Link. Shame and blame worked for smoking, driving drunk and more.
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“Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema said she does not support the bill in its current form”
Link. Waiting for a form McConnell approves of. There will not be an infrastructure bill that relies on Sinema.
“The country has never cut poverty so much in such a short period of time”.
Link. 45%
“Hundreds of children in Indonesia have died from the coronavirus in recent weeks, many of them under age 5, a mortality rate greater than that of any other country”
Link. No explanation why.
“The aging liberal justices have essentially put a higher priority on their own personal interests than on their judicial ideals.”
Link. Or the Republican justices are more profit motivated.
“YouTube’s ad revenue was up 84 percent in the second quarter from the same period in 2020”
Link.
Transferring your photos from Google Photos using Avalanche
Link. First use Google Takeout.
Monterey music: “main part of the window was entirely devoted to an ad for Apple Music, and there seemed to be no way to dismiss it except to subscribe.”
Link. I try to avoid Apple products.
“Apple contracts many of its Mac repairs to third-party providers, including CSAT Solutions”
Link. Sweatshop. Repair will be poor quality. We need “right to repair” so we can get better options.
Mountain Bike Road Trip Planner.
Link. Trailforks. Choose a route for the side trip.
Astounding details on the nanomachinery of the coronavirus: “The virus’s speedy entry using TMPRSS2 explains why the malaria drug chloroquine didn’t work”
Link. It’s ludicrous that we are made of this.
“Members of the House Republican Doctors Caucus also claimed at a news conference last week that natural immunity is an acceptable defense against the Delta variant”
Link. What a bunch of turds.
“photosynthetic efficiency went up by a startling 36%”
Link. Radical bioengineering.
“our world as we know it is on the brink; we face massive death tolls, and the collapse of economies and nations.”
Link. We don’t understand why Africa seemed to be relatively spared before now. China will be next.
“Mr. Biden made it clear that he was running out of patience with people who refuse to get a shot that could save their lives and protect others.”
Link. Not just him.
“Dr. Candela said that he got both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as soon as they were available, but that his wife, a registered nurse, feared it could alter her DNA and had not yet been inoculated. She has also prevented their four children, who a
Link. Only half of the US is mostly sane.
Vaccine approval July 2021: “last week an FDA official told CNN that the (Pfizer) decision is likely to come within 2 months”
Link. But Moderna has not even submitted all documents!
“We would normally have four to eight international student employees,” Kennedy said, “But this year, we have none.”
Link. Tourism communities relied on international student workers. They are in deep trouble.
Unvaccinated Black Americans are often not classical anti-vaccine.
Link. Very low trust in authority, disconnected from trustworthy information sources but cued by untrustworthy sources.
“those who say that they know, don’t know, because those who do know say that they don’t know.”
Link. True words from an unexpected gold medalist. The confident deserve some distrust.
Much of Oklahoma is native land now.
Link. Supreme Court is likely to walk back some of their ruling. Transition has been fast.
The Day the Good Internet Died: Google Reader.
Link. Google Reader Social is what I miss most.
“the coffee drinkers had a 21% reduced chance of developing chronic liver disease; a 20% reduced risk of chronic or fatty liver disease; and a 49% reduced chance of death from chronic liver disease.”
Link. Weird source for a medical review but not bad job. I first learned the coffee liver effect on thecurbsiders podcast. Well known in hepatology.
Why is China smashing its tech industry?
Link. “levied a multi-billion dollar antitrust fine against Alibaba (which is sometimes compared to Amazon), deleted its popular web browser from app stores, and took a bunch of other actions against it.”
“Dr. Mercola has built a vast operation to push natural health cures, disseminate anti-vaccination content and profit from all of it”.
Link. Invents a ludicrous disease then sells scam cures. $100 million in profit. Scams that kill people. Pure evil.
The thrash of camp counselor work 2021.
Link. Nobody was ready.
Rand Paul is getting less amusing and more nazi.
Link. A dim, dangerous, and nasty man.
“it costs $99 for a three-month subscription to XLoader customized to infiltrate MacOS devices”
Link. Hopeless.
“Shifting the focus of our transportation investments from speed to safety would save thousands of lives and prevent tens of thousands of injuries each year.”
Link. The culture is changing.
“From 2011 to 2013, Chinese-backed hackers targeted, and in many cases breached, nearly two dozen companies that own such pipelines”
Link. Hopeless.
“waging a war against the filibuster would play into the hands of Republicans seeking to hold up his agenda”
Link. The fight McConnell wants.
“Apple managers threatened security companies to shut up because otherwise their apps in the @AppStore might get extra reviewed”
Link. Apple “security” is faked.
Protein Folding Progress – What’s It Mean?
Link. Means we work on the next set of unsolved problems limiting real world impact.
“you aren’t getting a fix for the flaw that makes your iPhones easy prey for Pegasus spyware”
Link. We will need to update phones every year.
Scientists Finish the Human Genome at Last.
Link. “Dr. Phillippy admitted that part of his motivation for such an audacious project was that the missing gaps annoyed him.”
Why Is Biking A 4-Minute Mile So Much Easier Than Running One?
Link. No up and down bounce.
“Dayton, Ohio, the police cleared only 21 percent of their murders, 94 percent of which were done with a firearm.”
Link. Solutions require a lot of investigators. Prevention is maybe a better idea.
Blanket party.
Link. Useful to know about if one treats veterans. Often inflicted upon the vulnerable and the weak, it usually contributes to their long term mental health needs.
“AlphaFold passed the test, correctly predicting both shapes.”
Link. So much harder than we thought in 90s.
“McConnell wants to see spending cuts to bring down the deficit.”
Link. Hahahahahahahaha. I’ve been waiting for that.
“By pulling out, McCarthy has boosted the committee’s legitimacy and credibility immeasurably.”
Link. Hysterically funny to think GOP could add integrity.
“Where else in America, besides NBA basketball maybe, are you going to find an elite field so dominated by one minority race?”
Link. Elite tech is Chinese and Asian-American.
“they could even trash the Biden administration for taking credit for their hero’s unbelievable wisdom and execution.”
Link. This won’t work — we libs can’t fake offense. What works is intense pressure on Lachlan Murdoch.
“One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.”
Link. “And now all you really see is their fear and their regret. And even though I may walk into the room thinking, ‘Okay, this is your fault, you did this to yourself,’ when I leave the room, I just see a person that’s really suffering, and that is so regretful for the choice that they made.”
“his systematic review showing the mannitol halved death from head injury was based on trials that had never happened”
Link. “Many of the trials came from the same countries (Egypt, China, India, Iran, Japan, South Korea, and Turkey”
The Title app. macOS.
Link. “As you move from browser to brower and web page to web page, TheTitle shows you the full page title – unobscured.
“These noise and blur reduction strategies are critical components of the recent Google Photos editor updates, which includes “Denoise” and “Sharpen” tools that enable users to enhance images that may have been captured under less than ideal condi
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“the sort of calendaring and scheduling interoperability I advocated for in decades past is no closer to happening”
Link. The things that don’t happen are revealing.
“We’re not going to be able to secure the Internet until we deal with the companies that engage in the international cyber-arms trade.”
Link. By “deal with” we mean send executives to an American prison.
“Funk was also an accomplished outdoorswoman, spending time riding her bike or her horse, skiing, hunting, and fishing.’
Link. Hope her wikipedia profile gets expanded now she’s oldest ever astronaut.