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Delta Air Lines paid $10,000 a person for bump volunteers.

Posted on June 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The new rules work.

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Set price alerts for cheap flights

Posted on June 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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PowerPhotos fills in some Photos gaps.

Posted on June 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. There’s a PhotoKit API. I used predecessor years ago. Sounds essential.

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“anyone who can get into your Apple ID account and either see your phone notifications or redirect an SMS message can delete all your passkeys”

Posted on June 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Is your passkey provider specified on initial connection to a site?

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F-16s to Turkey after NATO agreement.

Posted on June 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Arms were twisted, deals made. As it should be.

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“Two different ancient wolf populations, one in Asia and another in the Middle East or surrounding area, contributed DNA to modern dogs.”

Posted on June 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Given wolves dogs are kind of inevitable.

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Firefox now automatically removes tracking parameters from URLs to enhance privacy

Posted on June 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Want this everywhere.

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“activity in America and Canada is now at around nine-tenths of pre-pandemic levels. Global activity is only around one-sixth lower than before the virus emerged”

Posted on June 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. It was(?) bad. And in 15y it will fade into history.

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Solar flares: “different latitudes on the molten star rotate at different rates—36 days at the poles, and only 25 days at the equator. Very quickly, those lines stretch and tangle, forming magnetic knots…”

Posted on June 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. You might get 15 min warning to shutdown your phone and other gear.

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HCQ retinopathy: “far lower estimate compared to previously reported figures”

Posted on June 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Good news for SLE and RA patients.

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“Turkey had dropped its objections to the membership of Sweden and Finland”

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Another quiet win for Biden and the west.

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“The president that emerged from her account was volatile, violent and vicious, single-minded in his quest to overturn an election he lost”

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A lunatic.

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Los Angeles County Votes to Return Beach Seized in 1924 From a Black Family

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “.. Bruce’s Beach, will be transferred to descendants of Charles and Willa Bruce, who bought the land in 1912 and built a resort.”

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Flu vaccinated group has 40% lower risk Alzheimer’s than unvaccinated.

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Lots of vaccine reluctant patients will hear about this. Case-control so only suggestive. Thought is respiratory infections (COVID, Flu, etc) + immune response -> accelerated Alzheimer process.

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Google caves to GOP pressure for filter-free GOP spam.

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I hate Google.

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“we’re left with no good way to handle someone who has lost all their digital credentials—computer, phone, backup, hardware token, wallet with ID cards—in a catastrophic house fire.”

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I have offsite backups with the encryption code in a safe deposit box.

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A Metabolite of Exercise: “Lac-Phe is produced under exercise conditions in mice, racehorses, and humans, and just the fact that it’s being made in CNDP2-containing cells shows how wide-ranging exercise effects can be.”

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Neat physiology.

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“the virus is evolving so quickly that new vaccine formulations are out of date before such trials are even finished”

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “an accelerated process was already used to update the flu vaccine each year”

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Today’s GOP resembles 1920s KKK.

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Both a reaction to social transformations.

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Steven Pinker and Scott Aaronson debate AI scaling.

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Several longish essays. On initial review many good questions raised.

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Harris implies those “shocked” GOP senators are full of sh*t.

Posted on June 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Everyone with a brain knew they were lying.

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“The Army has hit 40% of its recruiting goals this year, with the struggle to fill the ranks seemingly so grim the Defense Department reduced its planned total force size because prior recruiting goals were out of reach.”

Posted on June 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I’m surprised.

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WaPo’s Kathleen Parker of “calm down” fame.

Posted on June 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. via Jay Rosen: “You don’t seem to be a very good thief. Maybe you should try something else.” She’s pretty shameless. Her Twitter sig says “dangerous thinker”.

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How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch ID, and Require a Passcode to Unlock Your iPhone or iPad

Posted on June 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Press and hold the power button and either volume button to hard-lock an iPhone or iPad. “Remember to do this every time you’re separated from your phone, like when going through the magnetometer at any security checkpoint, especially airports.”

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Exporting/Archiving E-mail From Apple Mail

Posted on June 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Unreliable. Use EagleFiler.

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“When state legislatures put in place the Black Codes, which created a second-class status in the South for Black Americans, Congress passed and the states ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, overriding the Dred Scott decision to make

Posted on June 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. SCOTUS has often been despicable.

