Link. If it were found to be a lab escape nobody would be surprised.
Mac firmware problems: “the iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015 – the dreaded iMac17,1.”
Link. Apple’s lemons come up every few years but often take a while to be recognized.
“growing intellectual shift toward the idea of direct cash benefits as the optimal form of government intervention in the economy.”
Link. Rather than setting a higher minimum wage.
China National Digital Currency
Link. “Chinese government more power to monitor finance flows because a digital currency system can record every transaction.” Buries the lede.
“Heidelberg is buying a fleet of hydrogen-powered buses and designing neighborhoods to discourage all vehicles and encourage walking”
Link. The future.
“Once Trump starts squawking, domestic extremists will start walking to the targets he designates in speeches and social media feeds.”
Link. Trump’s malevolence does help FBI know next targets.
COVID Tracking Project: “our data compilation will come to an end on Sunday, March 7,”
Link. Majestic work. We have a functioning governmemt now, so time to rest.
Long term care staff turnover: “average annual rate was 128 percent, with some facilities experiencing turnover that exceeded 300 percent.”
Link. My children know to place me in a 1 star facility with 300% turnover located by a cliff.
After full approval health care employers can mandate immunization.
Link. VA probably will.
“Hindustan Syringes makes its needles from stainless steel strips imported from Japan. The strips are curled into cylinders and welded at the seam”
Link. The supply, design, manufacturing, distribution wonderously global.
Market heat: “second highest since our data began in 1881.”
Link. But in other ways, not so much. New world.
“generous expansion of tax credits for low-income Americans with children, would reduce the poverty rate by more than a quarter for adults and cut the child poverty rate in half.”
Link. Elections matter. So does Manchin.
“companies and organizations that use Microsoft’s Exchange program should assume that they had been hacked sometime between Feb. 26 and March 3”
Link. Always assume China owns you.
Why is my Mac’s Gatekeeper data so out of date?
Link. “data is apparently no longer used by macOS”. Be nice if Apple picked up its trash.
“Exercise equipment shipped by container from Asia to North America more than doubled between September and November”
Link. The containers themselves are in short supply. China rules the world.
“they don’t really care, they’re just going to do what’s right for their business,”
Link. CEOs ready to exterminate workforce post-COVID. But they always were. I don’t get what is new here.
“intermingling of religious faith, conspiratorial thinking, and misguided nationalism on display at the Capitol offered perhaps the most unequivocal evidence yet of the American church’s role in bringing the country to this dangerous moment.”
Link. Russian orthodox church sustained Putin.
The healthy human virome: from virus–host symbiosis to disease – ScienceDirect
Link. On my reading list. Zimmer recommended.
“Democrats gained somewhere between half a percent to one percent among non-college whites and roughly 7 percent among white college graduates”
Link. 7%! Summer riots/defund turned Hispanic voters to GOP.
“Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine,” she added, “because once you’re dead, then that’s a bit too late.”
Link. Woman of the hour.
The weird story of DNP – a drug that reduces weight by mucking up mitochondria
Link. Methamphetamine is definitely safer.
“you missed a payment on your Apple Card” to “we’re locking you out of your Apple ID”.
Link. I really don’t like Apple.
“the proper debate should be about the country and the preservation of the democratic order”
Link. Conservative intellectuals find a noble cause.
“After getting two strikes, the user’s account will be blocked for 12 hours. With three strikes, the account will be blocked for another 12 hours. Four strikes results in a seven-day lockout, while five strikes results in permanent suspension from Twi
Link. Twitter.
“Recruit America’s best high-altitude climbers to place a nuclear powered observation device atop the world’s greatest mountain range”
Link. What similarly insane schemes is CIA pursuing today?
“before long the ecumenicism was gone and the Moral Majority was largely displaced by the Christian Coalition.”
Link. Excellent retrospective from Reagan era CPAC chair. How the GOP collapsed into Trumpism.
