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Ellison: “pledged $1 billion of the $44 billion deal for Elon Musk to buy Twitter.”

Posted on May 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Thiel, Ellison, Musk, Murdoch, Trump.

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How Facebook learned that high quality news came from libs.

Posted on May 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Conservative news sources are all poor quality.

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“Average Uber prices rose 92 percent between 2018 and 2021”

Posted on May 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “an Uber from Manhattan to JFK Airport was $100—nearly double the fixed yellow cab rate. But good luck finding a yellow cab!”

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Cheap Flights.

Posted on May 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Some old names and some new. Especially when you have more time than money.

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“France wanted reparations from the people it had enslaved.”

Posted on May 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. NYT is doing the story of Haiti.

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How to Use Extra Space on an APFS Time Machine Drive

Posted on May 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “when you should create a new volume within the Time Machine APFS container and when you should instead create a separate APFS container.” (Oakley)

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Vandoit: The latest in domestic extreme travel.

Posted on May 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. In my dreams.

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“… theory that non-Whites were brought to the United States to replace White people for political purposes.”

Posted on May 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The most succinct description of GRT I’ve seen. “Political purposes” and “brought” are key concepts.

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“The effect of sanctions on Russia offers a graphic, if grisly, demonstration of a point economists often try to make, but rarely manage to get across: Imports, not exports, are the point of international trade.”

Posted on May 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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Why You Need to Audit Your iPhone Auto-Renew App Subscriptions Right Now

Posted on May 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I hate subscriptions and have far too many.

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Apple Introduces Professional IT Training

Posted on May 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Late to the game but good.

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“Time Machine’s APFS backup volumes are different. For a start, they’re not formatted in normal APFS, but using its case-sensitive variant.”

Posted on May 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Simplifies language support? Is ios APFS case sensitive?

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A useful primer on infectious evil.

Posted on May 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Discord well named. The author’s statement that violent gaming plays no role is not evidence based.

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Puberty In girls starts 2-3y earlier than 70s.

Posted on May 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Definitely obesity related. Chemical suspected but hard to show so far. Stress seems less likely.

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“the sheriff had not sent the skull to the medical examiner’s office — believing that it may have been from a recent murder victim — the skull most likely would never have been analyzed by an anthropologist”

Posted on May 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. So much knowledge of early Americans is lost now.

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Bike and outliners – micro.blog

Posted on May 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Echoes of the Glory Days. If we can recycle the 70s why not the 00s?

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“social media apps are now the primary way teenagers and young adults buy illegal drugs. Dealers create profiles containing enough clues [emoji based] to be recognized by their target market, and the deals are done in private messages.”

Posted on May 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Lethality not great for biz but they make it up in volume. Venmo?!

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Vibe Shift 2022.

Posted on May 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Suddenly groups of fashionable teens are colorful. (I’m infinitely post-vibe so is fun to watch.)

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“Centrists deceive themselves into believing they can forge a bipartisanship that doesn’t exist, while progressives can’t see what’s in front of their faces—that they have little public support.”

Posted on May 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. And that’s the sane party.

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“192 Republicans, opposed the bill” – emergency support infant formula.

Posted on May 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. 2022 GOP is most amoral party in at least 100 years. It works for them.

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Fascism: “As a cult of irrationality and violence, it could not be vanquished as an argument”

Posted on May 19, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I like that definition.

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“Kidneys from deceased Black donors are automatically downgraded as higher risk.”

Posted on May 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Based on history but gene testing might end that practice.

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“450 killings, right-wing extremists committed about 75 percent. Islamic extremists were responsible for about 20”

Posted on May 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Left count for 4%.

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“About 39 percent of Black Americans have one copy of the gene’s risk variants; another 13 percent, or nearly 5.5 million, have two copies. Those with two copies are at increased risk for fast progressing kidney disease that often starts in young adul

Posted on May 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. It’s not structural racism alone.

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Amazon to sort-of support ePub

Posted on May 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Rare example of progress.

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Bike 1.0 – macos outliner. “The .bike file format is HTML–you can view it in your web browser. Bike also supports .opml and .txt.”

Posted on May 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. $30.

