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Brexit: “end of free movement, meaning no more EU nurses, fruit pickers, care home workers, or other low-paid workers”

Posted on October 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. That’s a lot of labor pool to suddenly lose.

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“Ventura looks fully baked.” Hoakley.

Posted on October 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A trusted source is keen. I’ll still wait and see but encouraging news.

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MN: “4.1 job openings for every unemployed worker”

Posted on October 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. 2% unemployment.

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“I’ve yet to hear of organizations at our scale being able to materially shrink their operations team, just because they moved to the cloud.”

Posted on October 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Cloud providers are taking the profit.

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Troubleshooting macOS / iOS / OS X keychains

Posted on October 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. File away for future needs. It’s weird that keychains are reliable, so many Apple things are not.

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The Bank of Apple.

Posted on October 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. An interesting mix of business opportunity and, I suspect, social mission. Banks will be concerned.

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Inflation, abortion, crime are MN issues.

Posted on October 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Sorry, democracy not on the list. Climate non-existent. This is people.

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“Trump appears knowingly to have lied, in writing, under oath, to a court.”

Posted on October 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. He’s usually much more careful. A sign of his desperation.

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Walker’s “dissociative identity disorder”

Posted on October 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Interesting character.

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Berlusconi: “Mr. Putin had sent him 20 bottles of vodka “and a very kind letter” for his 86th birthday last month”

Posted on October 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. These sociopaths are legit friends. Trump same. Only friends they can have.

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ERAP2 migrations protect against Yersinia pestis but increase Crohn’s risk.

Posted on October 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Selected in Euros by Black plague.

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“downloads of dating apps have significantly increased in the countries to which Russian men fled”

Posted on October 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Moscow and St Petersburg see major effects.

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“switched to recycled aluminum because he could not source enough aluminum domestically …. routers, lathes, cutters and millers … imported from China”

Posted on October 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Reshoring: even raw materials a challenge.

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South Korean shows downside of the One App.

Posted on October 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. No alternatives.

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A flawed article on physicians shirking wheelchair patients.

Posted on October 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Suggested fixes evade the obvious – the time pressure problem.

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Zen and the Art of Aperture.

Posted on October 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Many still love the long abandoned photo management product. I think we shall never see it’s like again.

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“This war has gone on long enough. It’s time to negotiate with Mr. Hitler.”

Posted on October 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The GOP today.

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“Domane+ SLR 9 eTap P1 (US$13,000 … SRAM Red eTap AXS 1×12 electronic groupset”

Posted on October 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. eBike progress is amazing to watch. Prices likewise impress.

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Americans are not that keen on democracy.

Posted on October 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Set aside all the spinning in the article, the core of it is that many Americans are willing to give up on democracy.

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Biden on Saudi: “He is going to act methodically, strategically, and he’s going to take his time…”

Posted on October 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. MBS also betting on GOP win. But he won’t see Dark Brandon’s knife …

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“underneath their radically changed human interface, macOS Ventura still has Preference Panes that work essentially the same as they did in Monterey.”

Posted on October 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Great history review.

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“Democrats should use the lame-duck session to enact a very large rise in the debt limit, enough to put the issue on ice for years.”

Posted on October 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Or the trillion dollar coin. Because the GOP is insane.

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Cancer Vaccines tested in select patients.

Posted on October 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. One researcher has been at this since 1993.

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“bananas were domesticated more than 7,000 years ago on the island of New Guinea”

Posted on October 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. They bred the seeds out.

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Moscow “mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said that draft offices would be closed by 2 p.m. on Monday and that all previously distributed summons notices would be canceled.”

Posted on October 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Crack.

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Kyiv after the terror attacks.

Posted on October 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. London should become a sister city.

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Apple Savings: turning bankish.

Posted on October 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Curious.

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“place the laser mouse over your watch and step away from your computer for as long as you want. The mouse will read the ticking hand of the watch and this way your computer won’t go to sleep mode”

Posted on October 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Warning: Daily Bee. Anyway, I didn’t know that one. Silly but fun.

