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Arctic: “Over the past four decades the region has been heating up four times faster than the global average, not the two to three times that has commonly been reported.”

Posted on August 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “projections of future climate impacts might need to be adjusted”

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macOS versions – complex and unreliable.

Posted on August 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I wish they’d never bothered.

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Bipartisan spam expansion act expected to pass.

Posted on August 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. We hates them.

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“The App Store makes it easier for scams like this to gain traction because it’s easier to get discovery through App Store keyword SEO and fake reviews than it would be organically,”

Posted on August 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Apple’s App Store has failed. End the exclusivity.

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“While right-wing figures are saying Trump’s lawyers were not present during the search, two of them—Christina Bobb and Lindsey Halligan—confirmed to Politico that they were there.”

Posted on August 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Someone flipped.

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Extreme dog rescuing: deep in an inaccessible cave.

Posted on August 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. 66yo caver hauls 14yo dog up long vertical. Dog should buy a lottery ticket.

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“Guys are welcome to return to whatever sexuality suited them previously, but right now, guys, just give it some time.”

Posted on August 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. So hard to say gay men should change behavior to reduce monkeypox risk. (Vs COVID behavior change)

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Continuity Camera Turns an iPhone Into a Mac Webcam

Posted on August 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Ventura. This I’ll use.

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Most iOS 15 and macOS 12 Monterey Features are not used.

Posted on August 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Fewer features, more bug fixes.

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The Top PDF Reader in the Mac App Store … is a scam.

Posted on August 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. We need a way to sue Apple. They don’t care.

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Serena Williams: “Shoulda, woulda, coulda. I didn’t show up the way I should have or could have.”

Posted on August 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. She may be a bit self-critical.

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Underrated sci-fi and fantasy books

Posted on August 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “If I had to pick one book to be the “great American novel”, at least as far as the last half century is concerned, this might be it.”

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Scientific Field Prefixes (xkcd)

Posted on August 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Thoughtful combinations.

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“the law disqualifies from “holding any office under the United States” anyone who “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies or destroys…any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, fil

Posted on August 10, 2022 by jgordon

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“If money earns a positive real return over time, that return doesn’t represent a reward for hard work done; it represents a freebie. A handout. In economic terms, this is called “rent”.”

Posted on August 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Great discussion.

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iMessage and the Secret Service: of course the messages were lost with a device upgrade.

Posted on August 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I’m recently retired from federal service. The secret service message loss seems perfectly normal to me. I don’t think it was a conspiracy.

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“two days after Meta released its most advanced AI chatbot to date, BlenderBot 3 is repeating election-denying claims and antisemitic stereotypes to users who interact with it.”

Posted on August 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Our children will be a lot like us.

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“on January 19, 2021, the day before he left office, Trump revoked the authority he had previously given and named seven new loyalists as his representatives to the National Archives.”

Posted on August 10, 2022 by jgordon

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“By 2035 the I.R.A., they estimate, will have delivered more than 90 percent of the emissions reductions that B.B.B. would have achieved. After all that legislative drama, Biden’s climate policy has emerged essentially intact.”

Posted on August 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Could be he’s lucky, but maybe he’s just good at presidenting.

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Paxlovid only useful for higher risk? “patients who have already started to mount their own immune response benefit less from an antiviral, …. during infection in a vaccinated host.”

Posted on August 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Curbsider’s quickie. For all we know it interferes with developing a lasting immune response in the low risk. Save it for unvaccinated / high risk.

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Covert bike AirTag – a fake reflector.

Posted on August 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Clever.

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“In 1880, the South became solidly Democratic, and with white men keeping Black people from the polls, it would remain so until 1964.”

Posted on August 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The first battle against slavery was a win, but far from complete. The second took place in the 60s. Hoping this go round is easier.

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Senate passes climate bill. Biden loses again.

Posted on August 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. JK. He’s hooked on winning.

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Subjectivity is baked into inflation data

Posted on August 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. 1950 Burger comparable to 2020 burger, but we eat more burgers now. 1950 iPhone is bit spartan.

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10 Books that showed future.

Posted on August 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Neuromancer omitted. That’s wrong. But this is a great list.

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“Nearly two dozen Republican state treasurers around the country are working to thwart climate action on state and federal levels”

Posted on August 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Only the best.

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Orban’s plan to destroy democracy.