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“just as responsible, from Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch on down”

Posted on May 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Fallows is willing to name Lachlan. Tucker is just a mouthpiece.

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Why cars smashing bikes and peds gets poor print coverage.

Posted on May 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. More complex than I thought. Better coverage requires advocate pressure.

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Economic Sitrep for China (Menzie Chin)

Posted on May 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “autocratic leadership unconstrained by reason can lead to disaster — not only for China but also for China’s economic partners.”

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“In the world that we’re in, if you do this, everyone’s gonna be like, ‘Ooh, box token. Maybe it’s cool. If you buy in box token,’ you know, that’s gonna appear on Twitter and it’ll have a $20 million market cap.”

Posted on May 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A convincing argument for extraterrestrial intelligence sustaining humanity.

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Revitalize an Elderly Mac with Google’s Chrome OS Flex.

Posted on May 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I’ll try it on my old laptop.

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“Old Man Paul, “Libertarian” darling Ron, spewed much the same Kremlin-infused horseshit when Putin’s orcs annexed the Crimea in 2014.”

Posted on May 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Rand Paul serves Putin. For flattery and money.

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“The next time you hear an alarm going off on a family member’s ‌iPhone‌ and your own ‌iPhone‌ or ‌iPad‌ is within earshot, simply say “Hey Siri, turn off the alarm on Anna’s ‌iPhone‌”

Posted on May 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Nobody knows all of Siri’s powers.

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What has changed in Monterey 12.4?

Posted on May 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “Photos, large increment in build number”. Hmmm.

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The story of the SV Rationalists (2021)

Posted on May 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Article doxxed SSC author. That was wrong. Does provide useful context to movement.

I read the Alexander’s blog a few times but it was too wordy and too obviously wrong or right.

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“… then the days of mass human employment are numbered. If our workers are already balanced on the knife-edge of total obsolescence, then it’ll only be a few years before the robots put them all out of a job anyway.”

Posted on May 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A great essay on why America needs unions for service workers — including Amazon and Starbucks.

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“six-member Collective Security Treaty Organization — only one member, Belarus, spoke up to support him on Ukraine”

Posted on May 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Putin has no friends.

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“Surprising as superoscillation is, it doesn’t contradict any laws of physics. But when … applied the concept to quantum mechanics, they encountered a situation that’s downright paradoxical.”

Posted on May 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Energy is conserved; how and how strictly is the mystery.

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Aduhelm is dead.

Posted on May 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I missed this. We dodged a bullet on this one. Hope lessons learned.

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Inflation bonds 9.62 percent.

Posted on May 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Emily is keen on these.

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“most people will get infected with it at least a couple of times a year”

Posted on May 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Until we die or develop better vaccines. On the bright side outdoor recreation should do well.

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A pharm researcher takes Paxlovid.

Posted on May 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I probably wouldn’t take at my 62 but I don’t have his lung history.

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“HFS+ should only be considered for retention as the format of active working hard disks, where APFS features aren’t required. For all other storage, APFS should be preferred.”

Posted on May 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Backup hard drives can go APFS.

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How to get Google to DKIM authenticate your domain

Posted on May 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. People leaving Google Apps / G Suite may need this. Bookmark.

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“eight oligarchs, many involved in Russia’s lucrative energy sector, have turned up dead since January”

Posted on May 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Incidental aside in article on Putin’s (unproven) diseases.

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Gordon’s Notes: What is Great Replacement Theory?

Posted on May 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I made a blog post of a tweet stream.

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Twitter thread on email migration from Google Apps / G Suite to iCloud.

Posted on May 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. This seems to be the consensus solution.

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Africa’s First Covid-19 Vaccine Factory Hasn’t Received a Single Order

Posted on May 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “more than two-thirds of Africans had already had a Covid infection before the Omicron wave, but reported death rates remain among the lowest in the world.”

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“We’re living in this amazing transformation of the workplace, and we don’t even know it because we’re showing up every day living in it.”

Posted on May 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. One piece of the global inflation puzzle.

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“Sri Lanka lies in economic ruin”

Posted on May 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. In 1980 it seemed likely to prosper. A long fall since.

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