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Google AMP is dead.

Posted on May 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “starting in June 2021, you won’t get any [ranking] benefit from using AMP”. A week ago Google announced RSS tech for web subscription.

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BeBelkin Soundform Connect: “new adapter that turns any traditional stereo speaker into an AirPlay 2-enabled speaker.”

Posted on May 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. AirPort Express did this. Similar Price. Miss it.

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iOS updates can lead to unexpected data loss.

Posted on May 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Apps stop working, you can’t go back, it is hard to get at the data.

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A portrait of depression

Posted on May 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Not what I thought, and I *treat* depression. I think it’s true however.

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Russian antivax attack on France.

Posted on May 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Why are they doing this? At some point it is an act of war.

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Siri & Glimstad, NY antivax law firm.

Posted on May 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Smart people will do fine, but some less gifted will die because of them. Thirty years ago they’d have been a tobacco firm.

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M1 Macs running Big Sur 11.4 support external disks fully

Posted on May 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Happy surprise.

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Big Sur: “doubt I’ve ever had an uptime of more than 5 days, whereas prior to Catalina it was probably measured in weeks or months.”

Posted on May 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. It’s a long, long, LONG bug list. I treasure my Mojave.

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Second-Generation Siri Remote: “I’ve long suspected that no one in Apple leadership lives with young children, and the omission of Find My support doesn’t disabuse me of that notion.”

Posted on May 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. iOS Parental Controls/Restrictions/Screen Time proved that theory long ago.

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Apple TV: buy 32 GB Apple TV 4K for $179

Posted on May 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. What we’ll buy.

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“people probably hate inflation because of upward nominal wage rigidity”

Posted on May 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I lived through 70s in Quebec. I remember a lot of unemployment as well.

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“Unexpectedly is a Mac application that lets you browse and visualize the reports from crashes that happened on your Mac”

Posted on May 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Might help “Crashy” our M1 Air.

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Reversing Oldness by killing the senescent cells.

Posted on May 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. More for more kids than me I think.

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“For decades, the U.S. government has rejected international efforts to attach a monitoring mechanism to the Biological Weapons Convention”

Posted on May 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Not the most encouraging article.

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“Abandoned by skiers, hated on by skateboarders, and mocked throughout pop culture, rollerblading in North America went underground.”

Posted on May 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Apparently I am a fruitbooter so gay by association. I’ll take that. (I think changing asphalt tech is what killed inline.)

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“When the 1918 pandemic swept through the world, it apparently completely replaced whatever flu existed before.”

Posted on May 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Uh… what? How?!

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“Apple Music, which uses AAC, and iPhones, which support AAC. If you use these two things along with a wireless speaker or headphones that also support AAC, Bluetooth will not impact the sound quality.”

Posted on May 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. You don’t want to stream MP3 to most Bluetooth speakers. That surprised me.

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Restoring light perception by transforming retinal glial cells into light sensors by optogenetics.

Posted on May 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. 3rd millenium stuff.

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Autonomous vehicles recede.

Posted on May 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A year-round MN urban AV will have the right to vote. Driving a car safely challenges the limits of the human brain. The jet/bird comparison doesn’t work.

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“White conservative farmers and ranchers from Florida, Texas and the Midwest quickly sued to block the program”

Posted on May 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. White farmers know very little history.

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“the number of 18-year-olds in South Korea has fallen from about 900,000 in 1992 to 500,000 today.”

Posted on May 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “ Germany’s fertility rate recently increased to 1.54, up from 1.3 in 2006”

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LA restores police budget it cut last year.

Posted on May 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Activists need a plan B.

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The Arizona Ninja audit described.

Posted on May 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. They seem as sincere as most low level cult members are.

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“Accumulate 100 band pull-aparts throughout the day. Do it 4-6 days per week.”

Posted on May 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I’m putting a band in my work bag.

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“while shelters have experienced an increase in pets coming in, their numbers are merely returning to the levels reported before the pandemic.”

