The Feds Can Now (Probably) Unlock Every iPhone Model In Existence.
February 28, 2018
Women reported higher levels of incivility from other women than their male counterparts. In other words, women are ruder to each other than they are to men, or than men are to women, finds researchers in a new study in the Journal of Applied Psychology. This confirms everything I’ve ever witnessed in any work environment.
Inside the OED. I’m down with the OED (yeah, you know me).
February 27, 2018
There are times an old-fashioned alarm clock may be a better choice than an Amazon Echo Spot. When you don’t want someone taking a picture of what you do in bed, for example. The times I don’t want someone doing that are all of the times.
Dismantling Public Ed. Agreed. If I had a kid, I’d never let them go to a school with armed teachers.
Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? I get cold even on the hottest nights is why I sleep with blankets — especially my feet.
The highest form of flattery? In praise of plagiarism. The academic definition of plagiarism is simply absurd and ahistorical.
February 26, 2018
For the NRA, ‘freedom’ means being heavily armed and scared to death. Scared people buy more guns….
February 25, 2018
Science and art are often seen as disciplines with little in common. But research has shown that artistic and scientific creativity are closely correlated. But, but, math IQ tests are all that matter!
People don’t want to learn shit. Well, that neatly summarizes a thousand-word post I had cookin’ for my other blog.
French Food Waste Law Changing How Grocery Stores Approach Excess Food. Another change said to be “impossible” that was relatively easy.
Your orange juice exists because of climate change in the Himalayas millions of years ago. And most of what you buy in the store tastes millions of years old.
February 24, 2018
Humans Have a Natural Teaching Instinct. Unpossible, because humans can’t have instincts because it made some liberal cry!
Prime-Age Men May Never Return to U.S. Workforce, Fed Paper Says. Look to the middle to see where that automation that isn’t happening is happening (I’m one of the ones automating that part away, btw).
Let the Teachers Teach. Arming teachers is such a horrendously bad idea that I have no idea how we are even entertaining it.
Unenlightened thinking: Steven Pinker’s embarrassing new book is a feeble sermon for rattled liberals. Pinker is a serious intellectual about like I’m a serious gymnast.
February 23, 2018
Postal-Service Workers Are Shouldering the Burden for Amazon. Amazon is not actually at fault. Rather, it’s hatred of anything perceived as “government.”
Gartner Reports First Ever Global Decline in Smartphone Sales. Nice. Now we’ll maybe hear endless reports about how “the smartphone is dead!”
SEC planning to roll back Obama-era mutual fund rules. This background stuff will matter more than most of what you hear the press bloviating about.
February 22, 2018
Study finds alcohol use to be the biggest risk factor for dementia. My mom (a very heavy drinker) went from near-complete eidetic memory to fairly bad memory due to years of high unremitting alcohol consumption.
The Winter Olympics, male & female physiology, and socially constructed bodies. Elite athlete performance difference should be about 10% male/female based on physiology in most sports, but is often far more. Non-physiological explanations thus are required.
Why kids need to climb trees. A London council’s proposal to fine kids £500 for climbing trees sparks debate over children’s rights to freedom of movement and why adults think they can block it. It shocks me how many adults seem to utterly and completely forget being a kid. I cannot understand it.
February 21, 2018
New Data Shows Netflix’s Number of Movies Has Gone Down By Thousands of Titles Since 2010. We are now re-siloing information. This will go on for a while as it’s monetized and locked away.
Trump Can’t Kill Renewable Energy. Yep. Too late. That ship sailed about five years ago.
How housing policy subsidizes McMansions. The true recipients of welfare are the well-off and rich.
February 20, 2018
Why 16-year-olds should be able to vote. And no one older than 65 should be allowed to stand for presidential election.
How app developers keep us addicted to our smartphones. Keep you addicted. I fucking hate them.
February 19, 2018
In the end, however, Perot turned out to be more right than wrong about NAFTA—and not only on economic but on political terms. Perot would not have been a good President, but would’ve scuppered NAFTA. That would’ve probably benefited the US more than any other single action in the past 30 years.
February 18, 2018