Gordon's Notes

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

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Counterfeit Amazon

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More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers & cables sold on Amazon are fake, says Apple . Finally. Sold “Direct from Amazon” mind you. A...
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Sunday, October 16, 2016

How to give believers an exit from a cause gone bad

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How do you give someone who has committed themselves to a bad cause a way out? You don’t do it by beating on how stupid they are … From  H...
Monday, October 10, 2016

Cumberland Wisconsin is peculiar

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On a meandering drive home from a northern Wisconsin bike race I passed through the town of Cumberland Wisconsin . It’s in the middle of no...
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Thursday, October 06, 2016

iPad High School: 1 out of 3 students return their iPad agreement

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My daughter attends an urban high school. I think it is minority white (she’s not white). Her school has a mixed reputation. It’s effective...
Sunday, October 02, 2016

Why Trump? Blame the Vermont Teddy Bear company.

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Why Trump rather than, say, Rubio? To a first approximation, the globalization and technology driven collapse of the white non-college male...
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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