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Daily Archives: February 6, 2021
FBI unit investigating child porn: “they get about 1,000 tips a month”
Link. Humans are horrible.
Biden dumps pro-torture intelligence briefer.
Link. NYT article takes a long time to get to the problem.
“How the organ recipient gets the donor to agree to the procedure is not the hospital’s concern, the doctors say.”
Link. A hard place in a hard world.
“Apple also issued a Safari 14.0.3 security update that reportedly fixes a file-upload bug, as well.”
Link. Hallelujah! That was such an annoying bug.
Fixing the Mojave Mail split view in full screen bug.
Link. Maybe. I’ll see if it stays fixed.
“The hack of Sheika Moza’s emails with Mrs. Obama has never been reported.”
Link. “Everything worth taking has already been intercepted: Our personal data, intellectual property, voter rolls, medical records, even our own cyberweaponry.” Don’t miss this article.
“republicans accused New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Thursday of not being anywhere near the place they told the Capitol mob she would be”
Link. Unsporting.
xkcd: Tower of Babel
Link. Reminds me what a great story the original is. Very Greek mythic, very know-your-placeish.
“pushing through a version of Mr. Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure reform plan could become difficult if it does not happen this year”
Link. These timeline constraints are a deep structural problem with government.
Things with promise
Radio would be used to improve education.
Television would be used to improve education.
The Internet would be used to improve education and discourse and bring knowledge to the world.
The Electronic Health Record would give just-in-time expert decision support to physicians and other caregivers and eliminate most medical error.
“Production of these bubbles was a cottage industry before the pandemic. A small Austrian firm, Polymun Scientific, is one of just a handful that can make them.”
Link. It is a miracle of genius and effort and markets that we have what we have.