Link. I think Google’s first Nobel.
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“Whichever type of disk image you want to create or maintain, DropDMG should be your first choice”
Link. 22y. Oakley is disgusted by Apple documentation.
Cybercrime center: “Iceland is an attractive place for proxy services largely because of its robust privacy laws”
Link. Why you can’t have good things.
“He seems confused about modern technology, suggesting that “most people don’t have any idea what the hell a phone app is”
Link. In this case the senile orange weirdo is more correct than the elite NYT journalists.
NYT finally decides to point out Trump is kind of senile. (Via DF 🆓)
Link. “the conspicuous absence of Maggie Haberman from that shared byline”
Via DF so free excerpt. What game is the NYT playing with Haberman?
GOP attacks on trans athletes plays well with mothers.
Link. “Democratic strategists concede that the transgender attacks are taking a toll in some races”
“13 percent of those being investigated by MI5 for involvement in terrorism are below the age of 18.”
Link. Watch this space. The MI 5 antiterrorism lead is quietly saying much of the current threat is coming from persons with mental health issues unconnected to ideology.
US tells Russia to cancel their dirty bomb false flag operation. “Don’t do it,” he said to Shoigu. “I understand,” Shoigu replied.”
Link. Woodward on all the American wars. Putin portrayed as both evil and stupid.
“Safari is the only major browser that consistently ships bugs this nasty, and especially the only one that leaves them there for years.”
Link. On iOS lack of competition is bad for customers.
“Verizon, AT&T, and the other companies whose networks were breached were — and remain — required by law to provide the back doors that the Chinese hackers exploited.”
Link. China knows everything.
Longish NYT essay on Netflix scale and mass media.
Link. Useful context for the Trumpification of tech.
Who watches what is a mystery to traditional media critics:
“we all spent years basically having no idea what was going on in there and taking guidance from friends, social media, newspapers, magazines and websites — all similarly blinded.”
Musk “… looks like Grima Wormtongue pledging fealty to a liege-lord he plans to betray.”
Link. Trump’s poodle is weird.
“Playing sound to Trichoderma harzianum, a green microscopic fungus … led to growth rates seven times as fast …”
Link. Gene studies to define mechanism pending. Bacteria also respond to sound. Environmental signals.
Talking to plants suddenly less woo.
Lessons from Paris Olympics: Russian attacks combine technical and propaganda components.
Link. They will try to hack US election, fail, but use disinfo to claim they succeeded. Then Trump etc.
Yazidi Woman held 10y by ISIS: “… the Israeli authorities learned of her existence, confirmed it with Americans and planned the rescue operation…”
Link. “She was returned to her family in Iraq”
“Many of the enslaved Yazidis were sold in slave markets in Syrian cities…”
Hal shrugged: “YouTube replied and said, We’re sorry we did this, and we’ve reinstated your channel …. Except they’ve removed six of my videos as violating their Terms and Policies.”
Link. This is why Facebook Business site notification scams claiming Page deletion work so well. It’s absolutely plausible.
Parasitic roundworm TGF-beta mimic med accelerates scar-free healing in a mouse model.
Link. Something is likely to come of this.
2020: Autism spectrum heterogeneity: fact or artifact?
Link. One of my favorite autism papers of the past 20years. The low value historic diagnostic criteria make researching “autism” almost a waste of time.
Foreign workers in Japan – beyond 3-5y.
Link. Regional small businesses (small town?) economies have no alternatives. Mostly Vietnam and Philippines. For now.
Fly brain mapped and virtualized.
Link. “One circuit, researchers found, stops the flies by blocking the walking commands, and a second stops a fly by stiffening its leg joints”
About 6500 types of brain cell. We have only identified 3300 or so in humans.
(In the SF story this is the basis for next gen killer drones)
Pinning iCloud Drive in Sequoia: “you have to unpin the folder, which in turn unpins every file (and folder) within that folder, leaving you to manually pin the files you do want to pin, in batches of no more than ten at a time”
Link. Apple’s shame capacity is limited.
Cassava Alzheimer’s med: “numbers appear to have been cooked at every level. It appears that an honest, competent look at the data would have shown that the drug did not work at all.”
Link. Just buy an index fund.
“Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, suggested that Hezbollah had to chart its own way forward”
Link. Iran fears a war with Israel would end the ruling party — and Russia can’t help.
“The gossamer crust was pushed skyward by the buoyant mantle sea … Everest gained up to 165 extra feet in the blink of a geologic eye”
Link. Poetic journalism, cool science.
“Lebanese soldiers — who are loyal to the Lebanese government and not allied with Hezbollah — withdrew from a number of military posts in the country’s south to avoid confrontations…”
Link. Hezbollah is not loved everywhere in Lebanon.
