Link. Good this is getting national coverage. Opportunity for Biden pardon if not timed.
Author Archives: jgordon
We need non-Apple App Stores – because Apple’s store has trash like Luni Scanner App.
Link. A dark pattern turns into $5/week subscriptions to a trash app – enabled by Apple’s inattention. We need a quality App Store.
Amazon: “Enough people purchased the preservative to attempt suicide that the company’s algorithm began suggesting other products that customers frequently bought along with it to aid in such efforts.”
Link. Laissez-Faire.
“On the rare occasions when I experience glitches with iCloud, all I do is save all open documents, log out, and go for a walk”
Link.
African Coups: “major transit point for Latin American cocaine heading to Europe and the Middle East”
Link. Desperately poor and getting warmer.
Covid-19 Commission: “Mr. Zelikow, who led the Sept. 11 panel, has laid the foundation for a commission to investigate the pandemic, with financial backing from four foundations and a paid staff that has already interviewed hundreds of public health exp
Link. Obvious need
“In 541 bubonic plague arrived in Egypt and went on to kill around a third of the population of the Byzantine empire.”
Link. COVID is just a taste.
“Amazon said it was raising the annual price of its Prime shipping club to $139, from $119.”
Link. It will continue to increase.
Hang Up and Call Back: The scammers will get you.
Link. Banks have lousy security.
Zuck: “balance of content that people see in feeds is shifted a little bit more towards stuff that isn’t coming from their friends … shifting towards more public content”
Link. Groups. So give me a friends only filter!
Facebook’s middle-age: “first quarterly decline in daily active users on record”
Link. I like middle-aged Facebook.
“Qurayshi detonated a bomb that killed himself and family members, U.S. officials told reporters.”
Link. Zawahiri is one that got away.
New Industrialism in America.
Link. I remember Andy Grove NYT OpEd on this. Maybe 2010-2022?
MacOS: Copy and Paste. Working around lack of clipboard history.
Link. Old but still good. macOS need built in clipboard history though. Windows does it well.
The Misaligned Incentives for Cloud Security: Amazon, Google, Microsoft and more
Link. “Cloud companies take the chance that they won’t get hacked, and past experience tells them they can weather the storm if they do.”
Iceland Tourist Advice.
Link. I bet this is excellent.
“Get a reminder while messaging someone”
Link. I learned several things in this short article. Worth a read.
ISS 2031: “Point Nemo is known as the “spacecraft cemetery” because so much space junk has been sent there to avoid hitting inhabited areas.”
Link. Book your cruise seat now.
Evolution puzzle: why do humans live longer than apes but also require much more exercise.
Link. Inactive humans are programmed to die quickly — presumably because they were a net resource drag until recently. So do CrossFit.
“In intensive care units like Homerton’s, which treat the most seriously ill, nearly all of those being tended are unvaccinated.”
Link. Easier to report in UK than US.
CLL cures with immunotherapy (CAR T).
Link. Sometimes works, but in surprising ways. “After the CD8 cells did their job, they remained in the blood but, unexpectedly, they turned into CD4 cells.”
“Swift is a Belgian messaging service that connects more than 11,000 financial institutions as they transfer money around the world”
Link. Putin’s loss.
How to cancel your Spotify subscription.
Link. I switched to Apple Music.
“Something has got into Putin, and he’s seeking concessions that he should know he cannot extract, with threats that he cannot enforce.”
Link. Dyer still scorns invasion but is puzzled by Putin’s posturing.
“South Korea, where the fertility rate is an astonishing 0.86 (less than one child per woman, on average), the population is going into free fall.”
Link. All of Asia to follow.
Italy: Berlusconi is back.
Link. Hell, why not?
“Johnson tells barefaced lies with great charm and apparent sincerity. He is famously lazy, doing actual work only at the last possible moment. He has at least seven children by three different mothers”
Link. UK Trump more charming.
The Trump coup: “One authorizing the Pentagon to seize the machines was made public”
Link. Remember when former Chiefs wrote that letter? They knew.
To get Apple bugs fixed enlist a celebrity.
Link. Once a mention by Mossberg would fix anything.
Pre-K: “parents the choice of whether to put in the time tutoring the kids at home, or accept a potentially slightly worse education in exchange for a second income for the family.”
Link. Free day care instead of pre-K.
XKCD What If? 2 IS COMING!!!
Link. For the holiday 2022 gift season of course. Easy buy for Emily.
Rohan has regrets. A 4 billion stock drop gets attention.
Link. I knew my switch to Apple Music would break him. (Still switching.)
Packet radio encryption standards were designed to be broken (June 2021).
Link. EU intelligence back in the 00s. The flaw made it vulnerable to everyone.
Insurance and Ransomware: “insurance industry incents companies to do the cheapest mitigation possible. Often, that’s paying the ransom.”
Link. So bad.
“Rogan’s episode with … Malone remains available on Spotify.”
Link. Spotify has rules for the little people.
“As early as 1786, it was clear that the government was too decentralized to create an enduring nation.”
Link. “Republican Party has focused on hamstringing the federal government and sending power back to the states, where lawmakers will have little power to regulate business but can roll back civil rights.”
The mystery of Monterey’s memory bug: how the heck did it get past basic testing?
Link. Something is broken in that org.
China uses COVID control tech to implement techno-totalitarian regime.
Link. Continuation of the post 911 panopticon, now with more teeth. Popular theme in 20th century science fiction.
“95% vaccine effectiveness vs death (95% CI 90-98) is striking for 3-shots Only 59% for 2 shots [where 2nd is old]”
Link. “Vaccines don’t work” is a mutation of the truth that we didn’t think the two dose regime would become obsolete this quickly.
“Support will be added for tags, extended attributes, and more, which will be preserved on the local file system but still won’t sync with OneDrive.”
Link. 12.3 is big macos change
“It took an hour for the orcas to kill the blue whale, and once they did, about 50 other orcas showed up to devour the carcass.”
Link. Slow horrible death. I think wolf hunts are similar.
“There’s no conclusive evidence that M1 is a big sales driver for Mac”
Link. Software is more important and M1 won’t run Intel VM.
“Mr. Gogna was “all in” on GameStop shares because he believed that the company would eventually pivot to a digital business. “Every pay period I literally buy as many shares as I can,” he said,”
Link. Idiocracy is the most important movie of the last 50 years.
“Now he thought “The Graduate” and “Jaws” were contemporary films.”
Link. This is a fabulous description of life after 60.
“hit 10-30 foot drops and 48-foot gap jumps”
Link. This is actually a good discussion even though I may never do a gap jump or more than a 5 foot drop.
Family adventure holiday outside and far from cars: trail bike.
Link. Not cheap but great quality. I’ve used them.
“gut microbiome profiles correlated very poorly indeed with autism diagnoses, severity, and symptoms”
Link. Autism is a junk drawer diagnosis — but this does kill the microbiome etiology.
“virus has been walking an evolutionary tightrope between antibody evasion and retaining binding to ACE2, and unfortunately hit on a combination that allowed it to do both”
Link. Science on speed.
“Do you remember the housing bubble? OK, if you’re 35 or younger, probably not.”
Link. Damn. It wasn’t yesterday. Not really.
“pandemic was “God telling humanity to change how we are living”; 43 percent of evangelicals “strongly” felt that to be true.”
Link. Theologically logical.