Link. But paying more. Wages seem to be finding a new equilibrium state. Lots of adjusting ahead.
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Neeva search engine: “revenue would come from subscribers, rather than advertisers.”
Link. $5/mo for individual or family? Fallows shows how bad Google search has gotten. Neeva notifications are ads though.
“When there’s a significant memory leak in an app, your Mac will eventually be forced to use swap space, and that’s another tell-tale sign of a leak.”
Link. Great tutorial. I restart my machines reasonably frequently. Old habit.
“Paxlovid, cut the risk of hospitalization or death by 89 percent when given within three days after the start of symptoms.”
Link. Will want starter dose at home next to the Binax.
“single amino acid change found in Delta’s nucleocapsid protein supercharged the particles with 10 times more mRNA compared with the original virus”
Link. Why Delta spreads so quickly. Also, Lucifer’s ase!
“A flood of antislavery fanaticism and sectional hatred, Davis declaimed, had opened a “moral crevasse” that endangered America’s very foundations.”
Link. Great essay.
Virginia. “Chaplain Garland H. White, 28th USCI, Richmond, Virginia, “
Link. TNC in his glory days.
Old school WiFi sync can drain iPhone battery.
Link. Sounds like iOS 15 bug. Few use WiFi sync now.
“After South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond (who had fathered a biracial daughter he kept secret) engaged in the longest filibuster in U.S. history to stop the bill, Congress passed it on a bipartisan basis.”
Link. A short essential history of post civil war Black voting.
Semaglutide and the promise and troubles of obesity meds.
Link. Like BP or lipid meds these are lifelong. So price has to fall a lot. Eventually billions will take better versions of these meds.
“no significant link between the risk of developing knee osteoarthritis and either the amount of exercise done regularly or the time spent exercising”
Link. Other studies find reduced joint disease with exercise. OA is *not* “wear and tear”.
“Reagan is generally remembered as the Great Deregulator. Really, it was Carter.”
Link. Great corrections.
“Seventeen percent of 65-year-olds will need no long-term care. Almost one-quarter will develop severe needs”
Link. Insurance is made for this but we haven’t figured out how to do it. My personal plan is dead by 85.
Deep brain stimulation for depression: “ventral striatum, involved in emotion, motivation and reward, where stimulation “consistently eliminated her feelings of depression,”
Link. Relieving a living hell.
Stem cells in old follicles: “changed their shapes from round to amoeba-like and squeezed out of tiny holes in the follicle. Then they recovered their normal shapes and darted away.”
Link. Consumed by immune system?
“Was Mao’s son, Mao Anying, killed by an American airstrike during the Korean War because he lit a stove to make fried rice?”
Link. Putin is passé, Xi will be next GOP idol.
Whack celebrity hospitalized with COVID “On Monday afternoon, she said on Twitter: “Fact Check: I have NEVER said I am anti-vax.””
Link. I prefer the crackpots who keep their convictions to the end.
The Inside of the Cell. “automatically labeling major cell structures and producing a three-dimensional picture of the cellular environment”
Link. Fantastic science.
Shortcuts the programming language.
Link. We needed another superficially accessible, fundamentally cryptic, and inevitably incomplete scripting language.
“many people over 65 with a low estimated G.F.R. and no elevated protein in their urine did not have increased health risks.”
Link. The guidelines for renal insufficiency are weird and likely way off base. The protein measurement bit is interesting.
MacOS Wallpapers
Link. I downloaded several.
“Eastman argued that the delay in debate caused by the insurrection meant that Congress had run out of time to count the certified votes,”
Link. Starting to look like a major player.
“risk of dying was about 50 percent lower among the patients who had been instructed to monitor their oxygen at home”
Link. Wow. That’s a huge effect. Underutilized?
COVID toes: “most of the patients tested negative for coronavirus.”
Link. Negative PCR! Extreme immune reaction.
Four mRNA flu vaccines in trial.
Link. Years from use unless we get another 1918. Combo vaccines further yet.
