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“Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings has raised its wages for newly certified drivers by 40 percent”

Posted on April 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Restaurants squeezed.

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“I’ve got a very weird hobby, which is I love taking a look at photos and figuring out where they’re taken”

Posted on April 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Found the lost hiker. Seems like a private person, but he’d be fun guest on a crime show.

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The Flight 93 Election – “Third and most important, the ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners”

Posted on April 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A fervently Trumpian conservative “intellectual” writing around 2016. Long, ranty and vacuous, but a good guide to today’s white nationalist GOP. via Noah Simpson

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Did Apple cut off Peloton?

Posted on April 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Highly suspicious.

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Optimising Mac performance with EtreCheckPro and Ulbow

Posted on April 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Save this.

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Be wary of Apple’s trade-in program.

Posted on April 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Surprisingly scammy.

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RCS: Carriers give up, Google persists, Apple relentlessly opposed.

Posted on April 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Apple is the fundamental blocker — if they won’t implement as SMS replacement carriers aren’t going to bother. Interoperability between Google and Apple messaging will require legislative action.

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“clotting disorder in women ages 20 to 50 who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine occurred at least three times more often than would be expected,”

Posted on April 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. One wonders if the background rate is due to natural adenoviral infection.

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5G power: “small, flexible antenna intended to harvest electrical power from signals emitted by so-called 5th-generation (5G) mobile-phone masts”

Posted on April 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. That should reassure QAnon.

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COVID: “dozens of Times journalists who have been denied case-related data have filed more than 400 FOIA or other open-records requests with government agencies.”

Posted on April 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Thank you NYT, and shame on the Trump-era CDC.

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Walmart chooses not to support voting rights.

Posted on April 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A calculated choice.

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“29 percent rise in overdose deaths from October 2019 through September 2020”

Posted on April 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Started before pandemic then accelerated. Lots of bitcoin-funded cheap fentanyl in circulation.

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2.5 higher COVID death among sedentary.

Posted on April 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Doesn’t mean exercise would necessarily help sedentary for future pandemics, but impressive effect size. Main implication is individualizing risk calculations.

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Reconciliation for infrastructure is certain.

Posted on April 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. GOP signaling they are fine with reconciliation.

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Why work 90h/week: “It’s the loss of social status. It’s not the money. It is that people who formerly looked at you with respect and esteem will all of a sudden ignore you.”

Posted on April 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Bingo.

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Good news: The WSJ is in trouble.

Posted on April 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Their racist rich white male readership is dying and they still run same old OpEds.

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LONG NYT article on substack.

Posted on April 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I have over 25 subscriptions now. This is nuts.

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Taser errors: “In six of the nine cases from the 2012 article, including the shooting in Oakland, the officers carried both weapons on the same, “strong-hand” side of their bodies.”

Posted on April 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Not a lot of research or policy.

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“battle royale-style tournament that lasts up to 40 days where competitors beat one another with their antennae until a group of five to 10 victors emerges. “

Posted on April 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. To the victors – queening the ant.

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“graduated from St. Mary’s College in Winona, Minn., in 1994 with a criminal justice major, school officials said.”

Posted on April 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Don’t be surprised if she turns out to be about as good as a police officer is likley to be.

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“whereas covid-19 killed around one in every six hundred people in the United States, it killed one in every four hundred in Russia.”

Posted on April 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. They are doing this Brazil style.

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Dem pollsters know polling is broken, have no fixes.

Posted on April 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Flying blind in a new world.

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Applied Human Error Theory: A Police Taser-Confusion Shooting Case Study – Jeffrey A. Martin, 2016

Posted on April 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Since 2001, there have been 10 documented instances of TASER/handgun weapon-confusion shootings”. Likely many more than that, and there is very little research on it.

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Daunte Wright shooting NYT

Posted on April 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Contradicts many Twitter takes. Based on past experience we will get some idea of how he was killed in a week or two, full story longer away.

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Microsoft Acquires Nuance (Dragon Dictate)

Posted on April 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. So will we see Dragon return to macOS? Nuance has a neat origin story, but I think original owners long gone.

