Link. John Birch territory. The current governor is an extremist whacko, but his challenger is far worse.
Monthly Archives: May 2022
“All this is bad enough without the United States and Canada having the most adverse spring planting season in decades”
Link. Remember when we thought 2020 was a bad year?
How to leave Google Apps / G Suite / Google Workspace.
Link. Publishing this as I learn — so lots off updates. iCloud+, mail migration, Dreamhost forwarding.
What is GRT?
Link. Very much like CRT, it’s hard to define and it morphs. Mixture of “pale redheads are a shrinking phenotype” and “Dems are making this happen”.
OpEd: SCOTUS and legal decisions founded on religion.
Link. ACB is an extraordinary character. Women play a key role in sustaining patriarchy.
Deplatforming Father Coughlin
Link. His trajectory from conservative to fascist is classic. Tucker would be mid 30s Coughlin.
“I cannot believe how Apple has let them regress so much.”
Link. Those who complained about iTunes you learned an import lesson. (Photos same. Vast regressions)
Thunderbolt and USB-C monitors for Mac
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“Baquet did not rise to this challenge. He treated the divisions about basic facts and democratic rule as just so much partisan squabbling. During the 2016 campaign, in the name of balance, his staff savaged Hillary Clinton”
Link. WaPo is better.
“IBM is one of the few companies that stops short of donating money to politicians.”
Link. Who are the others?
16 percent of Americans own some crypto scam
Link. Probably 32% of Republicans. There’s going to be serious pressure on the GOP to do …. something?
Google Search: 1996-2022. RIP.
Link. “Today I searched on something people ask a thousand times a day: “How do Facebook Messenger hacks work?” Google suggested a variant phrasing. This is what I got”
SIDS researcher: “Her son unexpectedly and suddenly died as an infant 29 years ago.”
Link. Personal. Study consistent with arousal problem.
Problems With Promotion-Oriented Cultures.
Link. Why Apple bugs are never fixed. This is a problem everywhere. “Google promotes people for “solving hard problems” not for solving USEFUL problems.”
“when collaborators in an iCloud Drive shared folder delete files or folders, those items are destroyed instantaneously”
Link. No backup, no undo.
USB-C Hubs Break Wired Ethernet Networks
Link. It’s not a new problem. “the pause thing was specified in 1997 and most people forgot about it because it turned out to be pretty useless”
How James E. Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen tortured and “broke” Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.
Link. When America lost any moral standing it once had. The torture program was popular with Americans and very popular with Republicans — except John McCain.
Don’t take NSAIDs for back pain beyond 1-2 days. Exercise instead.
Link. Interesting animal studies. I have LOTS of experience — exercise is it.
NYT fact checker: Alito is kind of dumb.
Link.
“Putin’s mother Maria nearly became another … someone heard her moaning and pulled her off a pile of corpses.”
Link. “how much he is still bothered—despite his age, wealth, and absolute power—by the fact that he is short.” Context.
“American evangelicals are converting to the Russian Orthodox Church out of support for its nativism, white nationalism, rejection of LGBTQ rights and abortion, and support for authoritarian Russian president Vladimir Putin.”
Link. Really? That seems unlikely even for them.
“A week of infusions of young cerebrospinal fluid improved the memories of older mice.”
Link. Thiel will pay for your fibroblast growth factor 17.
“systemic corruption wherever it occurs: It is not primarily a problem of individual immorality, but of a collective action trap.”
Link. We are more corrupt than most imagine. “power and wealth accrue to those willing to play the corruption game, and those who are not get left behind.”
“Strips that can detect fentanyl have become increasingly valuable resources for local health officials, and some states have moved recently to decriminalize them, even as others resist.”
Link. Article does not mention role of crypto currency in the fentanyl industry.
Abortion with mifepristone/misoprostol combo to grow in US.
Link. I’m surprised it’s only 25% here, I’d thought 75%. I suspect there’s good reason we do more suction but article doesn’t discuss.
