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iPhone 6s supported by ios 15?!
Link. That’s crazy. Would not advise.
“number of seated diners during the pandemic relative to those on the corresponding date in 2019.”
Link. We are already back to pre-COVID, despite California being mostly restaurant closed.
“We sat down to wait, too. And then, without warning, the waiting room took off.”
Link. Maciej 2014. Hire him to do more like this.
“whatever value Trump offered to Russia was compromised by his incompetence and limited ability to grasp firm control even of his own government’s foreign policy”
Link. I consider the operation to have been amazingly successful. The House GOP is a Russian asset now.
“firms check for clients’ difficulty navigating security protocols or need for frequent password resets. In such cases, a designated family member might be informed.”
Link. Obvious in retrospect. Your browser knows you are demented.
The fate of the new atheists.
Link. Varying degrees of assholery, ODD, and libido — Pinker caught in the current. Evangelical atheists are much like evangelical theists.
“three guys showed up at the party targeting her 16-year-old nephew.”
Link. A lot of the most stupid and lethal crime in MSP now is by ages 11-16. The price of ending F2F school and sports programs in a society that worships guns.
Zoom effect: “much easier for elected officials to avoid questions and accountability when journalists and concerned citizens aren’t in the room.”
Link. Same for business and creating and anything. We are primates. (Or maybe this is my Oldness talking)
“Biden will have no choice but to put real infrastructure bill up for a vote and simply dare Manchin to vote it down.”
Link. It will fail but yes, the only choice.
“Italygate was among several unfounded conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 elections”
Link. Unfounded is a variant spelling of lunatic.
“had he not been able to block a great deal of mail-in voting in 2020, Biden would have won Texas.”
Link. That’s quite an admission.
M1racles: M1ssing Register Access Controls Leak EL0 State
Link. I wonder if this somehow contributed to multiuser hard system crashes in Big Sur. Unintended cross-communication.
“politicians will be subject to the same content rules as other users”
Link. Facebook goes to war with the GOP.
“mistake for Apple to ever hook up a company-wide Slack”
Link. “Social business” will succeed when it adopts the Xi model.
“mistake for Apple to ever hook up a company-wide Slack”
Link. “Social business” will succeed when it adopts the Xi model.
“Whereas black Americans were 1.3 times more likely to get infected than white Americans, Hispanic Americans were 2.4 times as likely to catch the virus.”
Link. Very unlikely to be genetic. So something environmental or cultural. Or a data problem. Or all 3.
15 Unmistakable, Outrageously Secret Signs You’re an Extrovert
Link. 2013 classic. Via Conor on Twitter
Aducanumab for alzheimers: “a massive waste of money based on false hopes”
Link. We still have nothing beyond avoid concussions and control vascular disease and maybe exercise.
“the site was attracting fewer visitors than the pet-adoption service Petfinder and the recipe site Delish.”
Link. Maybe the GOP is overestimating Trump’s appeal.
Sinovac experiment shows even modest vaccine can stop COVID.
Link. Impressive. Also, again, our models of this suck.
“But mobile devices are gaining in importance as PCs wane, relatively, and for the web, “mobile’s a disaster.”
Link. Next: CSS was a very bad idea.
“The narrative of stagnant or falling living standards in the neoliberal age is false.”
Link. I would like to do one restricted to non-college.
“In the decade leading up to the pandemic, American companies spent more than $6 trillion to buy their own shares”
Link. Instead of investing in inventory redundancy or cybersecurity. Because we thought giving CEOs share price incentives was a good thing. Machine learning optimizes unexpectedly.
“Apple makes a huge profit from the App Store but vehemently denies knowing that it does.”
Link. Cook is the McConnell of tech.
Last Week on My Mac: How it took 6 months for M1 Macs to work properly.
Link. Howard is focused on boot disks, but our M1 Air has only recently become somewhat reliable. Apple has gotten very good at controlling their reviewers.
“On many days, Biden then summons his brain trust, including Klain and top advisers Mike Donilon, Anita Dunn, Bruce Reed, Steve Ricchetti and Cedric L. Richmond”
Link. Lots of fun and quirky details. He is who he seems to be.
COVID’s gifts: a flurry of RNA vaccines in development.
Link. Science.
“Sparta was – if you will permit the comparison – an ancient North Korea. An over-militarized, paranoid state which was able only to protect its own systems of internal brutality and which added only oppression to the sum of the human experience.”
Link. Myth of Sparta not nothing.
“Google continued collecting location data even when users turned off various location-sharing settings, made popular privacy settings harder to find, and even pressured LG and other phone makers into hiding settings precisely because users liked them.”
Link. Don’t be evil.
“Part II of our seven part look at Sparta (I, III, IV, V, VI, VII).”
Link. One of the worst of human societies. A cautionary tale.
Guide to vaccinating the reluctant and disadvantaged.
Link.
RSA’s 2011 “air gap” that wasn’t: “But in fact, Leetham says, one server on RSA’s internet-connected network was linked, through a firewall that allowed no other connections, to the seed warehouse on the manufacturing side”
Link. An egregious fail.
Capture One – MacInTouch – $300
Link. “The software is currently on sale for 40% off via code MAY-SAVE-40.”
Luc Montagnier: portrait of a complete crackpot — with a Nobel prize on the side.
Link. He’s an absolute raving loon — and an anti-vaxxer, autism bulshitter, and homeopath. There are no words for his nano-assembly by RF theory. I want an MRI of his brain.
Therapy: Myth Vs. Fact (Onion)
Link. I suspect therapists would say funny but also true.
xkcd 2012: The history and partisan composition of the House and Senate throughout history
Link. We are due for a 2022 update.
Trailbot: MN Trail Updates App with Push Notifications
Link. A new must have app for MN dirt riders. Replaces older MORC app.
Apps for mapping out bike rides
Link. I’m using MapMyRide free together with Google Maps. MMR uses GMaps but doesn’t shos sites and landmarks.
“Biden, the key political strategists who advise Biden and almost the entire Democratic congressional caucus simply stopped believing Republicans would ever vote for major Democratic bills”
Link. Not stupid.
“a select committee could issue subpoenas”
Link. House can also subpoena but executive can’t.
WHO panel produces COVID-19 pandemic chronology
Link. A key reference.
“security unit in the Commerce Department turned into a rogue counterintelligence operation over the past few years”
Link. More clear and concise than everything I read.
“15 percent think the “Satan-worshipping pedophiles” conspiracy theory has merit”
Link. I subscribe to the Russian slow encephalopathy virus lab escape Zombie theory. Makes sense of America 2021.
Venmo’s Public Transactions and Friend Lists
Link. Insane by design.
“Is there a brand of TV that you can safely allow to connect to the internet?”
Link. Obviously no. Soon they will stop working unless connected weekly. The modern TV is spyware made physical.
Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory
Link. A research tool but i like the subscales. Useful in management.
Next U.S. Cities to Receive Apple Maps Cycling Directions?
Link. All of mainland China?! They have been taking forever to expand in US.
Activity Monitor: CPU
Link. Great reference.
Tweaks for Twitter 1.0
Link. “In addition to cleaning out lots of extraneous elements, it expands “t.co” URLs and makes the full page scrollable.”