Link. Our ambassador to Hungary brought his husband and their children.
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If your kid doesn’t look like you bring legal proof when you fly.
Link. Human trafficking hysteria. My kids look nothing like me so we always had proof.
“Artemis III, in which two astronauts will land near the moon’s south pole, is currently scheduled for 2025, though that date is very likely to slip further into the future.”
Link. Expensive and inefficient — but more certain than relying on a flaky Musk.
China: “they didn’t immediately understand why their favorite streamer would be shut down in the middle of a segment about a tank-shaped cake. So they started poking around, searching and asking questions about tanks, which led them to … learn about
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“If you happen to have a 240V outlet, it gets even fancier — the stove can actually supply power to the rest of the house”
Link. Patents and licensing will be a challenge.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the eccentric resident of CDG airport.
Link. What was more-or-less involuntary became his preferred home.
“Because politics is so calcified, virtually nothing matters, but because elections are so close, virtually everything matters.”
Link. We balance on the knife edge.
What to do when your Mac has a kernel panic
Link. Save this. If you get one kernel panic you’ll get more.
You need disk utility to show at least 37GB free before updating to Ventura
Link. I’d wait for a few months.
Debugging Apple Music and iCloud Match: iCloud Status
Link. I’m seeing a few hundred bugs in my music library.
Ukraine’s railroads: a story. Read this.
Link. Nazi invasion: “Everyone else in my family who stayed in Kyiv was killed: either marched to Babyn Yar or rounded up by their neighbors and shot in the courtyard of their own building.”
Accounts of Torture From Kherson: “Several residents described being hauled off to underground torture chambers”
Link. Russia is a broken place. “Ms. Naumova 57, might seem like an unlikely freedom fighter. For her entire adult life, she has been teaching kindergarten”
“The windows of the Arctic Restaurant have no signs offering access to prostitutes—even in a lawless Yukon outpost in 1899, decorum rules out such truth in advertising—but Friedrich Trump…”
Link. 2019. The Trump and Kardashian families will merge on Reality TV.
“Neither then nor later did most Russian liberals understand that the imperial project itself was the source of Russian autocracy.”
Link. Without an empire what is Russia?
Mitch McConnell – political failure.
Link. Given geography GOP should routinely dominate Senate.
Deep brain stimulation to nucleus accumbens for binge eating disorder.
Link. Interesting idea. Will be five years before we know if it works.
“I’m spending about $250 on food every week,” woman competing in strongman event.
Link. Building and repairing muscle requires crazy amount of protein.
Liz Cheney happy with election outcome.
Link. I suspect Cheney played as large a role as youth turnout. Effect on GOP voters and independents.
“managed to persuade Republican and independent voters to support their candidates, particularly in swing states”
Link. “turnout gap between voters under 25 and those under 30 was rapidly closing.”
Check interpretations in 2 months.
Canada: “at least 11 candidates in the last federal election had been secretly funded by China”
Link. “after the hostage-taking ended, the government has been gradually building up to a more aggressive stance.”
“Larceny of all types is up 107 percent this year in Burlington compared with the five-year average from 2017 to 2021”
Link. “Bikes were a quick easy grab that fulfilled the need to take something for an adrenaline rush” Similar MSP.
“Overall, I was underwhelmed by the price and usability of Apple’s newer iPad keyboards compared to the original Smart Keyboard”
Link. Also unimpressed by current iPad lineup.
Y2K and 2038.
Link. Damn. We are halfway.
“the Quest Pro isn’t very good. It’s a device seemingly launched without plan or purpose, highlighting VR’s persistent drawbacks without making good use of its strengths — and topped off with some irredeemably bad software”
Link. Sold by Accenture?!
“…Musk’s team said he was used to going to court and paying penalties, and was not worried about the risks.”
Link. Our legal system is helpless. Fines are far too small.
“what Trump did was he brought in this big chunk of people that are now part of the party that never voted before 2016 and never contributed to any candidates”
Link. Trump’s army. He rules the GOP as long as they vote. Did they vote in midterms?
