Emily points out that Trump’s language and pitch are same as daytime TV commercials and the phone phishing attacks we get. The bottom 40% are full time prey now.
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87 front squats — knees best in weeks.
We used to think we understood osteoarthritis.
Flawed police shootings and friendly fire combat incidents: how much in common?
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I suspect a lot.
Reminders: one of the few apps where Apple clearly beats Google.
The Now/Keep disconnect is weird. And Apple’s Reminders.app isn’t even that great…
El Cap upgrade bug: settings back to defaults
Putin 81%. Trump implications.
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Putin is insanely popular. I think Russia and US-white have similar natures.
Does El Capitan have more trouble with Gmail than Yosemite?
I’m seeing more “every saved email is a separate email” problems. (Maybe upgrade reset my prefs, I’ve again turned off saving draft on server.)
Appigo is wedded to subscription renewal without notification.
I confirmed it’s policy not to notify ToDo Cloud customers that their subscription will be renewed. Reason to use a different service.
Common cause: Trump white nationalists and BLM.
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Both need job creation and job maintenance. Ought to be a way to use that.
Using coordinates as event locations: anyone else do that?
44°54’14.6″N 92°58’43.7″W is one our mountain bike team meeting places. I’ve been using coordinates in calendar locations for a year or so. Works better than anything else and is cross-platform. I put Google Maps URL in description section.
Haven’t seen anyone else do this but hope it’s a growing trend.
American Loggers: your purchased iTunes media has a limited useful lifespan.
My son is a fan of an old TV series – American Loggers. When we recently restored his phone from iCloud backup it was missing.
It’s no longer available in the US:

We did have copies on iTunes, but not all of our media is in iTunes now. Some movies and TV shows are iCloud only. Those could vanish at any time, even though we paid for them with the expectation of long term ownership.
The not-so-long-term fix is everything streaming/rental, no expectation of ownership. It will become much harder to access and use the media we purchased in the past. I’ve already found that synching an iPhone with both iTunes and iCloud media is very problematic. Apple must know this…
El Capitan web parental controls really suck.
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Can’t handle https. iOS vastly better.
Facebook ad volume increasing?
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Judging by my feed. Curious.
Scrivener: Full screen mode on relaunching can crash El Capitan.
“Scrivener no longer tries to restore full screen mode on relaunching, to avoid a crashing issue that was introduced in an El Capitan update and is affecting some users.” From latest update.
Google search: “show my agenda”
Shows list view of your google calendar above results. Show my weather, etc.
Google pushes ad personalization with the missing ‘NO’ button.
VMWare 8 no longer sold on Amazon.
PCConnection only has Pro version. It’s gone, as expected. (I upgraded to 8.1.1 since I’m only now installing El Capitan. I’ll do Sierra/Parallels in late 2017.)
My post-book moment.
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Teaching our mountain biking team I passed around a book I like.
The 12-14yo were amused but disinterested.
Yeah, they were playing me, but it felt genuine.
Ric Ford’s MacInTouch is replacing its reader report system. Do or Die.
Permalinks – so could tweet/share MacInTouch topics. I put Amazon Affiliate link in bookmark bar.
Babel 2.0
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Some do Facebook. Some email. Some iMessage. Maybe Slack. Messenger. Skype. W.T.F.
Alibaba’s CEO on their counterfeit goods: “better quality, better prices than the real products”
As seen with counterfeit carbon bike parts. Does US need new law?
Is iMessage Apple’s de facto social network?
With iOS 10 it kind of looks that way.
How would black lives matter know it had succeeded?
What would expected frequency of black men shot by police be?
iOS 10 does not fix spotlight bug.
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Identity management: does Facebook now own this?
With fall of G+, irrelevance of Twitter, and disinterest of Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft only Facebook in contention for OAUTH-like identity services.
Do Google algorithms predict mountain biker interest in mail order brides?
Weird embedded gmail ads, recent email mostly messages about high school mountain biking team I manage.
Mobile phone call spam will kill unscheduled voice calls.
Spoofing – exponential growth. Soon all go vmail/gvoice, then die. Replaced by authenticated digital. Big money.
Trump for Saddam.
Emily thinks he’s demented. I think he’s begging GOP to save him from running.
My biggest Amazon tech glitch ever…
Gmail 2016: What billions of dollars of cutting edge AI and invasive personal data mining gives us …
iOS 9: change restriction code requires lose restriction settings.
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My old AppleTV does it better.
The XBOX One is unfinished.
Paid for game. Downloaded. Doesn’t appear, can’t delete. No debugging options. The One feels half-finished.
Original sin of email: Sent mail misses out on organizational tools.
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Primeval error.
Why I chose Simplenote over Evernote six years ago.
It’s all about the nvAlt enabled exit strategy. nvAlt & NV largely abandoned now, but still work for this.
“New Folder with Selection…”
Maybe 14 years on OS X and I didn’t know you could select a bunch of things then create a new folder that would hold them.
Apple: please kill me.com.
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So many stupid problems with iCloud/me mapping in iOS and macOS.
Reminders.app recurring reminder: I gave up.
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Buggy and unreliable. Wonder if iCloud sync cause.
Sports events and Facebook/G+ sign in: appalling privilege requests.
Manage my Contacts? Really?
New in software: dialogs that omit the “no”.
Windows updater. Facebook Messenger.app contact sync. Technique invented by web malware.
Archival photo-sharing is an unsolved problem.
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Weak demand, solutions have abuse potential. I miss floppy.
iPad vs Mac: The battle is done.
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And the iPad is dead. iPad-first articles have a whiff of desperation to them…
Multiuser accounts still missing from iOS 10.
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Lack of commentary tells me iPad is dead.
Eichmann and the Catholic Church
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Wikipedia: “1948 Eichmann obtained a landing permit for Argentina and false identification under the name of “Ricardo Klement” through an organisation directed by Bishop Alois Hudal, an Austrian cleric then residing in Italy with known Nazi sympathies…These documents enabled him in 1950 to obtain an International Committee of the Red Cross humanitarian passport and the remaining entry permits that would allow emigration to Argentina… He travelled across Europe, staying in a series of monasteries that had been set up as safe houses…Departing via ship from Genoa on 17 June 1950, he arrived in Buenos Aires on 14 July.”
PS. iOS autocorrect doesn’t recognize Eichmann.
Charles I learned risks of stressing the masses.
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They can burn the house down.
Brexit: Rabble beat Plutocrats and Corporations.
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Breaks my PoliSci model. Didn’t think masses that strong.
Textbook rental will improve math education.
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Revenue without curriculum churn.
Showed friend Google Custom Search still exists.
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Almost forgotten.
United Airlines insists on FIVE “security questions”
And they are fixed multiple choice!!! HOW does madness end?!
Google hide/show private results is nice feature.
Not sure if everyone has, showed up for me today. I like it.
Global Entry thing to know: don’t fail to declare!
If caught then booted from program for life.


