Link. One researcher has been at this since 1993.
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“bananas were domesticated more than 7,000 years ago on the island of New Guinea”
Link. They bred the seeds out.
Moscow “mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said that draft offices would be closed by 2 p.m. on Monday and that all previously distributed summons notices would be canceled.”
Link. Crack.
Kyiv after the terror attacks.
Link. London should become a sister city.
Apple Savings: turning bankish.
Link. Curious.
“place the laser mouse over your watch and step away from your computer for as long as you want. The mouse will read the ticking hand of the watch and this way your computer won’t go to sleep mode”
Link. Warning: Daily Bee. Anyway, I didn’t know that one. Silly but fun.
Explainer: Apple Keychain basics.
Link. A deep geeky analysis.
Theft problem when mailing an iPhone to Apple.
Link. Sender is at risk.
AppleScripts to speed Java compile and execute with BBEdit.
Link. Copied from a DAVALIGN article. Most applicable to students
Metaverse end: “No girls at the Hot Girl Summer Rooftop Pool Party, and no one to murder in Murder Village.”
Link. One day perhaps, but not this day.
macOS security updates: “Not only is macOS inherently unreliable, but it hides its failings from the user.”
Link. Users need more ways to litigate against Apple.
“…driving force in this populist wave is a thinly disguised alliance between a very rich elite and the resentful, downwardly-mobile parts of the old middle and working classes.”
Link. Thiel and Musk have no religious beliefs, but they will use religion to further their goals.
Wagner group: “more experienced and reliable troops have also largely stopped fighting, as if he were saving them for something more important”
Link. Dyer has good sources on things Russian. (He’s been sympathetic to Moscow in the past.) Here he makes the case that Russia has lost the war on Ukraine and now we enter the war on Putin.
Fallows Long COVID experience
Link. I’m 98% sure his B12 is placebo, but the article is a pretty good description of a post-viral syndrome. I do wonder about something analogous to MS though hopefully more self-limited.
“His life jacket had also been torn about halfway down by the sharks, so that definitely gave us some motivation to get them out of the water very, very quickly.”
Link. Every so often the Coast Guard does a miraculous rescue.
K: Pandemic effects are making inflation metrics misleading.
Link. More of that uncharted territory stuff.
Belarus will not help Putin.
Link. Sharks are circling Lukashenko and his protector is failing.
China a prison before the ascent of the emperor.
Link. It came to this.
“In this version of the cosmos, there is no difference between here and there, cause and effect, inside and outside or perhaps even then and now”
Link. A block of marble holds every sculpture ever made. Also, you don’t exist.
“Should we take care of kids we don’t make any money off of, or use the bed for an adult who needs a bunch of expensive tests?”
Link. Pay less for other things, pay more for pedes care.
“The human neurons multiplied in the rat brain until they numbered about three million, making up about a third of the cortex on one side of the rat brain.”
Link. “On learning tests … they scored no better than other rats.”
“talk of nudging both sides toward a negotiated settlement, common among some U.S. allies early in the war, has all but evaporated”
Link. Putin’s cruelty has concentrated minds. We are dealing with a monster.
Wells Fargo excels in Zelle Fraud.
Link. They excel at being bad.
Child care workers find better jobs.
Link. Amazon hires many. Outsourced child care is not economically viable for most unless large subsidies to support big salary increases.
“Since a peak in early August, reported monkeypox cases in the U.S. have fallen more than 85 percent through yesterday.”
Link. Main mistake: slow to say this was almost entirely a disease of gay men with many partners. Once this was known at risk men modified behavior.
“yearslong relationships and other forms of social interactions between individual chimpanzees and gorillas”
Link. Happens with chimps and humans, similarly distant.
“Musk spoke directly with Russian president Vladimir Putin before Musk last week proposed ending Russia’s attack on Ukraine by essentially starting from a point that gave Putin everything he wanted”
Link. Henry Ford 2.0
“In the poll we have in the field right now, only 0.4 percent of dials have yielded a completed interview. If you were employed as one of our interviewers at a call center, you would have to dial numbers for two hours to get a single completed interview
Link.
Social media ad-based education on fake profiles soliciting funds.
Link. “The best way to educate vulnerable adults about this problem would be a targeted Facebook and Instagram advertising program. These would be paid ads to vulnerable users to remind them that beautiful young women do not do not send flirtatious messages to strangers.”
“feedback loop between asset prices and corporate borrowing”
Link. Econ Nobel explained. Does this mean bull markets promote bank failures?
“Each of the more than 10,000 worlds that users have created in Horizon can accommodate only a couple dozen people at a time.”
Link. Informative NYT review of Third Life (aka Metaverse – Horizon). Kids, gamers, and stoners most enthusiastic.
California’s Bullet Train disaster.
Link.
“several of these sites offering this dangerous advice were also trying to get me to download and install software, generally housekeeping and clean-up utilities”
Link. Translation: the authors of these utilities are trying to hurt you.
Gerrymandering: “By some measures, this is the fairest House map of the last 40 years”
Link. Cohn’s record is spotty but this is positive if true.
The best of Russia crossing into Georgia.
Link. Admirable Russians choosing the most effective protest. Denying Putin their talents.
“The Guangzhou Library offers book sterilizing machines, which look like high-tech refrigerators”
Link. COVID is not spread by library books. China is bonkers.
Uganda’s Ebola Sudan strain has no current vaccine.
Link. Trials vaccines hopeful.
Culture shift: Marin goes vaxx.
Link. Anti-vaxx now a mark of stupidity. Shaming works.
NYT very gingerly notes abortion bans mean more Downs children.
Link. I wondered when they’d get around to this. GOP women also abort Downs fetus.
If China invades Taiwan Apple and customers will be collateral damage.
Link. No way Apple survives.
iOS Fail: photo and document caches eat space but aren’t purged.
Link. Somewhere between a bug and a dumb.
Google Maps Improvements: “Since launching in the U.S. and Canada, eco-friendly routing has helped remove an estimated half a million metric tons of carbon emissions “
Link. A rare Google product that is not dying.
Stage Manager is dumb and sucks.
Link. Windows are good.
2016 Eero support sunset. “Amazon offers a trade-in discount of 25% off a new Eero 6, Eero 6+, or Eero Pro 6, along with an Amazon gift card for between $10 and $45.”
Link. Wish Apple had stayed in market but happy with our 2022 Eero.
“There’s also Time Zone Change, which can help you transition your medication timing when you travel to a different time zone”
Link. IOS medications app is a serious project. A tutorial on how to use it.
NYT frontline reporting from Ukraine.
Link. Big victories and tragic costs.
“Times Square, a shopping district of Fort Myers Beach that had a boardwalk and numerous tourist attractions, is almost entirely gone.”
Link. The before-after satellite image videos are enlightening.
The Italian mystery of the missing toilet seats
Link. Very weird. Supposedly people broke them by standing on them.
“veil requirements … making conservative families more comfortable allowing their daughters to go to university … Today, women make up more than half of university graduates.”
Link. Sow the wind.
“an orca like Starboard—clearly well-versed in killing great white sharks—may be teaching others how to take down the apex predators.”
Link. Orca are tough bastards.