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Monterey: macOS Monterey kind of screwed people with physical podcast files.

Posted on August 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Apple reminds me of Daisy, the careless beauty of F Scott’s Great Gatsby.

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“Gen X is now richer (30% richer!) than Boomers were at the same age (late 40s)”

Posted on August 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. GDP adjusted. Millennial resemble Boomer path.

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Bullying and Sex Abuse at Elite Danish Boarding School.

Posted on August 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Lord of the Flies as usual. These Danish parents “… don’t have the warmest feelings for nonhierarchical structures”

The institution should be shut down.

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Corruption confounds Xi’s semiconductor goals.

Posted on August 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Still needs TSMC. So will he defer invasion?

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“student journalists dedicated their final issue in June to L.G.B.T.Q. issues”

Posted on August 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Rebels with a noble cause. They were then shut down. Hope to see more like this.

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“people in Taiwan call TSMC their “sacred mountain, protector of the nation.”

Posted on August 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “U.S.-proposed Chip 4 alliance, which seeks to unite the American chip supply chains with those of Taiwan, South Korea and Japan — at the exclusion of China.”

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NYT Kevin Roose outlines the state of AI. We are entering the danger zone.

Posted on August 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Unlike many I respect I am an AI “optimist”. Paradoxically that means I am scared. I think sentience-equivalent will came before 2080 but we will be in a new world by 2040.

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Using Apple’s USB-C to T2 adapter: not for video but still good

Posted on August 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I can vouch for it. Bit surprised it works actually.

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Rainfall totals for the last 24 hours to 3 days. For trail riding choice.

Posted on August 27, 2022 by jgordon

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Will GOP seize power? “words and behavior certainly suggest that they might participate in such an effort”

Posted on August 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. To “overturn election” is to seize power. Based on the evidence the GOP is willing to do that.

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South Korea fertility rate – “declined for the sixth straight year to 0.81 in 2021”

Posted on August 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Japan 1.31, US 1.66. SK is in a slow moving crisis unprecedented in history.

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California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars by 2035

Posted on August 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “General Motors said it was still reviewing the rule but that the company also had a goal of selling only electric vehicles by 2035.”

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“ gross domestic income rose in the first two quarters, a counterpoint to a decline in G.D.P.”

Posted on August 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Biden was right. As usual.

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Economists reflect of their carbon tax fail.

Posted on August 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Many lessons to learn. Homo economicus is extinct.

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“In San Jose, the average police officer salary is $189,000, not including benefits.”

Posted on August 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Requires 4y degree?

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Canine dementia: “The odds of a cognitive dysfunction diagnosis were 6.47 times higher in dogs reported as not active compared with those reported to be very active,”

Posted on August 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Huge effect, but only correlation.

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“Dialectical behavior therapy is a subset of cognitive behavioral therapy…”

Posted on August 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Becoming Vulcan. Best description I’ve read of DBT, sounds like it’s 80% coaching (hard).

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Oldness with special needs kids: “parents of a special-needs child might not be able to move to a state with a lower cost of living. Doing so could mean the adult child would lose access to their benefits and be placed at the bottom of waiting lists”

Posted on August 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. America’s solution for special needs adults is the street for most, prison for the lucky.

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Democracy dies in Tunisia.

Posted on August 25, 2022 by jgordon

Link. It would be nice to be able to leave the Arab world alone.

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James Lovelock: “He had a side hustle as a real-life Q, a gadget-maker for MI5”

Posted on August 25, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Did not know that.

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“Taiwan’s defence-related spending has fallen gradually from a peak of more than 7% of GDP in the late 1970s to only 1.9% last year, and obligatory military service has been cut to only four months.”

Posted on August 25, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Why did they do this?!

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Dugin: “[12y ago] he was still believed to be close to Vladimir Putin …He certainly isn’t now, and has even lost his job at Moscow State University…

Posted on August 25, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Most of my sources consider Dugina more influential. Assassination of Dugina unlikely to bother many.

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“spider news in Finland was wholly arachnologist-approved”

Posted on August 25, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Finland and Mexico are opposites.

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Teacher quits in protest after being punished for banned books she teaches.

Posted on August 25, 2022 by jgordon

Link. We need a registry of those teachers and librarians who refuse to bend. One day names in a monument to freedom and knowledge.

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Sociopath Andrew Tate: “4.6 million followers on Instagram”

Posted on August 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Love to know the gender composition.

