Link. WTF. WTF. WTF. WTF. WTF. WTF.
Monthly Archives: June 2021
Social class in America — race, wealth, education, profession.
Link. Noah simplified by omitting physical fitness — the newest class marker. (Religion, however, is fairly meaningless.)
“When I heard earlier in the week that the House had passed the Juneteenth bill on an overwhelming bipartisan basis I was stunned”
Link. It was unexpected.
“iPadOS is far from being as capable as macOS”
Link. People who say otherwise lose all credibility instantly.
“The monthly global average usage per smartphone now exceeds 10GB”
Link. Global. What year was home broadband average 20GB/month? (Assume average 2 users/home)
Unemployment insurance fraud during the pandemic.
Link. “An estimated $400 billion was subject to fraud…more than the entire 2021 budgets of the Army and Navy combined,” Funded North Korea for next decade.
“all-natural RNA idea has turned out to be a mistake, and that the CureVac agent is getting broken down too quickly to be effective, both inside and outside cells”
Link. America got lucky.
Costco sells a $430 fat bike.
Link. Remarkably cheap and supposedly usable if assembed correctly. 4” tires.
“bold decisive action on the part of the U.S. government, which set aside our usual stinginess and skepticism of welfare spending, was instrumental in staving off economic devastation for millions of vulnerable people.”
Link.
Focus is the most important feature in iOS 15
Link. Sounds complex but maybe useful. First I’ve read of this.
Apple privacy protections 2021-2022.
Link. The full summary is impressive.
iMessage State Not Syncing
Link. Sounds like once the bug breaks message sync there is no hope of a fix.
WaPo summarizes Trump’s attempt to seize power.
Link. Historians will debate how close he came.
“Two failings still trouble Apple and its amazing products: bugs and documentation.”
Link. The documentation fail is comprehensive.
“skip Amazon for anything expensive or at high risk of shipper theft/fraud”
Link. Is any online vendor better? (via Tsai)
For the People Act (H.R. 1) is not politically viable.
Link. Best summary to date.
“high wages spur technological progress that pushes up productivity, which then justifies even higher wages, creating a virtuous cycle”
Link. A newer model of development.
Pain in the knee on descending stairs …
Link. …My chondromalacia patellae is active again. 20 hang power snatch, 32 overhead squats, l200 rope jump 10 miles of bicycling and it’s feeling better. Textbook therapy.
Culture gone mad: the arson cancel.
Link. I’m too small to cancel. FTR I hate riots — even if they are somehow effective. There are better means.
Arizona is the Zyklon B state.
Link. The humane approach is to detonate explosives strapped to the head. Or maybe give up on execution.
12- and 14-year-old Florida foster children face charges.
Link. “Florida’s child welfare system … was privatized in the early 2000s”
Arthur Staats, father of the ?time out? for children, dies at 97
Link. Left wife of 68 years. An agreeable obit.
“suspending their participation in U.S. Marshals task forces until local law enforcement officers were allowed to wear body cameras.”
Link. The killing exposed an insane US Marshalls policy. I want a story on why this wasn’t fixed years ago.
Alzheimer’s and Amyloid: How even a perfect aducanumab could help some and hurt others.
Link. If amyloid is the brain’s way of “retiring” flaky neurons.
Unemployment fraud is vast.
Link. International and domestic criminals.
“having managers model taking personal/sick/vacation days)”
Link. I do this modeling. Some staff (more women) appreciate, others (more men) dislike. Ambitious people often dislike work/life balance, others simply don’t need much sleep.
“Dutch court ruled that Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world’s biggest oil companies, must cut its global carbon dioxide emissions by 45% by 2030.”
Link. Too much happening. Can’t keep up.
Mao Zedong saved civilization.
Link. If it IS saved we can thank the mad Emperor.
“In 1975, there were 7.7 people in the Chinese workforce for every person over sixty; by 2050, the ratio will be only 1.6 employed persons for every retiree
Link. China is impossible.
Israel and Hamas: “The war should be seen “not as a war between enemies but as collaboration between colleagues.”
Link. Netenyahu is best friend Hamas could have.
Why we don’t tax weakth.
Link. Nobody taxes unrealized gains. We could tax finamcial transactions.
“The neurons that represented the smell of an apple in May and those that represented the same smell in June were as different from each other as those that represent the smells of apples and grass at any one time.”
Link. Like rewriting SSD storage. Representational drift.
“Private equity has conquered the American tax system.”
Link. Our rulers.
Fanhouse vs. Apple: Patreon and WeChat get special deals.
Link. Cook is the Mitch McConnell of tech.
The Real System Requirements for Apple’s 2021 Operating Systems
Link. Old machines will labor.
Cautious macOS Monterey optimism.
Link. Maybe it won’t be as bad as the last two.
Ways in which American society has become less religious but more proper.
Link. A kind of social conservatism. Boomers know this, we are bemused by how careful the young are.
Claim that genetics explains only 7% of lifespan variability.
Link. Why am I reading a cogent analysis of a recent research study in my weightlifting blog? What has the world come to? (I don’t believe the study but it is an intetesting claim.)
“FBI, which apparently asked them to pay the ransom so its officials could follow the money trail”
Link. Colonial. These stories are getting hard to follow.
Iain Banks: a 2013 review by a SF writer.
Link. Banks died June 2013 after a short illness. Miss him a lot.
“Autofill of Two-Factor Authentication Codes”
Link. I wish Apple would move faster on replacing 1Password.
“Apps supporting account creation must also offer account deletion.”
Link. Thank you Apple.
“Taiwan was initially hardly touched by the pandemic, thanks to tight travel restrictions and a world-beating contact-tracing system. However, infections are now rising exponentially”
Link. I wonder what’s happening in China.
iOS 15: Find My network can still find your iPhone when it is powered off, or factory reset
Link. “with iOS 15, the phone is not really fully ‘powered off’ At last the conspiracy folk are correct.
iOS 15’s new ‘SMS spam filtering’ feature is limited to Brazil
Link. This explanation makes no sense. Surprised there isn’t more complaining. Maybe Apple is relying on authenticated SMS for other markets?
M1 recovery is so much better than Intel recovery.
Link. Been a while since macOS got a lot better! (APFS … eventually)
Why did the patient’s leg swell up?
Link. Add painless RSD to differential of unilateral leg edema following a minor knee injury.
Anatomy of an elite law school quasi-scandal.
Link. Our culture has changed a lot in past 20 years.
The Four Americas: Free, Smart, Real, and Just.
Link. Obviously I’m the second one; Obama was the ultimate Smart president. I have few friends in Free or Real but I do have friends in Just.
Alpha COVID stealth: “Orf9b makes a viral protein that locks onto a human protein called Tom70.”
Link. And that suppresses interferon release.