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macOS Stickies

Posted on April 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Similar on Win10. I should use them more.

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“new battery recalibration tool to the table for iPhone users. The updated toolset is only available for iPhone 11,”

Posted on April 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Just paid $75 to swap 12m old battery on iPhone 11. There is something wrong there.

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“Daunte Wright … dropped out of high school about two years ago because of a learning disability”

Posted on April 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Cognitive disabilities independently increase risk of a police encounter.

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Cook says AR “critical” — waves hands when asked why.

Posted on April 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. He isn’t ready to announce role of Apple Glass AR in the Apple car.

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Time Machine to APFS: “is as efficient as possible in both the copying and storage of APFS sparse files and clones”

Posted on April 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I use Synology with HDD and sparseimage. I think APFS not feasible there yet.

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Apple knows App Store vetting is pathetic.

Posted on April 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. So how does Apple justify their massive revenue stream?

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“To give Apple its due, it’s very seldom that any operating system manages to break its clock in the way that Big Sur has”

Posted on April 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Sounds like iOS problem infiltrating macOS.

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“the earth rises at over 1,000 mph to heights taller than Mount Everest.”

Posted on April 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. After a Big One.

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“I wonder, though, if Tencent believes they can track users with impunity because Apple wouldn’t dare pull WeChat (etc.) from the Chinese App Store.”

Posted on April 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. China is rather more powerful than Apple. Companies bypassing Apple’s privacy protection can’t do it in secret — they have to sell their product. So these bypasses won’t work in the US as long as Apple blocks products.

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Thunderbird includes an RSS reader.

Posted on April 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. There are several very good RSS readers for Mac, but for clients for Windows are more limited. (Web RSS app can’t handle intra-firewall sources.)

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“President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan has reportedly ordered all citizens to buy bikes in preparation for a mass event on 1 September.”

Posted on April 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. So not all bad?

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DeSantis 2024: NYT profile.

Posted on April 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I thought of him as Hispanic — wrong. Per wikipedia, “of Italian descent”.

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OWC Envoy Express: T3 bus powered SSD enclosure – 2280 M.2 NVMe SSD compatible.

Posted on April 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Integrated 10 inch T3 cable.

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“Thunderbolt 3 external SSD from Other World Computing, the 1 TB model of the Envoy Pro EX, for just under $300”

Posted on April 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Practical advice, all good.

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Bhutan vaccinated 85% adults in 1 week.

Posted on April 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. 1 COVID death so far.

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“even with a marginal tax rate close to 60 percent, high-earning New Yorkers”

Posted on April 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. In MN our marginal tax rate is not a lot lower.

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Muon g-2 Results – the case for disinterest.

Posted on April 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Why yawn is good.

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Muon misbehavior reviewed.

Posted on April 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Seeking a new Force. A sober review.

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Gravitons as Dark Matter?

Posted on April 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Not impossible but very unlikely. Graviton likely massless.

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“To celebrate, our colleague Gina Kolata reports, Dr. Kariko ate an entire box of Goobers chocolate-covered peanuts. By herself.”

Posted on April 8, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Nobel should buy lots of Goobers.

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“better understand why President Biden is making such a sharp break with Joe Biden.”

Posted on April 8, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We expected Gerald Ford and got FDR.

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Cross West St Paul: Kaposia Landing to Brickyard Trail

Posted on April 8, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I love this knd of urban exploring and the climbs are delightful. The street route was safe and pleasant riding. Next step is to add more local sites.

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Neurotoxins – from 2002

Posted on April 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Derek Lowe has been blogging about pharm science for eons.

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GOP may have misjudged American support for suppressing Black vote.

Posted on April 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Can’t blame them really, they got away with so much for so long. Suddenly Americans care. So fickle.

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Strength training 2021: the science of muscle.

Posted on April 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “the entire CrossFit philosophy is essentially based on activities that last longer than 70 seconds, and a few of those bastards are pretty muscular.” Particularly important for Olds.

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