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Bug Out Bag Packing List for Families.

Posted on July 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. We have one!

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Walking Venice.

Posted on July 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “Venice had made sense once, long ago, and now no longer did. It had become an epicenter of senselessness.”

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“the only type of Disk Image which can be relied on to deliver acceptable write performance is the sparse bundle”

Posted on July 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Bugs.

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Hailstones the size of a soccer ball.

Posted on July 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Sample from new XKCD what-if book.

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“Supreme Court justices in the majority in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision that overturned Roe v. Wade ignored the actual history those organizations provided the court”

Posted on July 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. SCOTUS just made shit up.

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Witness intimidation: “I’m protecting who I need to protect, you know, I’ll continue to stay in the good graces in Trump world”

Posted on July 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Trump really is above the law.

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Disable Live Text for Easier Selecting in Preview

Posted on July 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Obscure setting location.

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Pruning iOS “System Data”

Posted on July 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “classic Apple situation: remove the ability to directly access files to make things simpler and more foolproof, but then if something goes wrong the only tool you have is nuking it from orbit.”

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“Unlike in states where cannabis is legal and heavily regulated, in Minnesota you don’t even need a special license to sell THC edibles”

Posted on July 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. It’s a novel approach.

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M2 Mac Overheats.

Posted on July 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Apple’s perennial sin. Never buy new hardware without reviewing heat issues.

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“For about $200,000, an unidentified person or group is offering what is described as data on a billion Chinese citizens”

Posted on July 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Every Intel org that doesn’t have a copy just bought one.

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Shootings here, shootings there, shootings everywhere.

Posted on July 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Vote Dem.

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“Dinosaurs living at high latitudes just so happened to already have winter coats [while] many of their Triassic competitors died out.”

Posted on July 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Very high CO2 and huge sulfur clouds made Triassic earth a hellhole. Poles only refuge.

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Literate non-Olds surprised TikTok marketed products are counterfeits.

Posted on July 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Premature dementia.

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Write speed, macOS: “encrypted disk image the worst of all, at less than 1%”

Posted on July 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Wow. That’s insane.

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“she was waiting for Murdoch in the UK when she received an email from him telling her that their marriage was over and that she should only communicate with him through his lawyers”

Posted on July 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I’m going to have to start reading tabloids now.

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2700 Tour Divide “race”: “There is no entry fee and no prize”

Posted on July 4, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I know people who tried this year. Mostly hike a bike in snow.

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Map Age Guide

Posted on July 4, 2022 by jgordon

Link. XKCD classic.

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“We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our states.”

Posted on July 3, 2022 by jgordon

Link. 1964. When Dems were bad guys.

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COVID inspired reflections on economics

Posted on July 3, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Science has done awesome things. In 2022 there are Freer’s stents though – statins work.

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Cannabis hyperemesis: “Capsaicin cream may work on vanilloid receptors in hypothalamus (similar to the action of a hot shower). “

Posted on July 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Very weird.

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“TSH elevations are often transient in the elderly (often during non-thyroid related acute conditions).”

Posted on July 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Easy to overtreat.

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States take hostages: Griner and more.

Posted on July 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. They don’t pay a price. China, S Korea, Russia, Venezuela, Iran…

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Urine acidity in alcohol diuresis in man. 1946.

Posted on July 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. This 1946 study would be easy to repeat and I suspect pH drop contributes to LUTS.

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GOP blackmails Google into distributing their scamware.

Posted on July 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Malice for sure, but they are so stupid. So both.

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“May 2017, he reported owing between $60,004 and $200,000 on three credit cards and a loan against his retirement account.”

Posted on July 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Kavanaugh lived well. He has since done well for his owner.

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“Graphing Calculator began in 1985 in C for the 128K Macintosh”

Posted on July 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “… still uses the Classic Mac OS 9 cooperative threading APIs in order to run code frozen in the 1980s”

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“But here we are. It got passed and we are going to do our best to support it”

Posted on July 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “board also does not have a lab to test hemp-derived THC products, but Phillips said the board is working to set up one.”

MN Board of Pharmacy abruptly regulating edibles.

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US government: “only a country with as much already in its favor as the U.S. has— size, location, assets, natural riches, ability to absorb endless waves of newcomers and become the platform for their success—could have gone so far for so long with

Posted on July 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Obsolete.

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“Webarchives are now making their way into Apple’s open source WebKit”

Posted on July 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Webarchive needs to become a standard.

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Disinflation signs.

Posted on July 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Encouraging.

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HCR summarizes the SCOTUS crisis.

Posted on July 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The filibuster will end.

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Delta Air Lines paid $10,000 a person for bump volunteers.

Posted on June 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The new rules work.

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Set price alerts for cheap flights

Posted on June 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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PowerPhotos fills in some Photos gaps.

Posted on June 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. There’s a PhotoKit API. I used predecessor years ago. Sounds essential.

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“anyone who can get into your Apple ID account and either see your phone notifications or redirect an SMS message can delete all your passkeys”

Posted on June 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Is your passkey provider specified on initial connection to a site?

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F-16s to Turkey after NATO agreement.

Posted on June 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Arms were twisted, deals made. As it should be.

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“Two different ancient wolf populations, one in Asia and another in the Middle East or surrounding area, contributed DNA to modern dogs.”

Posted on June 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Given wolves dogs are kind of inevitable.

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Firefox now automatically removes tracking parameters from URLs to enhance privacy

Posted on June 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Want this everywhere.

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“activity in America and Canada is now at around nine-tenths of pre-pandemic levels. Global activity is only around one-sixth lower than before the virus emerged”

Posted on June 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. It was(?) bad. And in 15y it will fade into history.

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Solar flares: “different latitudes on the molten star rotate at different rates—36 days at the poles, and only 25 days at the equator. Very quickly, those lines stretch and tangle, forming magnetic knots…”

Posted on June 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. You might get 15 min warning to shutdown your phone and other gear.

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HCQ retinopathy: “far lower estimate compared to previously reported figures”

Posted on June 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Good news for SLE and RA patients.

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“Turkey had dropped its objections to the membership of Sweden and Finland”

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Another quiet win for Biden and the west.

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“The president that emerged from her account was volatile, violent and vicious, single-minded in his quest to overturn an election he lost”

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A lunatic.

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Los Angeles County Votes to Return Beach Seized in 1924 From a Black Family

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “.. Bruce’s Beach, will be transferred to descendants of Charles and Willa Bruce, who bought the land in 1912 and built a resort.”

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Flu vaccinated group has 40% lower risk Alzheimer’s than unvaccinated.

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Lots of vaccine reluctant patients will hear about this. Case-control so only suggestive. Thought is respiratory infections (COVID, Flu, etc) + immune response -> accelerated Alzheimer process.

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Google caves to GOP pressure for filter-free GOP spam.

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I hate Google.

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“we’re left with no good way to handle someone who has lost all their digital credentials—computer, phone, backup, hardware token, wallet with ID cards—in a catastrophic house fire.”

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I have offsite backups with the encryption code in a safe deposit box.

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A Metabolite of Exercise: “Lac-Phe is produced under exercise conditions in mice, racehorses, and humans, and just the fact that it’s being made in CNDP2-containing cells shows how wide-ranging exercise effects can be.”

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Neat physiology.

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“the virus is evolving so quickly that new vaccine formulations are out of date before such trials are even finished”

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “an accelerated process was already used to update the flu vaccine each year”

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