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Dem pollsters know polling is broken, have no fixes.
Link. Flying blind in a new world.
Applied Human Error Theory: A Police Taser-Confusion Shooting Case Study – Jeffrey A. Martin, 2016
Link. “Since 2001, there have been 10 documented instances of TASER/handgun weapon-confusion shootings”. Likely many more than that, and there is very little research on it.
Daunte Wright shooting NYT
Link. Contradicts many Twitter takes. Based on past experience we will get some idea of how he was killed in a week or two, full story longer away.
Microsoft Acquires Nuance (Dragon Dictate)
Link. So will we see Dragon return to macOS? Nuance has a neat origin story, but I think original owners long gone.
macOS Stickies
Link. Similar on Win10. I should use them more.
“new battery recalibration tool to the table for iPhone users. The updated toolset is only available for iPhone 11,”
Link. Just paid $75 to swap 12m old battery on iPhone 11. There is something wrong there.
“Daunte Wright … dropped out of high school about two years ago because of a learning disability”
Link. Cognitive disabilities independently increase risk of a police encounter.
Cook says AR “critical” — waves hands when asked why.
Link. He isn’t ready to announce role of Apple Glass AR in the Apple car.
Time Machine to APFS: “is as efficient as possible in both the copying and storage of APFS sparse files and clones”
Link. I use Synology with HDD and sparseimage. I think APFS not feasible there yet.
Apple knows App Store vetting is pathetic.
Link. So how does Apple justify their massive revenue stream?
“To give Apple its due, it’s very seldom that any operating system manages to break its clock in the way that Big Sur has”
Link. Sounds like iOS problem infiltrating macOS.
“the earth rises at over 1,000 mph to heights taller than Mount Everest.”
Link. After a Big One.
“I wonder, though, if Tencent believes they can track users with impunity because Apple wouldn’t dare pull WeChat (etc.) from the Chinese App Store.”
Link. China is rather more powerful than Apple. Companies bypassing Apple’s privacy protection can’t do it in secret — they have to sell their product. So these bypasses won’t work in the US as long as Apple blocks products.
Thunderbird includes an RSS reader.
Link. There are several very good RSS readers for Mac, but for clients for Windows are more limited. (Web RSS app can’t handle intra-firewall sources.)
“President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan has reportedly ordered all citizens to buy bikes in preparation for a mass event on 1 September.”
Link. So not all bad?
DeSantis 2024: NYT profile.
Link. I thought of him as Hispanic — wrong. Per wikipedia, “of Italian descent”.
OWC Envoy Express: T3 bus powered SSD enclosure – 2280 M.2 NVMe SSD compatible.
Link. Integrated 10 inch T3 cable.
“Thunderbolt 3 external SSD from Other World Computing, the 1 TB model of the Envoy Pro EX, for just under $300”
Link. Practical advice, all good.
Bhutan vaccinated 85% adults in 1 week.
Link. 1 COVID death so far.
“even with a marginal tax rate close to 60 percent, high-earning New Yorkers”
Link. In MN our marginal tax rate is not a lot lower.
Muon g-2 Results – the case for disinterest.
Link. Why yawn is good.
Muon misbehavior reviewed.
Link. Seeking a new Force. A sober review.
Gravitons as Dark Matter?
Link. Not impossible but very unlikely. Graviton likely massless.
“To celebrate, our colleague Gina Kolata reports, Dr. Kariko ate an entire box of Goobers chocolate-covered peanuts. By herself.”
Link. Nobel should buy lots of Goobers.
“better understand why President Biden is making such a sharp break with Joe Biden.”
Link. We expected Gerald Ford and got FDR.
Cross West St Paul: Kaposia Landing to Brickyard Trail
Link. I love this knd of urban exploring and the climbs are delightful. The street route was safe and pleasant riding. Next step is to add more local sites.
Neurotoxins – from 2002
Link. Derek Lowe has been blogging about pharm science for eons.
GOP may have misjudged American support for suppressing Black vote.
Link. Can’t blame them really, they got away with so much for so long. Suddenly Americans care. So fickle.
Strength training 2021: the science of muscle.
Link. “the entire CrossFit philosophy is essentially based on activities that last longer than 70 seconds, and a few of those bastards are pretty muscular.” Particularly important for Olds.
American infrastructure and the GOP.
Link. Lincoln history new to me.
Shipping: More CO2 Than Aviation
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Long COVID is not unique – many infections have sequelae.
Link. Diabetes and schizophrenia may both be post-infectious sequelae.
Display drivers are old tech. That’s a problem.
Link. “No one is building more mature-node manufacturing lines because it doesn’t make economic sense.”. Can’t expand.
Georgia: “the act does contain some provisions that expand access primarily in rural, heavily Republican areas.”
Link. Very Trump of them.
Fox lawyer: “Mr. Dinh, a sociable and relentless Republican lawyer who was the chief architect in 2001 of the antiterrorism legislation known as the Patriot Act,”
Link. An evil man.
The Trump recurring donations fraud — we need names.
Link. There were people who did this. People with names. Probably tobacco industry alumni. Society does need to know who they are.
“Watching Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) debate science with Fauci during committee hearings is like watching Albert Einstein being disputed by his dry cleaner.”
Link. Very unfair to people in dry cleaning industry, sone of whom might be fans of modern quantum physics.
“the University of Texas set up a licensing arrangement for HexaPro that allows companies and labs in 80 low- and middle-income countries to use the protein in their vaccines without paying royalties.”
Link. So many heroes here, Innes anong them.
Defective Macs ‘knowingly sold by Apple’
Link. Not the first time. Early iMacs too. A trillion dollar fine would be nice :-)
“Music on Mac is just an utter embarrassment for Apple”
Link. Head-to-head Mojave crushes Big Sur.
Apple broke its Bug Sur log timestamps.
Link. Arghh.
“it’s the telephoto lens— not the larger sensor, faster aperture, or even ProRAW— that makes the iPhone 12 Pro Max the photographer’s phone”
Link. Via Tsai. A great review.
The Child on the Train. 2003.
Link. John Scalzi of 2003 reflects on a lost pregnancy. Came up in a recent post. I was ok until the last paragraph; but then I wept. He got the truth of it.
“Most people, I think, believe that it’s a slam dunk,” Harris said of the case against Chauvin. But he said, “the reality of the law and the legal system is, it’s just not.”
Link. 2nd degree requires intent. How do you prove that?
Bidenomics: “domestically focused engine of mass employment and distributed prosperity.”
Link. Jobs that don’t require college and academic talents. Biden is fixing the mass disability problem.
“More than a dozen current and former law enforcement officers have been arrested and charged in connection with the insurrection at the Capitol”
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Canada: “shut down indoor dining at bars and restaurants, worship services and indoor group fitness classes for three weeks.”
Link. Trying to slow variants while vaccinating.
New Brunswick “Public Health is closely monitoring a cluster of more than 40 New Brunswick patients with symptoms similar to those of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatal brain disease.”
Link. More details.
“In March 2021, public health officials in British Columbia, Canada revealed that they’ve been tracking a local cluster of people who have developed a dementia-like condition with no clear cause.”
Link. Well that’s nice. Also, it’s New Brunswick, not BC!!