Link. Inactive humans are programmed to die quickly — presumably because they were a net resource drag until recently. So do CrossFit.
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“In intensive care units like Homerton’s, which treat the most seriously ill, nearly all of those being tended are unvaccinated.”
Link. Easier to report in UK than US.
CLL cures with immunotherapy (CAR T).
Link. Sometimes works, but in surprising ways. “After the CD8 cells did their job, they remained in the blood but, unexpectedly, they turned into CD4 cells.”
“Swift is a Belgian messaging service that connects more than 11,000 financial institutions as they transfer money around the world”
Link. Putin’s loss.
How to cancel your Spotify subscription.
Link. I switched to Apple Music.
“Something has got into Putin, and he’s seeking concessions that he should know he cannot extract, with threats that he cannot enforce.”
Link. Dyer still scorns invasion but is puzzled by Putin’s posturing.
“South Korea, where the fertility rate is an astonishing 0.86 (less than one child per woman, on average), the population is going into free fall.”
Link. All of Asia to follow.
Italy: Berlusconi is back.
Link. Hell, why not?
“Johnson tells barefaced lies with great charm and apparent sincerity. He is famously lazy, doing actual work only at the last possible moment. He has at least seven children by three different mothers”
Link. UK Trump more charming.
The Trump coup: “One authorizing the Pentagon to seize the machines was made public”
Link. Remember when former Chiefs wrote that letter? They knew.
To get Apple bugs fixed enlist a celebrity.
Link. Once a mention by Mossberg would fix anything.
Pre-K: “parents the choice of whether to put in the time tutoring the kids at home, or accept a potentially slightly worse education in exchange for a second income for the family.”
Link. Free day care instead of pre-K.
XKCD What If? 2 IS COMING!!!
Link. For the holiday 2022 gift season of course. Easy buy for Emily.
Rohan has regrets. A 4 billion stock drop gets attention.
Link. I knew my switch to Apple Music would break him. (Still switching.)
Packet radio encryption standards were designed to be broken (June 2021).
Link. EU intelligence back in the 00s. The flaw made it vulnerable to everyone.
Insurance and Ransomware: “insurance industry incents companies to do the cheapest mitigation possible. Often, that’s paying the ransom.”
Link. So bad.
“Rogan’s episode with … Malone remains available on Spotify.”
Link. Spotify has rules for the little people.
“As early as 1786, it was clear that the government was too decentralized to create an enduring nation.”
Link. “Republican Party has focused on hamstringing the federal government and sending power back to the states, where lawmakers will have little power to regulate business but can roll back civil rights.”
The mystery of Monterey’s memory bug: how the heck did it get past basic testing?
Link. Something is broken in that org.
China uses COVID control tech to implement techno-totalitarian regime.
Link. Continuation of the post 911 panopticon, now with more teeth. Popular theme in 20th century science fiction.
“95% vaccine effectiveness vs death (95% CI 90-98) is striking for 3-shots Only 59% for 2 shots [where 2nd is old]”
Link. “Vaccines don’t work” is a mutation of the truth that we didn’t think the two dose regime would become obsolete this quickly.
“Support will be added for tags, extended attributes, and more, which will be preserved on the local file system but still won’t sync with OneDrive.”
Link. 12.3 is big macos change
“It took an hour for the orcas to kill the blue whale, and once they did, about 50 other orcas showed up to devour the carcass.”
Link. Slow horrible death. I think wolf hunts are similar.
“There’s no conclusive evidence that M1 is a big sales driver for Mac”
Link. Software is more important and M1 won’t run Intel VM.
“Mr. Gogna was “all in” on GameStop shares because he believed that the company would eventually pivot to a digital business. “Every pay period I literally buy as many shares as I can,” he said,”
Link. Idiocracy is the most important movie of the last 50 years.
“Now he thought “The Graduate” and “Jaws” were contemporary films.”
Link. This is a fabulous description of life after 60.
“hit 10-30 foot drops and 48-foot gap jumps”
Link. This is actually a good discussion even though I may never do a gap jump or more than a 5 foot drop.
Family adventure holiday outside and far from cars: trail bike.
Link. Not cheap but great quality. I’ve used them.
“gut microbiome profiles correlated very poorly indeed with autism diagnoses, severity, and symptoms”
Link. Autism is a junk drawer diagnosis — but this does kill the microbiome etiology.
“virus has been walking an evolutionary tightrope between antibody evasion and retaining binding to ACE2, and unfortunately hit on a combination that allowed it to do both”
Link. Science on speed.
“Do you remember the housing bubble? OK, if you’re 35 or younger, probably not.”
Link. Damn. It wasn’t yesterday. Not really.
“pandemic was “God telling humanity to change how we are living”; 43 percent of evangelicals “strongly” felt that to be true.”
Link. Theologically logical.
NSO Pegasus: “authorities in Israel reacted as if the ban were an attack on the state itself”
Link. NSO is basically an Israeli state agency at arm’s length. Similar to Lockheed.
Monterey: “typing one character in and leaving the search to run: do that once, and the Finder’s memory use could readily rise into several GB”
Link. Force quit Finder. Apple not fixing this is so annoying.
The Speed Limit in Every City Should be 20 MPH
Link. “narrower lanes, new and more pedestrian crossings, wider sidewalks, more priority to cyclists, and removing center lines in 20 mph zones, among many other changes.”
“either Apple doesn’t have automated monitoring systems that actually work or that someone has decided that their results should not be published on the status page”
Link. Potemkin status.
“Export whole mailboxes from Webmail to mbox format and then import the mbox files to EagleFiler. For example, with Gmail you can export mailboxes using the Takeout feature”
Link. Useful when leaving Google Apps.
Block protocol explainer. Spolsky.
Link. Beauty of RSS is a feed can lie fallow for years and suddenly it lives.
Block Protocol – an open standard for data-driven blocks
Link. I like the idea. Maybe we’ll get tables in blogs?
Crypto investors: “55 percent don’t have a college degree.”
Link. Prey.
“as Peter Turchin’s theory of unrest stresses, the biggest factor suppressing unrest is when moderates believe that society will fragment unless they bestir themselves to restore order.”
Link. Rise all ye boring, the trumpets call us.
Omicron’s Radical Evolution: epistasis in action.
Link. Changed cell entry mode so targets airway, not lung. Less dangerous for adult.
Long Covid: 4 related factors.
Link. “reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus”
Putin’s puppy gave Russia power over Germany.
Link. Trump.
Thirst sensors in petal veins liver.
Link. Liver disease effect? ESP cirrhosis.
K-pop: “of dozens of Swedish musicians who make a living exclusively from writing tracks for the genre”
Link. Unexpected.
Amazon pays 50 cent fine for price fixing.
Link. 10 million is nothing for them. These fines are hilarious.
Vaccine myocarditis hospitalizations: 1/12,000 boys 12-15.
Link. Must be many more that are not hospitalized.
“There were 344 things that could have gone wrong during that month — what NASA calls “single point failures” — that would have doomed the mission.”
Link. I’m still holding my breath.
Google Drops Support for 3y phone.
Link. We still have two 6s in active use.