Link. Relatively readable. Been a long time since W3C made waves.
Daily Archives: December 25, 2022
Automatic CEO Matt Mullenweg: “Tumblr first has to deal with the waves of new users coming in right now from Twitter but that support for “interop and activitypub” were due to come “ASAP.”
Link. If they can really do interoperability with Mastodon I’d be interested. No date.
macOS plea: “give us back our logs”
Link. The logging data flow is excessive. I wonder how iOS does.
Gmail event integration enables google calendar spam.
Link. Happy accident or exploit? In gCal settings turn off automatic event creation. (More AI always means more spam.)
“Few would guess that only 22% of St. Paul school revenue comes from the property taxes that have just risen.”
Link. I did not know that. This article needs to be widely read especially in high school.
“hundreds of thousands of internet censors … haven’t gotten guidance on what to allow and what to delete”
Link. China’s COVID chaos. First China has to invent a narrative that makes Xi seem less stupid.
Fish sort-of sleep.
Link. It’s a form of required rest but very different from terrestrial sleep.
“when a glass frog falls asleep, almost all of its red blood cells retreat into its liver. They hide in the organ and allow the frog to achieve near invisibility while it rests.”
Link. Our blood would clot if we stored it somewhere.
Trump case shows GOP has destroyed much of US tax system. “increasingly unable to crack down on wealthy taxpayers who push the legal limits to lower their tax bills”
Link. 7 trillion dollars. It’s easy to audit minions, very hard to audit the powerful. Another way GOP is ending America.
“Mr. Mohler was part of a precariously narrow but consequential slice of the electorate that went against its own voting history”
Link. White men who voted for democracy rather than the GOP candidate.
A taxonomist explores archives of the NYT.
Link. I worked in a distant medical relative of this. I get their work. A library science specialty. Interesting perspective pre-AI.
“1973 where a group called the Ethical Culture Society set up a meet and greet with Frankenstein’s monster for kids, as an alternative to sitting on Santa Claus’s lap.”
“When Heilongjiang Province reported five Covid cases in early December, one online commenter remarked that he knew all of those cases personally”
Link. Testing how credulous the people are. “In Yulin, the authorities ordered pharmacies to ration ibuprofen”