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Explainer: Apple Keychain basics.

Posted on October 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A deep geeky analysis.

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Theft problem when mailing an iPhone to Apple.

Posted on October 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Sender is at risk.

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AppleScripts to speed Java compile and execute with BBEdit.

Posted on October 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Copied from a DAVALIGN article. Most applicable to students

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Metaverse end: “No girls at the Hot Girl Summer Rooftop Pool Party, and no one to murder in Murder Village.”

Posted on October 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. One day perhaps, but not this day.

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macOS security updates: “Not only is macOS inherently unreliable, but it hides its failings from the user.”

Posted on October 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Users need more ways to litigate against Apple.

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“…driving force in this populist wave is a thinly disguised alliance between a very rich elite and the resentful, downwardly-mobile parts of the old middle and working classes.”

Posted on October 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Thiel and Musk have no religious beliefs, but they will use religion to further their goals.

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Wagner group: “more experienced and reliable troops have also largely stopped fighting, as if he were saving them for something more important”

Posted on October 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Dyer has good sources on things Russian. (He’s been sympathetic to Moscow in the past.) Here he makes the case that Russia has lost the war on Ukraine and now we enter the war on Putin.

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Fallows Long COVID experience

Posted on October 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I’m 98% sure his B12 is placebo, but the article is a pretty good description of a post-viral syndrome. I do wonder about something analogous to MS though hopefully more self-limited.

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“His life jacket had also been torn about halfway down by the sharks, so that definitely gave us some motivation to get them out of the water very, very quickly.”

Posted on October 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Every so often the Coast Guard does a miraculous rescue.

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K: Pandemic effects are making inflation metrics misleading.

Posted on October 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. More of that uncharted territory stuff.

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Belarus will not help Putin.

Posted on October 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Sharks are circling Lukashenko and his protector is failing.

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China a prison before the ascent of the emperor.

Posted on October 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. It came to this.

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“In this version of the cosmos, there is no difference between here and there, cause and effect, inside and outside or perhaps even then and now”

Posted on October 14, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A block of marble holds every sculpture ever made. Also, you don’t exist.

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“Should we take care of kids we don’t make any money off of, or use the bed for an adult who needs a bunch of expensive tests?”

Posted on October 14, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Pay less for other things, pay more for pedes care.

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“The human neurons multiplied in the rat brain until they numbered about three million, making up about a third of the cortex on one side of the rat brain.”

Posted on October 14, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “On learning tests … they scored no better than other rats.”

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“talk of nudging both sides toward a negotiated settlement, common among some U.S. allies early in the war, has all but evaporated”

Posted on October 14, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Putin’s cruelty has concentrated minds. We are dealing with a monster.

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Wells Fargo excels in Zelle Fraud.

Posted on October 13, 2022 by jgordon

Link. They excel at being bad.

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Child care workers find better jobs.

Posted on October 13, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Amazon hires many. Outsourced child care is not economically viable for most unless large subsidies to support big salary increases.

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“Since a peak in early August, reported monkeypox cases in the U.S. have fallen more than 85 percent through yesterday.”

Posted on October 13, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Main mistake: slow to say this was almost entirely a disease of gay men with many partners. Once this was known at risk men modified behavior.

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“yearslong relationships and other forms of social interactions between individual chimpanzees and gorillas”

Posted on October 12, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Happens with chimps and humans, similarly distant.

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“Musk spoke directly with Russian president Vladimir Putin before Musk last week proposed ending Russia’s attack on Ukraine by essentially starting from a point that gave Putin everything he wanted”

Posted on October 12, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Henry Ford 2.0

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“In the poll we have in the field right now, only 0.4 percent of dials have yielded a completed interview. If you were employed as one of our interviewers at a call center, you would have to dial numbers for two hours to get a single completed interview

Posted on October 12, 2022 by jgordon

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