Link. An Inconvenient Truth.
Monthly Archives: November 2017
YouTube: “625,000 videos targeted by child predators.”
Link. Human males are kind of horrible.
MindNode 5 released
Link. Good update pricing. I will upgrade in a few months.
Stross is not bitcoin fan
Link. Same here.
Pinboard increasingly unreliable.
I pin a lot as part of my microblog posting. More and more authentication challenges. Maybe result of some bot attack/password reset?
I think I’m going to have to switch my flow around. Make it WordPress centric.
Heat flows backwards as quantum correlation dissipates.
Link. Second Law must account for entropy of correlation.
Smoking falls in Tokyo.
Link. Looks like a win is coming. At last.
“[GOP] leaders race to shore up wavering lawmakers who are requesting more help for high-earning business owners”
Link. Tax bill skeptics want more for wealthy.
“all good Chromebooks are expensive right now”
Link. I didn’t see that one coming.
Right wing org creates fake Moore pregnancy to discredit WaPo. Fails.
Link. Scum
via Amazon.com/India: iPhone SE $120 off list
Link. Interesting. Wonder what Apple thinks.
Amazon.com/India: cutting out the importers
Link. Globalization in all its complexity
Congress is a setup for sexual harassment
Link. Worse than entertainment?
“deep terrestrial subsurface is home to one quintillion simple (prokaryotic) cells”
Link. Vast amounts of fresh water.
Flatland chemistry gold rush: beyond Graphene
Link. Diamonds to be found.
Why has KVM keyboard switch died?
Link. Curious. Been around a long time. 4K too demanding?
Apple ID fiasco is getting worse — declining support for Apple Store ID that is not iCloud ID.
Link. Apple has moved beyond mere customers.
Time to become Koch Bros front.
Link. Trump to be MOTY indefinitely.
Douthat has a serious theological piece on American evangelism
Link. Never Christian. “church-of-American-greatness heretics,”
GOP: “voodoo economics in the service of plutocracy”
Link. If only the plutocrats were smarter
Obit of a swimming guru
Link. Similar to modern running guru
Eysy learns what it means to be publicly owned.
Link. The founders were in denial
The story of Helena Valero among the yonomanö.
Link. Read of her in a SciAm article.
GOP war on the cognitive elite: attacking universities.
Link. Khmer Rouge. Maoist China. Nazi Germany. Mass movements through history attack thinkers.
NYT profile of the Nazi next door is excellent
Link. Calm, methodical, horrifying. More effective than wailing sirens
A horrid experience with APFS & High Sierra
Link. I’m happily on Sierra
Does Trump remember the women he assaulted?
Link. Reading this, I wonder how fragmented his memory is
Murdoch promised editorial independence to The Times (of London). He lied.
Link. WSJ same.
Podcasts.app – sync Stations between iTunes and iPhone via iCloud, not via iTunes sync
Link. Soon we all have 2TB iCloud drives. Resistance futile.
The quietly important story of the Russian sanctions.
Link. Post Ukraine. Congress, including GOP, thwarted Trump-Putin early on.
Fats Domino obit
Link. These days 200 lbs is not fat
“Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory And Practical Application”
Link. Exists.
Amazon as Gates’ Microsoft
Link. Great point about WaPo.
Tillerson war on State Dept.
Link. He may be crazier than Trump.
Time: “The President is incorrect”
Link. Trans: He made it up
Marco politely tries to fix the MacBook Pro
Link. Too sensible. Too logical. Too good.
DDoS attacks evolve.
Link. Simple attacks became pointless.
Medical cannabilism in medieval Europe.
Link. Into 17th cent. My mouth ajar. This wasn’t in my med hx class.
Countercultural Witch psychedelia.
Link. I remember it as silly fun.
Nushabad Underground City, Iran
Link. Recent find. Must be more like this
US military tracking of civilian casualties doesn’t work.
Link. Did leaders prefer not to know?
The Revolutionary Optimism of Iain M. Banks’ Culture Novels
Link. Like Pratchett Banks used entertainment to carry some deep memes
Dem politicians on what next for party
Link. I liked Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s take.
Fusobacterium may have symbiotic relationship with colon cancer.
Link. Life fills every niche.
Russian intellectuals fear we glamorize Putin.
Link. US termite eaten house that collapsed with a shove.
K: Peak America?
Link. Doubt anti-reason from inconvenient truths.
Thanks to Riemann.
Link. We don’t hate Tb enough. I forgot Gauss connection.
Thanks … for the Jarzynski Equality and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
Link. Implications for nanotech
Bartending in Antarctica – “I dream of Antarctica most every night”
Link. Sad that Club 90 has passed.
How to manage a massive bee swarm
Link. First, find the queen