Link. Or maybe it’s all Chrome. Anyway, removing those two seems to have helped.
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“You go smoke weed in Amsterdam, you think you’re all free, and what you don’t realize is that there’s a camera in every shop and there’s a camera on every corner.”
Link. A longtime black market dealer is first to explain why the black market endures. Seriously, this is obvious but nobody mentions it. He gets first.
“Global Peace Index ranking the world’s safest countries, where we come in 128th, right after Myanmar, Niger, and South Africa”
Link. But we are in top 3 for guns per capita and mass murders. So not all bad.
NYT article on Latino support for Trump omits memtion of racism and riot backlash.
Link. Racism and misogyny aren’t white only.
“Matt Gaetz lifestyle and behavior, if not the specific alleged crimes, appear to have been common knowledge in MAGA world and among DC Republicans generally.”
Link. Party of the American Evangelical.
Scalzi on American fascism: “Trump may not have come into the White House as a fascist, but he certainly left as one.”
Link. Nothing to disagree with here. Trumpism is fascism.
Boehner unloads on GOP whackos.
Link. Says conspiracy thinking took over Ailes mind. I think happened to Murdoch too.
Vaccine resistance is mostly a White non-college thing.
Link. Black: “13 percent … said that they would “definitely not” get a vaccine… Among Republicans and white evangelical Christians, almost 30 percent of each group”
Mysteries in Human RNA pseudo-enzymes.
Link. “ there’s the question of what hovlinc is actually doing in human biology. It’s down to us, the chimpanzees, and bonobos”
The COVID insanity of Alex Berenson.
Link. Massive ego, peculiar delusions, an addiction to applause, and a profitable scam. Like Musk without the actual achievements.
UFOs again.
Link. They were big in my childhood, one of my few models was a saucer. Makes no sense to be aliems of course, but we lost sense long ago.
Jurors in the Derek Chauvin Trial.
Link. Sounds like right people.
The cost of China’s market is not in dollars.
Link. Moral corporations risk extinction.
The science of mixed vaccines.
Link. Been studied a long time but only now do we have the right trial conditions.
“of the 31 cases they have analyzed, 29 of them have been women”
Link. Maybe use AZ in men over 30?
Lesson from study of COVID in gym: people go when they are sick.
Link. For this and future pandemics: people can’t be trusted to stay home when sick. Denial, stupidity, and nastiness are common. Ventilation, remote work, distancing amd masks work because they are verifiable.
“we should think of China as being more or less the kind of place we used to be, but with better technology.”
Link. We are bad now, but we used to be a lot worse. Noah is arguing against exoticism, not providing comfort.
“macOS now defaults to creating all files in sparse format when certain conditions are met.”
Link. Cool feature little known.
How the South won Reconstruction: “as many as 300 African Americans died in the Wilmington coup.”
Link. Race, inequality, and redistribution – from the Civil War to Reagan’s “welfare queens”.
Pediatric growth hormone therapy: “the risk of developing a cardiovascular event like a heart attack or stroke was two-thirds higher for men and twice as high for women”
Link. Retropective case-control of course. But do short adults have less heart disease?
Kyle Rittenhouse Deserves the Kind of Mercy My Son Did Not Receive.
Link. A few minutes ago I noted how much sorrow there is in life. Applies here.
“economists really did think free trade was good (and most probably still do). What was dishonest — and knowingly dishonest — was the justification given for why it’s good.”
Link. Must read. Why experts lie.
WaPo update on immigration surge.
Link. Biden asked for this job.
VIPIT: alleged AZ vaccine disorder resembles HIT.
Link. Treat like HIT, avoid if history HIT.
Notion for academic collaboration
Link. Sounds interesting.
“Broadly speaking, the racial distribution of mass shootings mirrors the racial distribution of the U.S. population as a whole.”
Link. Like most I assumed was a white thing.
CDC Funding Gun Violence Research For First Time in Decades.
Link. “In 2019, Dr. Rosenberg and Mr. Dickey’s former wife, Betty, a retired former prosecutor and chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, helped persuade Congress to restore the funding.”
Damn. That was kept very quiet.
“The luckiest skiers — or the unluckiest ones, depending on how you feel about wildlife — may run into a snow leopard or a brown bear on the way down.”
Link. I have long wanted to visit Kashmir and return with my head.
Bolsonaro outdoes Trump.
Link. The stupidest of the Americas.
Guantánamo Bay Detainees who were releases.
Link. More relative recovery than I’d have guessed.
MacOS sparse files are a problem for HFS+ Time Machine.
Link. I use several, didn’t realize how much space they took up.
Being Overweight: “I really do agree with all these things! Except when it comes to me.”
Link. An honest personal story from a young woman. My (much older) women friends who have beat their genetic fates exercise like maniacs.
James Henry Hammond: “If they knew the tremendous secret, that the ballot-box is stronger than ‘an army with banners,’ and could combine, where would you be?”
Link. “told anti-slavery northerners how the world really worked”. Hammond’s political career was not derailed by his raping his four nieces.
“Is unintentional lab release a possibility? Yes, as the review commission has noted”
Link. NYT is quite confused about this.
“acknowledged the possibility that the gunman’s motives might never be known”
Link. The probability is schizophrenia. Not that complicated.
REI Member can trade in used gear (in good condition)
Link. Has to be something in their search catalog. Get gift certificate. I’d generally donate but maybe for specialized things…
How to derive E = mc².
Link. Relatively simple!
QAnon pivots to vaccine conspiracy.
Link. Shape-shifting alien lizards meet pedophile pizza dungeons meet lunatic physicians meet Proud Boys meet antivaxxers. All as white as bleached bone.
“everyone quietly stopped believing in the usefulness of academic macro theory”
Link. Macro after the fail.
Is there a limit to intense exercise?
Link. I shouldn’t do CrossFit 7 times a week? This is interesting work. Hope to see more.
“public accounting of the Trump administration’s political interference in science,”
Link. Excellent.
Wolfram on consciousness.
Link. It is a tough topic.
“One of Alissa’s brothers, Ali Aliwi Alissa, 34, told the Daily Beast in a phone interview that his brother was mentally ill and paranoid”
Link. The typical age for schizophrenic break.
Beyond the Standard Model.
Link. Sober physicists are starting to hope.
“The results don’t prove that zombies are theoretically possible”
Link. Slipped that one in you did.
MN: “None of the seven people whose deaths announced Tuesday were residents of long-term care facilities.”
Link. LTC vaccinated – it works. But variants spreading fast.
“patients who got the infused treatment within 10 days of developing symptoms or testing positive had a roughly 70 percent reduced risk of being hospitalized or dying”
Link. Bigger effect than many expected. They do delay vaccination
Neurologic symptoms post-COVID.
Link. From abstract: “most frequent comorbidities were depression/anxiety (42%) and autoimmune disease (16%).”
How to update your Mac’s stuck firmware: wage a war on Apple.
Link. On some machines replacing drive prevents firmware updates.
DeLong: readings in the interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Link. 1990s mostly. I’m not quite many worlds, maybe something like “no worlds”.