Link. Immense self-confidence.
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“longer interval between doses can increase vaccine effectiveness and reduce the risk of a serious but uncommon side effect called myocarditis,”
Link. “Young men between the age of 12 and 39 are especially encouraged to wait eight weeks before the second dose.”
QAnon: “16 percent of Americans, or roughly 41 million people, believed last year in the three key tenets of the conspiracy theory”
Link. Religion.
Oral meds 54% U.S. Abortions
Link. Expected to be at least 80% in a few years.
“It’s telling, and not in a good way, that Italy wants luxury goods … excluded from any sanctions package.”
Link. “hidden foreign wealth of rich Russians amounted to around 85 percent of Russia’s G.D.P.”
DYMO Label Printer RFID DRM.
Link. Sadness.
“Cognitive impairment is a debilitating and widespread comorbidity of MS”
Link. Putin rumored to have MS.
Russian analysts: “Everything that we believed turned out to be wrong,” … “I don’t understand the motivations, the goals or the possible results,” said another. “What is happening is very strange.”
Link. I like the Putin multiple sclerosis encephalopathy explanation.
Ukraine has very limited defense abilities.
Link. Russia does not need large numbers of soldiers.
Path Finder Subscription: “29.95/year”
Link. Most subscription plans are huge price jumps.
“Vladimir Putin is 69 and rumours last year suggested he’d been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis”
Link. I hadn’t heard that. Would explain a lot. Some variants have a dementia component.
A brief history of Ukraine.
Link. In 1812 the US invaded proto-Canada for unclear reasons. Closest analogy I can think of.
Truth Social: “Trump Media will gain access to nearly $1.3 billion in cash, which will help build its social media business.”
Link. I bet he succeeds.
Pollution negates brain benefits of exercise?
Link. That’s surprising and the rat studies are also worrisome. Needs more research.
“the officer who sent the bullet off target yelled out “Kid!” to the others as soon as he saw the young face in the back seat, Unified police said in the statement. Officers did not fire any shots in return.”
Link. Kudos due.
Atlanta police injustice motivated by point system incentives.
Link. Goldring was jailed for nearly six months. Do other countries use point systems like this?
“Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, one of the advisors, was wearing a watch showing that the event was recorded five hours before, thus placing it before the “governments” of the regions asked for recognition.”
Link. They really are like Trump people.
Tales of antivaxx: ECMO and pregnancy.
Link. There’s a kicker at the end.
WaPo editorial on cost of vaccine lies.
Link. There was money to be made telling lies and Fox made it for Lachlan.
“One proposal to help clear the streets is to give city authorities more authority to take people who cannot take care of themselves off the street, the legal process of conservatorship.”
Link. This. Everywhere.
Why licensure compacts fail: “The Minnesota Nurses Association considers the bill a way to let out-of-state nurses replace its members. It was described by the union Monday as a thinly veiled plan to diminish collective bargaining rights.”
Link. Red vs blue
“bizarre DRM system for the DVB digital TV standard (called CPCM)”
Link. Cory says this was not implemented but it’s much like Apple FairPlay family sharing. I have receipts. Worse in some ways, there’s no useful support.
“the SARS coronavirus, which killed nearly 800 people in a 2003 epidemic in Asia. In people exposed to that virus, T cells have lasted more than 17 years.”
Link. We may not need new boosters. (Those of us who had 3 boosters and then Omicron — we squeak in the face of COVID)
Ride with GPS: Bike Route Planner
Link. Recommended by Adam Engst. I’ve tried several and been unhappy, but I’ll give this another look.
Apple buying advice for the rest of us.
Link. Simple recommendations on which products to buy.
Changing store Apple ID on a phone – is there an alternative to reinstalling every app?
Link. I think when you change “Media & Purchases” Apple ID you have to delete and reinstall every app.
Network TM: “easiest way is to use Share as a Time Machine backup destination with an old Mac.”
Link. Shoot me now.
It’s not just you – streaming apps are awful.
Link. We are in a bleak time for software. Seems to happen every 15y or so.
Paul Farmer, Pioneer of Global Health, Dies at 62.
Link. That’s awfully young for a healthy active person. In his sleep apparently, presumably cardiac.
ID.me and federal contracts
Link. ID.me was a Trump-era commitment. I suspect there’s more to this story than journalists are saying out loud.
eWorld – Apple’s metaverse 1994
Link. Good to refresh my memory. I remember AppleLink and eWorld before “.mac” and MobileMe. eWorld was a cross between today’s Apple Discussions and Facebook Groups. Try https://bit.ly/3sfRhON.
Hideaways, Escapes, and Secret Spots in the Twin Cities
Link. Via Twitter. Love idea.
Nov 2021 NYT editorial explains why MPLS reelected Frey and want better police, not fewer police.
Link. Basically want MPLS PD to be more like St Paul PD. But can’t say that.
Putin – evil yes, stupid and delusional probably.
Link. The west is in terminal decline but Russia is rising.
Credit Suisse – banker for scum of the earth.
Link. Switzerland doesn’t enforce laws against serving the very bad people.
500 lb obese pizza snarfing bear invades homes: “He just sits there and eats,” she said. “He doesn’t attack them. He doesn’t growl. He doesn’t make rude faces.”
Link. Nobody wants to take him and sooner or later he will swat someone.
“they are usually male, they are always intelligent, they are almost always charming, and they generally get through several spouses and many children in a lifetime. They are, in a word, sociopaths.”
Link. Dyer thinks we are getting wiser.
“Only when I see their massed tanks rolling across the Ukrainian border will I accept that Putin is that stupid.”
Link. Dyer stand his ground. No invasion. I have not seen any persuasive story of why a sane Putin would invade. I think he may be stupid though.
1Password WiFi broke with my new iPhone – how I fixed it (for now)
Link. Nasty bug, but they don’t care.
CDC and complexity of publishing data
Link. They are right that untrained civilians can’t interpret data.
NYT Baquet: ““I don’t have regrets about the Hillary Clinton e-mail stories,” he tells Malone. “It was a running news story.”
Link. Fallows slowly builds to putting a knife into Baquet. Well deserved, he’s the main reason I may drop the NYT this year. (WaPo is better.)
“The two most important classes of bonds are “general obligation” and “revenue.” General obligation bonds are issued to fund investments such as roads, bridges, state higher-ed buildings”
Link. Great tutorial on how state budgets work, esp. MN. The real work legislators do. Also, this is a great line: “Oklahoma, in contrast, has been clawing its way to the bottom over the last 20 years by cutting education funding.”
Boing Boing Controversies
Link. Useful context about a piece of net geek culture. Doctorow is solo now.
The rejection of Bidenomics
Link. “climate way, way down the list of America’s most pressing issues, often coming in in the low single digits”
“For years, several American models in Paris had accused Brunel of sexual misconduct”
Link. Hanged.
Tandem Diabetes Care app will manage insulin delivery.
Link. Huge. So hard to get FDA approval.
Streaming Apps Suck.
Link. Explains why.
“Email can be “free” because they mine it for data – gmail is why amazon no longer includes order details in email. Android is “free” because they get to harvest all their user’s data.”
Link. Microsoft is least evil tech company. So funny.
“The short answer is that Google search results are clearly dying. The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust.”
Link. Indisputable. The modern web is mostly crap. We need to return to a hand curated search engine. Yahoo 1997.
Kim Potter Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison for Killing Daunte Wright
Link. I expect even this will be overturned on appeal.