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Vaccination exposes truth that a lot of American police are kind of dumb.
Link. We need smarter cops.
“California Democrats’ decision to clear the field and make the race a stark choice between a Democratic governor and a Republican nightmare worked out just fine.”
Link. 66% is incredible margin.
“age expressed in some of these responses is instructive — if only to truly understand the extent of the callousness currently baked into American work culture.”
Link. If you sold your soul to Satan you’d despise the soulful.
“Citizen Lab researchers and others suggest that Apple should simply provide an option to disable iMessage entirely.”
Link. iMessage is the new Flash.
Fine structure constant: “dimensionless combination of dimensionful physical constants: the elementary charge squared divided by Planck’s constant and the speed of light”
Link. So it varies?! (Probably not but the early universe discussion is confusing.)
Election 2021: Saint Paul Mayor
Link. That’s pretty simple.
Infertility and miscarriages in women physicians.
Link. Do schools advise egg freezing now?
UK Vaccine committee: “margin of benefit, based primarily on a health perspective, is considered too small to support advice on a universal program of vaccination of otherwise healthy 12- to 15-year-old children”
Link. Political pressure forced vaccine anyway. I’m very curious what the 5-12yo data will show in the US.
“Only in older adults over 75 do the vaccines show some weakening in protection against hospitalization.”
Link. I can’t reconcile this with the limited protective effect of J&J in reports from 1-2 days ago.
“a bug in CoreGraphics decoding JBIG2-encoded data in a PDF file”
Link. I remember JBIG2.
Here is the state of America circa 2021 – Kevin Drum
Link. Much of this I knew. Some I want affirmation of.
“Pro-Trump and anti-Trump conservatives have often each been mutually horrified to discover how radically their highest values differed from those of old allies and former comrades.”
Link. They are now the small-c conservatives of Democratic voters.
Facebook “built a system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules”
Link. Love to see Facebook broken into pieces but the depths of this article show how hard the problem is. (Trump and soccer guy most egregious).
The GOP is against civilization – and even “good” media colludes.
Link. If they cannot rule they will destroy.
Husband and wife dead: “Davy Macias did not get vaccinated because she was pregnant”
Link. Her husband almost certainly unvaccinated as well. Young orphans. She was a nurse.
SD physicians blame Sturgis Rally, Sturgis Rally supporters say that can’t be right.
Link. Bit of a silly article really.
Shootings way up in Minneapolis.
Link. It’s real here.
“I suppose I have three things to say about 9/11.”
Link. The only retro I have found not annoying. Better – it’s illuminating. (Of course he agrees with me. We usually do.)
“In 2016, Massachusetts became the first state where four-year college graduates represented the majority of voters in a presidential contest.”
Link. “realignment of American politics along cultural and educational lines, and away from the class and income divisions“
“selling fake vaccination cards with a government logo on them is a crime.”
Link. Federal crime. Article doesn’t discuss free distribution.
“protection was significantly higher among Moderna vaccine recipients (95 percent) than among those who got Pfizer-BioNTech (80 percent) or Johnson & Johnson (60 percent).”
Link. J&J shouldn’t be used going forward. Moderna is very impressive.
America’s generous religious exemptions for vaccination.
Link. COVID worship is a legitimate religion. The chosen ascend after a brief period of purification through suffering. Presumably.
Fines for not wearing masks on plane are rare.
Link. There’s no way to actually enforce the rules.
Ivermectin As a COVID-19 Therapy. Lowe June 2021.
Link. This is what I need for my patient discussions.
“Nearly half a million scientific papers have now been published on Covid-19”
Link. We need more anthropologists but we need them to advise on social engineering (verboten concept).
Lowe on Ivermectin – 5/11/2020.
Link. Key reference for physicians to understand why it was of real interest and how that interest quickly faded.
