Link. “Black children appeared to be at greater risk for developing the inflammatory syndrome than the acute illness.”. Usually these differences turn out to be environmemtal rather than genetic.
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“To enable Cinematic photos on existing pictures that were not taken in multi-view stereo, we trained a convolutional neural network with encoder-decoder architecture to predict a depth map”
Link. Age of wonders.
“Apple should take a long hard look at Mail and the way that it does nothing to protect users’ privacy from these trackers.”
Link. Pixel trackers in email. Even Outlook does better.
“If we burn lots of calories with, for instance, physical activity, we burn fewer with some other biological system, such as reproduction or immune responses.”
Link. We believe exercise helps with overactive immune systems. I never thought of the caloric aspects though. I don’t entirely believe this research but I am persuadable.
“fixated for years on the notion that alien reptiles who inhabited underground tunnels controlled the earth”
Link. I think in studies of mass stress about 1/10 to 1/3 of hunans are mentally robust. The human brain is a radical evolutionary hack that needs another million years of work.
COVID reduced Japan deaths.
Link. Indirectly. Suicide rates up. Expect mortality jump as Japan returns to normalcy.
“mental landscape of someone falling ever more deeply down rabbit holes of groundless claims.”
Link. I have seem this happen. This year tears minds apart. I wonder how many will never mend.
“He’s the same old banty rooster, just on the other side of the fence”
Link. Combative democrat became radical right extremist. His old environment moderated his temperament, his new environment inflamed it. A mind driven by passion can flip very quickly.
Giuliani Desperately Tried To Dodge Process Servers In Dominion Defamation Lawsuit | Talking Points Memo
Link. They got him! Earned a bonus I’d say.
COVID vaccines and “sterilizing immunity”
Link. Even if not truly sterilizing, very likely close enough to do the job.
Rectangular States: Utah, Colorado, Wyoming.
Link. I finally noticed studying Google COVID maps.
Sickle cell gene therapy stops.
Link. Probably the busulfan but is bad news.
“Since 2013, the European Union has had a program to ensure that everyone under 25 gets training or a job.”
Link. I did *not* know that. Why not? (BTW, the article should have described the history of work subsidies for special needs adults.)
“case study in Facebook’s willingness to change its rules to placate America’s right wing and avoid political backlash.”
Link. Break their monopoly power.
“One compelling hypothesis, related to herd immunity, is that the people least likely to follow infection control advice — or unable to follow it based on work or living situation — already have had COVID-19 and hence are immune.”
Link. Network spread.
“Foxlandia — an alternate universe where empty culture-war posturing can proceed undisturbed before a hermetically sealed-off audience that is fluent in that verlan”
Link. Verlan is a neat word.
“I don’t like the visual of the National Guard standing a line with the Capitol in the background,” General Piatt said”
Link. Private Piatt has a nice sound.
One vaccine dose for COVID positive.
Link. Excellent news.
First dose US vaccines safe.
Link. We don’t have 2nd dose data yet. Anecdotally young people can often have a sick day after 2nd dose. I’m curious about transient Bells Palsy.
Capitol police: 35 officers are under investigation.
Link. “six of the officers have been suspended with pay”. A fifth column. There is a lot to learn.
“The rover is about 1.25 miles from a river delta scientists think is a prime spot to look for chemical signatures of ancient microbial life.”
Link. Sun shines on Biden administration.
Intense Strength Training Did Not Ease Knee Pain.
Link. Annoyingly it seems a good study. The placebo group improved too much! This is such a weird disease. At least did not make worse.
Dining rituals of the Trumps in DC.
Link. I ignore most Trump things now, but this is entertaining.
WaPo on smart TV monitoring.
Link. Via DF. Even worse than I had thought.
“When tracking is active, some TVs record and send out everything that crosses the pixels on your screen. It doesn’t matter whether the source is cable, an app, your DVD player or streaming box.”
Link. We are near our cable data cap each month.
“Roku (and similar boxes, and smart TVs) track you at the system level.”
