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“there are big advantages to rule by a strongman who can simply tell people what to do, these advantages are more than offset by the absence of free discussion and independent thought. Nobody can tell the strongman that he’s wrong”

Posted on March 11, 2022 by jgordon

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“highest death rates were seen in parts of Latin America, as well as Central Europe and Southern sub-Saharan Africa, though similar rates were seen in some Southern U.S. states as well.”

Posted on March 11, 2022 by jgordon

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‘Bennett wants Ukraine to surrender’: Ukraine senior official says Israel’s mediation is useless.

Posted on March 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Israel has been compromised.

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“American army doctrine says that to face down an insurgency—in this case, one backed by nato—occupiers need 20 to 25 soldiers per 1,000 people; Russia has a little over four.”

Posted on March 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Putin goes neo-Stalin to keep power.

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Bioweapon conspiracy: “been circulated in recent weeks by far-right American political figures and groups, including Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host; and QAnon acolytes. Glenn Greenwald,”

Posted on March 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Xi needs distraction from surging COVID.

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“This season’s flu vaccine has offered little to no protection against getting a mild or moderate case of influenza.”

Posted on March 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Might still help for severe disease but was a miss.

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“the oversized trackpad on the 16-inch (Intel) MacBook Pro drives me crazy with its accidental input and misclassified clicks. There’s no way I’m buying another one of those, so 14-inch it is.”

Posted on March 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. MacBook Air or Pro are still choices for most of us.

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“Any of the NAS systems I reviewed would make an excellent replacement for a Time Capsule.”

Posted on March 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I use Synology.

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Omicron spreads across China.

Posted on March 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. As expected.

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Texas anti-trans story.

Posted on March 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Mr Younger quite the character: “marriage was annulled by a court on the grounds of fraud by Mr. Younger, who had misrepresented his employment and marital history.”

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“Now that Russia has made these false claims, and China has seemingly endorsed this propaganda, we should all be on the lookout for Russia to possibly use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine.”

Posted on March 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Like Trump they accuse others of their own intent.

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Xkcd: Qua qua qua.

Posted on March 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Today I needed the explainer.

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“You can drive up to five displays, including four 6K Pro Display XDRs over Thunderbolt and a 4K display over HDMI.”

Posted on March 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Mac Studio is nice.

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Raspberry Pi: “goal was simply to sell enough to increase the number of CS applicants by — this is true — 100 students.”

Posted on March 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. They want to go public. So that’s over then.

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“In Selma, a judge stopped voter registration meetings by prohibiting public gatherings of more than two people.”

Posted on March 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Must read. I didn’t know how many were murdered. We have evil judges now.

“sheriff’s deputies, and Alabama state troopers, beat and shot an unarmed 26-year-old, Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was marching for voting rights at a demonstration in his hometown of Marion, Alabama”

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Goodreads Data Loss.

Posted on March 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The Cloud dissolves data we want and preserves what we don’t want.

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Never Change Your Password.

Posted on March 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Good reference for a practice most of us follow. NIST was supposed to update its guidance. Omits problem that passwords must be tappable. That’s a big one.

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“A recent study revealed that Russian money has corrupted British politics; now we are beginning to learn just how much of it has done the same in the U.S.”

Posted on March 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Britain has been template for Russian corruption of US.

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“Most displays sold are 27”. 4k 27” displays force you to choose between crisp, but oversized text or appropriately sized, but slightly blurry text.”

Posted on March 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Hope fixed by time I get to 4K.

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Why is modern software a pale shadow of what it could be? Why are so many paths lost to us?

Posted on March 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I don’t think Winer has the full answer, but “local minima trap” is part of the answer.

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“There is a backstop—the craton, that ancient unbudgeable mass at the center of the continent—and, sooner or later, North America will rebound like a spring.”

Posted on March 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”

1/3 in my children’s lifetime. Near enough for stock market speculations?

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Will everyone get COVID?

Posted on March 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. They kind of dodge (we don’t know) that question but hint at “yes”. So this is about choosing when.

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Self-Censorship in college.

Posted on March 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Is it primarily women censoring or is it gender neutral?

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“Some 6,283 pedestrians died on U.S streets and roads in 2018, 42% more than a decade ago, while cyclist deaths rose 38%”

Posted on March 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “Euro NCAP added cyclist detection as an evaluation criteria in 2018, and program officials say that within a year over 80% of new automobiles were equipped to avoid striking bike riders”

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“Inversion is building earth-orbiting capsules to deliver goods anywhere in the world from outer space.”

