Link. GOP too of course.
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J&J vaccine recipients will likely need mRNA booster.
Link. Our two guys in their 20s will need mRNA. Wonder if we can just go get it.
Apple’s security marketing is bullshit.
Link. Apple may not want phones to be too secure.
Haiti vs. the Dominican Republic: economic divergence.
Link. Corrupt government and aversion to trade as a legacy of French enslavement.
“Beta has accounted for just 5.6 percent of virus samples sequenced in South Africa”
Link. Delta displaced it!
“the American Neurological Association’s executive committee told the doctors who are its members that “based on the clinical evidence, Aduhelm should not have been approved at this time.”
Link. Needs OIG investigation.
“when you set up a new M1 Mac, or set one up after restoring it in DFU mode, the primary admin account created is special: it’s the Owner account of that Mac”
Link. Damn.
How to connect the Apple Watch to any NordicTrack or iFIT bike, tread, rower, or vault.
Link. Crazy this is not part of iOS.
“On this site we’ve emulated the Apple II and The Print Shop software, so that visitors can easily use The Print Shop to create their own cards, posters and banners”
Link. I think I used a DOS version of this?
Eight ways to save time with proxy icons.
Link. To create a file in a specific folder, open the target folder. Create the file and save it anywhere. Then use proxy icon that appears to move it to the target folder.
“He could commit to a lie in the frame of his body and in the timbre of his voice so fully, despite all statistical and even video evidence to the contrary.”
Link. OJ Simpson and Lance Armstrong were also like that. It is a kind of super power.
“despite their ordeals, none of them changed their minds about getting vaccinated”
Link. We don’t understand the human mind.
“A neutron star has a fluid core, and elastic crust and on top of that a thin fluid ocean.”
Link. I did not realize neutron star geophysics was a thing.
NYT: “Pegasus can allow spies to gain access to an infected phone’s hard drive…”
Link. Hard drive. NYT, that’s embarrassing.
“NSO Group, a private Israeli firm that is a worldwide leader in the field of private surveillance. NSO is the developer of Pegasus, a powerful spyware tool”
Link. The US can restrain NSO.
Wartime Paris and the serial killer.
Link. These are bettter days.
Damn Interesting – “Facebook stopped showing our posts to approximately 94% of our followers, demanding a fee to “boost” each post into an ad, which would make it visible to more of our audience.”
Link. I admire the slow sneaky way Facebook monetized Pages.
“the White House has tried for weeks to get Facebook to explain how it is combating disinformation about the vaccine but has not received answers.”
Link.
The Economist on the GOP’s anti-vaxx ideology.
Link. Leave GOP states.
The Economist on the GOP’s anti-vaxx ideology.
Link. Leave GOP states.
“IBM discontinued Watson for Genomics, which grew out of the joint research with the University of North Carolina. It also shelved another cancer offering, Watson for Oncology”
Link. There’s a 60y tradition of computer execs thinking healthcare is easy and losing their shirts.
“In January I got a hundred of the seven-speed freewheels. They lasted about a month.”
Link. I’m impressed they’re available anywhere! 1980s bikes are on the road again.
Biden plan: “we should levy tariffs on imports from countries that don’t take sufficient steps to limit greenhouse gas emissions”
Link. I independently reinvented carbon tariffs years ago, well before I read about the idea. It’s the only way.
“older White men and women who lived paycheck to paycheck with plenty of time on their hands — retired or close to it, estranged from their families or otherwise without children.”
Link. For a brief moment they were important. Meaningful. Trump cared about them.
“We need to get the ladies away from the aisle. Let me help you.’ I smacked his hand away and told him, ‘Get away from me. You f–king did this.’”
Link. The gallant Jim Jordan vs Liz “no-fucks-to-give” Cheney.
The Thunder Road lyric wars will never end.
Link. I heard it first from Bruce in SF Winterland. Maybe 1978 or 79? Memory fuzzy for some reason.
“Russia’s three spy agencies were ordered to find practical ways to support Trump, in a decree appearing to bear Putin’s signature.”
Link. GOP being very quiet. Russia’s brilliantly executed attack on America was among most successful in history.
“Fitch Ratings, a credit rating company, is considering downgrading the AAA rating of the United States government bonds.”
Link. Because American Fascism is scaring them.
Is it safe yet to upgrade to Big Sur?
Link. From Catalina, yes he says. I like upgrading just before next release but my old Air will stay on Mojave until it expires.
“When we look at modern birds, we can see little mementos of their more ferocious history locked deep inside their genes—extinct developmental programs for building longer tails and teeth.”
Link.
Peak conspiracy: “Salem Witch Trials in 1692 and the Satanic Ritual Abuse cases of the 1980s”
Link. I remember those 1980s cases. Only time I recall WSJ editorial page being right about something.
Cancel culture and language of controversy: “less about swarming mob justice and more about shitty media incentives that encourage coverage of low stakes internet drama”
Link. “The term itself becomes a linguistic, political trap.” Love this essay.
Why Cuba is having an economic crisis.
Link. What US could do.
“maybe there’s just an ebb and flow to life where something’s supposed to wipe out a certain amount of people, and that’s just kind of the way evolution goes”
Link. He’s quite handsome. Probably tall too. So being a complete dingbat isn’t a problem for him.
Apple’s Security Bounty kind of sucks.
Link. Greek Gods were more responsive.
“pilot study at Imperial College London identified autoantibodies common among people with long Covid symptoms.”
Link. Maybe 50% chance this works.
“Conservatives disparage arguments made by “snowflake” college students. But the case against CRT is made of the same stuff.”
Link.
“In Kentucky, the most extreme example, the annual inflow of federal money per capita is $14,000 greater than the outflow.”
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“seasonal flu shot is associated with roughly one to two additional cases for every million vaccines administered.”
Link. So J&J maybe 5x higher risk than seasonal flu.
Thailand latest to decide Sinovac is lousy.
Link. China is in the crosshairs of Delta. I bet Xi gets mRNA.
“growing Christian movement that is nondenominational, openly political and has become an engine of former president Donald Trump’s Republican Party”
Link. Authoritarian movements usually have companion churches. Article omits sacrament of the gun.
Fox is Carlson: “Its return to the top came thanks, in part, to a programming strategy that gave more hours per week to opinion shows”
Link. Stop watching all Fox programming.
Unable to update date of birth associated with an Apple ID: “… could not be changed because of a server error”
Link. I don’t think this is a common bug, but it hurts nonetheless.
The end of the Victoria’s Secret Angels.
Link. A cultural artifact out of time. I suspect it will be back eventually.
mRNA 12-17: “70 myocarditis cases, but would prevent … 215 hospitalizations”
Link. To me that is not a great therapeutic index. Curious to see if there will be full approval.
“Germany’s vaccine commission recommended in April that anyone under 60 who had received a first shot of AstraZeneca should follow it up with either Pfizer or Moderna.”
Link. Our guys got J&J, I’d like a mRNA for them.
“With 2.7 percent of the world’s population, Brazil has suffered 13 percent of the Covid-19 fatalities”
Link. Elect an idiot and die.
Iran: “U.S.- and British-made vaccines banned by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei”
Link. Vote for an idiot, get idiocracy.
M1 Airs are prone to Panics (spontaneous restart with full data loss).
Link. It’s not just our machine – which we named “Crashy”! (To be fair things are much better since last macOS update.) I wonder if it’s a hardware issue.
“HCoV-HKU1, crossed the species barrier in the 1950s. The oldest, called HCoV-NL63, may date back as far as 820 years.”
Link. The history of coronavirus pandemics.