Link. It’s a thing among 20s teens.
Also why Long COVID is a harder problem than non-physicians imagine.
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Review of air traveler misbehavior: not just COVID.
Link. Crowding, growing obesity, maybe aging all a factor. Lowering plane temperatures and stopping alcohol sales at airports and planes would help.
QAnon Shaman Pleads Guilty: “His family, Mr. Watkins said, believed that Mr. Trump was going to be reinstated as president and could issue Mr. Chansley a pardon”
Link. It’s genetic.
“Britain’s vaccine watchdog declined on Friday to endorse Covid shots to all children between 12 and 15 years old, advising the government that the health benefits were only “marginally greater than the potential known harms,”
Link. I don’t think vaccine will be approved for under 12 in US.
“‘Andromeda Strain’ is now technically possible as a name,”
Link. Love idea of naming COVID strains after constellations, but Andromeda is a galaxy, not a constellation. So name after galaxies…
“These folks that hang out on Clubhouse were touting ivermectin as the new wonder drug for COVID”
Link. Clubhouse was such a bad idea. I recall some quackier doc colleagues going on about ivermectin, but I’m amazed it got so big. I wonder what’s next on the nut plate?
Introducing the ‘mozjpeg’ Project. 2014!
Link. “production-quality JPEG encoder that improves compression while maintaining compatibility with the vast majority of deployed decoders”
Explainer: the macOS file versioning system.
Link. Also his Revisionist utility explained. Sounds like Big Sur is when versioning got more polish.
“causes of the current labor shortage. Research on this question is unambiguous: We don’t know what’s going on”
Link. Refreshing candor.
“Why do [tech] stocks maintain lofty multiples?, they remain expensive as long as The Metrics don’t break down.“
Link. I remember 1999.
Wirecutter’s price over quality bias.
Link. I stopped using them after some disappointing purchases.
“Apple’s mobile ID implementation supports the ISO 18013-5 mDL (mobile driver’s license) standard”
Link. This could be big.
“indices have effectively forced hundreds of billions of dollars belonging to US investors into Chinese companies whose corporate governance does not meet the required standard”
Link. Soros is bearish on China.
The GOP goes vigilante and SCOTUS has fallen.
Link. The Civil War never ended.
Taking Stock Of The Great and Cowardly Press Freakout (Afghanistan Aug 2021).
Link. The NY Times did a miserable job.
“Republicans have had a lucrative, no-risk way to rail against abortion. But accountability is coming.”
Link. Roe is toast. Let the voting begin.
Unvaccinated teachers die of COVID.
Link. If they were vaccinated we’d know. What a stupid way to die.
Biden governs like he thinks the US in on the brink of collapse.
Link. He knows.
Musk: “I think he’s going to turn a profit on Starship by using it to launch Space based solar power satellites.”
Link. Musk read High Frontier.
“Symantec made some big mistakes as a CA. Those mistakes led to an investigation, and what was found was highly concerning.”
Link. Old apps that used Symantec certs will get flagged.
“People who beat cancer have a great positive attitude. It’s what distinguishes the survivors from the dead.”
Link. Grateful to see this skewered.
H.I.V. Vaccine Fails Again.
Link. “lesson from the failed trial lies in figuring out why it worked for the 25 percent of people who were protected and not for the others”
Apple: “he was told, with little fanfare, that he needed to link his personal Apple ID and work account”
Link. Creepy workplace. Glad I’m not there.
Fed government leadership is badly broken.
Link. Somewhat disagree about “Actings”. They can be better than most appointees. Do need to eliminate 50-80% of political appointees.
“only the second time, officials said, that a wildfire that began on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada crossed into the eastern side. The first was also this summer”
Link. On the year the GOP surrendered to CO2.
Facebook: “Since 2012, the company has hired at least 10 consulting and staffing firms globally to sift through its posts, along with a wider web of subcontractors, according to interviews and public records.”
Link. Especially Accenture. Worst job ever.
“CNN reports that members of the committee have requested preservation of the records of representatives Cawthorn, Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA),…”
Link. They are getting anxious.
Huge white-black vaccination gap in MSP.
Link. Placing trust in wrong people.
“The anti-natalist philosopher David Benatar argues that it would be better if no one had children ever again.” (2017)
Link. One of the most interesting theses I’ve read in years. I suspect his argument against suicide fails if you accept his premise. (I don’t accept the premise … yet!)
Three kinds of propaganda, and what to do about them (2015).
Link. When interviewed for a fancy med school in 81 was asked “how do you know what’s true”. I was not accepted.
“rural white culture, which was once regionally varied and distinctive, became more uniform by becoming increasingly Southern”
Link. A culture built on slavery.
Hospitals have amazing opportunity to improve their workforce.
Link. Give hospital staff antivaxxers a one-way ticket to Florida.
“The top seven warmest years on Earth were in the past seven years.”
Link. 20th century to now.
How to recover a Mac from a kernel panic.
Link. Non-admin users don’t get a Panic log.
“The farming industry is the kind of industrialized, mass nightmare of torture and cruelty that, when done to human beings, acquires the status of totemic evil.”
Link. This is what 2060 will despise about us.
“What if we built our working lives around a concept other than endurance and submission?”
Link. I’ve been ahead of the curve.
“16 years after a historic failure of New Orleans’s defenses against disaster, the levees held.”
Link. Kudos civil engineers and builders.
How the nutritional supplement business built the modern GOP.
Link. The core dynamic is gathering the gullible and vulnerable for exploitation. The exploits are fake medicine, gold sales, Bitcoin, and GOP candidates.
“level of communication and coordination between the US and the Taliban that many have been slow to appreciate.”
Link. The competent analysis begins.
“Robert David Steele, a former CIA officer turned conspiracy theorist who claimed to be the first person to call COVID-19 a hoax, has died from COVID-19.”
Link. I remember his name.
Why National ID is not a voting option.
Link. Given history it would require GOP to lead and it would defeat their true purpose.
Famous last words: “I’m not taking it … Are you kidding me? Mr Anti-Vax? Jeepers.”
Link. How many right-wing radio idiots are there? Thousand?
Mississippi medical crisis: “the state rejected a proposal to expand Medicaid”
Link. State needs smarter voters.
Modern devs meet an IBM mainframe.
Link. A fun read but you’d have to be insane to do this.
US Digital Service fixed a federal government benefits form.
Link. Forget AI and machine learning, *this* is truly miraculous.
Laws requiring disclosure of hospital fees are failing.
Link. Fines are too small and non-disclosure agreements are not void.
“Fifield and like-minded ministers saw Christianity and capitalism as inextricably intertwined”
Link. The birth of 20th century American now-Calvinism.
“millions of Americans who were baffled that a pointlessly violent quagmire from start to finish wasn’t going out on a high note”
Link. I do think we are the worst.
“nurse Janae Howager informed a man having a heart attack Thursday that there was about an hour wait until the next Covid-19 patient died”
Link. The Onion.
Macintouch (Ric Ford): “changes in the nature of the World Wide Web … various issues involved in publishing / communication platforms”
Link. I wish Ric would write more about his experience.