Link. Schizophrenia causes immense amounts of pain to schizophrenics, family, and sometimes others. It deserves much more research.
“Older adults who ride free of charge make up about 15 percent of Seoul’s annual ridership”
Link. Over 65. The AC Is much appreciated. A tough crowd:
“Seventy, 75-year-olds are spring chickens,” he said. “Sixty-five-year-olds are basically children.”
Southern border: “They come from Brazil, Burkina Faso, Uzbekistan, India and dozens of other countries, a moving global village of hundreds of thousands of people crossing the Rio Grande…”
Link. Just a taste of what is to come. Good for social security though.
DeSantis grows admission at Florida’s New College: “… admissions essay that was a screenshot of cellphone notes, “riddled with incorrect spelling and grammar, saying, basically, ‘I just want to play ball.’”
Link. Student accepted. DeSantis is the ultimate troll but he can’t get any love from Trump’s party.
“The Treasury Department said on Friday that the United States and China had agreed to create economic and financial working groups that would hold regular meetings to discuss policy and exchange information.”
Link. How to talk about not invading Taiwan without actually using the word Taiwan.
Biden used email aliases in redacted archives!! (For scheduling his personal trainer.)
Link. “G.O.P. lawmakers make provocative claims without concrete evidence, sowing a vague public narrative of nefarious conduct that turns out to be exaggerated — or simply false.”
Benghazi 2.0. It works.
Genetically Modified Pig’s Heart Is Transplanted Into a Second Patient: “Realistically, this is in the early-stage learning process,” he said of the procedure.”
Link. Patients who do this want to survive — but they are also doing it to help others in the future. The odds are very bad for now.
Florida Woman Who Stole Diary of President’s Daughter Faces Sentencing
Link. “Aimee Harris, sold the diary to Project Veritas”
The evidence is overwhelming she knew she was stealing.
iOS 17 update bug: “Apple recommends that you update using iCloud Backup instead”
Link. Sane people recommend not updating until the fix is published.
Lost tribe of Borneo: “His eyes were glued to a cellphone in his hands, though there was no reception. He was playing a video game.”
Link. The Punan Batu appear to be descendants of a very early African diaspora and have an exotic language used in song. Photography is superb and respectful.
Delta: “for Las Vegas, if it’s hotter than 100 degrees Fahrenheit, every degree over 100 is going to mean about 1,400 pounds off.”
Link. A different kind of overbooking.
“placozoans have 14 types of peptidergic cells that are also important for building neurons in cnidarians and bilaterians”
Link. Tracking the evolution of neurons.
FTC finally sues a healthcare private equity monopsonist.
Link. I suspect the fines are a pittance.
“an orphaned harbor seal at the New England Aquarium could utter English phrases in a perfect Maine accent (“Hoover, get over here”
Link. Anecdote in animal language article. I think original recording is very old.
Assassinated Sikh separatist: “He was acquitted in 2005 in a lengthy trial that came after the deaths of many witnesses — some of whom were murdered. Other witnesses were intimidated into not testifying.”
Link. Ugly.
“India may have been involved in the killing of a Canadian Sikh leader”
Link. I suspect it’s not much of a may.
“Nearly half a million years ago, humans in Africa were assembling wood into large structures, according to a study published Wednesday that describes notched and tapered logs buried under sand in Zambia.”
Link. Maybe Homo heidelbergensis. Not Homo erectus. Big brains by primate standards, but they didn’t do a lot of tech over 500ky.
“Many of the claims and insinuations they leveled against Mr. Garland … were not supported by fact”
Link. By NYT historic standards it’s progress to declare that the House GOP is lying.
“All kinds of idiotic crap made it through peer review before we had chatbot assistance, although this technology will likely mean that we get even more of it.”
Link. The fraudulent academia industry is generating ChatGPT papers.
“new version of my free utility Mints can now resolve an inode number to a name and path for you”
Link. He’s got a tool for most macOS gaps.
MN: “… elected officials guided by a center-left philosophy controlled the top offices 84% of the time, or 126 years out of 150”
Link. I’m still traumatized by the Pawlenty years but few states have done so well. Arne Carlson was a Democrat in disguise.
HTML has a new tag: “The
Link. I miss
iOS 17: “memory issue was introduced in Apple’s JavaScriptCore framework which can (but doesn’t always) trigger crashes when JavaScript code is used in an app.”
Link. I like to wait until Apple insists I update. Usually takes a few weeks.
Freeing space to upgrade to Sonoma
Link. “identify large, older snapshot(s) in the list, select them, and click on the – tool below to remove them”
Tsai’s iOS 17 feature list: better PDF.
