Link. “The best way to educate vulnerable adults about this problem would be a targeted Facebook and Instagram advertising program. These would be paid ads to vulnerable users to remind them that beautiful young women do not do not send flirtatious messages to strangers.”
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“feedback loop between asset prices and corporate borrowing”
Link. Econ Nobel explained. Does this mean bull markets promote bank failures?
“Each of the more than 10,000 worlds that users have created in Horizon can accommodate only a couple dozen people at a time.”
Link. Informative NYT review of Third Life (aka Metaverse – Horizon). Kids, gamers, and stoners most enthusiastic.
California’s Bullet Train disaster.
Link.
“several of these sites offering this dangerous advice were also trying to get me to download and install software, generally housekeeping and clean-up utilities”
Link. Translation: the authors of these utilities are trying to hurt you.
Gerrymandering: “By some measures, this is the fairest House map of the last 40 years”
Link. Cohn’s record is spotty but this is positive if true.
The best of Russia crossing into Georgia.
Link. Admirable Russians choosing the most effective protest. Denying Putin their talents.
“The Guangzhou Library offers book sterilizing machines, which look like high-tech refrigerators”
Link. COVID is not spread by library books. China is bonkers.
Uganda’s Ebola Sudan strain has no current vaccine.
Link. Trials vaccines hopeful.
Culture shift: Marin goes vaxx.
Link. Anti-vaxx now a mark of stupidity. Shaming works.
NYT very gingerly notes abortion bans mean more Downs children.
Link. I wondered when they’d get around to this. GOP women also abort Downs fetus.
If China invades Taiwan Apple and customers will be collateral damage.
Link. No way Apple survives.
iOS Fail: photo and document caches eat space but aren’t purged.
Link. Somewhere between a bug and a dumb.
Google Maps Improvements: “Since launching in the U.S. and Canada, eco-friendly routing has helped remove an estimated half a million metric tons of carbon emissions “
Link. A rare Google product that is not dying.
Stage Manager is dumb and sucks.
Link. Windows are good.
2016 Eero support sunset. “Amazon offers a trade-in discount of 25% off a new Eero 6, Eero 6+, or Eero Pro 6, along with an Amazon gift card for between $10 and $45.”
Link. Wish Apple had stayed in market but happy with our 2022 Eero.
“There’s also Time Zone Change, which can help you transition your medication timing when you travel to a different time zone”
Link. IOS medications app is a serious project. A tutorial on how to use it.
NYT frontline reporting from Ukraine.
Link. Big victories and tragic costs.
“Times Square, a shopping district of Fort Myers Beach that had a boardwalk and numerous tourist attractions, is almost entirely gone.”
Link. The before-after satellite image videos are enlightening.
The Italian mystery of the missing toilet seats
Link. Very weird. Supposedly people broke them by standing on them.
“veil requirements … making conservative families more comfortable allowing their daughters to go to university … Today, women make up more than half of university graduates.”
Link. Sow the wind.
“an orca like Starboard—clearly well-versed in killing great white sharks—may be teaching others how to take down the apex predators.”
Link. Orca are tough bastards.
“One lesson Xi took from Tiananmen was that art and literature could be a threat to the party, presaging the shift to stricter censorship under his rule.”
Link. “Weeks after the Tiananmen crackdown, in July 1989, Xi hiked into the backcountry with a straw hat and walking stick.”
Robocall carriers face doom: cutoff from national voice network.
Link. Akabis, Cloud4, Global UC, Horizon Technology Group, Morse Communications, Sharon Telephone Company, SW Arkansas Telecommunications and Technology
Zelle is a bank run scam.
Link. Don’t use it.
“virtually every Twitter employee I’ve spoken to in the last six months has told me that he or she plans to leave if Mr. Musk takes over.”
Link. “There was already no escaping Mr. Musk. Now, looking away will be truly impossible.”
