Will the Chicago Cubs win another game this season? The last weekend is coming up, but they haven’t won since the collapse. Have a chance to spoil the Cardinals hopes of winning the division, but I don’t think that matters. Sad ending to the season.
I am going ahead and installing iPadOS on my iPad Pro. Got to take the plunge at some time.
I have installed iPadOS on my iPad Mini. I like having more icons on the home screen, I now have only two home screens on the Mini. Not sure that Today View is the most useful on the Mini. I don’t like that cut the width of the widgets in half.
So, what if we made a really big Bulletin Board System, one that could be dialed-in to from any city, and where thousands of people could interact, rather than just a few? - paleotronic.com
I am receiving emails from various iOS app vendors warning me their apps are not compatible with iPadOS and to not upgrade my device if I need their app working. I don’t think I have seen this happen before and given Apple’s beta cycle, I am surprised that this is an issue.
In order to successfully avert the climate catastrophe, we quickly need to solve our collective action problem. We have to find a way to cooperate internationally, to reduce rather than expand. Humanity’s greatest challenge in the 21ˢᵗ century is not the climate — it’s us.
To achieve cooperation we have to get over the origin of sin: the illusion of separateness that leads to supremacy. This problem is particularly hard because the United States is founded on supremacy by way of colonialism and slavery. Supremacy is so unconscious it permeates all aspects of our life, including American Christianity.
To all of this we have to open our eyes.
If Trump gets his way and practically nobody is able to immigrate to the United States, in what way does that make your life better?
The Atlantic, The Press Is Embracing False Equivalence Again
To be “fair” in covering him (Trump) is to be unfair—to the truth, to history, to the readers, to the national interest, to any concept of journalistic purpose. The stuffy way to put this problem is “false equivalence.” The casual way to put it is “But what about her emails?”
First Humberto took a swing at Bermuda and now hurricane forecasters say Jerry may be taking aim at the small island that is currently mostly without power.
I watched the Apple iPhone event this afternoon and found all the emphasis on the cameras to be over the top. I know that Google has received praise for the cameras in the Pixels so I get that Apple wanted to proclaim loudly they have the best camera. I am not a camera nerd, all I want is the camera on my phone to take decent pictures, which it does. I don’t care about all the whizzywigs, and I wouldn’t buy a smartphone because it has the best camera. It feels like Apple is still playing the features game to convince people to throw down $1k on their phones, case in point, the portion of the event that got into the details of the A13 processor.
When I look at this comparison of phones, I am drawn to the Pixel 3A XL because it has enough features for the lowest price.
I wonder if I am the only person who thinks Apple should do the same thing they did with the iPod and make the Apple Watch work standalone or with Windows? The tie to iPhone constrains sales, in my opinion. The iPod didn’t really take off until it started working with Windows, and if Apple really wants to sell watches, they need treat it like a standalone product.
Happy Apple event day! Does the Internet have holidays?
The irony is that more democracy—ushered in by social media and the Internet, where information flows more freely than ever before—is what has unmoored our politics, and is leading us towards authoritarianism.
The Founders of the United States did not consider democracy as the best form of government, which is why they created a Republic. We have been dismantling their invention ever since.
Emotional programming has been happening since Gutenberg. It is what advertising is all about, and the Internet is the optimal platform for emotional programming. It takes constant diligence to recognize when you are being manipulated and for many that is just too much work.
Definition of Insanity
Home Run hitting is vulnerable to breaking down. Combine that fact with an aging starting rotation and an inconsistent bullpen and you have a summary of the Chicago Cub’s last two seasons.
The Cubs currently have 5 batters with 20 or more home runs, and one more, Jason Heyward at 19. No Cubs hitter has a batting average of .300 or better, Anthony Rizzo is hitting .286. Even if you add Ben Zobrist to the mix, the Cubs lineup is too much the same making it easy to defend.
I understand the resistance in parting ways with the talent that got you the World Series three years ago, but I think it should be clear now that unless there are some diferent players in the lineup next year, you are going to end up with the same result.
Many will put blame on the manager, but he is not the person responsible for the roster, that lies with the front office. You clearly see a bias towards a single style of player that is good but not diverse enough, and that really doesn’t give Madden many options to change things up.
Ownership has some hard decisions to make during the off season. It’s easy to decide whether or not to spend money, it is much harder to decide whether the people running your team know how to change and if you do replace them, with whom?
I expect the Cubs to replace Madden because that is the easy choice that just about every team makes at this point. A different leadership style might spark a different emotional result, but it won’t change how teams pitch to the Cubs.
Happy 906 Day!
I find that ars technical publishes the most in depth reviews of Android, and so I can recommend their review of Android 10 if you want to know all the details.
Google’s official Android site has flipped to Android 10, so I assume today is launch day. I’ve been on the beta but not sure when I will see the official release on my Pixel 2. Update: My Pixel 2 just displayed the notification that Android 10 is ready to download and install! The rumor was true.