Link. Similar to 2011 Afghan military service for 40yo — at most likely, much less now.
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“he rarely missed a 6 a.m. run, as far as 15 miles, before working for 12 hours a day in Koiban, his village in Nandi County. He always ran alone, doing so out of pure enjoyment.”
Link. Great story.
“Zelensky says, “they are afraid to admit guilt.” He compares them to “alcoholics [who] don’t admit that they are alcoholic.” If they want to recover, “they have to learn to accept the truth.”
Link. Rejecting guilt is a core principle of America’s white nationalist party.
“liberals see ideals of full democratic participation and equality before the law not just as formal commitments, but as rooted in deep respect for the human worth of others”
Link. A pretty good summary of modern liberalism. What Douthat hates and fears.
Xinjiang prisoner describes life inside China’s detention camps
Link. “If the cameras saw anyone speak, a booming voice would tell them not to talk.”
“Think of how many of those 5,300 schools you’ve actually heard of. Now think how many you’ve seen mentioned in conversations about what does, or should, happen in a college classroom.”
Link. He is so right.
“all but 13 of China’s top 100 cities (by gdp) were implementing covid restrictions (see chart). Ten cities are in “severe lockdown”, meaning more than half of residents are confined to their homes. Changchun, Xuzhou and Shanghai were recently in
Link. In a democracy Xi’s gov would fall.
Donbas: “allowed those displaced since 2014 to vote — the majority would be likely to vote to remain in Ukraine. However, a vote restricted to just those remaining in the Donbas would be likely to endorse joining Russia.”
Link.
“new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactured in large quantities”
Link. Seems like bigger news if true. 2D polymer.
Monterey backup problems.
Link. I’m having trouble with backup to a CCC generated disk image.
“Bitcoin had turned out to be practically the opposite of untraceable: a kind of honeypot for crypto criminals that had, for years, dutifully and unerasably recorded evidence of their dirty deals.”
Link. Why it’s not banned.
Stabyl Browser for iPad: counteract tremor.
Link. Brilliant.
Doctorow does billionaire taxes.
Link. The GOP delivered.
“March 23 theft of roughly $625 million worth of cryptocurrency from the Ronin blockchain”
Link. North Korea. I think stealing this from a US Bank might get more attention.
“authors found that substitution of as few as five amino acids can lead the program to predict very different three-dimensional structures, which is the equivalent of an image-recognition declaring that a picture of Richard Nixon is in fact a begonia”
Link. Protein folding prediction.
“25 richest Americans paid $13.6 billion in taxes, a true tax rate of 3.4%.”
Link. Worth repeating.
“Swan tries to get McConnell to say whether there is anything Donald Trump could do or say that would lead McConnell not to support him. The answer Swan eventually got was: No, there is no such line.”
Link. Evil.
“Minnesota’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate reached an all-time best 2.5 percent in March”
Link. Damn. That’s low.
No-knock raids: long WaPo review.
Link. Judicial review doesn’t work. Would need a lot more money/time/resources to be effective. Mostly is about preventing powdered drug flushing.
“used those identifications to inform the families of the deaths of 582 Russians, including by sending them photos of the abandoned corpses.”
Link. A web site of names and identifying information would be less cruel.
EBV Rx for MS phase I trial: ATA188 improved course, myelin growth.
Link. Phase I is super early but, yeah, watch this. Also, EBV vaccine needed.
Science 2022: “fake journals, fake papers, fake author lists, and faked data”
Link. China and Russia.
App Store scams are profitable.
Link. Apple is either incompetent or malicious.
ARBs can cause intractable diarrhea in some.
Link. Wild story. Always suspect the meds (or something else someone is taking)
Fixing supply chain will increase prices.
Link. Consumers will increase home stockpiles as well. Extra bicycle tubes and chains.
“for people to successfully skip surgery, patients need to have their affected foot in a brace early — within the first three days.”