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Education on manipulation techniques provides some short term resistance to video misinformation.

Posted on August 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Lasting effect? Does it help to anticipate specific predictable attacks by idiocracy and Russia?

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Supply chain 40% of inflation.

Posted on August 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Inflationary pressures will fall quickly.

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Drag and Drop not working in Monterey?

Posted on August 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Happened to me with new machine, new install of last Monterey release. Had to disable force click and haptic feedback. Kind of amazing really.

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Updated “powers of 10” map of the universe.

Posted on August 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I have an XKCD poster version. I particularly liked the near earth view and the emergent structures at the other extreme. Best on big display.

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Tolkien wrote and wrote and wrote …

Posted on August 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Very profitable in the long run, but Emily asks if he did any professing. Not to mention house work. Tenure was nice then.

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“I probably would have been better off to migrate my documents folder and my mail files manually, then recreate the rest.”

Posted on August 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Mojave was pretty good. I miss it.

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“Artemis 3, in which NASA seeks to land a man and the first woman on the Moon by late 2025.”

Posted on August 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Not long.

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“43 percent in the 19-30 age group had used cannabis 20 or more times over the previous month”

Posted on August 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Vaping and rapid-release edibles make cannabis more attractive.

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macOS Mints utility gets even more features.

Posted on August 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Becoming essential.

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Traveling with AirTags: location exclusion, traveling with pause.

Posted on August 23, 2022 by jgordon

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Too much security: diminishing returns.

Posted on August 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “Safari is more annoying than other browsers because the “Remember me” checkbox on so many sites doesn’t work.”

So it’s not just me.

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Apple’s unbranded Self Service Repair Store

Posted on August 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. My Air needs a new battery….

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Twitter security has ‘extreme, egregious deficiencies’: “half the company’s servers were running out-of-date and vulnerable software and that executives withheld dire facts about the number of breaches and lack of protection for user data”

Posted on August 23, 2022 by jgordon

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“In June, in Carson v. Makin, the Supreme Court expanded the voucher system to include religious schools”

Posted on August 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. How to destroy public education. No dangerous minds.

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“Chinese weakness is actually good for the rest of us: Falling Chinese demand is putting a lid on the prices of oil and other commodities, reducing global inflationary pressure.”

Posted on August 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. In past I felt economists treated US economy as thought the world did not exist.

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Von Braun: ” … has a growing fan base among American evangelicals who are heaping praise on him as a recovering sinner, born-again brother and, above all, groundbreaking creationist…”

Posted on August 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Doesn’t even move the lib owning dial these days. (His “Christianity” was exactly as sincere as Trump’s.)

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Move Apple Mail to New Mac with migration assistant.

Posted on August 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. 1. Make sure keychain syncs
2. Copy library\mail files
3. Copy com.apple.mail.plist
Consider run mail rebuild (can take a long time)

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How to Deadlift: 9 Coaching Tips.

Posted on August 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I like deadlift but it doesn’t like me. So in old age I hex when heavy. By experience I can vouch for these tips.

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Barre Seid, Tripp Lite billionaire, gives 1.6 billion to Federalist Society tax free.

Posted on August 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Similar to 1930s response to FDR. Federalist society will try to block CO2 control.

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Occupied Zaporizhzhia plant: “Russians have been seen drinking, looting and detaining anyone for expressing even a whiff of protest”

Posted on August 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. If the Ukrainian workers fail their families get irradiated.

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“forward-collision warning systems with automatic braking cut rear-end crashes by 50 percent, and rear cross-traffic alerts reduce accidents by 33 percent.”

Posted on August 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. As bad as smartphones are the native car systems may be much worse.

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The Crikey article that Lachlan sued for.

Posted on August 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. This is SOOO mild and absolutely true. New Zealand’s libel laws are almost as insane as Lachlan himself.

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Lachlan Murdoch Sues Australian News Site Crikey for libel: “Murdochs and “poisonous” Fox News commentators had contributed to the assault on American democracy.”

Posted on August 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. This is undeniably true. Please sue me Lachlan.

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Phone and data services for travelers to Europe.

Posted on August 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. It’s surprisingly hard to get a local number and eSIM with a local number is not as well established as I expected.

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Mexico Student massacre: the government, the police, the army and the cartels.

Posted on August 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Damn. That’s a seriously screwed up nation. Where we are heading if GOP takes power.

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