Link. Not a lot new really. But that’s often a good thing.
Navigating boot volumes in paths and inodes: “Each volume also has its own numeric ID, here 16777242 which is used for both linked volumes”
Link. Old school paths lie nowadays.
“higher education seems to be becoming an ever-larger determinant of the cleavages in American society”
Link. I think higher education is just a rough proxy for cognitive and emotional capabilities. It’s increasingly dominated by women.
“If it becomes clear that a lot of oil and gas assets will stay in the ground forever, then it is your patriotic duty to make sure that the stranded assets belong to other countries, not to yours.”
Link. Peak Oil of a different sort. Why Saudi oils will be $20/barrel.
“We have not discovered life on K2-18b.”
Link. The papers got ahead of themselves.
Thailand: Maybe not utterly hopeless?
Link. Dyer is straining to see a way out. It’s been a bad few decades. (Eventually the king is gonna go.)
Big Meat emulates Big Oil – suppressing plant based alternatives.
Link. “Big Meat also knows that Big Oil managed to go on making huge profits for fifty years after it knew the writing was on the wall.”
Progressives and inflation: it’s not (mostly) corporate greed
Link. Letterman leaves some wiggle room around monopolies but I’m persuaded.
Shared passwords in Sonoma
Link. This is getting close. I really want to replace 1Password. Maybe this year.
Programming for the people: “Nevertheless, in 2021 Apple announced that Automator was to be succeeded by Shortcuts.”
Link. A failure of leadership.
“Planet K2-18 b is far larger than Earth (8.6 times bigger) but it has an atmosphere containing carbon dioxide and methane, both commonly emitted by living things – and also dimethyl sulphide,”
Link. Most of us are more cautious than Dyer in claiming proof of extraterrestrial “life”.
Montreal: “Since becoming mayor in 2017, Ms. Plante has introduced a flurry of cycling measures”
Link. Montréal is again the premier bicycling city in North America. MSP is in second place.
“number of cars have doubled in the last five years in the Montreal metropolitan area.“
Map Making for civilians: state of the art.
Link. Basically sucks. It’s a problem made for an AI solution.
LLM Summary of My Book Beyond Fear – Schneier on Security
Link. Anthropic’s Claude does a superb job.
Carbon Copy Cloner 6.1.7 – backup of cloud files enables backup of Apple’s sync-centric documents folder.
Link. Bundle documents don’t work because Apple hasn’t adopted the FileProvider interface they make everyone else use. I think this means it won’t work for Photos Libraries; you still need to download all images.
xt.local spam: Where it comes from, how to get rid of it
Link. “I worry that, one way or another, Salesforce is paying Google to bypass Google’s email filters”.
Current limitations on macOS virtual machines running on Apple silicon
Link. Only two OS per machine.
Huawei Mate 60 Pro – Export controls and Chinese chips.
Link. A good overview. He thinks controls help.
“the more eye-popping the chart, the more inclined you should be to check it out before believing the story it tells”
Link. Superb discussion. Great reference.
Local-First Development: “Like the shift to componentized JavaScript UI over the last decade, I believe local-first will be the next large paradigm shift for rich client apps and work its way through the application world over the next decade”
Link. How is this different from Apple’s cloud apps?
“Apple will release Sonoma as an update, rather than using the full installer for an upgrade. Don’t get caught and unintentionally become an early adopter.”
Link. Hoakley likes Sonoma and feels recent betas were solid. I’m unlikely to upgrade before 2024.
“If you sign a “5 year truce” with Russia, they will attack you in 3 years, tops”
Link. Historically pretty common everywhere but Russia more than most.
A viable alternative to 1Password: Strongbox for macOS and iOS.
Link. I trust this reviewer. I expect mjtsai will have comments. You can store locally or in iCloud.
Kagi searches the “small web” — insofar as it still exists.
Link. “small web” typically refers to the non-commercial part of the web, crafted by individuals to express themselves or share knowledge without seeking any financial gain”
Michael Tsai seems to approve. It’s $5/m but you can do a limited number of searches for free. It does seem to index my old school ad-free blogs.
Remember the Al Qaeda fortress? “ troops who finally reached the supposed “fortress” found only shallow, scattered natural caves that had housed perhaps 200 fighters”
Link. I remember the fortress sketches. Sounds like it was conflated with a Zhawar base built with CIA help during earlier Soviet occupation. NYT messed up.
“Members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices won him over to the argument that the vaccine be recommended for all Americans above 6 months of age”
Link. CDC recommendation determine if insurance pays for 64yo me.
This is a great discussion. ID specialists are not terribly worried but lean to the vaccine.