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Mints utility provides user info on macos malware.
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WaPo suffers a Trump deficit.
Link. We will never be rid of him.
Paxlovid valuable for over 65 and probably unvaccinated 50-65.
Link. Vaccinated under 65 do so well it’s hard to measure improvement.
“a lost arm of the Nile once cut through this stretch of desert, and would have greatly simplified transporting the giant slabs to the pyramid complex”
Link. Expected but good to confirm.
“Twice a day, he replaces the depleted lithium-ion batteries in his sky-blue Piaggio electric rickshaw with fully charged ones at swapping stations around New Delhi”
Link. Cheaper than gas. Science can save us.
Autism in South Korea.
Link. We know very little.
“The areas of the brain traditionally attributed to language have lots of other functions”
Link. A neuroscience of language update by a science writer missing her left temporal lobe.
“humpback songs easily spread from one population to another across the Pacific Ocean. It can take just a couple of years for a song to move several thousand miles.”
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“life expectancy for Native Americans and Alaska Natives fell by six and a half years
Link. Vs 3y fall for non-native. Some COVID directly, but also alcohol, etc.
Failed GOP fund raising was so sleazy even GOP balked.
Link. Rick Scott’s fiasco.
“reporters scrambled after the nearest bottle of weak sauce to draw equivalence between Biden’s commentary and a movement that’s currently calling in bomb threats to children’s hospitals.”
Link. What do advertisers want?
“For minimal to low risk, the researchers concluded that men and women shouldn’t exceed two drinks per week.”
Link. Never more than two a day. Alcohol has no virtues.
Biden made the right choice on Afghanistan.
Link. The generals have no credibility. They aren’t that bright.
“the middle seat gets both armrests”
Link. If you don’t like it the middle seat would be happy to switch with you.
“Gingrich was part of the effort to overturn the 2020 election”
Link. Of course he was.
“Over the last three months, of the nine security updates to XProtect pushed by Apple, only one has been delivered and installed correctly through my Monterey Content Caching server,”
Link. Do you believe what Apple says or do you look at what they do?
Filtering RSS: “In olden times, I might have used Yahoo Pipes to do the filtering”
Link. London after the Fall of the West. That’s the web we live in now.
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Link. Looking back at “Primary Colors”. We’ve come a long way baby.
macOS active malware scans.
Link. We need bigger engines. Our 2020 8 GB Air is dying beneath Monterey; this must contribute.
“twice the number of classified documents the former president’s lawyers turned over voluntarily while swearing an oath that they had returned all the material demanded by the government.”
Link. Will his lawyers flip?
FileMaker is Claris P now … “there will be a freemium version of Claris Pro with free access to Claris Studio (and presumably Claris Go).”
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“Burlingame had deliberately provoked the lawmaker who had beaten Sumner, Preston Brooks of South Carolina, and unable to resist any provocation, Brooks had challenged Burlingame to a duel”
Link. “Forgotten now, Burlingame’s speech was once widely considered one of the most important speeches in American history.”
China can’t imitate Russian sanction resistance.
Link. “China similarly could tuck away a billion here and two there. But then it essentially is stuck. It has a monster of an economy and is highly dependent on trade”. China is so much bigger than Russia.
“our system of liberal democracy is actually holding up pretty darn well.”
Link. Contrarian.
China and America alike: “Both stronger and weaker, both more likable and more offputting, both more tender and more cruel.”
Link. America’s cruelty isn’t quite at Russian levels but it dwarfs Canada’s.
“The web service that hosts Truth Social claims that the company had not paid its bills since March.”
Link. It can’t be super expensive. Suggests Trump has abandoned Truth.social.
U.S. Warships Sail Taiwan Strait: “Chinese military said on Sunday in a statement that it had monitored the ships’ passage but did not indicate any additional response.”
Link. Is Xi recalculating?
“Americans this year have died from Covid at a rate 80 percent higher than Canadians and 30 percent higher than residents of the European Union”
Link. US/EU numbers are as expected but WTF is it with those Canadians? Do they put IQ enhancements in Canuck water?
“Sailors who enter the program bolstered by steroids and hormones can push harder, recover faster and probably beat out the sailors who are trying to become SEALs while clean”
Link. They went too far.
Monterey: macOS Monterey kind of screwed people with physical podcast files.
Link. Apple reminds me of Daisy, the careless beauty of F Scott’s Great Gatsby.
“Gen X is now richer (30% richer!) than Boomers were at the same age (late 40s)”
Link. GDP adjusted. Millennial resemble Boomer path.
Bullying and Sex Abuse at Elite Danish Boarding School.
Link. Lord of the Flies as usual. These Danish parents “… don’t have the warmest feelings for nonhierarchical structures”
The institution should be shut down.
Corruption confounds Xi’s semiconductor goals.
Link. Still needs TSMC. So will he defer invasion?
“student journalists dedicated their final issue in June to L.G.B.T.Q. issues”
Link. Rebels with a noble cause. They were then shut down. Hope to see more like this.
“people in Taiwan call TSMC their “sacred mountain, protector of the nation.”
Link. “U.S.-proposed Chip 4 alliance, which seeks to unite the American chip supply chains with those of Taiwan, South Korea and Japan — at the exclusion of China.”
NYT Kevin Roose outlines the state of AI. We are entering the danger zone.
Link. Unlike many I respect I am an AI “optimist”. Paradoxically that means I am scared. I think sentience-equivalent will came before 2080 but we will be in a new world by 2040.
Using Apple’s USB-C to T2 adapter: not for video but still good
Link. I can vouch for it. Bit surprised it works actually.
Rainfall totals for the last 24 hours to 3 days. For trail riding choice.
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Will GOP seize power? “words and behavior certainly suggest that they might participate in such an effort”
Link. To “overturn election” is to seize power. Based on the evidence the GOP is willing to do that.
South Korea fertility rate – “declined for the sixth straight year to 0.81 in 2021”
Link. Japan 1.31, US 1.66. SK is in a slow moving crisis unprecedented in history.
California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars by 2035
Link. “General Motors said it was still reviewing the rule but that the company also had a goal of selling only electric vehicles by 2035.”
“ gross domestic income rose in the first two quarters, a counterpoint to a decline in G.D.P.”
Link. Biden was right. As usual.
Economists reflect of their carbon tax fail.
Link. Many lessons to learn. Homo economicus is extinct.
“In San Jose, the average police officer salary is $189,000, not including benefits.”
Link. Requires 4y degree?
Canine dementia: “The odds of a cognitive dysfunction diagnosis were 6.47 times higher in dogs reported as not active compared with those reported to be very active,”
Link. Huge effect, but only correlation.
“Dialectical behavior therapy is a subset of cognitive behavioral therapy…”
Link. Becoming Vulcan. Best description I’ve read of DBT, sounds like it’s 80% coaching (hard).
Oldness with special needs kids: “parents of a special-needs child might not be able to move to a state with a lower cost of living. Doing so could mean the adult child would lose access to their benefits and be placed at the bottom of waiting lists”
Link. America’s solution for special needs adults is the street for most, prison for the lucky.
Democracy dies in Tunisia.
Link. It would be nice to be able to leave the Arab world alone.
James Lovelock: “He had a side hustle as a real-life Q, a gadget-maker for MI5”
Link. Did not know that.