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Google enhances bicycle routes: “see elevation on the route, as well as whether there are steep hills, stairs, or heavy car traffic along your route. The new feature will also give you a highly detailed breakdown of the route”
Link. I thought they’d abandoned bicycle directions. Apple certainly has.
“health officials have reported around 100 monkeypox cases among women worldwide”
Link. Women should not be worrying at this time. A well done and sober review.
OAN dropped by Verizon cable, now near death.
Link. Don’t pay for cable. Comcast funds Carlson.
Federal prisons are worse than you thought.
Link. Only in America. Ok, maybe Russia too.
Recession: Sahm Rule says no.
Link. GOP may he disappointed.
“In the real numbers, things can be very close to zero without actually being zero. Somehow that is the technical crux”
Link. The Kakeya conjecture is far beyond my ken, yet a fragment of the implications remind one of Zeno’s paradox. And … “prime or not prime, and what way it’s not prime, has a big effect”
Biden “… didn’t even have to promise that American nuclear weapons would be available to deter a potential nuclear-armed Iran. Israel’s several hundred unadmitted nuclear weapons are quite sufficient for that.”
Link. Iran joins North Korea.
“assembling lists of people who would claim — with no basis — to be Electoral College electors on his behalf in battleground states that he had lost.”
Link. More evidence. Absolute assholes the lot of them.
Bone-saw’s Saudi mars station.
Link. I was stuck in Nashville’s Grand-Old Opry for 3 days. Staged an escape with 4 others. OTOH I think there are people who will like this. At first.
Lowe on the amyloid fraud: “we’ve been actually been wasting our time in Alzheimer’s research for even longer than that.”
Link. Scientific disaster, but Lesné’s fraud actually had a limited impact on patients. It never led to any trials.
“double-clicking the name you’re typing and pressing Delete, Photos will freeze hard”
Link. Photos for Mac album sharing. “Apple has reportedly known about this bug for at least two years.”
“DRM laws like DMCA 1201 are now all over the world, spread by the US Trade Representative, who made DRM laws a condition of trading with the USA”
Link. Bill Clinton’s DMCA is why Apple FairPlay works. Also, Amazon is bad to the bone.
“Trump signed an executive order creating a new category of public servant who could be hired by agency heads without having to go through the merit-based system in place since 1883, and could be fired at will.”
Link. How to destroy a nation.
Brin’s ex-wife alleged to have execrable taste in men.
Link. Too much money, not enough to do.
“Transatlantic accent,[1][2][3] is a consciously learned accent of English, fashionably used by the early 20th-century American upper class and entertainment industry, which blended together features regarded as the most prestigious from both American a
Link. English of 30s-40s movies.
“specific claim that modern sex education — including lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity — makes children more vulnerable to pedophiles.”
Link. A useful review to the latest in a long series of American panic attacks. Roots in Judith Reisman’s homophobia (she was extreme).
Putting down a marker on post-COVID encephalopathy (PCE)
Link. Fun to see how wrong I am in 5-10y. This does influence how I adjust my COVID risks.
4th dose: 1/2 symptom risk, 1/4 death.
Link. Rough guess and crummy by Delta standards but glad I got it. Obviously most smart people dying today will have been vaccinated.
“Biden nonetheless shepherded a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill through this partisan Congress, investing in roads, bridges, public transportation, clean energy, and broadband”
Link. HCR shares an impressive list of Biden admin achievements. Top secret apparently.
“your Mac(s) could have failed to install every one of the six security updates pushed by Apple since problems started in early June, and you’d be none the wiser”
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China Airborne: “so many different organizations had to work together so smoothly, in ways that were both informal and tightly regulated.”
Link. Aviation as a mirror of civilization. Dynamic stability.
“all the events that you think happen “now” exist and all other observers say the events that happen at the same time as those events, then all events exist “now”. Another way to put it is that all times exist in the same way.”
Link. A sufficiently large block of granite contains all possible sculpture. Also all writing. Like Sabine, I think The block universe has to be considered.
Japan and the Unification Church (cult).
