on January 2, 2023 by jgordon

Link. The only sane GOP rep in contention for speaker.

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What do to with people dressed to kill in states that are really stupid?

Posted on January 2, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Public displays of guns is mostly being an asshole. In this case “Mr. Marley was homeless and did not have family or friends to stay with”. Sounds schizophrenic. There’s a good chance had he not been arrested there would have been shooting.

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Congress covertly passes the Corporate Transparency Act.

Posted on January 2, 2023 by jgordon

Link. ” … will require that the true, human owners of companies formed in the U.S. disclose their identities at the point of formation and upon any change—effectively banning anonymous shell companies.”

Wow. That’s a BFD. Ironic that Congressed passed a major anti-corruption measure by hiding it out of sight. (via mastodon)

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“Since June 30, 2022, any app submission to Apple’s App Store that lets users create an account has also had to provide an easy way for users to initiate the deletion of their account within the app”

Posted on January 2, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Ok, so the App Store isn’t all bad.

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“the rise of two fascinating entrants in the RSS space: Readwise Reader, and Matter.”

Posted on January 2, 2023 by jgordon

Link. “as of January ’22, my Mastodon account now has a higher joy-to-anguish ratio than my Twitter feed”

Musk is building a better future. By setting fire to Twitter (and Tesla).

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Inside APFS: from containers to clones.

Posted on January 2, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Great reference. The complexity of an APFS SSD is staggering. (But still nothing compared to complexity of a eukaryotic cell.)

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Inequality might be going down now

Posted on January 2, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Is inflation necessary to reduce income inequality? Noah doesn’t go there.

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“The ANC was once revered as the ideal model of an African liberation movement; now it’s a cesspool.”

Posted on January 1, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Dyer overstates. Most intelligent observers expected a cesspool.

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Slavery in Louisiana prisons.

Posted on January 1, 2023 by jgordon

Link. To know a people look at their prisons. The prisoners were punished for speaking with the WaPo reporter and the warden lied about it.

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Trump promised to donate his salary to charity. “in 2020, his last full year in office, the documents show that Mr. Trump reported $0 in charitable giving.”

Posted on January 1, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Other years he had donations, maybe including his salary. Or, more likely, not.

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“Wednesday night, I broke down and cried and hyperventilated and that’s not like me,” Mr. Nock said. “I had no idea I felt that way.”

Posted on January 1, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Wotshisname pardoned his henchmen. Biden’s pardons are different.

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Andrew Tate: orientation. (Free article)

Posted on December 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I had no idea who he was. Useful orientation.

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“to give the malware a fighting chance of success, I reduced security, disabled SIP, and disabled the security assessment policy subsystem”

Posted on December 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. It’s hard to infect a fully updated Mac.

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“the list of accomplishments for this Congress rivaled that of the 1960s’ Great Society and the 1930s’ New Deal.”

Posted on December 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Often with limited but critical GOP support.

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Mastodon custom viewer: “is there a way to transform foreign status URLs into instance-relative status URLs?”

Posted on December 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Multiple instances has consequences.

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Laura Jedeed 2022: “Started in the actual psych ward and ended with a New Republic cover story”

Posted on December 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Her fans wish she’d dial it back a bit.

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Fixing SMB File Sharing in Ventura: “turn off File Sharing, reboot my computer, and then turn on File Sharing again”

Posted on December 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Ventura is a bug-fest. I’ll consider upgrade next spring.

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Shortcut for Adding Settings > Passwords to Home Screen or Dock.

Posted on December 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Ricky Mondello is a senior Apple engineer in the passwords/passphrase project.

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As good polling slowly dies crap polling fed a fake red wave narrative.

Posted on December 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Nobody answers the phone but journalists desperately need something to write about.

In MN Walz was suddenly “at risk”. We sent him money. He won by a big margin. We could have sent it elsewhere.

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“the Clovis point is unique to North America. It appeared widely across the continent beginning about 13,400 years ago, near the end of the LGM.”

Posted on December 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Review of science of human arrival in Americas. Probably multiple arrivals but end of large mammals 11kya seems a marker.

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Working around macOS networking failures with Transmit.

Posted on December 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Apple has no pride.

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macOS Ventura is disappointingly buggy.

Posted on December 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Mojave was ok.

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O. J. Simpson: “On December 14, 2021, Simpson was released from parole early for good behavior”

Posted on December 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. His murders could not be considered.

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“Because there are more Covid infections than flu infections each year, more Americans are likely to die from Covid even if the death rate is similar.”

Posted on December 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Set aside the complete mess of “long COVID”. Then for the immune COVID risk is comparable to flu risk, but there is a lot more COVID out there.

(I wear mask when boarding/leaving airplane seat.)

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3.5 million missing workers: “a large number of the missing workers, roughly two million, have simply retired.”

Posted on December 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Pando accelerated expected changes. In demographics and other areas. Good news for under 50.

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“Melania Trump stopped the firing out of concern for the stories Harleth could tell about the Trump family, but he was let go just before Biden’s inauguration”

Posted on December 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Every day we need to thank the space angels for Biden.

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“The company has skipped payments to KPMG, an accounting and consulting firm that had been working on matters related to compliance with the Federal Trade Commission”

Posted on December 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Musk. “often interrupts meetings seemingly at random, talking for long stretches”

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Biden: “How did he become the most transformative, consequential foreign policy president in at least three decades?”

Posted on December 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I was happy with not-Trump. I did not expect him to be so good at the job.

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Pixelfed: Open source platform for photo and video sharing, part of the ActivityPub Fediverse.

Posted on December 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Instagram appears to be afraid of them.

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Webb Telescope – early science. (NYT, free link)

Posted on December 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Double the conservative resolution expectations.

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Metaverse is ahead of demand (or lost in a hopeless direction.)

Posted on December 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Sad to say I didn’t think of the NFT angle. Porn is obvious market but sounds like child predators could also be early adopters.

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Tesla: “I’ve heard rumors Bill Gates has made a lot of money these days shorting the company’s stock.”

Posted on December 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. That would be funny.

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Semaglutide for teens: “teens who took the drug lost an average 14.7% of their initial body weight over a year’s time, while those on placebo gained 2.7% on average.”

Posted on December 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Very expensive now but competition is coming. We now have weight loss medications; when the price falls they will be very popular.

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December 28: the Lakota massacre at Wounded Knee.

Posted on December 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A short and brutal retelling.

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“Lashansky said she is believed to be one of the oldest people in the world living with Type 1 diabetes”

Posted on December 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I wonder if she had some residual function as well as extraordinary discipline. She predates modern therapies. Her instincts were better than the early medical advice she received.

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The Great Southwest Meltdown Of 2022: an industry expert review.

Posted on December 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Lousy IT, high risk routing, terrible employer. But the root cause is: “federal government has given airlines a liability shield”

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bird.makeup – put tweets into your mastodon timeline.

Posted on December 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Most use it for announcements or broadcast tweets. I use feedbin for this.

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Michael Tsai summarizes Ventura bugs he’s seen.

Posted on December 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Wait on it.

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Pavel Antov, Russian Lawmaker Who Slammed Putin’s War, Dies in Window Fall

Posted on December 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “He later edited his post, calling the initial version a “misunderstanding” and “technical error” and stressing that he had “always supported the Russian president.”

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