Link. More of that uncharted territory stuff.
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Belarus will not help Putin.
Link. Sharks are circling Lukashenko and his protector is failing.
China a prison before the ascent of the emperor.
Link. It came to this.
“In this version of the cosmos, there is no difference between here and there, cause and effect, inside and outside or perhaps even then and now”
Link. A block of marble holds every sculpture ever made. Also, you don’t exist.
“Should we take care of kids we don’t make any money off of, or use the bed for an adult who needs a bunch of expensive tests?”
Link. Pay less for other things, pay more for pedes care.
“The human neurons multiplied in the rat brain until they numbered about three million, making up about a third of the cortex on one side of the rat brain.”
Link. “On learning tests … they scored no better than other rats.”
“talk of nudging both sides toward a negotiated settlement, common among some U.S. allies early in the war, has all but evaporated”
Link. Putin’s cruelty has concentrated minds. We are dealing with a monster.
Wells Fargo excels in Zelle Fraud.
Link. They excel at being bad.
Child care workers find better jobs.
Link. Amazon hires many. Outsourced child care is not economically viable for most unless large subsidies to support big salary increases.
“Since a peak in early August, reported monkeypox cases in the U.S. have fallen more than 85 percent through yesterday.”
Link. Main mistake: slow to say this was almost entirely a disease of gay men with many partners. Once this was known at risk men modified behavior.
“yearslong relationships and other forms of social interactions between individual chimpanzees and gorillas”
Link. Happens with chimps and humans, similarly distant.
“Musk spoke directly with Russian president Vladimir Putin before Musk last week proposed ending Russia’s attack on Ukraine by essentially starting from a point that gave Putin everything he wanted”
Link. Henry Ford 2.0
“In the poll we have in the field right now, only 0.4 percent of dials have yielded a completed interview. If you were employed as one of our interviewers at a call center, you would have to dial numbers for two hours to get a single completed interview
Link.
Social media ad-based education on fake profiles soliciting funds.
Link. “The best way to educate vulnerable adults about this problem would be a targeted Facebook and Instagram advertising program. These would be paid ads to vulnerable users to remind them that beautiful young women do not do not send flirtatious messages to strangers.”
“feedback loop between asset prices and corporate borrowing”
Link. Econ Nobel explained. Does this mean bull markets promote bank failures?
“Each of the more than 10,000 worlds that users have created in Horizon can accommodate only a couple dozen people at a time.”
Link. Informative NYT review of Third Life (aka Metaverse – Horizon). Kids, gamers, and stoners most enthusiastic.
California’s Bullet Train disaster.
Link.
“several of these sites offering this dangerous advice were also trying to get me to download and install software, generally housekeeping and clean-up utilities”
Link. Translation: the authors of these utilities are trying to hurt you.
Gerrymandering: “By some measures, this is the fairest House map of the last 40 years”
Link. Cohn’s record is spotty but this is positive if true.
The best of Russia crossing into Georgia.
Link. Admirable Russians choosing the most effective protest. Denying Putin their talents.
“The Guangzhou Library offers book sterilizing machines, which look like high-tech refrigerators”
Link. COVID is not spread by library books. China is bonkers.
Uganda’s Ebola Sudan strain has no current vaccine.
Link. Trials vaccines hopeful.
Culture shift: Marin goes vaxx.
Link. Anti-vaxx now a mark of stupidity. Shaming works.
NYT very gingerly notes abortion bans mean more Downs children.
Link. I wondered when they’d get around to this. GOP women also abort Downs fetus.
If China invades Taiwan Apple and customers will be collateral damage.
Link. No way Apple survives.
iOS Fail: photo and document caches eat space but aren’t purged.
Link. Somewhere between a bug and a dumb.
Google Maps Improvements: “Since launching in the U.S. and Canada, eco-friendly routing has helped remove an estimated half a million metric tons of carbon emissions “
Link. A rare Google product that is not dying.
Stage Manager is dumb and sucks.
Link. Windows are good.
2016 Eero support sunset. “Amazon offers a trade-in discount of 25% off a new Eero 6, Eero 6+, or Eero Pro 6, along with an Amazon gift card for between $10 and $45.”
Link. Wish Apple had stayed in market but happy with our 2022 Eero.
“There’s also Time Zone Change, which can help you transition your medication timing when you travel to a different time zone”
Link. IOS medications app is a serious project. A tutorial on how to use it.
NYT frontline reporting from Ukraine.
Link. Big victories and tragic costs.
“Times Square, a shopping district of Fort Myers Beach that had a boardwalk and numerous tourist attractions, is almost entirely gone.”
Link. The before-after satellite image videos are enlightening.
The Italian mystery of the missing toilet seats
Link. Very weird. Supposedly people broke them by standing on them.
“veil requirements … making conservative families more comfortable allowing their daughters to go to university … Today, women make up more than half of university graduates.”
Link. Sow the wind.
“an orca like Starboard—clearly well-versed in killing great white sharks—may be teaching others how to take down the apex predators.”
Link. Orca are tough bastards.
“One lesson Xi took from Tiananmen was that art and literature could be a threat to the party, presaging the shift to stricter censorship under his rule.”
Link. “Weeks after the Tiananmen crackdown, in July 1989, Xi hiked into the backcountry with a straw hat and walking stick.”
Robocall carriers face doom: cutoff from national voice network.
Link. Akabis, Cloud4, Global UC, Horizon Technology Group, Morse Communications, Sharon Telephone Company, SW Arkansas Telecommunications and Technology
Zelle is a bank run scam.
Link. Don’t use it.
“virtually every Twitter employee I’ve spoken to in the last six months has told me that he or she plans to leave if Mr. Musk takes over.”
Link. “There was already no escaping Mr. Musk. Now, looking away will be truly impossible.”
Recovering Google Workspace: A Detective Story
Link. Very clever moves. The key vulnerability was a lapsed domain (of course). Several Google flaws made it harder. “always be your own administrator. And if you’re a professional or friend setting something up for someone, give that person agency to solve problems without being dependent on you”
COVID vaccination in US: “By late 2021, the Hispanic rate was higher than the white rate, and the Black rate was almost as high as the white rate, according to the C.D.C. As a result, the racial gap in death rates has also disappeared.”
Link. Helps unvaccinated are now MAGA whites.
“You’d think if the labor market were really tight, we’d see employment top out and real wages go up,”
Link. The unemployment rate is now a misleading statistic.
“‘Without me, they married me,’” she said.”
Link. Lyman residents on Russia.
Carter is 98.
Link. In wheelchair now. He is not immortal. Wife a nimble 95.
Hydrogen returns: “As electrolyzers drop in cost, green hydrogen will fill in many of the nooks and crannies of decarbonization that solar, wind, and batteries can’t reach.”
Link. Always bet on the engineers.
When the GOP abandoned democracy: “senators wanted to know why they should remove him. After all, he was giving them the judges they wanted and permitting them to run the country as they wished”
Link. Trump’s first impeachment crimes seem even worse now.
What to read to understand Xi Jinping | The Economist.
Link. Absolutely nothing useful in this article. Hope CIA has more.