Link. Study makes brace therapy more acceptable but I’d likely lean to repair.
Radio Free Europe sites: “[Russian] Audience numbers have surged during the war despite the censorship.”
Link. Sharing truth.
Amazon seller: “surcharge, which averages 5 percent of the current fulfillment fees, will take effect on April 28.”
Link.
No Mean Girls in CrossFit (Except for Fran)
Link. “I’d overhear my teammates whispering to each other about how chubby I was, and I’d charge the opposition. Our team won a tournament once thanks to my somewhat brutal saves.”
Written by a friend.
“Apple’s app store is so full of scams and garbage, and the firm is so inattentive, that one dude on Twitter – @keleftheriou – is constantly embarrassing Apple”
Link. Cook has been an idiot.
“deeper domain-specific conversations, I find myself engaging in arcane Reddit communities”
Link. Facebook Groups here.
Psilocybin for treatment resistant depression: encouraging research results.
Link. Early days.
“Unlike traditional neural networks, which get trained on lots of data in order to make predictions, a “physics-informed neural network,” or PINN, must satisfy a set of underlying physical constraints as well.”
Link. Hunting singularities in fluid flow equations.
Universal Clipboard (Handoff, Continuity) not working, endless spinning in iCloud Notes (Mojave)
Link. Change DNS from Cloudflare to Google, reset Notes sync (toggle off/on). Be interesting if DNS was really the issue.
“Attitudes toward serious diseases are so unpredictable and inconsistent, said Tom Ewing, a flu historian at Virginia Tech.”
Link. A better vaccine might shift attitudes some.
“death rate was 20 percent among the 98 participants who received sabizabulin”
Link. Versus 50%. “works by disrupting the transport of the coronavirus through microtubules in cells”.
The Two Paper Rule: how to decide if a field is nonsense or interesting.
Link. Astrology example is great.
“fund advisors found Kushner’s new company “unsatisfactory in all aspects.”
Link. Saudi prince deposited 2 billion. A bribe of course, but legal. There is so much like this in America.
Moving from 1Password to KeePass.
Link. Moving is on my to do list. “You can set the duress PIN to display a dummy password database, a phony error, or even wipe the local copy of your database.”
“If you’re using #macOS #HighSierra or #Sierra, #iCloud has stopped working”
Link. Get new cert
“Hill found it dubious that a man so self-interested and lacking in discipline could have colluded with Russia to gain electoral victory in 2016”
Link. Trump’s best defense is that he’s an idiot. This article is a nightmare of Trump administration corruption and incompetence.
China’s Russian strategy.
Link. Before Huawei suspended sales.
“But the SEC looks on everything Musk does with suspicion, and he doesn’t care.”
Link. Lots of people are above the law.
Donetsk: “After beatings and electric shock torture, he said, he spent six weeks in solitary confinement, in a cell so cold that he had to grasp bottles of his own urine to stay warm”
Link. Insight into the ethnic Russian parts of Ukraine.
“Nearly two-thirds of American workers do not have a four-year college degree. Screening by college degree hits minorities particularly hard, eliminating 76 percent of Black adults and 83 percent of Latino adults.”
Link. Gender gaps are large, so much worse for Black men.
Hillsdale charter school pub: “President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was called “a hero to populist conservatives around the world.”
Link. Giving conservatives the mythology they want.
Gridiron dinner: 53 positive, “So far, there are no reports of any symptoms more serious than a sore throat or mild fever”
Link. Love those vaccines.
“South Korea has logged more cases in 2022 than America has during the entire pandemic.”
Link. Population adjusted. “Hong Kong’s official covid mortality rate has been five times higher than South Korea’s.”
“contrast between Germany’s current reluctance to make moderate sacrifices, even in the face of horrific war crimes, and the immense sacrifices Germany demanded of other countries”
Link. A bad look.
“The Standard Model, for the first time in some 50 years, has a bona fide experimental crack in its foundations.”
Link.