Link. NYT had to use FOIA to pull this from CDC.
Monthly Archives: June 2020
“modern sled dogs have most of their ancestry in common with the 9,500-year-old sled dog”
Link. So they were resistant to diseases that killed amerindian dogs?
“crisis was predictable in Arizona, where local ordinances requiring masks were forbidden”
Link. Gov Ducey is almost as stupid as the Donald.
How to Request Access to a Deceased Family Member’s Apple Accounts
Link. Google is ahead here with their proxy option.
How to Report Bugs to Apple So They Get Fixed
Link. Ref.
Mac troubleshooting page (debugging) by Eclectic Light.
Link. Must bookmark!
“Console is the epitome of Apple’s problem with tools and its support for users and other third-parties”
Link. Toot cause analysis.
Catalina’s flaws summarized
Link. Does Big Sur fix ANY of these?
Google Photos update.
Link. Crushes Apple photos for sharing.
USB-C video displays.
Link. Ugh.
“A stupidly large portion of my brain is dedicated to remembering which platforms a specific friend is most likely to respond on based on like time of day or the type of content I’m trying to share.”
Link. Same.
“Okmok II is one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in the past 2,500 years”
Link. Planet chilled, societies disrupted.
West Virginia Gov. Forces Top Health Official To Resign After Questioning Accuracy Of COVID-19 Data | Talking Points Memo
Link. Gov: “Justice, a coal-mining billionaire who switched to the Republican Party while in office”
NYT visualization of American COVID.
Link. Elections have consequences. if you could vote, and you didn’t vote for HRC, you own this.
[toread] “Apple has again shut down its retail stores in the Houston area, where intensive care units are nearly filled.”
Link. You can use Apple Stores to track status of American COVID.
NC: “taped by accident on a patrol car camera and released Wednesday by the department, the men freely drop racial slurs, suggest killing black residents and deride protesters.”
Link. If you pick 1 apple and it is poison, what does Bayes say?
Python macOS environments for learners in 2020: Colab, Visual Studio, Jupyter.
Link. This was a lot harder to discover than it should have been.
Olympus Is Getting Out of the Camera Game
Link. No surprise
No COVID bump from MN protests.
Link. Outside is safe. Air conditioning is the devil incarnate. “What it appears with this virus is that though it’s highly contagious, to get a good infectious process going, you need to start with a substantive amount.”
Korea: “people to carry two types of masks in summer — a surgical mask and a heavy-duty mask, similar to the N95 respirator masks worn by health care workers”
Link. Drives me crazy that we are using forking cloth masks.
“Joseph R. Biden Jr. is ahead of the president by 14 points”
Link. This is bad news because complacency. I’m only sharing Rasmussen from now on
Sanofi Accelerates Its Timeline for Coronavirus Vaccine Development
Link. Earlier in 2021.
Ad Boycott of Facebook.
Link. A useful pressure point.
“President Trump has repeatedly pushed inflammatory language, material and policies in recent days that seek to divide Americans by race as he tries to appeal to his predominantly white base of voters”
Link. President Klan.
“Taking out advertisements in newspapers across the former Confederacy, he countered the sober advice of the captive Davis and the defeated Lee by painting a picture of a wild and bountiful country ripe for settlement and friendly to slavery.”
Link. Later we had Nazis in Argentina.
Apps Snooping on iOS Pasteboard.
Link. The NYT. NPR. The Economist. They should all be App Store bamned. Class action lawsuit?
Apps Snooping on iOS Pasteboard.
Link. The NYT. NPR. The Economist. They should all be App Store bamned. Class action lawsuit?
‘Trump Army’ email is genuine.
Link. Friends shared. I figured fake. I was wrong. He is transparent.
“When his team infected the organoids with SARS-CoV-2, they found that the virus mainly targets stem cells that replenish cells in the epithelium known as basal cells”
Link. Using organoids to understand pathophysiology. Great science.
NYT threatens to expose pseudonymous blogger doc – because policy.
Link. Sounds like me. Happily I’m much less popular. Remember when Google+ wanted to ban pseudonyms?
“Local officials and public health experts expressed a mixture of frustration, resignation, and horror at the decision to let federal support lapse.”
Link. Trump tries to stop COVID testing.
“Apple will continue to support native extensions for Safari and will spotlight them with a separate section on the Mac App Store”
Link. Small but good.
Apple SF bike map demo – bad sign.
Link. Wow. Nobody in Cupertino owns a bicycle?
The 6s will never die
Link. ios 14 support!
“new developer option to enable the sharing of in-app purchases and subscriptions across Family Sharing”
Link. That is excellent
“business model policies of the App Store have resulted in a tremendous amount of resentment.”
Link. Blame the CEO.
“Apple is also updating the Maps app with new cycling routes”
Link. Apple maps have never had any support for cycling. It’s what keeps many using Google Maps.
“because they start to malfunction when the number of band files exceeds 100,000, and band files cannot be larger than 8.59 GB, the largest sparse bundle which will function properly is 858 TB”
Link. That’s a curious OS bug.
“In Kampala, the capital of Uganda, the authorities have closed streets, encouraged cycling, and sped the construction of new bike lanes and walkways.”
Link. Out riverside roads are being closed to cars. It’s a mild urban uprising. Only about 1/3 drivers are good enough to merit a license.
Seattle CHAZ shootings.
Link. Not a surprise.
“Local officials and campaign aides claim more than 1 million people requested tickets and that 100,000 people are expected to show up to Tulsa’s BOK Arena, which has a capacity for just 20,000.”
Link. 6,300 were seated. Is Tulsa the biggest bust in campaign rally history?
MPLS: “city’s increased gun violence, which includes more than 90 people shot since May 26”
Link. St Paul not as bad, but also jump in gunfire.
“Two members of the Secret Service in Tulsa also tested positive for the virus”
Link. That’s new leak.
“he addressed a mostly maskless crowd in a 19,000-seat indoor arena in Tulsa that was sparsely filled.”
Link. The average MAGAt is smarter than Trump.
“The refusal of Republicans to defend Mr. Trump was palpable”
Link. That’s different.
“Mr. Trump, who was made aware of the sick campaign aides before departing for the rally, was incensed that the news was made public”
Link. We need new synonyms for despicable
“after reviewing video footage provided by the police, they were now convinced that he died by suicide”
Link. Black man dead of hanging. Universal surveillance has benefits
“Companies in Japan are more likely than their American counterparts to prioritize employees’ interests over those of shareholders”
Link. But also to restrict wage growth in good times.
MN GOP blocks polce reforms.
Link. Not a surprise. So what is Plan B?
Kipping HSPU Technique: 4 mistakes
Link. hand position, not resting, incomplete kip, foot direction. (I think my push timing is off too.) Feet touch wall just as locking out.