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Caller ID Authentication is finally here.
Link. Finally.
“Super Resolution feature in ACR essentially upsizes the image by a factor of four using machine learning”
Link. Soon every app will have this.
“Shift-drag from an edge – resize keeping window aspect ratio constant and opposite edge static”
Link. Takes me ages to learn these habits.
Invest in green tech so China leaves coal for cheaper options.
Link. Versus carbon tariffs. US/EU emission history was part of developing modern tech. China inherited that tech, so don’t they inherit some carbon guilt as well?
“It did not seem to occur to her that the palace has no ability to protect its members from the tabloids”
Link. They are none of them terribly bright.
“over the past 30 years, as racial disparities in life expectancy have shrunk by 70%, educational disparities have more than doubled.”
Link. The growing cultural divide in America is between cognitively advantaged and the left behind.
Putie is worried and upset.
Link. I thought he liked his hard-cold-killer rep. He must expect the new sanctions to hurt.
Europe’s AZ concerns explained.
Link. A DIC type picture in some. Weird.
“while it is the Kavanaugh story that is getting media attention, the longer story is about whether our courts have been bought.”
Link.
“Reeder is a one-time purchase. There is no subscription involved. Instead, the developer releases a new version every few years that you buy over, but it is still far less expensive than what I paid for subscriptions”
Link. I like subscriptions in principle, but most are priced way too high.
Possible malaria vaccine.
Link. Cross fingers
Quarantine Brazil Now.
Link. “How long should the quarantine last? At least until we understand the real threat from P.1 and other emergent Brazilian variants, have developed vaccines that work against them, and have had time to inoculate our own populations elsewhere.”
Russia feared Biden: “a massive disinformation push that successfully targeted, and was openly embraced, by Trump’s allies.”
Link. Eat the hurricaine Putey.
Michael Jordan, the real story of his baseball career
Link. 1994. A great story.
“psychologists Leonid Rozenblit and Frank Keil coined the phrase “the illusion of explanatory depth” to refer to the way our self-assurance crumples when we are invited to explain apparently simple ideas.”
Link. Great discussion of conspiracists and deprogramming.
“Europe put a big emphasis on negotiating a low price for vaccine doses.”
Link. Imagine being the person who made that mistake.
The 2021 refugee surge.
Link. Ugh.
“what Biden can or should do next about the Mad Killer of Riyadh, and the answer is – nothing at all. Just give him enough rope,”
Link. MBS is an idiot.
Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and the women he has kidnapped.
Link. Clearest summary I’ve read to date.
Om defines venture capital.
Link. It’s a hard business.
Apple’s App Store policy summarized: “it depends on whether Apple likes you”
Link. That’s it.
Mac Software Updates Open Up sshd.
Link. Apple won’t spend what it would take to debug macOS.
SMS partner companies can reroute anyone’s SMS messages whenever they feel like it.
Link. Hacker did it using Sakari’s security-free infrastructure.
“Losing his Twitter account really broke Trump in a way I don’t think even he realized it would.”
Link. Twitter power underestimated.
Maine’s role in ending American slavery.
Link. Fascinating.
“Food stamps are welfare; Medicare benefits equal to three times the actuarial value of FICA payments made by cohorts of beneficiaries certainly are not.”
Link. One of our many weirdnesses is what we call “welfare”.
Apple Numbers handles numbers as well as Excel
Link. I assumed it would be worse.
“I have come across no other SSD which can match the performance of Apple’s internal SSDs fitted to the M1 MacBook Pro and Mac mini”
Link. Stibium benchmarks SSDs.
“individuals with disabilities are not required to participate in competitive integrated employment and can choose to work in other settings.”
Link. A win for families, cognitively disabled adults, and reality over (left) ideology. Employment collapse in pando probably helped comcentrate minds.
“More than 100 federal prosecutors are working full or part-time on cases”
Link. Jan 6. 400 expected to face charges.
Google’s “family link” parental controls are an abysmal failure.
Link. I know Apple’s equivalent deeply — and it’s a disaster too. This stuff is hard to do and it *opposes* the core mission of the enterprise. It’s where tech careers go to die.
Why did we need Biden to save us from COVID?
Link. Mass vaccination takes a lot of smart people solving hard problems within government. Trump hated those people.
NFTs, explained.
Link. We need to restock our antibiotic supply.
“a few extra pounds might help protect people when they contract an infectious disease.”
Link. BMI of 30. Not just COVID apparently. Nobody knows why.
Runners are stoners.
Link. Endocannabinoids. Popular in CrossFit too
“the black beast of depression back in our lives”
Link. LBJ and Lincoln had that in common.
George Floyd’s Family Settles Suit Against Minneapolis for $27 Million.
Link. “settlement was the largest ever reached before trial in a civil rights wrongful death lawsuit involving the police”
GOP Voters: “Never Trump” Republicans comprised 15 percent of the Republicans surveyed”
Link. Higher than I expected.
“pleased that the Americans are noticing us and also being delighted when they got it wrong”
Link. America raises Canadian spirits. (Also the Nanaimo bar was not part of my youth in Quebec.)
Risk of hospitalization and death by age and gender for COVID.
Link. For those diagnosed. Unvaccinated. First calculator of this type I have seen. I had thought 10% hospital for me, calc says 16%.
Neil Irwin: “I’m starting to get optimistic.”
Link. Run, run!! (Weirdly so am I. Maybe we are bored of bad news.)
Nursing homes game their star ratings.
Link. Those that don’t cheat go under and facilities invest in ratings rather than true quality. This is true of similar ratings systems everywhere — including college ratings.
“Dustin’s story throws a spotlight on the danger of doing too much business with a single company.”
Link. Apple has vast power, arrogance aplenty, a good bit of incompetence, and nothing to fear. It’s a disastrous combination.
Letter calling for COVID origins investigation.
Link. Xi acts like he knows it was a lab escape.
30+ Mac tips for new setups.
Link. Worth a review for all.
iCloud Secure Backup is active in Big Sur?
Link. Apple to offer iCloud backup?
macOS updates delete Apple’s command line tools.
Link. They are just playing us now.
YKK Zippers are a clue to good gear.
Link. Pro tip.
Trump’s vaccine failure detailed.
Link. Reference to share.