Monday links, told-you-so

John Gruber: Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection. Count me among those unsurprised that a purveyor of slop — fine artisanal slop, but slop nevertheless — was not an upstanding citizen. I am surprised that Gruber’s bullshit detector wasn’t better calibrated. Henry Farrel and Dan Wang for the FT: Does Silicon Valley dream of Philip K Dick? Oh yes it does, and now my impression got some confirmation bias from a professor at Johns Hopkins and … Dan Wang? This Dan Wang? My impression of him has declined even in the months after reading Breakneck — more on that some other time — but can’t argue with him here. Janan Ganesh for the FT: The exciting boring decade. On one hand yes, things are not as bad as we think. On the other, our physical senses are more calibrated to the rate of change than change itself so why not our internal senses too? J.R. Duren for the Independent: A terminal cancer drug was priced at $13,000 — but he found the same…