“ an officer’s chances of being killed at any vehicle stop are less than 1 in 3.6 million”
Link. They do a lot of traffic stops, so cumulative yearly death risk is much higher.
Jury of military officers condemns Bush-Cheney directed torture of al Qaeda fighter: “the treatment of Mr. Khan in the hands of U.S. personnel should be a source of shame for the U.S. government.”
Link. Milestone on our hell ride.
How we fixed broken democracy in 1900: “less turnout, less participation, less of a voice for working people”
Link. Trump’s genius was engaging the non-college majority.
“$1 million that the town of about 870 people collects each year from traffic cases
Link. Police function in a broken system. “you are required to write a minimum of two tickets per hour while on grant time and there is zero tolerance.”
Inflation of low quality.
Link. I complained about this in the 00s — with poor quality Chinese products. For a while that got somewhat better.
““In 19th-century Britain, the largest single movement was the anti-vaccine movement,”
Link. They had the excuse that vaccines were still novel.
“Three-fourths of Black Americans, who form a decisive voting bloc in many mayoral contests, either support increasing or keeping spending on police the same”
Link. As expected.
“Fake versions of paper vaccine certificates issued by America’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention go for $150 apiece on Telegram, more than some digital alternatives.”
Link. It’s hard to beat paper.
Do not attend the U of Florida.
Link. I assume the professors will show some spine. But still, don’t go to UF. Also, don’t live in Florida.
Eight things we learned from the Facebook Papers.
Link. “Comments are a significant portion of misinfo on FB” Imagine the burden of moderating comments. No wonder Zuck wants out of Facebook.
USB-C Hybrid Multiport Adapter – with built-in SSD compartment.
Link. Ok, that’s cool.
The Cybernated Generation: Time Magazine, April 2nd 1965.
Link. Must read. “Lovers of problem solving, they are apt to play chess at lunch or doodle in algebra over cocktails, speak an esoteric language that some suspect is just their way of mystifying outsiders.”
eBikes exceed maximal cyclist speeds.
Link. We will need RFID-like “bike” ID tags and systems for automated ticketing for trail speeding.
“Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.”
Link. Lesser known part of “liquidate” rant. “The new system undercut fascism at home, too, where its adherents had been growing strong.”
“Fortescue Metals Group, unveiled plans to build the world’s biggest factory for electrolyser machines, needed to produce green hydrogen from water.”
Link. Winter electricity.
“Buying a $1,000 iPhone can be equivalent to giving up $17,000 in retirement savings”
Link. Emily is rocking a 6s. Works fine..
“a single lineage galloped ahead to overtake and replace all the other wild horses”
Link. “one gene linked to docility and another to a stronger backbone”
Molnupiravir: “Merck has granted a royalty-free license for its promising Covid-19 pill to a United Nations -backed nonprofit”
Link. Lessons from HIV learned. Kudos.
“pregnant women are more likely to become severely ill and to die from Covid than other women of the same age.”
Link. Immune system suppressed to protect fetus. Slower response to vaccines as well including COVID vaccine.
“given either fluvoxamine or a placebo, the drug reduced the need for hospitalization or prolonged medical observation by one-third”
Link. An obscure cheap OCD med. The anti-inflammatory actions are a side-effect. I’d be cautious about it.
“Mr. Donziger and his associates had engaged in a conspiracy and criminal conduct by ghostwriting an environmental report used as a crucial piece of evidence and bribing a judge in Ecuador.”
Link. Good ends, bad means.
Vaccination rates rise in Black Americans.
Link. Helps that white right is insane.
Shortcuts: counting files and Quick Actions
Link. macos Automator scripting
Inline Skating San Francisco — from 1997!
Link. Web 1.0 medieval HTML pasted into pre-modern Blogger renders in Mojave Safari as well as it ever did. Peak document compatibility.
“Photos can import the contents of one Photos library into another … your albums and keywords will be left behind, so don’t consider this a complete merger.”
Link. Aperture imported and exported libraries with great ease – including keywords, albums, descriptions, ratings, and more. At this rate Apple will have a reasonable photo management product by the year 2045.