“APFS does appear to have achieved its objective of eliminating the routine accumulation of file system errors to which HFS+ was prone. In doing so, it has also removed any need for periodic maintenance.”
Link.
“The fate of humanity in the 21st century and beyond hinges on whether African countries can figure out the riddle of industrialization.”
Link. Or India’s services-first model? It depend most of all on whether humans are still important for manufacturing.
North Dakota: “Two counties in the state have enacted drastic restrictions on new wind projects in an attempt to save coal mining jobs”
Link. Money flows to different people.
Minimum Big Sur M1 update is now 3.1 GB.
Link. All the updates for all the devices in a 5 person household contibutes to blowing a 1 TB cable data cap. This is bad.
Eviction moratorium likely unconstitutional.
Link. No kidding. I am surprised it has gone this long.
How to remove startup items on your Mac
Link. After system migration we need to review these. Which is insane. Login items, launch agent, StartupItems. Check launchctl list.
“in January, Fox reported monthly ratings that fell behind both of its main cable news competitors, CNN and MSNBC, for the first time in 20 years”
Link. “Carlson, who is eight years younger than Hannity, is said to be close with the Murdoch family, particularly Lachlan.” Cancel your cable contract. That’s where Fox gets money.
Survey of people with mostly mild COVID: “persistent symptoms were reported by 17 of 64 patients (26.6%) aged 18 to 39 years, 25 of 83 patients (30.1%) aged 40 to 64 years, and 13 of 30 patients (43.3%) aged 65 years and older.”
Link. Persistent symptoms mostly loss of smell/taste, fatigue, “brain fog”.
Another Apple Discussions thread on M1 Air crashes grows.
Link. These tend to get purged. I suspect problem is much worse when doing Fast-User Switching.
“Hidden variables theories that violate statistical independence give Superdeterminism its name.”
Link. Sabine skirts the full implications for “free will”. I wonder if this is not “many worlds”from an orthogonal perspective.
F.C.C. Approves a $50 Monthly High-Speed Internet Subsidy
Link. I’m pretty sure this is a waste of money.
“it becomes clear how well Mr. Xi and his government have tamed the Chinese internet”
Link. The 90s got it wrong. Technology does not grow freedom. Freedom is built on law and culture.
Rents fall, home costs rise.
Link. Truly weird market. Amazing drop in available housing for purchase.
ACA fixes, but no publc option.
Link. Even this is a miracle after GOP abuse. Why we can’t cancel Manchin.
60 black holes … “packed into a space barely larger than our own solar system”
Link. Best seen from a distance.
Stimulus checks in ABLE accounts for disabled.
Link. ABLE accounts are a disaster in many states. Including Minnesota. Reform is desperately needed.
NYT on WaPo after Bezos.
Link. WaPo needs to improve science coverage to fully equal NYT. Subscription fees are much less.
“the Faroe Islands currently have the most Nobel laureates per capita worldwide”
Link. “some Faroese men have married women from the Philippines and Thailand, whom they met through such channels as online dating websites, and arranged for them to emigrate to the islands. This group of approximately three hundred women make up the largest ethnic minority in the Faroes.”
“city will enter into contracts with six social media influencers who will be paid $2,000 each to share “city-generated and approved messages” with the African-American, Native American, East African, Hmong and Latino communities”
Link. Riots expected.
“leader Kim Jong Un actually issued an apology to his people for the way the leadership handled the pandemic”
Link. Sounds really bad.
Fastmail has Spy Pixel protection.
Link. So does gmail apparently. Under the wing of Lucifer so to speak.
“tying minimum wages to rent provides an incentive for cities to build more housing.”
Link. Biden policy is also good.
“Texas facility is run not by Border Patrol, but by the Office of Refugee Resettlement”
Link. Don’t be a toy of Stephen Miller ffs.
How fast SSDs slow to a crawl: thermal throttling.
Link. if you need speed set your SSD on a cold pack.