Posted on May 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Adoptions FELL in 2020 (many shelters were closed).

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“getting the latest and greatest from your favorite sites directly in Chrome, building on the open RSS web standard”

Posted on May 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. What’s the catch? (“Experiment”)

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“getting the latest and greatest from your favorite sites directly in Chrome, building on the open RSS web standard”

Posted on May 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. What’s the catch? (“Experiment”)

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Apple again omits accessibility features for adults with cognitive disabilities.

Posted on May 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The Untouchables.

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“In India, caseloads have been falling rapidly for almost two weeks.”

Posted on May 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I wondered. This deserves way more coverage.

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“merely typing the characters bputil will instantly disable any support that your M1 Mac was signed up for”

Posted on May 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Really?

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San Francisco’s Shoplifting.

Posted on May 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Some of this is happening in Minneapolis. It will drive more business to Amazon and secure package storage and low income life will get more expensive (driving more shoplifting). Or we will have more violent arrests.

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“it’s also not clear whether cyberattacks can be deterred”

Posted on May 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Moderm wartech is also suited to terrorism and criminal conflicts.

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St Paul Grand Rounds – pretty much done.

Posted on May 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Suddenly decades of work come together.

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Race in America | The Economist’s take.

Posted on May 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Reparations” in effect but never in name.

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CRISPR Editing in Primates: “infusing cynomolgus monkeys with this therapy at a dose of 1 mg/kg showed an 81% decrease of PCSK9 in their blood and an accompanying 65% reduction in LDL.”

Posted on May 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. And suddenly we aren’t in Kansas any more.

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“championed new state taxes on the digital ads sold by companies like Facebook and Google”

Posted on May 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Gee, when I advocated taxes as a solution to negative externalities of the ad-supported internet I couldn’t even get a retweet.

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“The fact that a low-mileage leased vehicle is more valuable at turn-in time than a heavily driven one may help explain why carmakers are seemingly not deeply concerned about odometer rollback.”

Posted on May 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link.

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“Infected Temnothorax ants live at least three times longer than their siblings, and perhaps much more”

Posted on May 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Must read.

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Americans are not very supportive of right to choose

Posted on May 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Roe is toast. Red states will eliminate access. GOP rule will bring national restrictions. Not necessarily good for GOP.

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“Visual Studio Code 1.56.1 is a free Electron-based open source download for OS X 10.10 and up”

Posted on May 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. It’s quite well done.

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“after two hundred and fifty years, in the view of the I.E.A., the time has come to stop exploring for oil, gas, and coal.”

Posted on May 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link.

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The end of the [American] War on Islam

Posted on May 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I agree with all of this. Good to see it noted that America fully embraced a very effective surveillance state. Resistance was sporadic and easily crushed.

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Getting more from Activity Monitor: a primer

Posted on May 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. It’s old school amazing. How has it avoided the usual Apple software lobotomy?

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“Theories of accidental release from a lab and zoonotic spillover both remain viable.”

Posted on May 17, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Yes.

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Thiel funds GOP.

Posted on May 17, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Thiel is Ann Coulter ally who hates “globalization”. (? non-euro? asian?)

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“private spying has boomed into a renegade, billion-dollar industry, one that is increasingly invading our privacy, profiting from deception and manipulating the news.”

Posted on May 17, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “ Information gathered by private investigators is often laundered through public relations firms, which then shop the material to journalists.”

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“Apple has constructed a bureaucracy that has become a powerful tool in China’s vast censorship operation”

Posted on May 17, 2021 by jgordon

Link.

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“Apple made Guizhou-Cloud Big Data, or GCBD, a company owned by the Guizhou provincial government, the legal owner of its Chinese customers’ iCloud data.”

Posted on May 17, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Hope not a surprise.

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Cheney hasn’t given up.

Posted on May 17, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A stubborn woman.

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Air pollution, cognition and NSAIDS.

Posted on May 17, 2021 by jgordon

Link. This feels very squishy. Not enough data to act on it. What do animal models show? How would this even work?

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