Link. That’s a lot of labor pool to suddenly lose.
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“Ventura looks fully baked.” Hoakley.
Link. A trusted source is keen. I’ll still wait and see but encouraging news.
MN: “4.1 job openings for every unemployed worker”
Link. 2% unemployment.
“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.”
Link. Cloud providers are taking the profit.
Troubleshooting macOS / iOS / OS X keychains
Link. File away for future needs. It’s weird that keychains are reliable, so many Apple things are not.
The Bank of Apple.
Link. An interesting mix of business opportunity and, I suspect, social mission. Banks will be concerned.
Inflation, abortion, crime are MN issues.
Link. Sorry, democracy not on the list. Climate non-existent. This is people.
“Trump appears knowingly to have lied, in writing, under oath, to a court.”
Link. He’s usually much more careful. A sign of his desperation.
Walker’s “dissociative identity disorder”
Link. Interesting character.
Berlusconi: “Mr. Putin had sent him 20 bottles of vodka “and a very kind letter” for his 86th birthday last month”
Link. These sociopaths are legit friends. Trump same. Only friends they can have.
ERAP2 migrations protect against Yersinia pestis but increase Crohn’s risk.
Link. Selected in Euros by Black plague.
“downloads of dating apps have significantly increased in the countries to which Russian men fled”
Link. Moscow and St Petersburg see major effects.
“switched to recycled aluminum because he could not source enough aluminum domestically …. routers, lathes, cutters and millers … imported from China”
Link. Reshoring: even raw materials a challenge.
South Korean shows downside of the One App.
Link. No alternatives.
A flawed article on physicians shirking wheelchair patients.
Link. Suggested fixes evade the obvious – the time pressure problem.
Zen and the Art of Aperture.
Link. Many still love the long abandoned photo management product. I think we shall never see it’s like again.
“This war has gone on long enough. It’s time to negotiate with Mr. Hitler.”
Link. The GOP today.
“Domane+ SLR 9 eTap P1 (US$13,000 … SRAM Red eTap AXS 1×12 electronic groupset”
Link. eBike progress is amazing to watch. Prices likewise impress.
Americans are not that keen on democracy.
Link. Set aside all the spinning in the article, the core of it is that many Americans are willing to give up on democracy.
Biden on Saudi: “He is going to act methodically, strategically, and he’s going to take his time…”
Link. MBS also betting on GOP win. But he won’t see Dark Brandon’s knife …
“underneath their radically changed human interface, macOS Ventura still has Preference Panes that work essentially the same as they did in Monterey.”
Link. Great history review.
“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.”
Link. Or the trillion dollar coin. Because the GOP is insane.
Cancer Vaccines tested in select patients.
Link. One researcher has been at this since 1993.
“bananas were domesticated more than 7,000 years ago on the island of New Guinea”
Link. They bred the seeds out.
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.”
Link. Crack.
Kyiv after the terror attacks.
Link. London should become a sister city.
Apple Savings: turning bankish.
Link. Curious.
“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”
Link. Warning: Daily Bee. Anyway, I didn’t know that one. Silly but fun.
Explainer: Apple Keychain basics.
Link. A deep geeky analysis.
Theft problem when mailing an iPhone to Apple.
Link. Sender is at risk.
AppleScripts to speed Java compile and execute with BBEdit.
Link. Copied from a DAVALIGN article. Most applicable to students
Metaverse end: “No girls at the Hot Girl Summer Rooftop Pool Party, and no one to murder in Murder Village.”
Link. One day perhaps, but not this day.
macOS security updates: “Not only is macOS inherently unreliable, but it hides its failings from the user.”
Link. Users need more ways to litigate against Apple.
“…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.”
Link. Thiel and Musk have no religious beliefs, but they will use religion to further their goals.
Wagner group: “more experienced and reliable troops have also largely stopped fighting, as if he were saving them for something more important”
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.
Fallows Long COVID experience
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.
“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.”
Link. Every so often the Coast Guard does a miraculous rescue.
K: Pandemic effects are making inflation metrics misleading.
Link. More of that uncharted territory stuff.
Belarus will not help Putin.
Link. Sharks are circling Lukashenko and his protector is failing.
China a prison before the ascent of the emperor.
Link. It came to this.
“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”
Link. A block of marble holds every sculpture ever made. Also, you don’t exist.
“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?”
Link. Pay less for other things, pay more for pedes care.
“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.”
Link. “On learning tests … they scored no better than other rats.”
“talk of nudging both sides toward a negotiated settlement, common among some U.S. allies early in the war, has all but evaporated”
Link. Putin’s cruelty has concentrated minds. We are dealing with a monster.
Wells Fargo excels in Zelle Fraud.
Link. They excel at being bad.
Child care workers find better jobs.
Link. Amazon hires many. Outsourced child care is not economically viable for most unless large subsidies to support big salary increases.
“Since a peak in early August, reported monkeypox cases in the U.S. have fallen more than 85 percent through yesterday.”
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.
“yearslong relationships and other forms of social interactions between individual chimpanzees and gorillas”
Link. Happens with chimps and humans, similarly distant.
“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”
Link. Henry Ford 2.0
“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
Link.