Recovering Google Workspace: A Detective Story
Link. Very clever moves. The key vulnerability was a lapsed domain (of course). Several Google flaws made it harder. “always be your own administrator. And if you’re a professional or friend setting something up for someone, give that person agency to solve problems without being dependent on you”
COVID vaccination in US: “By late 2021, the Hispanic rate was higher than the white rate, and the Black rate was almost as high as the white rate, according to the C.D.C. As a result, the racial gap in death rates has also disappeared.”
Link. Helps unvaccinated are now MAGA whites.
“You’d think if the labor market were really tight, we’d see employment top out and real wages go up,”
Link. The unemployment rate is now a misleading statistic.
“‘Without me, they married me,’” she said.”
Link. Lyman residents on Russia.
Carter is 98.
Link. In wheelchair now. He is not immortal. Wife a nimble 95.
Hydrogen returns: “As electrolyzers drop in cost, green hydrogen will fill in many of the nooks and crannies of decarbonization that solar, wind, and batteries can’t reach.”
Link. Always bet on the engineers.
When the GOP abandoned democracy: “senators wanted to know why they should remove him. After all, he was giving them the judges they wanted and permitting them to run the country as they wished”
Link. Trump’s first impeachment crimes seem even worse now.
What to read to understand Xi Jinping | The Economist.
Link. Absolutely nothing useful in this article. Hope CIA has more.
“What is so illuminating about the Musk messages is just how unimpressive, unimaginative, and sycophantic the powerful men in Musk’s contacts appear to be.”
Link. The road to power requires a lot of massage.
“now-governor of Florida Ron DeSantis was one of the 67 House Republicans who voted against a $9.7 billion federal flood insurance assistance package for the victims of Hurricane Sandy”
Link. He’s such a slimeball.
“successful mass employment of GMLRS by Ukraine has proven the validity of the US Army’s AirLand Battle doctrine of the 1980s.”
Link. Lessons of war.
“the Roman Empire, existed between 27 BC and 476 AD. The Byzantine Empire lasted from 395 AD until 1453 AD.”
Link. Byzantine phase of Empire lasted twice as long as Roman phase. Never thought of it that way.
UMN: “Assaults around the university have more than tripled, with 37 so far this year compared to 10 in 2021”
Link. U has restarted MPLS PD relationships and sidelined progressive students.
Hemp-derived delta-8 is often contaminated due to sloppy synthesis.
Link. They don’t quite follow pharma practices.
“the spacecraft sent back a series of photographs of the asteroid, Dimorphos, as it approached at more than 14,000 miles per hour.”
Link. Planetary defense begins. One of those historic moments with a wee little article.
“injectable PrEP to be a huge success, nearly eliminating women’s risk of contracting H.I.V., and to be 88 percent more effective than the daily pill.”
Link. Depot Med q2m.
“This procedure of inventing particles and then ruling them out has been going on so long that there are thousands of tenured professors with research groups who make a living from this.”
Link. When do we call a timeout on particle physics?
Factory Jobs: “pharmaceutical plants, craft breweries and ice-cream makers”
Link. Not, so far, vehicles or phones or restoring.
“more than 300 Chinese companies making E.V.s, ranging from discount offerings below $5,000 to high-end models that rival Tesla”
Link. Prices much lower than US.
“Zangara tried to shoot the president-elect Franklin Roosevelt in Miami, and succeeded mainly in killing Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago”
Link. History is like this.
Apple’s guide to new iOS 16 features might be the best guide.
Link. I’ve seen lots of articles on iOS 16 new features, but I like the official Apple Overview and “All New Features” the best.
Apple’s official guide to finding the iOS 16 user guide on web and ePUB.
Link. Funny there’s not a direct link to the ePUB version of the guide. The new features chapter is always worth a scan.
EJ Dionne: “Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will work harder if we give them less.”
Link. Via Twitter. Saving for future reference.
Incel online “community”: 406 users, some obsessive.
Link. A lot of press for a tiny number of posters. Likely most or all have psychiatric disorders.