Link. Not too bad so far. Wait a bit.
Author Archives: jgordon
“Peakto is the control tower that regroups your catalogs from Apple Photos, Aperture, …, iView Media”
Link. Access to Aperture photo library after Mojave.
Frum: “Oswald Cobblepot (a.k.a. the Penguin) has taken over Gotham.”
Link. “We’re more than “users” because we’re also participants and co-creators. That makes us in some way responsible parties for whatever Twitter becomes.”
“Exposure to saccharin and sucralose significantly impaired glycemic response, but this was not seen with the aspartame or stevia groups”
Link. Thought due to gut microbiome changes. I’ve been mildly skeptical but this study is remarkable.
“attempt to throw a court case to Justice Clarence Thomas, whose wife was urging the overthrow of the election, and to pressure the Supreme Court to act by creating chaos”
Link. They really did have a strategy. And Thomas was pivotal.
SF: “Legislation, crafted by the city’s mayor, London Breed, gives the police the right to request access to the live footage of privately owned internet cameras.”
Link. Likely popular move.
“if openings suggest the labor market is a raging inferno, resignations imply it is more like an uncomfortably hot day”
Link. I think resignations is the right signal now.
Medicare Advantage: “preyed on vulnerable people with dementia and cognitive impairment”
Link. Many businesses and political campaigns seek the cognitively vulnerable.
Ventura file system issue: “fail on devices that present a “virtual” USB Mass Storage device.”
Link. Tsai has the most useful early reviews.
Ventura Bug Disables (some) Security Software.
Link. I like to wait a few months to do a macos update.
What I learned about managing catalytic converter theft: OEM vs aftermarket vs universal.
Link. I got bad advice from our longtime garage. Now we have a new garage.
US productivity drop: “… could have something to do with the fact that many employees “were working unsustainably hard” in 2020 and 2021, Summers said.”
Link. I think this is it. Plus burnout, retirement, deferred vacations.
Rheumatoid Arthritis: “They found a strong hit with particular Subdoligranulum strains: “Isolate 7” in this genus reacted with monoclonal antibodies from those RA patients”
Link. Osteoarthritis is an even harder mystery.
“Subway Exit No. 1 disgorges hordes of passengers all at once. Many head straight to a nearby 10-foot-wide, 130-foot-long, sloping alleyway because it is a shortcut”
Link. SK police know crowd control, but they didn’t use that knowledge.
Scalzi on reevaluating his Twitter use.
Link. Not leaving but preparing to leave.
Foxconn iPhone workers walking out after COVID-19 outbreak.
Link. Breaking point with China’s abusive and dysfunctional COVID controls.
“There’s no longer any reason someone should browse the App Store. It’s a dirt mall with a mob casino in it.”
Link. I avoid it like the plague.
“The App Store has corrupted such a great company so deeply. They make so much from gambling and manipulative IAPs that they don’t even see the problem anymore.”
Link.
“other elephantine asteroids, veiled by the sun’s glare, remain disconcertingly undiscovered”
Link. “NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor mission … will … find most of the hazardous asteroids that other surveys have missed.”
“0.93-mile-wide (1.5-kilometer) asteroid dubbed 2022 AP7—has an orbit that may eventually put it on a collision course with Earth.”
Link. Hiding in sun glare. One day our asteroid deflection tech will earn its keep.
Pandemic Amnesty: “In April 2020, no one got the coronavirus from passing someone else hiking. Outdoor transmission was vanishingly rare. Our cloth masks made out of old bandanas wouldn’t have done anything, anyway. But the thing is: We didn’t know.
Link.
Predicted EV-D68 paralysis flare in small children didn’t happen.
Link. Last few years have taught us how little we know about infectious disease. Science grows from humility.
“Smarties approached baseball like an equation … and proved in the process that a solved sport is a worse one.”
Link. Fun essay on the perils of optimization. “Debate is a finite game. Marriage is an infinite game.”
“Twitter is generating less money per year than what it owes its lenders.”
