Link. Blood in the water. Attack fellow sharks. Show no mercy.
Monthly Archives: February 2018
Modified gravity slouches towards Bethlehem.
Link. Scary
“I’ve Only Had Good Years” Tsai on Cook
Link. Hot air
Details on AR-15 bullet wounds.
Link. Vote Dem.
Remembering the White Rose
Link. http://bit.ly/2HGnFR5
Pyrrhic victory over a MegaCorp: Nissan.com
Link. Our legal system can’t handle the MegaCorp
The more guns the better.
Link. Just vote.
“all wild horses went extinct”
Link. Feral horses common
“podcasts unlistenable from Overcast to the HomePod.”
Link. Airplay failures
Defending your app from copies and clones
Link. You can’t. Good summary.
America’s abandoned Greenland sub-ice base is melting
Link. Imagine living there.
The NRA’s Brittle Grip: a prediction of sudden irrelevance
Link. I think this is possible
NRA funding corporations buy cycle brands: Giro, Bell, Camelbak, and Blackburn.
Link. Bell will be hard to lose.
The state of self-taught AI.
Link. No surprises here, good overview
Will demand and limited labor supply boost productivity?
Link. AI is ready
“the code that drives social networks is built largely on an assumption of good user intentions”
Link. Even more that people are reality-connected. Bad assumption
Black Lung Disease – a 400 coal miner cluster.
Link. A bad way to earn a living.
Best Point-and-Shoot Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX10.
Link.
The Atlantic thrives
Link. A Jobs legacy
Onion gun parody from 2013.
Link. Now Gingrich proposal. Via Gruber.
iOS 11 Settings Mind Map as of November 2017.
Link. My book chapter on settings for special needs users goes on … and on … and on. Apple needs a global “simplify” meta-setting.
Cultured Code on things URL protocol
Link. My feed is all Things tonight
Mindnode: more automation, things integration
Link. They don’t mention gDrive
Automations and Workflows for Things on iOS
Link. Things rules the task management world
Be My Eyes for iOS. Microsoft.
Link. Good karma.
ATF National Trace Center epitomizes America’s gun madness
Link. #repealthe2nd
The tech of olympian skiers
Link. Ski techs are insane
Alcohol a major risk factor for dementia
Link. Is decrease in prevalence due to less drinking?
“social video”. It was always a fool’s errand.”
Link. Olds like me feel validated.
Breaking up with Prime.
Link. Alas, this is wrong. Amazon is not useable without prime.
Russia’s delusion: The Dulles Plan
Link. Did it inspire the IRA? (not the irish one)
Feedbin gets even faster
Link. I enjoy paying for this.
Simplenote Mac adds markdown
Link. Not a feature I use, but good to see activity
Google and antitrust: “The government’s antitrust lawsuit is one reason that Google was eventually able to break Microsoft’s monopoly.”
Link. Lots of happy accidents. Happy for Google.
Weight loss without calorie counts
Link. Two diets, similar results. A puzzle as usual
Economic history: From where the modern world?
Link. More credit to what became science. DeLong reviews.
GOP continues to dismantle ACA
Link. Voters chose this.
SCOTUS: “We have not heard argument in a Second Amendment case for nearly eight years”
Link. Alternative to #repealthe2nd.
A Trump-Russia win: “black voter turnout rate declined for the first time in 20 years in a presidential election”
Link. The “woke” were pawned.
Mexico’s sham investigation of Israel Pegasus spyware attack on regime critics.
Link. Worked on iOS 9. Wonder if Israel sells one for iOS 11.
Why media missed that Kelly is a lot like Trump
Link. Still no comments from his military career
“almost nobody left in the G.O.P. willing to take responsibility for, well, anything”
Link.
Rob Porter portait: gifted, privileged, competitive, ambitious … and broken.
Link. Flawed parenting?
Fred Bass of the Strand died
Link. I was there when he was in his prime.
Computational Propaganda.
Link. Rapid and directed memetic evolution. Quickly lethal.
“Roy Batty” and I agree on Blade Runner 2049.
Link. Pretty but vacuous
Is APFS Fully Supported Yet?
Link. No.
“Operation Infektion … a secret effort to convince people in developing countries that the United States had created the HIV/AIDS virus.”
Link. Russia is good at doing bad.
“Months before Election Day, Russian trolls “began to encourage U.S. minority groups not to vote in the 2016 US. presidential election or to vote for a third-party US. presidential candidate.”
Link. Looking forward to analysis of which attacks were most successful.
Why American kids die more: GOP voters.
Link. Remarkable consistency.