Posted on March 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Seems premature.

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“Microsoft has helped, turning out patches in hours to kill off malware it detects in unclassified systems.”

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “cyberoperations underway, which have been moved in recent days from an operations center in Kyiv to one outside the country, are some of the most classified elements of the conflict”

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Ukraine: Mud, Cold, and War.

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “it’s what I spent much of my professional career treating, studying and researching. I too served ashore during the Falklands War forty years ago, and have suffered cold injury of the hands and feet.”

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“It’s funny how we always complained that iTunes had become a bloated, mastodontic piece of software”

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I knew iTunes’ heirs would be much worse.

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EagleFiler 1.9.7: “$40 new with a 20% discount for TidBITS members”

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Protect email archives from the vagaries of cloud transitions.

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“Douglas Macgregor, whom Trump nominated for ambassador to Germany and then appointed as senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense, telling a Fox News Channel host that Russian forces have been “too gentle” and “I don’t see anything heroic” a

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

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“Tamerlane is always over the horizon, waiting to strike.”

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Old and topical. Keeping civilization intact takes great effort by the 20%.

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Sean Carroll to Johns Hopkins as Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy.

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Excellent news. One of the best science communicators – and researchers in quantum physics fundamentals.

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Police and the Alternatives: addressing America’s crime surge.

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I like this summary.

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3,000 really brave Russians arrested in protests.

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

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What happens when you have an Apple ID without an email address and you change it? (And much more about Apple ID hell.)

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Enter the chaotic realm of Apple IDs, entangled identifiers, iCloud, MobileMe and more.

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“the faint halos of the galaxies that indeed appear to have started to touch one another. Thus, in a manner of speaking, the collision between our two galaxies has already started.”

Posted on March 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Our galaxies will be old when they meet.

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The bug-free windshield.

Posted on March 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “modern single-crop farms simply lack the diverse plant life necessary to support an insect community.”

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The AT&T / Apple eSIM activation fee scam: $30 “discount” and a $30 activation fee

Posted on March 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Apple likely gets a kickback.

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“NATO had mobilized its rapid response force, a kind of military SWAT team, for the first time in history to deter an enemy.”

Posted on March 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Murdoch’s media empire, from Fox to the WSJ, persuaded Putin that Biden was demented and NATO was broken.

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Putin: “if they continue doing what they are doing, they risk the future of Ukrainian statehood”

Posted on March 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A comically weak threat. Doesn’t even make sense in context of Russian propaganda.

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“Chinese companies, determined to regain their market share, began exporting masks below cost, the customers disappeared.”

Posted on March 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Supply chain resilience will require tariffs.

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“despite the public rhetoric ahead of the invasion that the United States was overstating the threat, Mr. Zelensky privately took the warning more seriously and realized the Russians were intent on capturing or killing him”

Posted on March 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Establishing the long term resistance. Article uses “allies” rather like 1942. (iOS autocorrect does not yet recognize “allies”)

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“The United States has delivered nearly 70 percent of the $350 million package to Ukraine’s military”

Posted on March 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Huge effort.

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Not lab leak, wet market.

Posted on March 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I had leaned to lab leak but now I’m wet.

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“Central Bank increased its reserves from $368 billion seven years ago to $630 billion today. With this war chest, Russia would be well prepared to withstand the inevitable sanctions that would come with the invasion of Ukraine.”

Posted on March 4, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Context.

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“Where lions have acquired a taste for the experience, and conditions exist allowing them to climb, they have taken to tree climbing with the leopard-like zeal of converts.”

Posted on March 4, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Like humans they lost tree climbing powers of their ancestors.

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COVID anosmia is collateral damage.

Posted on March 3, 2022 by jgordon

Link. No direct nerve infection.

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“they’re not only running out of gas, but they are running out of food.”

Posted on March 3, 2022 by jgordon

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Alexander Vindman: “what is amazing, what is shocking is the flawed assumptions of the Russian government. The Russian military is not incompetent….”

Posted on March 3, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “Marco Rubio frankly doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It’s kind of frustrating to watch him spout off. What we would call as, you know, like secret squirrel.”

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“Russian authorities have started to crack down and refuse to let people leave.”

Posted on March 3, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Leave Russia that is.

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