Link. Russia has already played the brutal card. It didn’t work.
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“Vaughn needs less oxygen to be sent to those regions of his brain that process language when he is speaking in his native language”
Link. Hyperglot brains process language efficiently.
“money donated to the cause of racial justice has been spent in ways that benefit the leaders of Black Lives Matter personally.”
Link. Equal opportunity corruption.
“Hey Siri, send a voice message to So-And-So”
Link. I didn’t think to try that.
Mitochondria in eye focus light.
Link. Very weird if true.
CDC: “infrastructure was neglected for decades, like the nation’s public health system generally, and the pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges”
Link. Unrelenting attacks by GOP.
Orban: “Do you support the unrestricted exposure of underage children to sexually explicit media content that may affect their development?”
Link. This week the GOP, a party known for pedophilia scandals, is keen on pedophilia accusations. What works in Hungary works for the GOP.
USB-C hub scams: “appear to be paying a lot of money for products that I could buy for cheap on random websites is starting to piss me off”
Link. Worse than expected. Apple store no proof of quality. If you want usb-c hub might as well buy cheap no-name brand. Better quality with T4.
“registered agents who often serve as the only publicly known contact for companies with anonymous owners”
Link. We are a very corrupt nation. This is usually crime money or worse.
“sled dogs poop while they’re running — an incredible sight to witness from 5 feet away”
Link. Now I want to visit Anchorage in February.
“Dr. Malone said he was repeatedly not recognized for his contributions over the course of his career, his voice low and grave as he recounted perceived slights by the institutions he had worked for.”
Link. Now he makes money spreading lies.
“analysis of satellite images by The New York Times rebuts claims by Russia that the killing of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, occurred after its soldiers had left the town.”
Link. It’s harder to hide war crimes now.
Mac have lots of power but Apple’s software is mediocre.
Link. “Apple could have kept improving Aperture and kept making it better than Lightroom. Instead they gave up.”
OmniOutliner Essentials and Pro 5.10
Link. “with added support for reading and importing outlines written by the Symantec MORE outliner”. Did not see that coming.
“you can hit / in any macOS save dialog to open a Spotlight-esque quick folder search “
Link. Monterey. Maybe earlier? Not documented?
“Putin has taken as many as 400,000 Ukrainians to Russia as potential hostages as he tries to bargain his way out of crippling sanctions or into land concessions.”
Link. Stalin has a rival.
Kiev in the 1970s, and Kyiv Now.
Link. James Fallows brother — who sure sounds like CIA. “Posted”. “My only explanation is, “Vladimir has lost his marbles”.
“The best guess is that Putin’s intent was to decapitate Ukrainian society by executing political, cultural, and religious leaders — something like what the Nazis and the USSR did to Poland when they teamed up to conquer it in 1939.
Link. Did not expect such fidelity to WW II.
Living Wage Calculator – MN
Link. Not middle class, just getting by.
Vasylkiv: “some of the Russian attackers were already present in the town, and had been living as sleeper cells for months.”
Link. There really was a Russian plan.
“What they were actually trying to do was logistically bonkers”
Link. 1. It’s not necessarily to our credit that we excel at warfare.
2. We’re Russian planners trying to sabotage the invasion?
New ALS Drug likely ineffective.
Link. Wow. That’s a lot of clinical trial problems.
Insulin: “The drug is more than 100 years old, so there are no development costs.”
Link. Rare to have HCR misfire like this. Today’s insulin is very different from B&B’s insulin.
“Putin’s interest in unscientific medicine sounds strange” given that several of his close relatives hold medical degrees”
Link. Yes, he’s crackers. Should have been an early warning. Likely disk injury: “followed by a group of neurosurgeons”. Source of thyroid cancer rumors.
Atwood on Hitchens: “At least he didn’t accuse me of hurting his feelings, nor did I accuse him of hurting mine. Having feelings was not a thing back then. We would not have admitted to owning such marshmallow-like appendages, and if we did have any f
Link. I remember.
“Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, has declared that providing Ukraine with tanks and planes would cross a “red line”, turning NATO into a “co-belligerent”.