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“Walz signed an executive order Saturday directing state agencies — to the extent legally permissible — not to aid agencies from other states if they seek to prosecute their residents for traveling to Minnesota to get abortions”

Posted on June 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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“Patients with immune complications who were taken off checkpoint inhibitors did just as well as patients who continued…”

Posted on June 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Interesting. Short courses pending.

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An insider reports on why America’s mega-projects fail.

Posted on June 26, 2022 by jgordon

Link. His US vs. EU union examples were unpersuasive however.

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Contextuality in quantum physics: “They continued until, in the 117th direction, the contradiction cropped up”

Posted on June 26, 2022 by jgordon

Link. 117 is my new magic number.

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“getting too little sleep most likely leads to long-lasting brain damage and increased risk of neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease.”

Posted on June 26, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The disorders also disrupt sleep, so reinforcing disease. Sleep apnea a key contributor.

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The status of Bees.

Posted on June 26, 2022 by jgordon

Link. By a physicist because it’s really all QFT. Good review though.

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China implements the Minority Report.

Posted on June 26, 2022 by jgordon

Link. 9/11 was a turning point. We knew afterwards that ubiquitous surveillance was inevitable. The only uncertainty is the degree of protection of the accused and whether “protected spaces” can exist.

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“attacker needs a custom Thunderbolt 3 device and five minutes alone with your Mac. At the end of that, they can copy all your data, even when its internal SSD is encrypted and the Mac is locked.”

Posted on June 26, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Always assume your data can be read.

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“I feel sorry that too many were killed on each side,” Sitting Bull said, “but when Indians must fight, they must.”

Posted on June 26, 2022 by jgordon

Link. An excellent tightly written history.

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“saved the lives of 19.1m-20.4m people. Without vaccines, the study estimates, roughly three times as many people would have died from covid in 2021 alone”

Posted on June 25, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Lancet study.

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“In 1958, however, the economist A.W. Phillips pointed out that there had historically been a relationship between unemployment and the rate of change in wages (as opposed to their level)”

Posted on June 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. This is a great primer on inflation macro.

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Your face bugs poop on you.

Posted on June 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “they’re evolving into co-dependent, symbiotic creatures that might provide us some benefits”

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Schneier’s blockchain/crypto takedown only works because he excludes crime.

Posted on June 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Crypto is very valuable for a wide range of crime and activities that badly harm vulnerable people. We need to kill it.

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T-Mobile Is selling Android user’s usage data.

Posted on June 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. They can’t sell iOS data.

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“Inside the cells of Thiomargarita magnifica, the researchers have discovered a bizarre, complicated structure.”

Posted on June 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. An enormous bacteria that has many features of a eukaryotic cell.

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“Greek tortoises and black marsh turtles, even displayed negative rates of senescence, meaning their mortality risk decreased as they aged.”

Posted on June 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. They are pretty sluggish though.

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Ukrainian cyber-defense effective: “moving much of Ukraine’s most important systems to the cloud, onto servers outside Ukraine.”

Posted on June 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Russia mostly failed on cyber, but great success with n the bio-lab con with help from Lachlan Murdoch.

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“The only reliable way that I’ve found to prune Message’s storage use is to set it to only Keep Messages for One Year”

Posted on June 22, 2022 by jgordon

Link. There’s no export capability.

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“Xinjiang produces more than 40 percent of the world’s polysilicon, a quarter of the world’s tomato paste and a fifth of global cotton.”

Posted on June 22, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Known to have forced labor, aka slavery.

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“since 2000, and especially since the global financial crisis, businesses have persistently been unwilling to maintain a level of investment spending that used all the money households wanted to save, unless interest rates were very low”

Posted on June 22, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Too much money, too little demand.

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“humans are the only animal that actually gets Alzheimer’s”

Posted on June 22, 2022 by jgordon

Link. If I knew that I’d *cough* forgotten. Why?!

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Amway and Web3 – similar cultures.

Posted on June 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Guest post. Two cults.

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Monkeypox spread explained: “They go specifically to have sex with many other men.”

Posted on June 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Ripping off the bandaid.

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“After The New York Times asked Capital One about Mr. Oriach’s case… After The Times contacted Bank of America, it refunded …”

Posted on June 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Despicable. They cave when the NYT knocks but before that they shaft customers.

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