Link. We need to restock our antibiotic supply.
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“a few extra pounds might help protect people when they contract an infectious disease.”
Link. BMI of 30. Not just COVID apparently. Nobody knows why.
Runners are stoners.
Link. Endocannabinoids. Popular in CrossFit too
“the black beast of depression back in our lives”
Link. LBJ and Lincoln had that in common.
George Floyd’s Family Settles Suit Against Minneapolis for $27 Million.
Link. “settlement was the largest ever reached before trial in a civil rights wrongful death lawsuit involving the police”
GOP Voters: “Never Trump” Republicans comprised 15 percent of the Republicans surveyed”
Link. Higher than I expected.
“pleased that the Americans are noticing us and also being delighted when they got it wrong”
Link. America raises Canadian spirits. (Also the Nanaimo bar was not part of my youth in Quebec.)
Risk of hospitalization and death by age and gender for COVID.
Link. For those diagnosed. Unvaccinated. First calculator of this type I have seen. I had thought 10% hospital for me, calc says 16%.
Neil Irwin: “I’m starting to get optimistic.”
Link. Run, run!! (Weirdly so am I. Maybe we are bored of bad news.)
Nursing homes game their star ratings.
Link. Those that don’t cheat go under and facilities invest in ratings rather than true quality. This is true of similar ratings systems everywhere — including college ratings.
“Dustin’s story throws a spotlight on the danger of doing too much business with a single company.”
Link. Apple has vast power, arrogance aplenty, a good bit of incompetence, and nothing to fear. It’s a disastrous combination.
Letter calling for COVID origins investigation.
Link. Xi acts like he knows it was a lab escape.
30+ Mac tips for new setups.
Link. Worth a review for all.
iCloud Secure Backup is active in Big Sur?
Link. Apple to offer iCloud backup?
macOS updates delete Apple’s command line tools.
Link. They are just playing us now.
YKK Zippers are a clue to good gear.
Link. Pro tip.
Trump’s vaccine failure detailed.
Link. Reference to share.
“Maybe we send out letters telling them their polling place has moved to China. Maybe we go to all the voting sites in Black neighborhoods and install teeny-tiny doors that no one can get through without crawling on their hands and knees”
Link.
“Joe Biden gets yawns when he promotes progressive policies that would generate howls if promoted by a President Sanders or a President Warren”
Link. Sedation as a super-power.
“for every million M1 users, Apple’s software update servers would have to deliver 78 million GB, that’s 78 petabytes”
Link. Remember when a Pb was a lot?
Bezos and Musk love Iain M Banks.
Link. Sh*t. Iain would laugh I hope. Terrible for me to share a love with Musk.
Brave Search.
Link. Damn. Hope this works.
“Covid-19 appears to be one of many infections, from Ebola to strep throat, that can give rise to stubbornly persistent symptoms in an unlucky subset of patients”
Link. Lots of illnesses are thought to have relationships to lots of resolved infections – including diabetes, schizophrenia and myocardial infarction.
Weird world example: “virtual cameras” for online videoconferencing.
Link. Google search is dead and perhaps the web is too. So how are we learning about things now?
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari – a brief review.
Link. Long after it was ‘hot’, I read and liked it — even if for me it was more review than new.
“Big Sur has proven itself more solid than 10.15 Catalina”
Link. Our M1 Big Sur Air has been crashy.
“First, we aim to defend and promote liberal democracy in the United States.”
Link. The Economist kind of owns this space.
What killed George Floyd?
Link. A sober review. Lots of fentanyl but he was opioid tolerant, lots of cardiac disease.
Obsidian: “everything is based on a collection of Markdown files, which means you control your data and can easily get it out of Obsidian if you get drawn to something else new and shiny.”
Link. I’m still Simplenote, but data freedom gets my attention. (Once this was PIM, now PKM).
“Japan has 718 vehicles owned per 1000 people, compared to 875 in the U.S”
Link. They drive 1/3 as much but cars are hard to give up.
“I just laughed,” she told WECT last week. “We have a great sense of humor in my adoptive family and I thought, ‘Of course, my father’s a murderer!’ ”
Link. Finding birth parent a mixed experience for some.
Genomic surveillance – a new public health tool.
Link. Insane numbers. UK and Denmark excel, US only catching up with Biden.
“Trump had fathered “30,573 false or misleading claims” during his presidency.”
Link. Pray this record is never broken.
“Carriers are the enemy: T-mobile follows the industry.”
Link. We all need VPN. (I think encrypted DNS may help.)
“far-right has a weakness for misinformation that the rest of the political spectrum does not.”
Link. Education effect most likely.
“argues that most of the slowdown in TFP comes from slowing educational attainment, lower geographic mobility and economic dynamism, and and the shift from goods to services.”
Link. IT enables new realms of scams.
“poverty-like cognitive burdens even on the middle class”
Link. Generating information asymmetry by complexity attacks to maximize profit or reduce costs. Enabled by IT. One of K’s more important columns.
“cameras that you can fool by slapping a sticker labelled “THIS IS NOT THE DROID YOU ARE LOOKING FOR” on the front of the droid the camera is in fact looking for.”
Link. The best predictions extrapolate scams and laziness.
“Everett will never make you feel stupid for asking the questions an inquisitive child would; he’ll simply tell you answers that are as clear, logical, and internally consistent as they are metaphysically extravagant.”
Link. I think I’m close to the Aaronson state.
“Chinese researchers told them they didn’t have enough properly trained technicians to safely operate their BSL-4 lab.”
Link. If it were found to be a lab escape nobody would be surprised.
Mac firmware problems: “the iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015 – the dreaded iMac17,1.”
Link. Apple’s lemons come up every few years but often take a while to be recognized.
“growing intellectual shift toward the idea of direct cash benefits as the optimal form of government intervention in the economy.”
Link. Rather than setting a higher minimum wage.
China National Digital Currency
Link. “Chinese government more power to monitor finance flows because a digital currency system can record every transaction.” Buries the lede.
“Heidelberg is buying a fleet of hydrogen-powered buses and designing neighborhoods to discourage all vehicles and encourage walking”
Link. The future.
“Once Trump starts squawking, domestic extremists will start walking to the targets he designates in speeches and social media feeds.”
Link. Trump’s malevolence does help FBI know next targets.
COVID Tracking Project: “our data compilation will come to an end on Sunday, March 7,”
Link. Majestic work. We have a functioning governmemt now, so time to rest.
Long term care staff turnover: “average annual rate was 128 percent, with some facilities experiencing turnover that exceeded 300 percent.”
Link. My children know to place me in a 1 star facility with 300% turnover located by a cliff.
After full approval health care employers can mandate immunization.
Link. VA probably will.
“Hindustan Syringes makes its needles from stainless steel strips imported from Japan. The strips are curled into cylinders and welded at the seam”
Link. The supply, design, manufacturing, distribution wonderously global.
Market heat: “second highest since our data began in 1881.”
Link. But in other ways, not so much. New world.