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“3.39-fold higher risk of genital defects in these children [of fathers taking metformin] compared to others”
Link. Also seen in some animal studies so more likely real. This is terrible news. What is the mechanism?!
Russian oligarchs used Britain’s insane libel law to silence the truth and keep power.
Link. The libel laws must be reformed. Also, England is deeply compromised.
Remembering Grozny.
Link. Putin’s next step is to amplify the war crimes and kill everything.
“hypothesis that present-day Pluto is an ocean world”
Link. “Signs of cryovolcanic activity on the dwarf planet in the recent geological past must be driven by an underground body of water”
CivTech: So you want to reform democracy (2015)
Link. Written before the Trump crisis. Still a good guide.
“Apple reports that running face recognition end-to-end on a recent ANE takes less than 4 ms, which is eight times faster than running it on a GPU.”
Link. All local.
Spacecraft Debris Odds Ratio.
Link. This should be part of medical student education.
Eastman: “Election was Stolen by a strategic Democrat plan to systematically flout existing election laws for partisan advantage; we’re no longer playing by Queensbury Rules.”
Link. A classic bit of delusion, self-justification, and faux-tough rhetoric
“the federal judiciary is now heavily weighted toward judges with backgrounds representing the rich and powerful”
Link. Good backgrounder. Jackson also served wealth, but not ONLY wealth. “Biden himself briefly worked as a public defender”
Scout early warning system for near-earth asteroid strikes.
Link. “a city faced with a future Chelyabinsk-like space rock can at least be warned”. Taking shelter would avoid injuries.
The CalDigit TS4 and OWC T4 Docks
Link. About $380. He mentions T4 cable he likes.
Museum docent volunteers: “older, white females for an art museum, or older white men for a railway museum”
Link. Since this 2019 article many are ending volunteer programs and creating employee roles instead. The goal is to be less white/more diverse.
African COVID: mystery or hidden mortality?
Link. Probably some of both. Little interest in vaccine.
“it’s easier to encode instructions for building simple, symmetrical structures”
Link. Why natural selection favors symmetry.
“several energy companies have held ownership stakes in the power plant, major corporations with interests far beyond West Virginia.”
Link. Manchin’s corruption is out in the open.
“The argument for a return to prepandemic norms is straightforward”
Link. Deglobalization would drive a reindustrialization of America. There would be places for money to go.
Kyiv and Kabul: One fought, one not.
Link. Both times US guessed wrong.
“It’s fun to sit at the guillotine and watch these people that you resent getting their heads chopped off. There were wild street dances.”
Link. Usually an “elite”; someone the dancers secretly believe is better than them.
“the U.S. Treasury made $28 billion in special payments, known as “Trump bribes,” in my hometown, to compensate U.S. farmers for phantom losses due to Chinese perfidy.”
Link. Vote buying essentially.
“Ms. Rice was similarly struck. “Something is definitely different,” she said. “He’s not in control of his emotions. Something is wrong.”
Link. Portrays Putin as getting progressively nastier and more corrupt over 20y. Feels inevitable.
“Russia used to be much colder and much more northern country with its most productive, advanced and richest population living far north. In fact, just 350 years ago pretty much all of Russian taxpayers used to live in the towns of Arctic region.”
Link.
“New research supports doctors’ earlier theories that girls who developed tics during the pandemic had pre-existing mental-health issues making them susceptible to other disorders.”
Link. TikTok Tourettes.
Events Calendar (events calendar.co)
Link. It’s $5/month to do anything interesting but I’m considering it for my bike outings.
Bike MN events calendar
Link. Bike related events across MN. Only a fraction of what’s happening but a good place to check when every quarter or so.
“Apple silently provided an option to bring back proxy icons completely in macOS 12 Monterey.”
Link. Apple hides a lot of these quiet retractions in Accessibility. Adam has great examples of how to use the proxy icon.
Willam Barr: “Rather, he said, they meant individual morality: the ability to govern oneself. And, since people are inherently wicked, that self-government requires the authority of a religion: Christianity.”
Link. “Madison never actually said the quotation on which Barr based his argument.”
WTF do I only read this now? Why is HCR the only source?
“Mr. Browder’s relentless lobbying over the next decade—driven by grief and anger over Magnitsky’s murder”
Link. Putin has many enemies.
Franklin Graham: “A few days before the invasion of Ukraine, he asked people to “pray for Putin”
Link. Evangelicals.
“In the 1950s, the Supreme Court based civil rights decisions on the Fourteenth Amendment, and it continued that trajectory in the 1960s and 1970s.”
Link. Today’s GOP hates the 14th.
Cancel Culture defined.
Link. Is real. Zealotry a core component, forgiveness forbidden.
Telegram Is Not End-to-End Encrypted by Default
Link. It’s not a safe solution.
Incentives in Product Design and Development.
Link. AKA: why bugs don’t get fixed. Jobs comment applies to Duopolies too.
“try turning off 5G to save battery life and see if you miss it at all.”
Link. Trying.
15 yo randomly kills MPLS woman: “suspect had committed other violent crimes but had been released”
Link. The juvenile detention centers were closed. Our armed carjackers are mostly children.
“the standard used internally in the Mac’s Core Audio currently employs 32-bit floating-point numbers for precise representation of digitised waveforms.”
Link. Good review.
iPhone overdoes the computer side of photography.
Link. Sensor needs more pixels.
“Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) said “I think we should recognize that the jackassery we often see around here is partly because of people mugging for short-term camera opportunities.”
Link. Even Rs hate Cruz.
Gini Thomas is crackers.
Link. A real nutcase.
“Agnew spent the remainder of his life quietly, rarely making public appearances. He wrote a novel and a memoir; both defended his actions. Agnew died at his home of undiagnosed acute leukemia.”
Link. A rare example of prosecuting the powerful.
“only guarantee I can give is that no one here will ever read your exit-interview notes.”
Link. When an employee leaves – the raw truth. (Ends on an oddly positive note.)
“The book that most clearly saw where Putinism was heading was not a history or biography but a novel. “Day of the Oprichnik” by Vladimir Sorokin”
Link. Putin in books – some came closer, none the full horror.
A bit more on NY DA Bragg’s termination of Trump investigation.
Link. NYT treats Bragg very gently.
“60% of people supported Finland joining NATO, a massive jump from previous years”
Link. Now is the time.
“Senator Braun is correct: it is not possible to overrule the Supreme Court’s use of the Fourteenth Amendment to protect civil rights on just one issue.”
Link. Yep. Pull on the string and slavery is at the end.
“if we try to deal with the problem of expensive health care, child care, and higher education by throwing more money at it, the result will be that although consumers will pay less, society as a whole will pay more”
Link. Economists hate Baumol. Don’t know why.
“My mind had been blown open, and I was seeing possibilities and connections I never had before. I was full of energy and ambitions: I was going to write a graphic memoir, launch a parenting website, renovate a house.”
Link. Great portrayal of mania. And, yeah, Kanye is a great example of media and mental illness.
“A “good number” of Russian flights in the war never leave Russian or Belarusian airspace”
Link. Out of range of defenses.
“Putin will do what he says he is going to do.”
Link. Trump is more subtle.
“he maneuvered his jet through a series of extreme banks, dives and climbs in order to exhaust the fuel supplies of the missiles coming after him”
Link. “My skills are better than the Russians. But on the other hand, many of my friends, and even those more experienced than me, are already dead.”