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Noah Smith tries to salvage Clubhouse.
Link. Clubhouse made less sense than 1970s CB radio. I think it was a pandemic thing. If it dies the world becomes a bit less bizarre.
Dogecoin: “What is happening is ridiculous! It is also actually happening and so we are forced to engage with it. By doing so, we, too, feel ridiculous.”
Link. When giants play the wee folk get squashed.
Why do plants produce so many terpenoid compounds?
Link. Cannabis is only one of innumerable terpenes. Presumed chemical warfare but not well understood.
“Apple’s exploitation of leverage in this situation has been breathtaking.”
Link. Apple is doing the impossible — making Facebook look less deplorable. Their conversion to Evil is even faster than Google’s.
“at retreats in March and April, staff for the National Republican Congressional Committee refused to tell lawmakers how badly Trump is polling in core battleground districts”
Link. A peculiar cult.
Roman chair back extension done right.
Link. I really miss the old back extension machines but this with RDL may come close. Great tutorial for those of us who do back rehab constantly. I do 50 lb weight plus bands.
“preferred solution to the problems created by cryptocurrencies is to treat them all like child pornography”
Link. I think early version of thar deep space network showed up in of Stross books.
M1: “If you’re unable to boot from a bootable disk using an older (non-current) version of macOS, change its boot policy to Reduced Security”
Link.
“Dr. Anthony Fauci, it seems, conspired with nefarious globalists to manufacture the COVID-19 virus in a Wuhan, China, laboratory and unleash it on the unsuspecting world in order to seize control of the global population.”
Link. Almost correct, but omits Fauci’s role in the Trilateral Commission and the true nature of the Trinity.
In Japan anti-vax rules.
Link. The MMR example does NOT explain this. Truly weird and needs an anthropology dive. I wonder about Korea …
Gutenberg enhanced EPUB.
Link. “Standard Ebooks” – free.
Standard Ebooks: Gutenberg enhanced.
Link. TidBITS explains use with iBooks.
Aukey caught faking reviews. Amazon ban.
Link. Reaaaly stupid move Aukey.
A Survivor casualty and ER doc has no regrets.
Link. Only sharing because, WTF, I know this guy from my CF box. He is definitely confident and competitive, but sounds like his TV self had some acting aspects.
May 8 is smallpox eradication day.
Link. I just missed getting the vaccine.
Safari 14.1* patches new active exploit
Link. Apple reused version name of prior recalled version.
Extended Mac AppleCare+ Coverage
Link. “you can cancel AppleCare and get a prorated refund”.
“rising rates of crime, especially violent crime, drive rightist politics as sure as night follows day”
Link. 2020 increases saved GOP.
Obsidian vs. Roam: “own version of bidirectional linking features”
Link. For a brief time in 90s I ran PIM-L, a mailing list relayed to personal information management (PIM). Bidirectional hypertext links were a thing back then.
App Store Whitelisted Developers are just testing.
Link. Maybe Facebook doesn’t have the sleaziest executives.
Ben Shapiro dominates Facebook link traffic.
Link. All top performers are GOP whackos. Facebook, like daytime TV and Trump and GOP and Fox lives off the gullible and the vulnerable. Because they buy junk.
Does Apple News Track You?
Link. “It’s not tracking if you own everything.”
“If you were to put all the animal life in a Brazilian rainforest on a scale, more than one-quarter of the weight would come just from ants.”
Link. Likely to outlast us.
Another SETI fail.
Link. Be nice to find something before I die. You have at most 23 years.
“If you had a custom spacesuit with a seal around your forearm, you could probably remove your glove during a moonwalk without suffering permanent damage.”
Link. Found more Munroe NYT.
“After about a year, atoms from your candle will have spread completely around the globe.”
Link. Are all of Randall’s NYT essays collected anywhere?
“anyone who goes off of Pandemic UI and gets a job gets a $4000 check”
Link. I think politically difficult.
“Steven Callahan, a spokesman for Altria, which owns Philip Morris, U.S.A. said the company remained opposed to a menthol ban.”
Link. At least they don’t attempt a phony justification.
“Deep-sea sponges can live for decades, centuries or even millenniums”
Link. Over a lifetime they can move a few feet.
“Later, Dr. Lewis was optimistic: “I think I can eventually persuade them.”
Link. Good profile of vaccination in a science-free part of America. It will take a while.
“promoted the Kumbh Mela, a Hindu pilgrimage that drew millions of worshippers to a single town”
Link. Trumpiam stupidity.
Foster mother as vocation.
Link. An unusual gift.
PA voter fraud uncovered.
Link. For Trump of course.
“spending the winter in an area like this, literally camping in a tent in a sleeping bag all winter long, is beyond what almost anybody would consider,” Cannon told local media. “But for her, it worked.”
Link. Schizophrenia presumably.
“Stefanik was basically what today passes for a moderate Republican until she saw a ticket to power through becoming a Trump acolyte.”
Link. GOP 2021 is the proverbial Heart of Darkness.
“Every 17-year cicada, then, is effectively dozens of organisms in a single body—the cicada, Sulcia, and who knows how many versions of Hodgkinia.”
Link. Imagine wanting to research this.
“GOP appears to be plunging headlong into a level of full-blown hostility to democracy”
Link. It has farther to fall.
Trump and the generals – Jan. 17, 2020.
Link. A timely reminder. We love you Joe Biden.
“Executives say they don’t want to replace just in time entirely”
Link. JIT lasted longer than I had expected.
The shocking solution to labor shortages.
Link. I for one welcome some inflation.
“lab escape from gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
Link. Xi always acted like he believed this.
Spike Protein endothelial activation: vaccine vs infection.
Link. “The Spike protein is not released to wander freely through the bloodstream by itself, because it has a transmembrane anchor region.”
Solar has beaten nuclear.
Link. Nuclear will be compimentary but limited.
“the ideal number of bikes to own is n plus whogivesashit.”
Link. My precious is never out of reach.
Sensible alternatives to the Biden college program.
Link. Example of the two year term problem.
“third of small landlords are at risk of bankruptcy or foreclosure as the pandemic continues into its second year.”
Link. How are eviction moratoriums constitutionally legal?
Thinking About the 2022 Midterm.
Link. Death concentrates the mind. In a healthy society incremental change would be better.
Horse: “Beautiful Jim performed from 1897 to 1906 and became a legend. An estimated ten million Americans saw him perform, and others collected his memorabilia”
Link. Trained by once enslaved veterinarian. Led to less cruelty to animals.
Inconvenient findings and a defense of science.
Link. Inspired by attacks on an article that found prison can sometimes benefit family members. (Which certainly seems plausible.)