Link. France is a problem.
Inflation and rising wages for the non-college worker.
Link. Inflation may be a prerequisite for shifting economic gains to non-college workers. It comes from somewhere.
5G Home Internet: “T-Mobile costs $50 per month (if you use autopay, $55 if you don’t) with unlimited data and no contract, fees, or equipment charges.”
Link. Here power is not a problem and 5G can be genuinely useful. Urban for now. I may switch from XFINITY
“5G offers no substantial practical advantages over LTE”
Link. There’s a deeper lesson here about money and the foolishness of crowds. (But the wise ones get little credit and probably took a career hit.)
“We’re relearning the lessons of World War I: The benefits of globalization are always at risk from the threat of war and the whims of dictators.”
Link. Economic integration does not prevent war or support democracy.
Florida: “2000 voter purge cut ten times as many Black voters as White voters from the rolls that year before victory in the presidential election came down to a few hundred votes in Florida for Republican candidate George W. Bush”
Link. Judge Mark E. Walker remembers.
Frontotemporal Dementia: “we may end up classifying aggregation diseases as much by their protein folds as by the names of the individual proteins involved”
Link. Damn. Progress. PS Does HCQ changes lysosomal pH?
Evolution of the mammalian brain.
Link. As predicted but great to see the evidence.
Mulvaney of CBS.
Link. A milestone in the long decay of broadcast television.
What is triald and why is it taking so much disk space? (Big Sur+)
Link. “Trial’s root directory at ~/Library/Trial should be added routinely to all backup exclusion lists. Apple should add it to Time Machine’s system exclusions at the earliest opportunity.”
“ U.S. Marines may have seen the writing on the wall; this year they will stop using tanks.”
Link. Javelins.
ALS experimental treatment “25 percent slower decline for patients receiving the treatment.” but no longevity and no change in objective measures.
Link. I doubt it works.
Episodic exhaustion responding to migraine therapy.
Link. That is a really weird case. Patient had migraines but they morphed in an extreme way.
China: “departure from the heavy silence that has prevailed under Mr. Xi’s rule”
Link. Watching this space.
“if you are boosted and have already had Omicron, you probably don’t need another booster yet”
Link. Why I’m waiting until Aug/Sept.
Why … “fears about sexual orientation and trans rights be so powerfully motivating that it could help convince people to sacrifice fundamental political rights?”
Link. Great question.
Why … “fears about sexual orientation and trans rights be so powerfully motivating that it could help convince people to sacrifice fundamental political rights?”
Link. Great question.
“Ginni Thomas was a guiding force for Groundswell, setting agendas for its meetings and actively coordinating messaging among its participants, and that the group had a dark, paranoid, and Manichean view of American politics.”
Link. Bonkers for years.
“Western analysts took basic metrics (such as numbers and types of tanks and aircraft), imagined those measured forces executing Russian military doctrine, then concluded that the Ukrainians had no chance.”
Link. The war is in its early days however.
“Surely Putin would be satisfied by the annexation of Crimea”
Link. Germany especially should have worried more. “So are Belarus, North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, Nicaragua, Hungary”. And probably Saudi Arabia. Israel?
For mental health “moderate exercise may be the most beneficial for mental health”
Link. She’s a hard core athlete but her research favors moderate exercise. Interesting focus on neuroinflammation in treatment resistant depression.
“Mr. Putin seemed genuinely unaware that the Russian military had been using conscripts in Ukraine, and that drafted soldiers were among those killed in action.”
Link. That’s very precise Intel. Not much surprises me any more, but this is amazing.
“a point of light lined up with one of the ripples, and its shine was magnified by a thousandfold or more.” Ripples in space-time.
Link. Star 900 million years after the Big Bang. Long long dead “now”.
Oliver Sacks’ Days on Muscle Beach
Link. “with the speed of reflex I grabbed our patient and held him upside down; his cerebellar tonsils and brain stem went back into the skull, and I felt I had snatched him from the very jaws of death.”
Apple only pushes iOS auto-updates after collecting early adopter experience.
Link. Manual updaters are doing release testing. This is what I thought Apple did and it’s great.