Link. This is why you can’t buy a “dumb” TV. The smart TV is subsidized. Eventually they won’t work without a net connection.
“gonadotropin-releasing hormone (gnrh) agonists, or “puberty blockers” – for gender dysphoria.
Link. Much I did not know.
“new tyrosine of the coronavirus RBD has a chance to form better interactions with two of the amino acid side chains of the human ACE2 receptor”
Link. COVID is a biomedical knowledge factory. We are getting 10 years of progress in a year of lived time.
OWC Thunderbolt 4/USB-C Cable
Link. Isn’t this just a T4 cable? Same as Apple cables.
McConnell: “doesn’t plan to speak to Trump ever again after their last conversation on December 14, nor does he have interest in continuing their feud.”
Link. Nothing could hurt Trump more. Biden takes similar approach. As do I!
“76% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, China, were still experiencing symptoms six months after first getting sick.”
Link. Surprisingly good review of Long COVID.
Exercise: “The researchers also found no upper limit to the benefits.”
Link. Hardcore maniacs did the best.
“Cryptocurrencies have made it easier for Pyongyang to generate illicit income”
Link. Bitcoin has true value.
Pressure on CDC to talk about ventilation.
Link. I want to know why they have resisted so strenuously.
Avalanche Introduces Compatibility with Luminar AI
Link. I hope one day they do their own DAM solution.
Big Sur for M1 isn’t ready yet: external disk startup.
Link. i suspect next macOS release will be first complete M1 version of macOS. Maybe ready Feb 2022.
“the smarter, more disciplined, more dangerous Trump has been staring us in the face all along: Mitch McConnell.”
Link. What is state of his Murdoch relationship?
30,000-ton bus terminal moved horizontally in Xiamen, China – Construction News Hong Kong and MacauConstruction News Hong Kong and Macau | Your definitive guide to the industry
Link. Glorious madness. Similar to Victorian England engineering.
Genetic study of Lewy body dementia supports ties to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Link. “common and rare variants in the GBA gene are tied to Lewy body dementia.”. This feels like genuine progress.
“20 pandemic forecasting models. Most projected that COVID-19 cases would continue to grow through February, or at least plateau. Instead, COVID-19 is in retreat in America.”
Link. I keep watch on Florida but even that seems quiet.
“switched off only twice during that period and maybe restarted four or five times in total. It enjoyed an insane uptime and it was a testament to Snow Leopard’s stability.”
Link. When Apple had pride in its software.
NPR : National Public Radio – text only headlines.
Link. Via Twitter. Almost RSS.
“the large capitalist structures have decided that the money will be multicultural* and socially inclusive* and politically liberal*,”
Link. I feel like this may invert.
QAnon splits: joining other extremist, hardcore religion, exit to norm.
Link. Identical to al Qaeda.
“There’s no point in complaining about poor quality of macOS and other Apple software if you then help Apple continue its bad practices.”
Link. We are Apple’s unpaid testing team and we are going on strike.
Lowe reviews semaglutide for weight loss.
Link. Works better than anything short of surgery.
“Most of the security teams working at software companies have limited time and resources, she suggests — and if their priorities and incentives are flawed, they only check that they’ve fixed the very specific vulnerability in front of them”
Link. The root problem is that customers can’t measure security or don’t care about it or have now power. So it’s not a priority for vendors, so they don’t invest in it. (macOS customers, for example, are simply stuck)
Tsai ranks macOS quality
Link. “10.6 and 10.11 are definitely the most reliable. Then probably 10.8, 10.13, and 10.4 in some order. 10.1 through 10.3 were also fine.” El Capitan & Snowie.
Big Sur bug: Mail Search (corespotlightd) fails on multi-user machine after a user logs out.
Link. Easy to replicate. Fix for now is AppleScript – do shell script “killall -9 corespotlightd” on Emily’s Dock.
Antibody-Dependent Enhancement not happening, even with variants.
Link. Apparently ADE is popular on social media.