Link. “you can cancel AppleCare and get a prorated refund”.
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“rising rates of crime, especially violent crime, drive rightist politics as sure as night follows day”
Link. 2020 increases saved GOP.
Obsidian vs. Roam: “own version of bidirectional linking features”
Link. For a brief time in 90s I ran PIM-L, a mailing list relayed to personal information management (PIM). Bidirectional hypertext links were a thing back then.
App Store Whitelisted Developers are just testing.
Link. Maybe Facebook doesn’t have the sleaziest executives.
Ben Shapiro dominates Facebook link traffic.
Link. All top performers are GOP whackos. Facebook, like daytime TV and Trump and GOP and Fox lives off the gullible and the vulnerable. Because they buy junk.
Does Apple News Track You?
Link. “It’s not tracking if you own everything.”
“If you were to put all the animal life in a Brazilian rainforest on a scale, more than one-quarter of the weight would come just from ants.”
Link. Likely to outlast us.
Another SETI fail.
Link. Be nice to find something before I die. You have at most 23 years.
“If you had a custom spacesuit with a seal around your forearm, you could probably remove your glove during a moonwalk without suffering permanent damage.”
Link. Found more Munroe NYT.
“After about a year, atoms from your candle will have spread completely around the globe.”
Link. Are all of Randall’s NYT essays collected anywhere?
“anyone who goes off of Pandemic UI and gets a job gets a $4000 check”
Link. I think politically difficult.
“Steven Callahan, a spokesman for Altria, which owns Philip Morris, U.S.A. said the company remained opposed to a menthol ban.”
Link. At least they don’t attempt a phony justification.
“Deep-sea sponges can live for decades, centuries or even millenniums”
Link. Over a lifetime they can move a few feet.
“Later, Dr. Lewis was optimistic: “I think I can eventually persuade them.”
Link. Good profile of vaccination in a science-free part of America. It will take a while.
“promoted the Kumbh Mela, a Hindu pilgrimage that drew millions of worshippers to a single town”
Link. Trumpiam stupidity.
Foster mother as vocation.
Link. An unusual gift.
PA voter fraud uncovered.
Link. For Trump of course.
“spending the winter in an area like this, literally camping in a tent in a sleeping bag all winter long, is beyond what almost anybody would consider,” Cannon told local media. “But for her, it worked.”
Link. Schizophrenia presumably.
“Stefanik was basically what today passes for a moderate Republican until she saw a ticket to power through becoming a Trump acolyte.”
Link. GOP 2021 is the proverbial Heart of Darkness.
“Every 17-year cicada, then, is effectively dozens of organisms in a single body—the cicada, Sulcia, and who knows how many versions of Hodgkinia.”
Link. Imagine wanting to research this.
“GOP appears to be plunging headlong into a level of full-blown hostility to democracy”
Link. It has farther to fall.
Trump and the generals – Jan. 17, 2020.
Link. A timely reminder. We love you Joe Biden.
“Executives say they don’t want to replace just in time entirely”
Link. JIT lasted longer than I had expected.
The shocking solution to labor shortages.
Link. I for one welcome some inflation.
“lab escape from gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
Link. Xi always acted like he believed this.
Spike Protein endothelial activation: vaccine vs infection.
Link. “The Spike protein is not released to wander freely through the bloodstream by itself, because it has a transmembrane anchor region.”
Solar has beaten nuclear.
Link. Nuclear will be compimentary but limited.
“the ideal number of bikes to own is n plus whogivesashit.”
Link. My precious is never out of reach.
Sensible alternatives to the Biden college program.
Link. Example of the two year term problem.
“third of small landlords are at risk of bankruptcy or foreclosure as the pandemic continues into its second year.”
Link. How are eviction moratoriums constitutionally legal?
Thinking About the 2022 Midterm.
Link. Death concentrates the mind. In a healthy society incremental change would be better.
Horse: “Beautiful Jim performed from 1897 to 1906 and became a legend. An estimated ten million Americans saw him perform, and others collected his memorabilia”
Link. Trained by once enslaved veterinarian. Led to less cruelty to animals.
Inconvenient findings and a defense of science.
Link. Inspired by attacks on an article that found prison can sometimes benefit family members. (Which certainly seems plausible.)
iPadOS 14 Photos bug: app crash if you did sync from iTunes.
Link. Been a while since I tried looking at the photos on iPad – I have this bug. Instant crash. Supposedly we can use iTunes to remove syncd photos and possibly resent. Not fixed in 14.5.
Why raising capital gains doesn’t hurt the economy.
Link. Great point about incentives to invest. We got way too much cash looking for a home as it is.
Sentencing Chauvin: MN law.
Link. If appeal fails likely 12-18 years with release as early as 8 to 12 years.
“As a good Humean, I believe that all moral principles ultimately come from people’s moral intuitions”
Link. Until now I didn’t have a name for my natural tribe. I’m basically a Humean.
“Information warfare threat to the United States is different from past threats, and it has the potential to destroy reason and reality as a basis for societal discourse”
Link. GOP war on science set the stage.
Bryant shooting: “So for people who want to criticize [foster parents], you instead should think whether you can take in a teenager.”
Link. Most people cannot begin to imagine how hard it is to care for a child with behavioral disorders. Regular parenting is minor league.
President Boring.
Link. Boringly transforming America.
Biden to date: the 100 days.
Link. An astounding team working to save a nation.
Which Task Manager is Right for You?
Link. Gave me OmniFocus which would be right except it’s both subscription and also quite expensive.
What to do if you find a lost AirTag.
Link. “If the owner of the AirTag has put the tag into Lost Mode, they can provide a phone number and a message.”
Safari 14.1 “adds support for the WebM and Vorbis video and audio formats”
Link. Mojave too.
Z-genome in bacteriophages: nucleotide substitute
Link. Discovered in … 1977. Is it mentioned in modern biology textbooks?
“promiscuous gene expression (PGE), provides a molecular mirror of the body’s self‐antigens within TEC for the purposes of central T‐cell tolerance induction.”
Link. Inducing tolerance is one of the great mefical dreamms.
Big Sur 11.3 bug tracker
Link. “Spotlight stopped showing search results from Mail and Notes after fast user switching.”
Avalanche: “migrate their Aperture, Luminar 4, Luminar AI or Lightroom catalogs to Capture One”
Link. “ Full support for migrating masters and versions, both for pictures and videos…. Renaming a file/folder on a mounted WebDAV share resulted in a ‘reset’ of macOS”
“Security Update 2021-002 Catalina” has broken Apple’s OpenCL framework.”
Link. Does it break Aperture?
“clique” model of development, where some people are special and implicitly trusted.”
Link. Torvalds has a deep dislike of aristocracy.