Link. Capitalism will find a way to prey on the weak. If not UC then Amway or Scientology or Trump or (once) Rome. There will always be something.
MN: “The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to a historic low of 1.8% in June”
Link. If output is supply constrained does decreased demand reduce employment?
Getting Outlook to export Exchange contacts as vCards (vcf) with proper email addresses for use in macOS
Link. Drag them into an Outlook email body and they become vcf attachments.
“thefts of Kias have increased from 24 to 248”
Link. St Paul. We need to sue for a recall.
What’s the Matter With Italy?
Link. Nothing special. “Italy may well represent the West’s future. And it’s bleak.”
“Sarcasm is a scourge.”
Link. Grown-ups don’t do sarcasm. (Irony is fine.)
“Some Alzheimer’s experts now suspect Lesné’s studies have misdirected Alzheimer’s research for 16 years.”
Link. UMN. Epic fraud if true. Would merit decades of prison. If true.
PubPeer is heroic.
“There are lots of rumors about President Putin’s health and as far as we can tell he’s entirely too healthy”
Link. Only the good die young.
“It took me a while to see that the postindustrial capitalism machine — while innovative, dynamic and wonderful in many respects — had some fundamental flaws.”
Link. Things are bad when David Brooks sounds like a 90s socialist.
“my 2009 exhortation for people to go all in on Facebook still makes me cringe”
Link. I’ve done similar. Mercifully not on a national platform.
“since the early 2000s, a big protest has started to feel more like a sentence that begins with a question mark”
Link. Fascinating. The fact that protests are easier to create means they overstate the political power behind them.
Humane is an ex-canary.
Link. Ugh.
AirTag battery indicator missing from ‘Find My’ app after iOS 15.6 update
Link. Bug most likely. Damn.
“Oversight and Reform Committee confirmed that the Trump administration’s attempt to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census was a strategy to skew population data to benefit Republicans.”
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“Some combination of factors — early retirements, reduced immigration, lack of child care — seems to have reduced the economy’s productive capacity”
Link. Good analysis of K error.
Australia and COVID.
Link. Fair enough. By now everyone should understand the risks.
The utterly awful story of C. Wesley Morgan, his family, schizophrenia, and an AR-15.
Link. This is a microcosm of America 2022. We can’t fix it all.
“Carried away by the furious momentum of #MeToo, I let myself forget that transparent, dispassionate systems for hearing conflicting claims are not an impediment to justice but a prerequisite for it.”
Link. Good she learned this.
“Speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly Robin Vos said that earlier this month (not a typo), Trump called him to ask him to decertify the 2020 election, a plan some Republicans in the legislature are backing.”
Link. We used to laugh at things like this.
“The optimistic assessment from experts who study authoritarianism globally is that the United States will most likely settle into a dysfunctional equilibrium that mirrors a deep democratic breakdown.”
Link. Democracies are fragile.
Monterey Find bug: “on the Intel Mac the Finder’s CPU % rose to 100% and remained there, even after the searches were complete and the window had been closed.”
Link. This is so disappointing.
Virtual Screening for Coronavirus Protease Inhibitors: “This stuff not only does no good, it does actual harm. It gives outside observers ideas about the efficacy of virtual screening that are simply not confirmed by real-world experiments.”
Link. Complete failure.
The Atlantic Archive
Link. Very cool. I subscribe. I remember when The Atlantic was near death.
Jordan B. Peterson: “4 million followers on Instagram, 2.1 million on Twitter, 1.5 million on Facebook, 5 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, and his books have sold millions of copies.”
Link. I’d like to know more about the hunger he feeds. Also, Instagram.
Obit of a psychonaut: Ann Shulgin.
Link. 91! She was made for the 60s.
“the average Mac receives almost exactly seven years of new macOS updates from the time it is introduced, plus another two years of security-only updates”
Link. At my age I have only 2-3 left.
Loose or defective iPhone charge port (lightning) – options.
Link. A fairly common failure mode and one reason to favor inductive charging and Bluetooth headphone. Apple will often give full trade-in credit ($165) or charge $400+ for a refurb replacement (fresh battery). 3rd part might be $150.