Link. Could be he’s lucky, but maybe he’s just good at presidenting.
Paxlovid only useful for higher risk? “patients who have already started to mount their own immune response benefit less from an antiviral, …. during infection in a vaccinated host.”
Link. Curbsider’s quickie. For all we know it interferes with developing a lasting immune response in the low risk. Save it for unvaccinated / high risk.
Covert bike AirTag – a fake reflector.
Link. Clever.
“In 1880, the South became solidly Democratic, and with white men keeping Black people from the polls, it would remain so until 1964.”
Link. The first battle against slavery was a win, but far from complete. The second took place in the 60s. Hoping this go round is easier.
Senate passes climate bill. Biden loses again.
Link. JK. He’s hooked on winning.
Subjectivity is baked into inflation data
Link. 1950 Burger comparable to 2020 burger, but we eat more burgers now. 1950 iPhone is bit spartan.
10 Books that showed future.
Link. Neuromancer omitted. That’s wrong. But this is a great list.
“Nearly two dozen Republican state treasurers around the country are working to thwart climate action on state and federal levels”
Link. Only the best.
Orban’s plan to destroy democracy.
Link. 12 points of course. Read this carefully. It’s a solid plan and proven effective. It is now the GOP’s plan. Note where he disses AQnon
Winger orgs get beaten IRS to calm them churches.
Link. “churches are exempt from submitting Form 990, the annual financial disclosure”
“Soon after the United States left Kabul, the C.I.A. sharpened its efforts to find al-Zawahri, convinced he would try to return to Afghanistan.”
Link. Overconfident.
You cannot search the Library in Apple TV.app on iPhone.
Link. Modern Apple reminds me of Trump. So stupid.
“When Dr. Duke asked what a fossil footprint looked like, Dr. Urban pointed out the window and said, “Well, kind of like THAT!”
Link. “The set of 88 prints is about 12,000 years old … found in the military’s Utah Test and Training Range.”
QuickLook bug: dark mode RTF can be invisible.
Link. “another bug that has been left untouched for four years across four major versions of macOS”
NYT designated conservative Bret Stephens on voting Dem: “a choice between a day-old baloney sandwich with a sad little pickle on a stale roll versus a plate of rancid chicken served with a sprinkling of anthrax on a bed of broken glass.”
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GOP dirty tricks in Kansas referendum: “written the question so that a “yes” vote would remove abortion protections and a “no” would leave them in place. Then, today, a political action committee sent out texts that lied about which vote was whi
Link. Be funny if they confused GOP voters.
iOS Podcasts does not support search for episode.
Link. Only supports search for a Podcast source. I miss my home planet.
“The district, long a derelict area owned by the Afghan Defense Ministry, was converted into an exclusive residential area of large houses in recent years, with senior Afghan officials and wealthy individuals owning mansions there.”
Link. WaPo has most details on Zawahiri’s end.
“The precision strike hit Zawahiri as he stood on a balcony in a prosperous section of Kabul, Afghanistan”
Link. Context and history.
“The Murrays had an idyllic life in the country. They also had enormous rashes, strange joint swellings, and recurrent fevers.”
Link. Lyme history and the chronic Lyme cult.
What To Know About Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip
Link. “Who gives a shit what Taiwan thinks? This is about us and China.” The Onion.
CNN viewership down 27%, “Fox News …up about 1 percent”
Link. If you don’t like Fox you are going to have to stop paying for cable. Also, Trump was great for CNN. They must hate Biden.
“Grassley (R-Iowa) … 88-year-old suggested that Google sending emails to spam was equivalent to the post office refusing to deliver the mail”
Link. GOP needs access to the cognitively vulnerable so they can keep scams running. Public comments strongly support filtering.
“The drone strike was conducted at 9:48 p.m. ET on Saturday was authorized by Biden following weeks of meetings with his Cabinet and key advisers”
Link. Taliban caught playing the old game.
TidBITS members get significantly macOS software discounts
Link. If there’s something here you want to buy the discount may cover membership.
“USPTO received far more gene patent applications than the number of genes that actually turned out to exist.”
Link. We thought there were more genes. Also thought we understood what a gene is.
“repeatedly delivered these warnings to Infowars staffers, “only to be received with laughter and jokes.”
Link. Was all a joke for them. Meanwhile Jones well paid lawyers have many ways to keep
him going.
Cold War China: “reorganizing our economy to promote certain industries, build or rebuild certain capacities, and reorganize supply chains”
Link. Alliances essential.
MN vehicle services license processing dashboard
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MN unemployment: “lowest rate ever chalked up by any state in any year since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tabulating the metric in 1913”
Link. It’s the bike paths.
“Ms. Nichols worked with series creator Gene Roddenberry, her onetime lover, to imbue Uhura with authority”
Link. Didn’t know that bit.
“I don’t think you’re going to go down at all at the end of the day,” Gaetz told Stone. “Gaetz sits on the House Judiciary Committee”
Link. Barr broke the Justice Department.
American public education is at least average. But compare Canada.
Link. Debunking a common myth
“The exercise, which was taught by a single teacher, asked students to answer questions about whether they had experienced or perpetrated discrimination or bullying, according to News 9. The district determined that the lesson violated the law because it
Link. Oklahoma is kind of a wreck.
“Republicans have voted against protecting the right to abortion, the right to use birth control, the right to cross state lines to obtain reproductive health care, and gay marriage”
Link. More like this.
NYT claims Murdoch has turned away from Trump.
Link. For the moment. Because of money. Nothing honorable
“Ukrainians’ destruction of Russian ammunition depots had “made it much more difficult for them to replenish arms stocks and maneuver.”
Link. Terrorism is all Russia has now.
Economist article on weight loss and diet.
Link. OTOH disses exercise for weight loss, but then the fox for this dude’s weight is CrossFit (and healthy eating). It’s both interesting and a bit of a mess.
Economist article on weight loss and diet.
Link. OTOH disses exercise for weight loss, but then the fox for this dude’s weight is CrossFit (and healthy eating). It’s both interesting and a bit of a mess.
“Displays pane: switch the resolution to Scaled while holding the Option key, tick the box to Show all resolutions, and you should be offered additional HiDPI settings.”
Link. Dang option key.
Wi-Fi Calling not working? Your probably SIM-swapped and your IMEI is wrong and you don’t have HD Voice
Link. Manual SIM swaps don’t update AT&T’s IMEI records.
Preparing your Mac for Trade In or passing on: “old Mac is an Intel model without a T2 chip, EACAS isn’t available to you, and you’ll have to do it by hand”
Link. A good list.
“On the whole, though, the Inflation Reduction Act is a very good bill, and I’m very excited to see it pass.”
Link. Premature celebration.
Upscaling: “already-extremely-permeable line between photograph and illustration is now even more so”
Link. The digital painter bot.
“Theories of ecosystem chaos fell out of scientific fashion by the mid-1990s.”
Link. Non-linear effects make a bit of a comeback.
“Jerome Powell, was asked in every way possible whether he thought the economy was in, or headed toward, a recession. And every time, he answered: No, not at all.”
Link. GDP/GDI gap biggest since 1947!
“For those 2,600 years, in other words, Europeans were consuming milk despite almost none of them being able to make lactase as adults.”
Link. Fermented?
Selling the right fake phones.
Link. Definitely not made in China.
Manchin Agrees to Quick Action on Climate and Tax Plan
Link. Another Biden win?! “ease the way for a project in which Mr. Manchin has taken a personal interest, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would transport Appalachian shale gas from West Virginia to Virginia”
Matt Holman, F.D.A.tobacco science lead, jumps to Philip Morris.
Link. Damn. That’s real dark.