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“more than 100 U.S. labs working with potential bioterror pathogens had faced secret federal sanctions for safety violations, and that regulators had allowed them to keep conducting experiments while failing inspections, sometimes for years”
Link. Why would Wuhan labs be better?
US may finally fix draft registration inequity.
Link. Insane men-only lasted into 2021.
Post-COVID psychosis.
Link. Sure sounds post-viral. A PET scan would be interesting.
Mars. “water was almost all gone by three billion years ago, around the time on Earth when life consisted of single-cell microbes in the oceans.”
Link. Into rocks. Happens here too, but our volcanic suduction frees water.
“selective pressure on the virus will increase, and if strains emerge that can evade this immunity, these strains can spread.”
Link. This phrasing may be accurate; I don’t know the technical definition of “selection pressure”. NOTE he is not saying immunization increases the risk of disease, but rather increases the probability that new disease is an escape variant.
“main thing accomplished by China’s new “speak loudly and carry a big stick” approach is that other countries are getting freaked out.”
Link. Xi is seen as a Trump-class lunatic — without Trump’s political constraints.
“leaving the theater door open so they can evade the morning and afternoon stonings from passing school children.”
Link. Kabul life is rough.
“investigation of the Carver County outbreak produced one of the most detailed maps of COVID-19 transmission in the yearlong history of the pandemic”
Link. Schools and sports. B117 is taking over MN. As expected.
B.1.1.7 can infect dogs and and produce myocarditis.
Link. I was afraid of that.
“anger at those misguided, arrogant people who would violently protest at local officials’ homes”
Link. Physicians need to be angry now. The protests at people’s homes are bipartisan despicable.
Apps with gross window behaviors: especially Teams.
Link. Teams window handling tells me we are in The Bad Place. “override ⌘W to hide the app instead of whatever broken behavior it would normally do.”
“Writing is not a lucrative career. As with acting or drug sales, only a few very lucky superstars make any money.”
Link. Humans love to write.
“77.5 percent of Minnesotans age 65 and older have received at least one dose of a vaccine.”
Link. Our numbers are rising and so are admissions, but younger now. Need to go even faster.
“77.5 percent of Minnesotans age 65 and older have received at least one dose of a vaccine.”
Link. Our numbers are rising and so are admissions, but younger now. Need to go even faster.
“supplying an edited audiotape or a piece of false evidence to one of the bottom-feeders of the information ecosystem is incredibly easy; after that, others will ensure that it rises up the food chain”
Link. Russia was shocked that Trump lost.
Black and hispanic youth double white COVID death risk.
Link. Do we know if test positivity is higher?
Britain’s ‘One-Jab’ Strategy worked.
Link. A gamble that paid off.
Caller ID Authentication is finally here.
Link. Finally.
“Super Resolution feature in ACR essentially upsizes the image by a factor of four using machine learning”
Link. Soon every app will have this.
“Shift-drag from an edge – resize keeping window aspect ratio constant and opposite edge static”
Link. Takes me ages to learn these habits.
Invest in green tech so China leaves coal for cheaper options.
Link. Versus carbon tariffs. US/EU emission history was part of developing modern tech. China inherited that tech, so don’t they inherit some carbon guilt as well?
“It did not seem to occur to her that the palace has no ability to protect its members from the tabloids”
Link. They are none of them terribly bright.
“over the past 30 years, as racial disparities in life expectancy have shrunk by 70%, educational disparities have more than doubled.”
Link. The growing cultural divide in America is between cognitively advantaged and the left behind.
Putie is worried and upset.
Link. I thought he liked his hard-cold-killer rep. He must expect the new sanctions to hurt.
Europe’s AZ concerns explained.
Link. A DIC type picture in some. Weird.
“while it is the Kavanaugh story that is getting media attention, the longer story is about whether our courts have been bought.”
Link.
“Reeder is a one-time purchase. There is no subscription involved. Instead, the developer releases a new version every few years that you buy over, but it is still far less expensive than what I paid for subscriptions”
Link. I like subscriptions in principle, but most are priced way too high.
Possible malaria vaccine.
Link. Cross fingers
Quarantine Brazil Now.
Link. “How long should the quarantine last? At least until we understand the real threat from P.1 and other emergent Brazilian variants, have developed vaccines that work against them, and have had time to inoculate our own populations elsewhere.”
Russia feared Biden: “a massive disinformation push that successfully targeted, and was openly embraced, by Trump’s allies.”
Link. Eat the hurricaine Putey.
Michael Jordan, the real story of his baseball career
Link. 1994. A great story.
“psychologists Leonid Rozenblit and Frank Keil coined the phrase “the illusion of explanatory depth” to refer to the way our self-assurance crumples when we are invited to explain apparently simple ideas.”
Link. Great discussion of conspiracists and deprogramming.
“Europe put a big emphasis on negotiating a low price for vaccine doses.”
Link. Imagine being the person who made that mistake.
The 2021 refugee surge.
Link. Ugh.
“what Biden can or should do next about the Mad Killer of Riyadh, and the answer is – nothing at all. Just give him enough rope,”
Link. MBS is an idiot.
Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and the women he has kidnapped.
Link. Clearest summary I’ve read to date.
Om defines venture capital.
Link. It’s a hard business.
Apple’s App Store policy summarized: “it depends on whether Apple likes you”
Link. That’s it.
Mac Software Updates Open Up sshd.
Link. Apple won’t spend what it would take to debug macOS.
SMS partner companies can reroute anyone’s SMS messages whenever they feel like it.
Link. Hacker did it using Sakari’s security-free infrastructure.
“Losing his Twitter account really broke Trump in a way I don’t think even he realized it would.”
Link. Twitter power underestimated.
Maine’s role in ending American slavery.
Link. Fascinating.
“Food stamps are welfare; Medicare benefits equal to three times the actuarial value of FICA payments made by cohorts of beneficiaries certainly are not.”
Link. One of our many weirdnesses is what we call “welfare”.
Apple Numbers handles numbers as well as Excel
Link. I assumed it would be worse.
“I have come across no other SSD which can match the performance of Apple’s internal SSDs fitted to the M1 MacBook Pro and Mac mini”
Link. Stibium benchmarks SSDs.
“individuals with disabilities are not required to participate in competitive integrated employment and can choose to work in other settings.”
Link. A win for families, cognitively disabled adults, and reality over (left) ideology. Employment collapse in pando probably helped comcentrate minds.
“More than 100 federal prosecutors are working full or part-time on cases”
Link. Jan 6. 400 expected to face charges.
Google’s “family link” parental controls are an abysmal failure.
Link. I know Apple’s equivalent deeply — and it’s a disaster too. This stuff is hard to do and it *opposes* the core mission of the enterprise. It’s where tech careers go to die.
Why did we need Biden to save us from COVID?
Link. Mass vaccination takes a lot of smart people solving hard problems within government. Trump hated those people.