“supporters of Hezbollah appeared to be lashing out at Syrian refugees, whom they suspect of providing targeting information to Israel”
Link. A view from Lebanon. Hezbollah was not loved by all.
Plant intelligence without the woo.
Link. They are solar powered computers.
Trump’s Hitlerian Month.
Link. The venerable net rule is dust now. Trump talks like Hitler. That is simply true.
Mondello: “I recently contributed two new quirks to the Password Manager Resources open source project”
Link. Mondello is a net hero. Interesting to see how things work.
Quebec government effectively fines McGill (and Concordia) universities for continuing to use English.
Link. I was born there long ago, lived through FLQ era, did MD at McGill. I did not expect McGill to thrive.
Somehow the NYT fails to mention immigration and (extremely low) birth rates. This is a political cheap shot but the real fear is immigrant families may speak English at home and the kids go to McGill.
“the Cure for Sickle Cell story is not as clearcut as one might have thought”
Link. Patients are not lining up for bone marrow transplants.
OpenFreeMap: “New free map tile hosting service from Zsolt Ero”
Link. Dedicated people.
NIST says no more “name of first pet”
Link. Maybe implemented around the time AIs monitors have to vouch for human users.
Eliezer Masliah, head of the Division of Neuroscience in the National Institute on Aging (NIA), faked images and results for 25 years.
Link. Sociopaths are good at taking power.
His fraud led to several failed drugs and caused great harm.
Imports do not reduce GDP: “Consumption, Investment, and Government purchases include imports, so we subtract out imports at the end so that the total effect of imports on GDP is zero.”
Link. Useful reference.
Schizophrenia has a different med: “patients who took Cobenfy saw their symptom scores fall by about 20 points, compared with a 10-point drop in the placebo group” 🆓
Link. Nausea main problem so far. No weight gain and maybe some anhedonia relief.
The NYT article is solid except where they use word “rare”. I assume that was a fearful editor. The disease is not rare and it is terrible.
I appreciated the summary of how our genomic studies produced nothing.
🆓 link
“Evidence suggesting that Israel violated an important arms treaty”
Link. Ethically the pager attack was a significant improvement on blowing up Hezbollah fighters who routinely use civilians as shields.
Legally it violates a major arms treaty Israel signed.
Romney’s non-endorsement is about the GOP’s civil war to come.
Link. The shattered fragments of GOP sanity are hoping Trump loses and preparing for 2028. I hope they win their war.
Facebook fined a pittance for disregarding basic user credential security.
Link. 100 million is a tap on the little finger for them.
Cryptex story is a tour of cybercrime 2024: “unlimited cashouts,” a globally coordinated cybercrime scheme in which crooks hack a bank … use cloned cards at cash machines”
Link. I was a minor cybercrime fighter in 1990s Japan for the early Internet version of carding.
Meta Connect 2024: “the race to bring AR glasses to market is clearly on”
Link. There is a name for what happens when technology cycles get too tight to predict.
“It was so tough in the before times, when you had to act as though you were a person … Of course, you weren’t a person, not really”
Link. I’d love to know what Trump’s white woman base thinks of his protection.
“cracked down with arrests and detention for children as young as 10”
Link. We need the legal right to take their phones and computers for a month and suspend their cell coverage. Detention should be reserved for children who use guns in crimes. (Twin Cities has an infamous 12yo)
“Robots have taken over online gambling and they’re transferring wealth from uneducated poor people to corporations and wealthy hustlers”
Link. We lost this battle preemptively. Back when states started lotteries.
“stronger Higgs field makes the elementary particles vibrate at higher frequencies, thus raising their masses”
Link. Quantum field theory slides into popular science.
Quantum Computing and cracking crypto: “today the message needs to be: yes, unequivocally, worry about this now”
Link. Aaronson was my “go to” skeptic of impending encryption doom. He always said it was far away. And now it’s maybe not.
Scottish pub: “The Old Forge: perhaps the most remote pub on the mainland, lying at the end of a multiday wilderness hike through craggy mountains and glistening lochs”
Link.
Olivia Nuzzi: “The flaws in her work were on display for all to see. The flaws of her character were plain. The callousness and shallow worldview and meangirling were always there.”
Link. “journalists spent the better part of a decade protecting her, coddling her, encouraging her to write gossip and call it “news,”
Rural collapse and low credential legal immigration: “the number of declining places has accelerated in recent years. It now includes big swathes of the Great Plains, the Midwest, the Deep South, and the interior of the Northeast”
Link. The children of Twin Cities Hmong immigrants are now well represented in our medical schools.
Musk capitulates: “Brazil’s Supreme Court took $2 million from Starlink in Brazil to cover fines it had issued against X.”
Link. Brazil shows the way.
“Musk had made confronting Justice Moraes one of his pet issues this year, at times posting repeatedly about the judge, insulting him, calling for his jailing and vowing to defy his orders”