Documents X from Readdle: “Readdle’s Documents is a mobile file manager app that lets you do things like download videos, read ePUBs, open ZIP files, watch movies, and edit PDFs”
Link. iOS is such an odd beast. So many longstanding omissions. I am amazed some prefer it to macos for work.
iOS Drafts has a voice voice to text transcription feature.
Link. Damn. I could have used this before. Will now.
Use private Wi-Fi addresses in iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and watchOS 7
Link. I missed this feature.
“Apple also has a massive backlog of [security] bugs that it hasn’t fixed”
Link. There’s no cost to being insecure.
“each of these outlets will start to sell at-home rapid test kits at cost for the next three months.”
Link. Lots of good stuff.
“I’ve lost count of how many times T-Mobile has been hacked.”
Link. With huge consequences for their share price.
Oh… wait …
“systemic RNA signals in influencing behavior transgenerationally, and if this study is correct, now even horizontally.”
Link. RNA as a memory message (meme). Transcoded interpretation. Another parallel between immune and nervous systems.
Stranded in Newfoundland on Sept. 11.
Link. “Most of us donate to the Red Cross once in a while. But when you’re the one they’re helping, you start wondering why you didn’t give more.” Great story.
Nipah virus outbreak in India.
Link. 2018: “killing 17 of the 18 people who caught it from a contaminated family well”. Fruit bat. Good to see these things get more attention now.
“Du Yuesheng’s life began in misery. Before it was all over, it would take him through unspeakable power, obscene wealth, international infamy, and final obscurity.”
Link. Deleted history.
“everyone’s blood-sugar control at home was best only on the days when they exercised”
Link. Current recipe is 3 HIIT a week and 4 1h slower workouts. The blood sugar finding is curious.
“if magnetic monopoles exist, they are required to have a very high rest mass: something on the order of 1015 GeV or higher.”
Link. The Cabrera result is a funny physics footnote.
“medieval Arthurian legends were a bit like the Marvel Universe, in that they constituted a coherent fictional world that had certain rules and a set of well-known characters who appeared and interacted with each other in multiple different stories”
Link. We like these stories.
“the big blob of stuff released by a solar superstorm takes 1-3 days to get to Earth, so once it’s identified you’d have time to prepare”
Link. Carrington events are bad, but we have known about them for a long time.
Madagascar: “The United Nations said nearly 14,000 people are at Level 5 famine”
Link. “Level 5 is when “people have absolutely nothing left to eat”
That’s a small number of people, how did international aid systems fail to prevent this?! (400,000 are Level 4)
“surgery lasted more than 12 hours and involved input from specialists in several fields including neurosurgery, plastic surgery, pediatric intensive care and brain imaging. Two experts from London and New York with experience separating twins took part.”
Link. Glory earned.
Seeking longevity – Altos Labs “involve the introduction of genes, some of which are oncogenic. This is hard to pass through the filter of regulatory agencies.”
Link. I think I’d like 10,000 years.
“the cosmological principle more precisely says that matter in the universe is equally distributed when you average over sufficiently large distances.”
Link. There’s evidence it’s not true. Which means a reboot awaits.
“The economy, though its growth has been unsteady over the past decade, is five times the size it was in the early 2000s. Once scarce in most places, electricity is now widely available. Smartphones and internet access are common.”
Link. The Taliban rule a different country.
“In Brazil, which had a slow, chaotic vaccine rollout, nearly 64 percent of the population has received at least one dose of a vaccine, a rate that exceeds that of the United States”
Link. Maybe we really are finished.
“And as for our recruiting at UT Austin … I fear we might as well now be trying to recruit colleagues to Kabul University.”
Link. Texas has rarely been less appealing. And that’s saying a lot.
Climate adaptation: New Orleans is doomed.
Link. Everything is of course, but NO is doomed sooner than most. At some point we give up on new levees and pay people to move.
After COVID: how much protection to provide against infecting the vulnerable?
Link. The tectonic plates of the social contract shift. Fodder for some good class discussions.