Filipowski’s DeSantis scenario seems plausible.
Economist reviews Haberman’s Trump book: “… racial politics is a zero-sum contest among tribes; that allies as well as enemies must be dominated; that everything in life can be treated as a transaction; that rapidly topping one lie or controversy with t
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fediverse.info: guide to finding Mastodon communities of interest.
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Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 By Circulating Air in Schools and Other Buildings
Link. Practical recommendations. Well done. Probably bigger value at this point than as needed masks.
“It’s not uncommon for me to ride with an IV line in my arm while receiving antibiotics.”
Link. He is not going quietly. Cystic Fibrosis.
“use a branded Thunderbolt 4 cable, such as one of CalDigit’s used for this article, with a Samsung 980 Pro NVMe SSD inside an Orico TB3 enclosure.”
Link. Fast external Mac boot disk.
“Removing of mask mandates was associated with an additional 44.9 Covid cases per 1,000 students and staff members” over 15 weeks.
Link. Sounds plausible though hint in NYT that was borderline stats. Decreasing conversation and social interactions may
Home hemodialysis?
Link. Article initially confuses because home peritoneal dialysis is standard in Europe and growing here. This is about home hemodialysis, probably niche use: “He preferred peritoneal, and wishes he could be back on it now”
“Twitter engineers have designed fail-safes that the platform can fall back on so that the functionality doesn’t go totally offline but cut-down versions are provided instead.”
Link. It’s trickier than it looks.
“doctors have successfully treated a fetus by infusing a crucial enzyme into its minuscule umbilical cord, halting an otherwise fatal inherited disorder known as severe infantile Pompe disease.”
Link. Science and very determined physicians.
Keywords Instead of Albums With iCloud Shared Photos.
Link. No shared albums is weird.
“analytics control and other privacy settings had no obvious effect on Apple’s data collection”
Link. Now feeling sorry for poor Facebook.
“a sizeable portion of Twitter’s users are choosing to deplatform themselves en masse, and many have been directed to Mastodon”
Link. Be funny if Musk’s reckoning was via Twitter.
“Supergenes — stretches of DNA that lock several genes together into a single inheritable unit”
Link. “Sex chromosomes are essentially supergenes run amok” Modern high school biology ought to be amazing.
“… Mastodon … just add .rss to the end of a user’s URL … you can get RSS feeds for individual Twitter users through Nitter or Feedbin.”
Link. Feedbin should market more. Also, Tsai is trying Mastodon.
Twitter 8$ subscription includes 50% ad reduction: “Estimates showed that Twitter will lose about $6 in ad revenue per user per month”
Link. WTF? Twitter makes $12 in ad revenue per user per month? How is that sane for advertisers? No way…
“feature … will be available as an accessibility option, aimed at making the iPhone and iPad interface more user-friendly for those users who may find it too complicated”
Link. Probably nothing, but there is great need. It’s a very sensitive topic.
Timelapse of a life of aging. 2013. Anthony Cerniello.
Link. Trending again.
“Welcome to your Senior project at the Richard Cheney Institute of Advanced Torture. You are going to turn this 50yo woman into … this.
I’m sorry, that door is locked.”
“Why does inflation make wages go down? In fact, this is a major macroeconomic mystery.”
Link. I thought inflation would allow increases at bottom end.
The last straw for a failing college: “a ransomware attack blocked access to institutional data”
Link. These days one of the ways struggling enterprises die.
“threats against war profiteering are a counterproductive waste of time”
Link. Libs don’t say it enough. I suspect this statement is too definitive but it’s basically correct.
Fallows on the media: “The mainstream press obsession with politics over anything else. (“Martians land on Earth. Here’s what it means for the midterms.”)”
Link. We can’t fix the NYT. So what’s next?
“They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness… and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
Link. It’s happened before.
“appears that Apple is quietly replacing or removing the noise cancellation tech in all of their products to protect themselves in an ongoing patent lawsuit.“
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Kherson: “Kremlin-appointed administrators have relocated to a site 50 miles away — after looting anything of value they could take.”
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