Link. It would be nice to be able to leave the Arab world alone.
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James Lovelock: “He had a side hustle as a real-life Q, a gadget-maker for MI5”
Link. Did not know that.
“Taiwan’s defence-related spending has fallen gradually from a peak of more than 7% of GDP in the late 1970s to only 1.9% last year, and obligatory military service has been cut to only four months.”
Link. Why did they do this?!
Dugin: “[12y ago] he was still believed to be close to Vladimir Putin …He certainly isn’t now, and has even lost his job at Moscow State University…
Link. Most of my sources consider Dugina more influential. Assassination of Dugina unlikely to bother many.
“spider news in Finland was wholly arachnologist-approved”
Link. Finland and Mexico are opposites.
Teacher quits in protest after being punished for banned books she teaches.
Link. We need a registry of those teachers and librarians who refuse to bend. One day names in a monument to freedom and knowledge.
Sociopath Andrew Tate: “4.6 million followers on Instagram”
Link. Love to know the gender composition.
Education on manipulation techniques provides some short term resistance to video misinformation.
Link. Lasting effect? Does it help to anticipate specific predictable attacks by idiocracy and Russia?
Supply chain 40% of inflation.
Link. Inflationary pressures will fall quickly.
Drag and Drop not working in Monterey?
Link. Happened to me with new machine, new install of last Monterey release. Had to disable force click and haptic feedback. Kind of amazing really.
Updated “powers of 10” map of the universe.
Link. I have an XKCD poster version. I particularly liked the near earth view and the emergent structures at the other extreme. Best on big display.
Tolkien wrote and wrote and wrote …
Link. Very profitable in the long run, but Emily asks if he did any professing. Not to mention house work. Tenure was nice then.
“I probably would have been better off to migrate my documents folder and my mail files manually, then recreate the rest.”
Link. Mojave was pretty good. I miss it.
“Artemis 3, in which NASA seeks to land a man and the first woman on the Moon by late 2025.”
Link. Not long.
“43 percent in the 19-30 age group had used cannabis 20 or more times over the previous month”
Link. Vaping and rapid-release edibles make cannabis more attractive.
macOS Mints utility gets even more features.
Link. Becoming essential.
Traveling with AirTags: location exclusion, traveling with pause.
Link.
Too much security: diminishing returns.
Link. “Safari is more annoying than other browsers because the “Remember me” checkbox on so many sites doesn’t work.”
So it’s not just me.
Apple’s unbranded Self Service Repair Store
Link. My Air needs a new battery….
Twitter security has ‘extreme, egregious deficiencies’: “half the company’s servers were running out-of-date and vulnerable software and that executives withheld dire facts about the number of breaches and lack of protection for user data”
Link.
“In June, in Carson v. Makin, the Supreme Court expanded the voucher system to include religious schools”
Link. How to destroy public education. No dangerous minds.
“Chinese weakness is actually good for the rest of us: Falling Chinese demand is putting a lid on the prices of oil and other commodities, reducing global inflationary pressure.”
Link. In past I felt economists treated US economy as thought the world did not exist.
Von Braun: ” … has a growing fan base among American evangelicals who are heaping praise on him as a recovering sinner, born-again brother and, above all, groundbreaking creationist…”
Link. Doesn’t even move the lib owning dial these days. (His “Christianity” was exactly as sincere as Trump’s.)
Move Apple Mail to New Mac with migration assistant.
Link. 1. Make sure keychain syncs
2. Copy library\mail files
3. Copy com.apple.mail.plist
Consider run mail rebuild (can take a long time)
How to Deadlift: 9 Coaching Tips.
Link. I like deadlift but it doesn’t like me. So in old age I hex when heavy. By experience I can vouch for these tips.
Barre Seid, Tripp Lite billionaire, gives 1.6 billion to Federalist Society tax free.
Link. Similar to 1930s response to FDR. Federalist society will try to block CO2 control.