Interview for Decisional Abilities: IDA helps with assessing elder ability to manage money.
Link. I’d like an AI to watch what I do.
Teen mental health issues in America.
Link. It’s very hard to study, but like many physicians I think physical inactivity, smartphones, and social media have been mostly bad news for a lot of teens.
“demographics, preferences, and values of two people had surprisingly little power in predicting whether those two people were happy in a romantic relationship.”
Link. “Desired romantic partners are easy to predict with data.”
iPhone Optimized Battery Charging explained.
Link. Needs location services.
Mac Studio Max and Studio Display: impressions and future
Link. Oakley approved.
“harder to find solutions via general Web searches. I keep running into outdated advice and pages that are filler/SEO content that doesn’t answer the question, even incorrectly.”
Link. We all see this.
“McCain spent his 70th birthday with Oleg Deripaska and Rick Davis on a Russian yacht at anchor in Montenegro”
Link. People know things.
Nobel disease: “provides an existence proof that being an authority in one field does not necessarily make one an authority in any other field”
Link. So good.
“But tonight there is someone I can write of the way I used to write, without reservations of any kind. Last Thursday, at the Harvard Square theatre, I saw my rock’n’roll past flash before my eyes.”
Link. Those were the days.
COVID wars: “Mu found itself competing with an even more formidable variant: Delta. Delta was not as skilled at dodging antibodies as Mu, but it was more transmissible”
Link. We can’t yet predict which scary variant will actually win.
Intuit: “pay back $141 million to more than four million Americans who were unfairly charged for tax services that were falsely advertised as free.”
Link. Should have been a $5 billion fine.
“genes can move among complex, multicellular creatures as well, perhaps with help from pathogens”
Link. They behave like an infection that can confer new powers (but usually problems).
XKCD: The Apple Map existential crisis.
Link. The directions and business listings are still mediocre though.
Noah: American is not actually collapsing just yet.
Link. For now he is persuasive.
Saudis and 9/11: “Biden ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to declassify documents that suggest there may have been a Saudi spy involved.”
Link. Missed that.
“During October–November, unvaccinated persons had 13.9 and 53.2 times the risks for infection and COVID-19–associated death, respectively, compared with fully vaccinated persons who received booster doses”
Link. Pre-Omicron. 50x is astounding.
“Maria Alvarez, 46, a mother and a realtor, said she is pro-choice, but “I really don’t have a strong opinion on it.”
Link. Minuscule sample but affirms my prejudices so I’ll go with it. Most women don’t care – for now. (Also most people don’t care about CO2.)
“They mistook common language and values like attitudes to the Second World War and Orthodoxy as a sign that somebody loves them”
Link. Many local leaders thought to be natural Russian allies turned Ukrainian.
“It’s not that Tunisia’s democracy is threatened. Tunisia’s democracy has been shot in the head”
Link. No more hope.
“When Rich Strike hit the wire low and long as if he were trying to sneak past a hall monitor”
Link. “He taught him to go between horses” Fun coverage. Is wild to watch the aerial view videos.
Trilobite sex.
Link. Alien life: “The standard trilobite limb is segmented into three distinct portions — a walking leg, or endopodite, and a gill structure, the exopodite, are connected to the body by a spiny food-processing section, the protopodite”
Hot Banana – XKCD What If is live.
Link. New post. Maybe due new book? “Imagine you’re an atom of potassium; every second you roll 21 dice. If they all come up 6s, you decay.”
no-knock warrants banned: “Florida, Oregon, Tennessee and Virginia”
Link. Florida?! Really??
“The Invisible Bridge is a chaotic, meandering tale of exhaustion, confusion, oddity and pointlessness. Which means it’s a book about the 70s”
Link. My formative time (albeit in Canada).
TLR7 and Lupus.
Link. A mechanism for SLE. Excellent news.