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.”
Link. AirPort Express did this. Similar Price. Miss it.
iOS updates can lead to unexpected data loss.
Link. Apps stop working, you can’t go back, it is hard to get at the data.
A portrait of depression
Link. Not what I thought, and I *treat* depression. I think it’s true however.
Russian antivax attack on France.
Link. Why are they doing this? At some point it is an act of war.
Siri & Glimstad, NY antivax law firm.
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.
M1 Macs running Big Sur 11.4 support external disks fully
Link. Happy surprise.
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.”
Link. It’s a long, long, LONG bug list. I treasure my Mojave.
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.”
Link. iOS Parental Controls/Restrictions/Screen Time proved that theory long ago.
Apple TV: buy 32 GB Apple TV 4K for $179
Link. What we’ll buy.
“people probably hate inflation because of upward nominal wage rigidity”
Link. I lived through 70s in Quebec. I remember a lot of unemployment as well.
“Unexpectedly is a Mac application that lets you browse and visualize the reports from crashes that happened on your Mac”
Link. Might help “Crashy” our M1 Air.
Reversing Oldness by killing the senescent cells.
Link. More for more kids than me I think.
“For decades, the U.S. government has rejected international efforts to attach a monitoring mechanism to the Biological Weapons Convention”
Link. Not the most encouraging article.
“Abandoned by skiers, hated on by skateboarders, and mocked throughout pop culture, rollerblading in North America went underground.”
Link. Apparently I am a fruitbooter so gay by association. I’ll take that. (I think changing asphalt tech is what killed inline.)
“When the 1918 pandemic swept through the world, it apparently completely replaced whatever flu existed before.”
Link. Uh… what? How?!
“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.”
Link. You don’t want to stream MP3 to most Bluetooth speakers. That surprised me.
Restoring light perception by transforming retinal glial cells into light sensors by optogenetics.
Link. 3rd millenium stuff.
Autonomous vehicles recede.
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.
“White conservative farmers and ranchers from Florida, Texas and the Midwest quickly sued to block the program”
Link. White farmers know very little history.
“the number of 18-year-olds in South Korea has fallen from about 900,000 in 1992 to 500,000 today.”
Link. “ Germany’s fertility rate recently increased to 1.54, up from 1.3 in 2006”
LA restores police budget it cut last year.
Link. Activists need a plan B.
The Arizona Ninja audit described.
Link. They seem as sincere as most low level cult members are.
“Accumulate 100 band pull-aparts throughout the day. Do it 4-6 days per week.”
Link. I’m putting a band in my work bag.
“while shelters have experienced an increase in pets coming in, their numbers are merely returning to the levels reported before the pandemic.”
Link. Adoptions FELL in 2020 (many shelters were closed).
“getting the latest and greatest from your favorite sites directly in Chrome, building on the open RSS web standard”
Link. What’s the catch? (“Experiment”)
“getting the latest and greatest from your favorite sites directly in Chrome, building on the open RSS web standard”
Link. What’s the catch? (“Experiment”)
Apple again omits accessibility features for adults with cognitive disabilities.
Link. The Untouchables.
“In India, caseloads have been falling rapidly for almost two weeks.”
Link. I wondered. This deserves way more coverage.
“merely typing the characters bputil will instantly disable any support that your M1 Mac was signed up for”
Link. Really?
San Francisco’s Shoplifting.
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.
“it’s also not clear whether cyberattacks can be deterred”
Link. Moderm wartech is also suited to terrorism and criminal conflicts.
St Paul Grand Rounds – pretty much done.
Link. Suddenly decades of work come together.
Race in America | The Economist’s take.
Link. “Reparations” in effect but never in name.
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.”
Link. And suddenly we aren’t in Kansas any more.
“championed new state taxes on the digital ads sold by companies like Facebook and Google”
Link. Gee, when I advocated taxes as a solution to negative externalities of the ad-supported internet I couldn’t even get a retweet.
“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.”
Link.
“Infected Temnothorax ants live at least three times longer than their siblings, and perhaps much more”
Link. Must read.
Americans are not very supportive of right to choose
Link. Roe is toast. Red states will eliminate access. GOP rule will bring national restrictions. Not necessarily good for GOP.
“Visual Studio Code 1.56.1 is a free Electron-based open source download for OS X 10.10 and up”
Link. It’s quite well done.
“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.”
Link.
The end of the [American] War on Islam
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.
Getting more from Activity Monitor: a primer
Link. It’s old school amazing. How has it avoided the usual Apple software lobotomy?
“Theories of accidental release from a lab and zoonotic spillover both remain viable.”
Link. Yes.
Thiel funds GOP.
Link. Thiel is Ann Coulter ally who hates “globalization”. (? non-euro? asian?)
“private spying has boomed into a renegade, billion-dollar industry, one that is increasingly invading our privacy, profiting from deception and manipulating the news.”
Link. “ Information gathered by private investigators is often laundered through public relations firms, which then shop the material to journalists.”
“Apple has constructed a bureaucracy that has become a powerful tool in China’s vast censorship operation”
Link.
“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.”
Link. Hope not a surprise.
Cheney hasn’t given up.
Link. A stubborn woman.
Air pollution, cognition and NSAIDS.
Link. This feels very squishy. Not enough data to act on it. What do animal models show? How would this even work?