Occupied Zaporizhzhia plant: “Russians have been seen drinking, looting and detaining anyone for expressing even a whiff of protest”
Link. If the Ukrainian workers fail their families get irradiated.
“forward-collision warning systems with automatic braking cut rear-end crashes by 50 percent, and rear cross-traffic alerts reduce accidents by 33 percent.”
Link. As bad as smartphones are the native car systems may be much worse.
The Crikey article that Lachlan sued for.
Link. This is SOOO mild and absolutely true. New Zealand’s libel laws are almost as insane as Lachlan himself.
Lachlan Murdoch Sues Australian News Site Crikey for libel: “Murdochs and “poisonous” Fox News commentators had contributed to the assault on American democracy.”
Link. This is undeniably true. Please sue me Lachlan.
Phone and data services for travelers to Europe.
Link. It’s surprisingly hard to get a local number and eSIM with a local number is not as well established as I expected.
Mexico Student massacre: the government, the police, the army and the cartels.
Link. Damn. That’s a seriously screwed up nation. Where we are heading if GOP takes power.
How a dual SIM iPhone works – including eSIM.
Link. Complex! Much work went into this. Makes me wonder about Apple doing their own network.
Origins of the Pandemic: Xi makes the lab case.
Link. Legit experts favor the Wuhan market, but China’s crackpot government strengthens the lab origin theory.
Hungary: “Mr. Bod, the former central bank governor, said, “There is no free market here.” … “You can’t carry a gun here, but you can get a free abortion.”
Link. No guns. Free abortions. Wonder what it is GOP loves about Orban.
Russia: “The number of cars produced in May 2022 was 30 times lower than the number of cars produced in May 2021.”
Link. The Russian economy is not well.
There are too many pharmacists.
Link. At VHA we had many high quality applicants for every pharmacy position.
“Thomas Pyle, the president of the Institute for Energy Research, an organization that supports the use of fossil fuels.”
Link. When he sits he leaves a slimy residue.
Atlas Shrugged: “it’s a totally ridiculous book which can be summed up as Sociopathic idealized nerds collapse society because they don’t get enough hugs.”
Link. Like Scalzi Emily also rereads it periodically
“The only thing worse than the FBI as it currently exists might be the FBI after Bannon and Trump remake it in their own image.”
Link. The GOP is not only crazy, it is ludicrous.
“The hard drive contains evidence of garden-variety nepotism and tabloid-ready pictures of Hunter and paid female companions enjoying hard drugs in various states of undress.”
Link. Must read Jedeed insight into the MAGAts.
“when you add your personal photos from your library to the shared library, the images are moved from the personal library to the shared library”
Link. Yikes. Shared library is complex.
“orcas trying to chase down food are routinely interrupted by out-of-the-blue humpback whale attacks. Humpbacks will band together and travel great distances to intervene in killer whale hunts.”
Link. Will protect seals from orca.
“Employees at UnitedHealth Group can lose out on raises or bonuses if they have low keyboard activity.”
Link. The good news is white collar unions become more attractive.
French Soldiers Quit Mali: “Thousands of civilians have died, as well as thousands of Malian soldiers and 59 French ones.”
Link. America would never make such a mistake.
SCOTUS “… handed down a unanimous decision in 1875, deciding that women were indeed citizens but that citizenship did not necessarily convey the right to vote.”
Link. It has been horrible before.
A story of severe postpartum depression with psychotic features.
Link. What a nightmare. So sudden …
coconutBattery: macOS or iPhone battery health report.
Link. Especially helpful for macOS prior to Big Sur – such as Mojave.
“She wakes up at 5:30 to inhabit a life in which she has the luxury of never getting out of bed at all.”
Link. Second Life still operates. It sounds like Meta.
“The work of governing is hard. It’s frustrating and slow. It requires compromise. Making progress in a country as big and complicated as ours isn’t easy. It never has been.”
Link. The adult President.