Link. Droplet/aerosol is a false dichotomy but embedded in contracts and regulations and law so impossible to dislodge.
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Rand Paul is not a board certified ophthamologist.
Link. No quality hospital would accept him on staff. Litigation risk too high. The article confuses his board status with his degree however.
State unemployment system crash wasn’t COBOL problem.
Link. This should be presentstion to Biden era Senate.
Firmware and the iMac Retina 5K 27-inch Late 2015 (iMac17,1): a hardware fault? – The Eclectic Light Company
Link. Very likely Apple knows and doesn’t want to pay for a recall.
Michelle Tidball is Kanye VP on my MN ballot
Link. Kushner pick.
Remote education basically a disaster.
Link. Tries to be upbeat but this is real bad.
“most of the $1 billion that Congress allocated under the Cares Act for purchases of medical equipment and protective gear under the Defense Production Act was shifted to the Defense Department, which spent most of the money — $688 million — on semi
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“Even though Derkach is a former member of a pro-Russian party who attended the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB in Moscow, Giuliani has consistently defended his relationship with Derkach”
Link. Giuliani probably thinks a KGB agent is his friend. Kind of sad.
Why N95 masks are still in short supply months into covid-19 pandemic?
Link. Trump. Of course.
“Dr. Redfield’s responses to the emails said that he would call senior aides sounding resigned to the orders and asking how to navigate Mr. Caputo’s demands. Often, he tried to delay or ignore Mr. Caputo until the tension subsided.”
Link. Caputo and Alexander should have been running a car dealership.
Colds are back.
Link. I’m seeing them. We’ll get to see how confection plays out.
The Jet-Propelled Couch: psychosis, delusion, and psychotherapy.
Link. “Those of us who treat patients with this degree of dysfunction more regularly understand that there is a much more complicated dance, rather than a simple black or white dichotomy, between combatting and joining in the delusions.”
Strongbox: “a password manager for Macs and iOS devices that’s compatible with KeePass and Password Safe vault formats”
Link. Not cheap but I like a lot about it.
CDC screwup: “Experts with knowledge of the incident said on Monday that the latest reversal appeared to be a genuine mistake in the agency’s scientific review process, rather than the result of political meddling. Officials said the agency would soon
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QAnon cult: the feminine side.
Link. The 70s were like this.
How China controls foreign journalists.
Link. We need a lot better than Trump to manage China.
“Cuba, a police state with a strong public health care system, was able to quickly control the coronavirus”
Link. But then tourism collapsed.
“A Tesla may even be cheaper to own than a BMW because it never needs oil changes or new spark plugs and electricity is cheaper, per mile, than gasoline”
Link. Electric cars less expensive than gas by 2025.
Apple screwed their devs this release.
Link. Their customers too. What an amazing thrash.
“eliminating the mandate penalties would reduce marketplace enrollment by 2 percent and increase premiums by 0.7 percent.”
Link. GOP thought killing it would end ACA. We and they were wrong.
Matt Blaze: Strzok’s book sheds light on Cuba’s missing 9s.
Link. Shortwave cryptography.
Fixing a defect Safari install.
Link. It’s not easy to redownload.
Nursing homes purge medicaid patients.
Link. They are nasty, but also medicaid reimbursement is too low.
To Do and Task apps: Microsoft’s solution is very 2020.
Link. Started out on loose leaf page, then Franklin Planner, then PalmPilot and DateBk4 …
The State of SwiftUI is bad.
Link. Hopeless?
“Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform was launched on Thursday by former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor and Elizabeth Neumann, another former senior Trump DHS official”
Link. Good.
COVID winter is coming.
Link. Give thanks for the administrations relentless focus on enhanced masks, air flow, telework, and support for outdoor socializing.
“flaw in Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol that could allow an unauthenticated attacker with network access to a domain controller to completely compromise all Active Directory identity services”
Link. Long weekend for many.
“Admiral Giroir did not respond to a request for comment Friday on the new guidance”
Link. Sit on it.
“Her project was to free both sexes, men as well as women, from the roles that society had assigned them and to harness the Constitution to break down the structures by which the state maintained and enforced those separate spheres.”
Link. Not just a loving obit, her biography in miniature.
“former Florida State basketball player Michael Ojo died of apparent heart complications while playing in a pro league in Serbia, shortly after the 27-year-old had recovered from Covid-19.”
Link. I want some expert opinions…
“My first discovery is that Disk Utility can’t create a disk image from an APFS volume at all, despite the promises in its Help book”
Link. Recommemds DropDMG.
How cities can manage the personal truck plague.
Link. Less parking most effective.
“We propose that through consumption of plant chlorophyll pigments, animals, too, are able to derive energy directly from sunlight”
Link. That’s different.
FBI Director: ” Mr. Wray’s descriptions of Russian interference and white supremacist efforts echoed a draft of a homeland security threat assessment that a whistle-blower said department leaders had blocked.”
Link. Disobeying der fuhrer.
“There’s a good workaround which you can use with Big Sur until asr is fixed and Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper! can clone its System volume.”
Link. Or stay on Mojave until asr is fixed.
“who should be tested for the coronavirus was not written by C.D.C. scientists and was posted to the agency’s website despite their serious objections”
Link. They need to leak more.
“The U.S. issued more than 61,000 skilled visas in January. That number fell to just 494 in April”
Link. I’m shocked.
“One of the major issues of the 2016 election was the claim that then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch had to recuse herself from any involvement in a charging decision with respect to Hillary Clinton because she briefly met with former President Clinton
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Firmware fundamentals: “Firmware doesn’t downgrade”
Link. You cannot truly roll a Mac back to a prior OS. Update thoughtfully.
VMware Fusion 12: “ take full advantage of Apple’s hypervisor APIs so that we no longer need kernel extensions to run Fusion on Mac”
Link. Love to know if Aperture/High Sierra works.
App Clips in iOS 14: “Bikes and scooters could be rented with a single tap of an NFC tag”
Link. Now I get it.
Wikipedia: value proofs.
Link. Why do so many profs hate Wikipedia? So screwed-up.
Authoring Mac Help Books in 2020
Link. If only Apple were not destitute.
Trump: “a lot of people think masks are not good.” Asked who said masks aren’t good, Trump replied, “Waiters.”
Link. Include this in the history books.
7 Trump election corruption tactics
Link. All grounds for impeachment.
Safari 14 is now available as a standalone update for macOS Catalina and Mojave users
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Trump and COVID: “This was a journey straight into a mountainside, with countless missed opportunities to turn away. A system was in place to save lives and contain disaster. The people in charge of the system could not be bothered to avoid the doomed c
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“If Churchill and FDR could team up with Stalin, then surely we in the Resistance can temporarily ally ourselves with the rare Republicans who chose their stated principles over power when tested”
Link. Hug a Lincolner today.
Medal of Honor: Army soldier Thomas P. Payne.
Link. “Army” Delta force.