Link. Let’s do a root cause analysis! Oh … shit.
Monthly Archives: August 2017
“Trumpism isn’t limited to, or even (mostly) about, Trump.”
Link. He is the product of our crisis, not the cause.
Trump vs America: starving ACA.
Link. Hell to work for HHS now.
Kushner family: “desperate hunt for money which basically has to come from abroad”
Link. Usual buyers fear scrutiny.
Sierra scheduling: “only way currently known to restore normal dispatching services is to restart the Mac”
Link. So many critical bugs unfixed.
Rule 1 of reality: “the action takes on the smallest value”
Link. Path integral for quanta.
Politics über alles: the evacuation of Houston.
Link. Our times. GOP attacks also distract from CO2 role.
On Progress and Historical Change.
Link. A professional historian takes on a radioactive topic. I like this one. Via Tim Bray.
Bray reviews book on the Why of the “Enlightenment”
Link. Nothing new to historians, likely misleading, but entertaining to newcomers.
Beware used cars post Harvey.
Link. Damaged smartphones?
APFS to be Mandatory for SSDs in High Sierra
Link. I like to update in spring.
Jeannie Rousseau de Clarens, Spy for French Resistance, Dies at 98
Link. “member of the Legion of Honor in France in 1955”
NYT tries to explain 500y flood but bobbles the landing.
Link. Before this week Harvey was 1:500 risk. But past events alter prior probabilities.
Why you must never assign keystroke shortcuts to a Windows 7 app.
Link. There is no way to discover them. If they go wrong, no way to find them.
Electoral strategy: Dems must drink the poison too.
So we now know 20% of Americans are proto-Nazi and another 20% lean that way.
I suspect that is a rule for human societies.
Today that 40% is concentrated in one political party that controls every aspect of Federal government. A ruling minority.
This is a historic disaster that we are all struggling to understand.
That poisonous 40% will be always with us. That is humanity.
We cannot eliminate it, but we cannot have it dominate one party. It has to be diluted.
So we Dems must drink some of the poison – without becoming the GOP. The deplorables must be shared.
I think Obama understood this. The key is policies that address the “great unwanted” across all genders and races and tribes. Policies for the 45% of Americans that are not going to college and have no future in a purely market driven post-labor economy.
If Dems address those policies we can take the salvageable half of the deplorables. The GOP will have to live with the 20% Proto-Nazis; but it may then be able to convert them to non-voters and reemerge as a democratic political party.
“daily surface temperature of the Gulf of Mexico last winter never dropped below 73 degrees”
Link. Harvey hits 2w after Trump ends Obama CO2 response regs.
“Friendships are now ending across the right.”
Link. GOP intellectuals contemplate end of their party.
Home Care as future work – hard work, low pay.
Link. Lonely work, no profit …
Getting around Koodo’s (Canada) password reset bug – use incognito browser.
Link. Koodo makes Comcast look like Apple.
More Android malware.
Link. Google AI fail.
Another serial killer in health care.
Link. WTF.
Engineers: courts will not accept “following orders”
Link. Better have something on the CEO.
Carbon Copy Cloner 5. Tsai.
Link. Like Michael I track my disk rotations in a text file.
The antifa are a Nati’s best friend.
Link. “it’s not always wise to give people what they deserve”
Now it’s the Trump emails.
Link. And their Yuge.
Stormfront reminds us the Nati ard not new.
Link. Trump is new, and he came out of a fallen GOP.
Trump pardon part of pattern of authoritatian brutality.
Link. Red alert siren has melted down.
GOP fails Arpapaio test.
Link. American fascism proceeds.
Glutathione IV used to lighten skin.
Link. Very bad idea. Watch South Korea.
Elder-friendly cars – and for disabilities.
Link. Great ref for physicians
Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede provides useful context.
Link. Only good thing about Trump is journalists are seeing more of America.
Faughnan-Lagace Herald — now Dilbert free.
Link. No Nati.
“Gutenberg will ship with WordPress 5.0”
Link. Will it be open source?
Immune suppressant lowers MI risk, not mortality.
Link. More infectious deaths.
Another cognitive feature peaks at 25, falls at 60.
Link. Retirement age should be 65.
Charlottesville police curiously unresponsive.
Link. Many questions.
Charles Stover, for all those lost to history.
Link. History is fractal and endless.
Apple JXA JavaScript syntax is weird.
Link.
MacBook battery swap: pay for Apple.
Link. Do not DIY.
Things people call basic but really are not: changing bike tube.
I’ve seen bike mechs get repeated pinch flats. It is tricky with high pressure thin tires.
Google and civilization’s fail
Google doesn’t find my stuff any more. Even when it holds answers Google can’t find.
Quality ad-supported media, available to all, is dying. Quality journalism requires subscription.
Donald Trump.
These are all part of the same thing.
How to sleep less.
1979. Sleep Less, Live More. Everett Mattlin. 70s so weird.
Nature on US DOE scrubbing climate change from grant proposals.
Link. Play along Soviet style, or stick to principle and end career?
Trump’s Pruitt executes a pro-pollution policy.
Link. Blue states can block some of this. Red states will burn.
Bail and jail American style.
Link. We are so busted.
“Blum’s P≠NP proof was irreparably flawed”
Link. Fascinating and sort-of accessible discussion.
Go-bag in case disaster strikes.
Link. With Trump new kinds disaster likely.
Trump: the 7 month retrospective.
Link. Damage has been done.
Iowa pays 208 million for 50 jobs.
Link. Over 15y probably not as bad as sounds. Still bad.
How to identify and disable software extensions on OS X that cause other Apps to crash
Link. Google doesn’t find this kind of thing any more.