Link. Ignominious end.
Monthly Archives: March 2017
The connection between U.S. unemployment and rising opioid abuse
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RyanCare means 50yo pays 5x what 25yo pays.
Link. AARP not amused.
Poor Reporting on CIA hack-tech.
Link. Encryption works.
Salmon beats on “iPhone” Chaffetz.
Link. Ass.
RyanCare: “Access’ is the eatability of famine policy studies”
Link. Less money, less care.
Facebook makes child porn problem worse.
Link. Sound like idiots at best.
GOP: RyanCare means no computers for poor.
Link. Shelter and water ok. Food pellets?
Tor and Dark Web Disappearing
Link. Security uber alles.
Five Models for Making Sense of Complex Systems.
Link. Good, but I’d like some graph language, hierarchical va acrylic for example.
NYT: responses to Peak Human / mass disability.
Link. Slow recognition that more education isn’t answer.
“By the 1920s, Hawaiian pidgin wasn’t a pidgin, it was a creole”
Link. A new language.
Experimental Mathematics with Mathematica.
Link. Wizardry.
Oxygen is 3rd most common element.
Link. Lots of things I didn’t know!
iPad leaves schools.
Link. Apple surrendered without a fight.
“The President is in essence demanding Congress investigate him”
Link. Only Trump.
Another journalist rediscovers the train wreck of US health care.
Link. Stop paying by documentation weight for starters.
8 powers vie for control of Trump’s brain.
Link. He has no will of his own.
Google AI has a thinking problem – Featured Snippets.
Link. Human stupidity is still more powerful.
Trump wants inquiry into unicorns.
Link. Desperate need to distract.
Koch bros fear GOP senate going soft on suffering.
Link. No mercy permitted.
Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War – The New Yorker.
Link. T is political equivalent of Pearl Harbor. A devastating strike.
Trumps voter invasion lie was actually researched.
Link. Craven response to transiently sane sounding T disgusts.
The Kuiper Belt.
Link. In Our Time podcast.
Sleepwalking: Fight/flight without thought.
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Ukrainian connection to Trump Russian network, Alex Oronov, has died.
Link. Of what?
“ASD risk alleles were under positive selection during human evolution due to their involvement in neurogenesis and cognitive ability.”
Link. Human brain is rush job.
Is Trump in panic mode?
Link. A man who has been found out.
Another al Qaeda #2 assassinated.
Link. Curiously non-explosive.
Trump military vision resurrects 19th century.
Link. Idiocracy.
Trump reads whacko journo, accuses Obama of tapping his phones.
Link. Off his meds again.
“General Relativity is easy to get but hard to amend”
Link. With modern maths derivation trivial and robust.
The Economist’s Internet Affordability Rankings are nuts.
Link. Canada?!?! Intern must have done this one.
Tablets are bicycles.
Link. Obviously nobody reads anything any more.
Dropbox Drops Public Folders.
Link. Illegal use?
Messages.app does not sync deletions.
Link. Sigh.
Trump administration to block California’s CO2 restrictions.
Link. This is the GOP.
How to make your iPhone useless with one swipe.
Do this while driving in bright light.
- Have music playing.
- Swipe up from bottom to show Bluetooth etc panel.
- Swipe to swap to sound but accidentally move brightness to nothing.
Phone is useless. Display is too dim to see in daylight. Reboot won’t help. Siri won’t adjust brightness.
Need to find dark bathroom at gas station to enter passcode and adjust.
I think I might also have had some iOS “night shift” state confusion and a miscalibrated auto-brightness that made things worse.
Would be good to have a fix of some kind…
The cruel idiocy of execution and SCOTUS.
Link. Despicable. Strap a grenade to head and detonate.
Predicting inflation.
Link. Fed methods don’t work.
Neuronal crown encircles brain?
Link. Needs replication.
3 parties: “Democrats, the Republicans, and the authoritarian Republicans”
Link. non-authoritarian republicans are a small minority.
Trump renaissance.
Link. Don’t know what you’ve got till its gone.
Uber’s fortune built on bending law.
Link. Like Microsoft.
Russia’s Trump: the innocent explanation.
Link. Extreme narcissism at work.
Brooks: Trumpism is utter repudiation of conservative intellectual.
Link. Brooks is homeless now.
“support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic”
Link. I took that oath too.
Zika: birth defect increase roughly 20x
Link. Most infants of infected mothers do not have obvious defects.
Both Russia and America ruled by billionaires.
Russia’s fate felt ominous to me.
Wrangel island: remote from man, last stand of the mammoth, ghostly fur shimmering in the moonlight.
Link. Homo floriensis fate?