Link. Aging zillionaires piling money into life extension.
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“If you don’t have automatic updates enabled, you’ll need to use SilentKnight to restore MRT and XPR to their former glory.”
Link. Apple expects automatic updates is active.
“One senior U.S. official said there were new, troubling developments involving Russia’s nuclear arsenal.”
Link. Increasingly desperate Putin.
“The guidelines for state-sponsored Russian propaganda television predict very well what Tucker Carlson says about Russia and Ukraine.”
Link. Carlson is now driving the GOP’s MAGA/Putin agenda. Do we miss Limbaugh now?
“the trajectory Apple has chosen for the future of the iPadOS platform, and it’s one designed for modularity, power users, and multiple input methods. Plus a whole lot of weirdness. And bugs.”
Link.
“Rifle clubs” held contests outside Republican political rallies, “Red Shirts” marched with their guns in parades.”
Link. 1876, when Republicans were the good guys. 2022 GOP are replaying the classics.
“If China invades, it has a very strong incentive to attack U.S. bases first. And if China attacks U.S. bases, the U.S. is highly likely to respond by fighting China.”
Link. Classic game theory analysis of the invasion of Taiwan.
“There are an estimated 20 quadrillion ants all over the planet, except in Antarctica”
Link. Prize winning micro photography of carpenter ant face.
Reflections on DeLong’s “Slouching Towards Utopia”
Link. Responding to resurgent fascism and the despair of modern China.
“The grooming tactic of trying to convince a child everyone around them is a groomer for a very arbitrary reason and they are safe is becoming incredibly common now a days.”
Link. Humans are so weird. Worth reviewing if you have a vulnerable child.
“the steady decline in performance of the macOS Help system has made traditional Help books embarrassing”
Link. OTOH few read help files in any form. FWIW Windows XP had a great help app.
“while many of the children did come from orphanages and group homes, the authorities also took children whose relatives or guardians want them back”
Link. “her Russian foster family treated her well but that she ached to return to Ukraine”
Russia has a thing for war crimes.
“Lara Logan Is Too Crazy for Newsmax … Going from a contributor on 60 Minutes to getting banned by Newsmax”
Link. We don’t recognize all the schizophrenia-adjacent mental health disorders.
Explainer: Passwords and passkeys
Link. Oakley is a marvel. Once we had many sources for such knowledge. BYTE is impossible to imagine now.
“Before this attack, I had thought that I could take on a bear easily.”
Link. But he did attack the grizzly to save his friend, so young man testosterone not all bad. Expected to heal well.
“Rice does not cause birds to die by inflating their stomachs until they burst.”
Link. Wikipedia list of common misconceptions is fun reading. Via FMH.
“Gain of Function” coronavirus research: “the new chimeric strain was less dangerous by comparison in animal tests”
Link. Over a week ago so nobody remembers, but Lowe’s commentary is a good reminder of how bad fast journalism often is.
“From her cell, she could hear men and women screaming in pain. “Men screaming so hard I cannot describe it enough,” she said, weeping.”
Link. Russians started brutal, got worse as defeat loomed. This is what the House GOP supports.
Disinformation finds ways to meet demand.
Link. There’s huge demand for stories that validate the unmoored. Similarities to War on Drugs are not coincidental.
Newsletter market plateaus.
Link. Eventually more people are going to notice they are paying out a LOT of subscriptions.
Minneapolis after the riots: Even Floyd memorial guides don’t support “defunding” police.
Link. Carjackings by armed children aren’t helping Dem AG.
“Russia was preparing a “false flag” operation to blow up a large hydroelectric dam in the south of the country, potentially flooding 80 towns, villages and cities, including the strategically important city of Kherson.”
Link. Russia is going to lose Kherson, so might as well destroy it and frame Ukraine.
“the ability to work remotely, full or part time, has allowed Americans to travel more and to combine personal and professional trips”
Link. Demographics and family size also enable work while traveling.
“rebalancing Citi Bikes became a daily activity after he retired from 30 years working as a vice president and business coordinator at a bank”
Link. Small payments for “good” acts done largely by economically independent retirees — the note taking thing is interesting.
“In recent days, several Reddit forums have been shut down after being inundated with nonconsensual nude images, largely made with Stable Diffusion”
Link. “people had created graphic images of “violently beaten Asian women””
With inflation only 3% Japan keeps rates low.
Link. Makes sense.
“… he would sneak out of bed and listen to accounts of the “whipping and crying post,” of the lynching tree and the wagon wheel.”
Link. American slavery was basically yesterday. Mr Smith walked through history.
“Davidson embraces using the power of the government to enforce the principles of the right wing”
Link. I appreciate the GOP’s Trumpian transparency.
Brexit: “end of free movement, meaning no more EU nurses, fruit pickers, care home workers, or other low-paid workers”
Link. That’s a lot of labor pool to suddenly lose.
“Ventura looks fully baked.” Hoakley.
Link. A trusted source is keen. I’ll still wait and see but encouraging news.
MN: “4.1 job openings for every unemployed worker”
Link. 2% unemployment.
“I’ve yet to hear of organizations at our scale being able to materially shrink their operations team, just because they moved to the cloud.”
Link. Cloud providers are taking the profit.
Troubleshooting macOS / iOS / OS X keychains
Link. File away for future needs. It’s weird that keychains are reliable, so many Apple things are not.
The Bank of Apple.
Link. An interesting mix of business opportunity and, I suspect, social mission. Banks will be concerned.
Inflation, abortion, crime are MN issues.
Link. Sorry, democracy not on the list. Climate non-existent. This is people.
“Trump appears knowingly to have lied, in writing, under oath, to a court.”
Link. He’s usually much more careful. A sign of his desperation.
Walker’s “dissociative identity disorder”
Link. Interesting character.
Berlusconi: “Mr. Putin had sent him 20 bottles of vodka “and a very kind letter” for his 86th birthday last month”
Link. These sociopaths are legit friends. Trump same. Only friends they can have.
ERAP2 migrations protect against Yersinia pestis but increase Crohn’s risk.
Link. Selected in Euros by Black plague.
“downloads of dating apps have significantly increased in the countries to which Russian men fled”
Link. Moscow and St Petersburg see major effects.
“switched to recycled aluminum because he could not source enough aluminum domestically …. routers, lathes, cutters and millers … imported from China”
Link. Reshoring: even raw materials a challenge.
South Korean shows downside of the One App.
Link. No alternatives.
A flawed article on physicians shirking wheelchair patients.
Link. Suggested fixes evade the obvious – the time pressure problem.
Zen and the Art of Aperture.
Link. Many still love the long abandoned photo management product. I think we shall never see it’s like again.
“This war has gone on long enough. It’s time to negotiate with Mr. Hitler.”
Link. The GOP today.
“Domane+ SLR 9 eTap P1 (US$13,000 … SRAM Red eTap AXS 1×12 electronic groupset”
Link. eBike progress is amazing to watch. Prices likewise impress.
Americans are not that keen on democracy.
Link. Set aside all the spinning in the article, the core of it is that many Americans are willing to give up on democracy.
Biden on Saudi: “He is going to act methodically, strategically, and he’s going to take his time…”
Link. MBS also betting on GOP win. But he won’t see Dark Brandon’s knife …
“underneath their radically changed human interface, macOS Ventura still has Preference Panes that work essentially the same as they did in Monterey.”
Link. Great history review.
“Democrats should use the lame-duck session to enact a very large rise in the debt limit, enough to put the issue on ice for years.”
Link. Or the trillion dollar coin. Because the GOP is insane.