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“introduced Yamanaka’s factors into living animals. In 2013, a Spanish team did exactly that, with gruesome results. The mice sprouted tumors called teratomas”

Posted on October 25, 2022 by jgordon

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.”

Posted on October 25, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Apple expects automatic updates is active.

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“One senior U.S. official said there were new, troubling developments involving Russia’s nuclear arsenal.”

Posted on October 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Increasingly desperate Putin.

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“The guidelines for state-sponsored Russian propaganda television predict very well what Tucker Carlson says about Russia and Ukraine.”

Posted on October 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Carlson is now driving the GOP’s MAGA/Putin agenda. Do we miss Limbaugh now?

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“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.”

Posted on October 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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“Rifle clubs” held contests outside Republican political rallies, “Red Shirts” marched with their guns in parades.”

Posted on October 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. 1876, when Republicans were the good guys. 2022 GOP are replaying the classics.

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“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.”

Posted on October 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Classic game theory analysis of the invasion of Taiwan.

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“There are an estimated 20 quadrillion ants all over the planet, except in Antarctica”

Posted on October 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Prize winning micro photography of carpenter ant face.

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Reflections on DeLong’s “Slouching Towards Utopia”

Posted on October 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Responding to resurgent fascism and the despair of modern China.

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“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.”

Posted on October 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Humans are so weird. Worth reviewing if you have a vulnerable child.

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“the steady decline in performance of the macOS Help system has made traditional Help books embarrassing”

Posted on October 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. OTOH few read help files in any form. FWIW Windows XP had a great help app.

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“while many of the children did come from orphanages and group homes, the authorities also took children whose relatives or guardians want them back”

Posted on October 22, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “her Russian foster family treated her well but that she ached to return to Ukraine”

Russia has a thing for war crimes.

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“Lara Logan Is Too Crazy for Newsmax … Going from a contributor on 60 Minutes to getting banned by Newsmax”

Posted on October 22, 2022 by jgordon

Link. We don’t recognize all the schizophrenia-adjacent mental health disorders.

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Explainer: Passwords and passkeys

Posted on October 22, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Oakley is a marvel. Once we had many sources for such knowledge. BYTE is impossible to imagine now.

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“Before this attack, I had thought that I could take on a bear easily.”

Posted on October 22, 2022 by jgordon

Link. But he did attack the grizzly to save his friend, so young man testosterone not all bad. Expected to heal well.

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“Rice does not cause birds to die by inflating their stomachs until they burst.”

Posted on October 22, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Wikipedia list of common misconceptions is fun reading. Via FMH.

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“Gain of Function” coronavirus research: “the new chimeric strain was less dangerous by comparison in animal tests”

Posted on October 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Over a week ago so nobody remembers, but Lowe’s commentary is a good reminder of how bad fast journalism often is.

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“From her cell, she could hear men and women screaming in pain. “Men screaming so hard I cannot describe it enough,” she said, weeping.”

Posted on October 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Russians started brutal, got worse as defeat loomed. This is what the House GOP supports.

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Disinformation finds ways to meet demand.

Posted on October 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. There’s huge demand for stories that validate the unmoored. Similarities to War on Drugs are not coincidental.

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Newsletter market plateaus.

Posted on October 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Eventually more people are going to notice they are paying out a LOT of subscriptions.

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Minneapolis after the riots: Even Floyd memorial guides don’t support “defunding” police.

Posted on October 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Carjackings by armed children aren’t helping Dem AG.

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“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.”

Posted on October 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Russia is going to lose Kherson, so might as well destroy it and frame Ukraine.

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“the ability to work remotely, full or part time, has allowed Americans to travel more and to combine personal and professional trips”

Posted on October 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Demographics and family size also enable work while traveling.

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“rebalancing Citi Bikes became a daily activity after he retired from 30 years working as a vice president and business coordinator at a bank”

Posted on October 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Small payments for “good” acts done largely by economically independent retirees — the note taking thing is interesting.

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“In recent days, several Reddit forums have been shut down after being inundated with nonconsensual nude images, largely made with Stable Diffusion”

Posted on October 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “people had created graphic images of “violently beaten Asian women””

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With inflation only 3% Japan keeps rates low.

Posted on October 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Makes sense.

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“… he would sneak out of bed and listen to accounts of the “whipping and crying post,” of the lynching tree and the wagon wheel.”

Posted on October 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. American slavery was basically yesterday. Mr Smith walked through history.

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“Davidson embraces using the power of the government to enforce the principles of the right wing”

Posted on October 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I appreciate the GOP’s Trumpian transparency.

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Brexit: “end of free movement, meaning no more EU nurses, fruit pickers, care home workers, or other low-paid workers”

Posted on October 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. That’s a lot of labor pool to suddenly lose.

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“Ventura looks fully baked.” Hoakley.

Posted on October 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A trusted source is keen. I’ll still wait and see but encouraging news.

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MN: “4.1 job openings for every unemployed worker”

Posted on October 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. 2% unemployment.

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“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.”

Posted on October 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Cloud providers are taking the profit.

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Troubleshooting macOS / iOS / OS X keychains

Posted on October 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. File away for future needs. It’s weird that keychains are reliable, so many Apple things are not.

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The Bank of Apple.

Posted on October 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. An interesting mix of business opportunity and, I suspect, social mission. Banks will be concerned.

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Inflation, abortion, crime are MN issues.

Posted on October 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Sorry, democracy not on the list. Climate non-existent. This is people.

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“Trump appears knowingly to have lied, in writing, under oath, to a court.”

Posted on October 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. He’s usually much more careful. A sign of his desperation.

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Walker’s “dissociative identity disorder”

Posted on October 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Interesting character.

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Berlusconi: “Mr. Putin had sent him 20 bottles of vodka “and a very kind letter” for his 86th birthday last month”

Posted on October 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. These sociopaths are legit friends. Trump same. Only friends they can have.

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ERAP2 migrations protect against Yersinia pestis but increase Crohn’s risk.

Posted on October 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Selected in Euros by Black plague.

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“downloads of dating apps have significantly increased in the countries to which Russian men fled”

Posted on October 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Moscow and St Petersburg see major effects.

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“switched to recycled aluminum because he could not source enough aluminum domestically …. routers, lathes, cutters and millers … imported from China”

Posted on October 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Reshoring: even raw materials a challenge.

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South Korean shows downside of the One App.

Posted on October 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. No alternatives.

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A flawed article on physicians shirking wheelchair patients.

Posted on October 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Suggested fixes evade the obvious – the time pressure problem.

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Zen and the Art of Aperture.

Posted on October 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Many still love the long abandoned photo management product. I think we shall never see it’s like again.

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“This war has gone on long enough. It’s time to negotiate with Mr. Hitler.”

Posted on October 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The GOP today.

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“Domane+ SLR 9 eTap P1 (US$13,000 … SRAM Red eTap AXS 1×12 electronic groupset”

Posted on October 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. eBike progress is amazing to watch. Prices likewise impress.

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Americans are not that keen on democracy.

Posted on October 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Set aside all the spinning in the article, the core of it is that many Americans are willing to give up on democracy.

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Biden on Saudi: “He is going to act methodically, strategically, and he’s going to take his time…”

Posted on October 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. MBS also betting on GOP win. But he won’t see Dark Brandon’s knife …

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“underneath their radically changed human interface, macOS Ventura still has Preference Panes that work essentially the same as they did in Monterey.”

Posted on October 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Great history review.

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“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.”

Posted on October 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Or the trillion dollar coin. Because the GOP is insane.

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