Link. Love to know if Aperture/High Sierra works.
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App Clips in iOS 14: “Bikes and scooters could be rented with a single tap of an NFC tag”
Link. Now I get it.
Wikipedia: value proofs.
Link. Why do so many profs hate Wikipedia? So screwed-up.
Authoring Mac Help Books in 2020
Link. If only Apple were not destitute.
Trump: “a lot of people think masks are not good.” Asked who said masks aren’t good, Trump replied, “Waiters.”
Link. Include this in the history books.
7 Trump election corruption tactics
Link. All grounds for impeachment.
Safari 14 is now available as a standalone update for macOS Catalina and Mojave users
Link.
Trump and COVID: “This was a journey straight into a mountainside, with countless missed opportunities to turn away. A system was in place to save lives and contain disaster. The people in charge of the system could not be bothered to avoid the doomed c
Link. GOP.
“If Churchill and FDR could team up with Stalin, then surely we in the Resistance can temporarily ally ourselves with the rare Republicans who chose their stated principles over power when tested”
Link. Hug a Lincolner today.
Medal of Honor: Army soldier Thomas P. Payne.
Link. “Army” Delta force.
“46 percent of people ages 18 to 24 report experiencing pandemic-related “anxiety and stress disorder.” 6% over 65.
Link. Boomers should watch for people needing help.
“Trump and his campaign were violating Nevada’s ban on gatherings of 50 people or more”
Link. “Asshole” was invented for this. In a sane world Trump would get 5% of the vote.
Boeing 737: “grossly insufficient oversight by the FAA—the pernicious result of regulatory capture on the part of the FAA”
Link. Those who allowed FAA capture should stand trial
COVID Mab: “Just 1.7% of LY-CoV555 patients needed hospital care, compared to 6% on placebo,”
Link. Very preliminary but not bad
“Paul Alexander, Caputo’s science adviser — who was at the center of efforts to muzzle the department’s career scientists — also will be leaving HHS”
Link. Wow. WTF happened? Is Trump losing power?
Putin: “in twenty years in power, his approval rating has never gone below 65%”
Link. Trump wants this, but as screwed-up as we are I can’t imagine 65%. Why Russia?
Big Sur’s Transparent Menu Bar
Link. Apps to undo. Yet again.
Big Fish Casino.
Link. App Store crack.
Google Ad Numbers Don’t Add Up
Link. Fraud or incompetence?
The Venusians.
Link. A sober summary.
“makes perfect sense considering that the iOS 14 GM and Xcode 12 GM have been available since this afternoon”
Link. Don’t install iOS 14. Damnit Apple
China electoral interference intel likely fabricated.
Link. Similar to Cheney and WMD.
Gates on Hahn: “We saw with the completely bungled plasma statements that when you start pressuring people to say optimistic things, they go completely off the rails”
Link. People unaccustomed to Trump pressure.
Peak Oil: “oil demand will plateau at 2019 levels before declining in 2035.”
Link. Not the Peak we once expected.
Do Not Buy the Apple Watch Series 3 Over the Watch SE
Link. Good case, but how long do these things last?
“Trump, Thiel, Harder, Perkins, white nationalist fringe groups, authoritarian intellectuals – they’re all together for a reason”
Link. Thiel is Trump with more brains, more money.
Caputo: “career government scientists were engaging in “sedition” in their handling of the pandemic and that left-wing hit squads were preparing for armed insurrection after the election”
Link. What drugs has Putin given Trump and his pawns?
“Either the principle of equal treatment under the law or the tradition of a peaceful transition of power will be sacrificed”
Link. Tne approach is federal Truth commission without criminal prosecution, let states prosecute separately for other crimes.
Alexander Vindman: Trump Is Putin’s ‘Useful Idiot’ – The Atlantic
Link. Excellent reminder. Trump’s impeachment crimes alone should have killed his election chances. That it didn’t reveals depth of our crisis and bankruptcy of GOP.
non-COVID coronavirus: “We monitored healthy individuals for more than 35 years and determined that reinfection with the same seasonal coronavirus occurred frequently at 12 months after infection”
Link. Thoe viruses may be better adapted to humans but we will probably need to combine COVID and flu vaccines for years.
TiKTok rejected MSFT oversite of source code
Link. Oracle is a Trump ally, so lots of corruption opprtunities
Prison contraband cellphones: ““inmates to use the devices to threaten and extort families of vulnerable prisoners”
Link. Pay or your son gets stabbed.
Texas COVID data sucks.
Link. Not a Trump thing, seems to be chronic failure of government. A GOP thing.
Myanmar Rohingya Slaughter – genocidal.
Link. “Kill all you see, whether children or adults.”
“Before the helicopter’s arrival, Mr. Crouch had waded into a lake up to his neck to escape the smoke and whipping embers, shivering in the cool water. “It was go underwater, come up, take a breath,” he recalled”
Link. Incredible rescues
Dentists Are Seeing an Epidemic of Cracked Teeth.
Link. Poor sleep, stress, grinding teeth at night.
“300,000 of the 1.2 million crew members at sea were essentially stranded on their ships, working past the expiration of their original contracts and fighting isolation, uncertainty and fatigue.”
Link. A forgotten city.
Iowa’s governor and Des Moines schools: She is an asshole.
Link. SD governor similar. Good to see women GOP leaders being as lousy as the men.
“What the scientists had not taken into account was that some students would continue partying after they received a positive test result”
Link. Assholes. Hope they get bounced with prejudice.
Senior FDA scientists warn they will not cooperate with Trump fake vaccine effort
Link. Good to see. The plasma hype probably backfired on Trump
CMS chief Seema Verma’s corruption inpressive even by Trump standards.
Link. Baseline DC corruption is bad enough, but she kicks it up a notch. Only the worst work for Trump.
China and Russia both hacking for Trump.
Link. Trump and GOP work to conceal Russia hacks and deceive on China’s intent.
Disney’s Mulan fiasco: “Top studio executives had not seen the Xinjiang credits, according to three people briefed on the matter, and no one involved with the production had warned that footage from the area was perhaps not a good idea.”
Link. Did Disney do similar in Hitler’s Germany?
NYT confirms Politico report on Caputo’s CDC attack.
Link. Politico credited, NYT brings to wider audience. Caputo is a whack job. Non-tenured so easy for McMasters to dump him.
Trump’s Caputo poisons CDC: “CDC officials have fought back against the most sweeping changes, but have increasingly agreed to allow the political officials to review the reports and, in a few cases, compromised on the wording”
Link. GOP corruption spreads.
QAnon Key Figure Revealed as Financial Information Security Analyst from New Jersey
Link. Not a good career move and it doesn’t sound like he made much if any money off QMap. I’d love to know what motivated him and if he was truly a believer. I suspect high functioning schizophrenia.
The future of the office – The Economist
Link. A quite good overview. Cubicles, at least, may have met their end. Reduction in sick time and commute time is big, but home workers also work more hours.
Rio Tinto Executives to Step Down After Miner Destroys Sacred Australian Sites
Link. Even by US stabdards that was a terrible crime
COVID surges in France and Spain
Link. Canada still under control.
Trump Accomplishment list analyzed.
Link. The list is mostly misleading. Corruption and treason omitted.