Link. Ventura. This I’ll use.
Daily Archives: August 10, 2022
Most iOS 15 and macOS 12 Monterey Features are not used.
Link. Fewer features, more bug fixes.
The Top PDF Reader in the Mac App Store … is a scam.
Link. We need a way to sue Apple. They don’t care.
Serena Williams: “Shoulda, woulda, coulda. I didn’t show up the way I should have or could have.”
Link. She may be a bit self-critical.
Underrated sci-fi and fantasy books
Link. “If I had to pick one book to be the “great American novel”, at least as far as the last half century is concerned, this might be it.”
Scientific Field Prefixes (xkcd)
Link. Thoughtful combinations.
“the law disqualifies from “holding any office under the United States” anyone who “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies or destroys…any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, fil
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“If money earns a positive real return over time, that return doesn’t represent a reward for hard work done; it represents a freebie. A handout. In economic terms, this is called “rent”.”
Link. Great discussion.
iMessage and the Secret Service: of course the messages were lost with a device upgrade.
Link. I’m recently retired from federal service. The secret service message loss seems perfectly normal to me. I don’t think it was a conspiracy.
“two days after Meta released its most advanced AI chatbot to date, BlenderBot 3 is repeating election-denying claims and antisemitic stereotypes to users who interact with it.”
Link. Our children will be a lot like us.
“on January 19, 2021, the day before he left office, Trump revoked the authority he had previously given and named seven new loyalists as his representatives to the National Archives.”
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