Gordon's Notes

Commentary: politics, science, technology and humanity. Secular humanist.

Friday, September 30, 2016

Amazon Household and Audible account sharing: these can't both be right

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What is Family Library Sharing? Family Library Sharing allows you to share your Amazon and Audible audiobooks with the other members of yo...
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Revenge of RSS: Google returns to blogs and feeds.

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Remember when Google killed Google Reader Shares ? October 31, 2011.  RSS had been ailing for years by then . Google Reader shut down a coup...

How does the world look to Trump's core supporters?

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Set aside the neo-Klan-Nazi minority. Set aside the truly despicable  - Coulter, Hannity, Falwell and the like. Forget the hell-spawn who th...
Monday, September 26, 2016

Apple is planning to eliminate many iOS parental controls over next year?

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This sound like quite bad if true (emphases mine) … SimpleMDM | iOS 10 MDM Enhancements To Expect … Apple plans to deprecate some non-sup...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

Maciej's Pinboard is a contender for longest lived microblog platform.

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Twitter is racing app.net to the grave. Google social is almost as forgotten as Apple’s flails. Maciej CegÅ‚owski 's  Pinboard  though,...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

On being a non-contender in a regional mountain bike race

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I’m not a competitive athlete, but over the past 3 years I’ve been doing a lot of exercise . This is relatively new for me. I’ve always been...
Monday, September 12, 2016

Americans like television commercials ... and other quick notes

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I’ve eliminated every other possibility . The unlikely remnant is that Americans who watch television secretly like television commercials....
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Last days at the best of social networks: app.net (aka Alpha, ADN).

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My ( @johngordon ) App.net services are beginning to fail - including PourOver . Post counts are gone. I still find some great discussions; ...

Trumpism: a transition function to the world of mass disability.

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We know the shape of the socioeconomic future for the bottom 40%  in the post globalization post AI   mass disability world . But how do ...
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Thursday, August 25, 2016

What socioeconomic support will look like in 20 years

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This is what I think socioeconomic support will look like in 2040 based on cognitive [2] quintiles. The bottom quintile (0-20%, non-voters)...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Massive phone spam -- from Weatherby Healthcare

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Weatherby healthcare  hires physicians for “locum tennis” roles. That’s filling in for someone on holiday and the like. They’ve contracted ...
Friday, August 19, 2016

What a solution for phone spam will look like

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The FCC wants a vast and unmanageable array of voice communications carriers to fix the robocall plague . I’m here to tell you what will ha...
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Crab Bucket

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Terry Pratchett taught me about “crab bucket” in Unseen Academicals  [1]. I don’t know if it’s a metaphor of his part of England, or if it’...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Those moments when you feel the walls of reality fall away

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I’m working through a tedious form that requires me to look up old information from dusty files. I step away to eat and locate some document...
Monday, August 08, 2016

Creaks and clicks in geriatric bikes

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I like a quiet bike as much as the next neurotic guy. So the creaks and clicks in my 20 yo Cannondale T400 have been distracting. Like denta...
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