Posted on August 4, 2022 by jgordon

Link. 12 points of course. Read this carefully. It’s a solid plan and proven effective. It is now the GOP’s plan. Note where he disses AQnon

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Winger orgs get beaten IRS to calm them churches.

Posted on August 4, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “churches are exempt from submitting Form 990, the annual financial disclosure”

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“Soon after the United States left Kabul, the C.I.A. sharpened its efforts to find al-Zawahri, convinced he would try to return to Afghanistan.”

Posted on August 3, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Overconfident.

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You cannot search the Library in Apple TV.app on iPhone.

Posted on August 3, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Modern Apple reminds me of Trump. So stupid.

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“When Dr. Duke asked what a fossil footprint looked like, Dr. Urban pointed out the window and said, “Well, kind of like THAT!”

Posted on August 3, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “The set of 88 prints is about 12,000 years old … found in the military’s Utah Test and Training Range.”

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QuickLook bug: dark mode RTF can be invisible.

Posted on August 3, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “another bug that has been left untouched for four years across four major versions of macOS”

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NYT designated conservative Bret Stephens on voting Dem: “a choice between a day-old baloney sandwich with a sad little pickle on a stale roll versus a plate of rancid chicken served with a sprinkling of anthrax on a bed of broken glass.”

Posted on August 3, 2022 by jgordon

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GOP dirty tricks in Kansas referendum: “written the question so that a “yes” vote would remove abortion protections and a “no” would leave them in place. Then, today, a political action committee sent out texts that lied about which vote was whi

Posted on August 3, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Be funny if they confused GOP voters.

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iOS Podcasts does not support search for episode.

Posted on August 3, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Only supports search for a Podcast source. I miss my home planet.

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“The district, long a derelict area owned by the Afghan Defense Ministry, was converted into an exclusive residential area of large houses in recent years, with senior Afghan officials and wealthy individuals owning mansions there.”

Posted on August 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. WaPo has most details on Zawahiri’s end.

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“The precision strike hit Zawahiri as he stood on a balcony in a prosperous section of Kabul, Afghanistan”

Posted on August 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Context and history.

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“The Murrays had an idyllic life in the country. They also had enormous rashes, strange joint swellings, and recurrent fevers.”

Posted on August 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Lyme history and the chronic Lyme cult.

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What To Know About Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip

Posted on August 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “Who gives a shit what Taiwan thinks? This is about us and China.” The Onion.

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CNN viewership down 27%, “Fox News …up about 1 percent”

Posted on August 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. If you don’t like Fox you are going to have to stop paying for cable. Also, Trump was great for CNN. They must hate Biden.

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“Grassley (R-Iowa) … 88-year-old suggested that Google sending emails to spam was equivalent to the post office refusing to deliver the mail”

Posted on August 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. GOP needs access to the cognitively vulnerable so they can keep scams running. Public comments strongly support filtering.

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“The drone strike was conducted at 9:48 p.m. ET on Saturday was authorized by Biden following weeks of meetings with his Cabinet and key advisers”

Posted on August 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Taliban caught playing the old game.

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TidBITS members get significantly macOS software discounts

Posted on August 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. If there’s something here you want to buy the discount may cover membership.

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“USPTO received far more gene patent applications than the number of genes that actually turned out to exist.”

Posted on August 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. We thought there were more genes. Also thought we understood what a gene is.

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“repeatedly delivered these warnings to Infowars staffers, “only to be received with laughter and jokes.”

Posted on August 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Was all a joke for them. Meanwhile Jones well paid lawyers have many ways to keep
him going.

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Cold War China: “reorganizing our economy to promote certain industries, build or rebuild certain capacities, and reorganize supply chains”

Posted on August 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Alliances essential.

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MN vehicle services license processing dashboard

Posted on July 31, 2022 by jgordon

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MN unemployment: “lowest rate ever chalked up by any state in any year since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tabulating the metric in 1913”

Posted on July 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. It’s the bike paths.

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“Ms. Nichols worked with series creator Gene Roddenberry, her onetime lover, to imbue Uhura with authority”

Posted on July 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Didn’t know that bit.

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“I don’t think you’re going to go down at all at the end of the day,” Gaetz told Stone. “Gaetz sits on the House Judiciary Committee”

Posted on July 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Barr broke the Justice Department.

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