Link. Debt service from LBO $1b/y. Bankruptcy when?
How to blog – including a review of 2022 options.
Link. I’d start with WordPress.com but I’m personally still on blogger.
A Farewell to Twitter
Link. Well said, from an old App.net colleague. “He’s dead Jim”.
“Republicans already mad at business regulation now worked to pick up the white supremacists who had backed the Dixiecrats and who, by 1964, were attacking Black Americans and their white allies”
Link. A short, dense and authoritative history of American politics, slavery and party identification. Keep as a reference.
Dorsey’s Bluesky and the weird alliance between Musk and Putin.
Link. Musk seems broken.
“statins did not affect MRI incidence/progression of cartilage damage, BML, osteophytes or effusion”
Link. Some have wondered if statins slowed OA progression. Seems unlikely.
Sabine on “Longtermism”.
Link. Reminds me of the Sin of Onan. Also, Kant did this topic.
A liberal Jewish perspective on the rise of antisemitism in the GOP.
Link. Are right wing Jews starting to be uncomfortable?
“From a rooftop position, two former computer programmers turned tank hunters directed drone strikes that took out two Russian armored vehicles in the space of about three hours,”
Link. Wearing NATO night vision goggles. Daring.
“multigenerational households … likely to grow in popularity in the future as rising productivity in the rest of the economy makes childcare and home healthcare … much more expensive”
Link. Legit futurism. Also, why do economists dislike Baumol’s cost disease?
“This is the world in which American students — most of them learning remotely for many months, many of them for close to a year, and some for longer — fell off by a handful of points,”
Link. Test score decline was modest given the circumstances.
“you can make all the promises about “free speech” you want, but the dull reality is that you still have to ban a bunch of legal speech if you want to make money”
Link. Pass the popcorn.
Five reasons not to move from Twitter to Mastodon
Link. He recommends moving.
Virtual Screening: “… led to scoring of about 7.5 trillion complexes. Not a typo. That took close to 9 hours of grinding away on a 1000-core computing cluster.”
Link. Lots more room to consume cycles.
“During the off-season that year, Waddell also accidentally shot a man in the hand, saved a drowning woman…”
Link. Early ball players were colorful.
“.. sudden disappearance of work is an unexpected turn for … dray operators — the drivers who transport shipping containers between the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach”
Link. Several reasons.
Emperor Xi: “In social media chat groups, where mentioning his name has become a dangerous thing to do, Xi is just “he.”
Link. The state of Chinese society.
Ride With GPS vs Komoot: Which is Better for Biking?
Link. Rides with free version is pretty good.
ApoE and the Coronavirus: “the [mouse models] with ApoE2 and ApoE4 proteins had notably worse courses of disease and lower survival rates. “
Link. Derek also mentions Alzheimer’s shift focusing on glial cell lipid metabolism.
NYT profile of a Black woman’s life after the great migration.
Link. It manages to pack in a lot of Black American experience into a small article. Progress but slow and hard and intermittent.
Meta: “The number of people who use its apps such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or Messenger daily increased to 2.93 billion users in the quarter, up 4 percent from a year earlier.
Link. That’s curious. Would like to know more.
“If the 774 AD Miyake event really was a super-Carrington solar flare, it was probably around 80x bigger”
Link. Every thousand years or so. Would mess us up bad.
Antisense therapy for rare seizure mutations causes hydrocephalus in the 2 patients treated.
Link. Parents support further research, their children faced certain death.
“President Joe Biden asked all agencies to find ways to cut “junk fees,” the hidden fees, charges, and add-ons that hit consumers on everything from airline and concert tickets, to hotels, to banking services and cable bills.”
Link. Treat fake prices as fraud.
Japan … “behind South Korea in terms of living standards”
Link. I did not know this. SK seems very stressed Society however.
Rubio’s latest delusion explained.
Link. Marco Rubio and the Proud Boys.
“Due to the reduced stability of macOS 13, we very highly recommend that you stay away from macOS 13 “Ventura” as long as possible.”
Link.