Link. It makes a lot of sense.
“what the BCA collected at the parking garage where Smith was killed: a Smith and Wesson M&P 380 handgun from the front driver side of the vehicle and six Blazer 380 Auto cartridge cases from the driver’s side”
Link. Lots of weapons and ammunition – per the authorities.
Apple Card Family has a few bugs.
Link. Let others do the testing. Waits for August.
ScreenCastsOnline: “Mac & iOS video tutorial services, SCO provides top quality video tutorials to Apple Mac and iOS users.”
Link.
Juneteenth intro from 2018.
Link. 2018 was decades ago.
“59,800 people did not vote for Trump despite voting for mostly GOP candidates down the ballot”
Link. Biden beat Trump because he was an acceptable alternative for many white non-college men who vote GOP.
“Of the 14 8,000-meter peaks, “six or seven,” Gildea said, are ripe for false summits”
Link. Not a scandal, but messy.
casirivimab and imdevimab combo works for bad COVID.
Link. Especially for immune deficient.
How to Get a ‘Select All’ Button for Webpages in iOS Safari
Link. Insane that we need this.
“Select a block of text: Double-tap and hold the first word in the block, then drag to the last word.”
Link. iOS is a toy.
“Shift-Command-D opens the Finder window to the desktop.”
Link. Oldness makes learning these a worthy challenge.
“sponsored by Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) and co-sponsored by Burgess Owens (R-UT), mandates API-driven data portability and interoperability”
Link. Thompson’s review is best so far. Apple brought this upon themselves.
Mac Site-Specific Browser for Google Docs
Link. This is an amazingly thorough review. Happy I subscribe. “combination of Coherence X and BrowserFairy” was his choice but I might go with simpler option.
“iCloud deletes backups after 6 months, without telling you that it’s giong to do this, and even if your account isn’t full.”
Link. WTF. WTF. WTF. WTF. WTF. WTF.
Social class in America — race, wealth, education, profession.
Link. Noah simplified by omitting physical fitness — the newest class marker. (Religion, however, is fairly meaningless.)
“When I heard earlier in the week that the House had passed the Juneteenth bill on an overwhelming bipartisan basis I was stunned”
Link. It was unexpected.
“iPadOS is far from being as capable as macOS”
Link. People who say otherwise lose all credibility instantly.
“The monthly global average usage per smartphone now exceeds 10GB”
Link. Global. What year was home broadband average 20GB/month? (Assume average 2 users/home)
Unemployment insurance fraud during the pandemic.
Link. “An estimated $400 billion was subject to fraud…more than the entire 2021 budgets of the Army and Navy combined,” Funded North Korea for next decade.
“all-natural RNA idea has turned out to be a mistake, and that the CureVac agent is getting broken down too quickly to be effective, both inside and outside cells”
Link. America got lucky.
Costco sells a $430 fat bike.
Link. Remarkably cheap and supposedly usable if assembed correctly. 4” tires.
“bold decisive action on the part of the U.S. government, which set aside our usual stinginess and skepticism of welfare spending, was instrumental in staving off economic devastation for millions of vulnerable people.”
Link.
Focus is the most important feature in iOS 15
Link. Sounds complex but maybe useful. First I’ve read of this.
Apple privacy protections 2021-2022.
Link. The full summary is impressive.
iMessage State Not Syncing
Link. Sounds like once the bug breaks message sync there is no hope of a fix.
WaPo summarizes Trump’s attempt to seize power.
Link. Historians will debate how close he came.
“Two failings still trouble Apple and its amazing products: bugs and documentation.”
Link. The documentation fail is comprehensive.
“skip Amazon for anything expensive or at high risk of shipper theft/fraud”
Link. Is any online vendor better? (via Tsai)
For the People Act (H.R. 1) is not politically viable.
Link. Best summary to date.
“high wages spur technological progress that pushes up productivity, which then justifies even higher wages, creating a virtuous cycle”
Link. A newer model of development.
Pain in the knee on descending stairs …
Link. …My chondromalacia patellae is active again. 20 hang power snatch, 32 overhead squats, l200 rope jump 10 miles of bicycling and it’s feeling better. Textbook therapy.
Culture gone mad: the arson cancel.
Link. I’m too small to cancel. FTR I hate riots — even if they are somehow effective. There are better means.
Arizona is the Zyklon B state.
Link. The humane approach is to detonate explosives strapped to the head. Or maybe give up on execution.
12- and 14-year-old Florida foster children face charges.
Link. “Florida’s child welfare system … was privatized in the early 2000s”
Arthur Staats, father of the ?time out? for children, dies at 97
Link. Left wife of 68 years. An agreeable obit.
“suspending their participation in U.S. Marshals task forces until local law enforcement officers were allowed to wear body cameras.”
Link. The killing exposed an insane US Marshalls policy. I want a story on why this wasn’t fixed years ago.
Alzheimer’s and Amyloid: How even a perfect aducanumab could help some and hurt others.
Link. If amyloid is the brain’s way of “retiring” flaky neurons.
Unemployment fraud is vast.
Link. International and domestic criminals.
“having managers model taking personal/sick/vacation days)”
Link. I do this modeling. Some staff (more women) appreciate, others (more men) dislike. Ambitious people often dislike work/life balance, others simply don’t need much sleep.
“Dutch court ruled that Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world’s biggest oil companies, must cut its global carbon dioxide emissions by 45% by 2030.”
Link. Too much happening. Can’t keep up.
Mao Zedong saved civilization.
Link. If it IS saved we can thank the mad Emperor.
“In 1975, there were 7.7 people in the Chinese workforce for every person over sixty; by 2050, the ratio will be only 1.6 employed persons for every retiree
Link. China is impossible.
Israel and Hamas: “The war should be seen “not as a war between enemies but as collaboration between colleagues.”
Link. Netenyahu is best friend Hamas could have.
Why we don’t tax weakth.
Link. Nobody taxes unrealized gains. We could tax finamcial transactions.
“The neurons that represented the smell of an apple in May and those that represented the same smell in June were as different from each other as those that represent the smells of apples and grass at any one time.”
Link. Like rewriting SSD storage. Representational drift.
“Private equity has conquered the American tax system.”
Link. Our rulers.
Fanhouse vs. Apple: Patreon and WeChat get special deals.
Link. Cook is the Mitch McConnell of tech.
The Real System Requirements for Apple’s 2021 Operating Systems
Link. Old machines will labor.
Cautious macOS Monterey optimism.
Link. Maybe it won’t be as bad as the last two.
Ways in which American society has become less religious but more proper.
Link. A kind of social conservatism. Boomers know this, we are bemused by how careful the young are.