Link. Delaying 2nd vaccine.
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Making the case: Coronavirus Escape From a Wuhan lab.
Link. Xi’s actions over past few months make this more plausible.
“We are witnessing one of the greatest challenges and attacks on the American republic in the country’s history”
Link. Those who served tryranny must be remembered.
“plain-spoken politician, Ms. Sturgeon said she did not know what Mr. Trump’s travel plans were, but that she hoped his immediate plan was to exit the White House. “
Link. I like to think that is a paraphrase of a more colorful reaponse.
More than 40 people tested positive after Christmas services at a church in Massachusetts. – The New York Times
Link. Photo suggests a ventilation nightmare. No discussion in article.
Cleta got caught violating her firm’s rules.
Link. She lied. Didn’t dream call would cone out.
Republicans may crash American government.
Link. Trump will go all the way. Many GOP will follow him. America has entered a new historic era.
“South Korea’s fertility rate, a measurement of the average number of children per woman, is the world’s lowest”
Link. SK needs a rethink.
EPA adopts plan developed to protect smoking from science.
Link. There are so many many reasons the GOP should die. (Biden will repeal.)
The Vaccine War: managing resistant COVID
Link. Would be a lot easier without Cruz, Hawley, and their fellows.
Trump’s Georgia Fraud Claims. Debunked.
Link. It’s useful to see the list. Basically anything Team Trump could imagine.
WI vaccine saboteur was mentally ill and risk to his family.
Link. Sounds like a real danger to his wife and children. I hope judge made the right decision in releasing him.
Masks and Face Coverings for the Lay Public: A Narrative Update: Annals of Internal Medicine: Vol 0, No 0
Link. Exhaustive.
The Office we expected in 1998 may be here.
Link. I’ve seen so many false starts over 25 years. Maybe this time for real?
ER docs and paradox of COVID unemployment.
Link. “private-equity firms, that employ thousands of doctors who work at hundreds of hospitals.”. Learnimg why everyone fears private equity.
SolarWinds: “company puts its engineering in the hands of cheaper Eastern Europe coders, where it’s easier for Russian engineers to penetrate their product development.”
Link. At root — problems with incentives, government purchasing, and measuring sotware quality.
AT&T, Charles Schwab and Citigroup fumd the coup.
Link. Thank you Lincoln project.
“Asking whether he thinks this or that claim is ‘true’ would make no more sense to him than asking a novelist whether her latest chapter is ‘true’.”
Link. Psychopath for sure, but I think he believes.
“you will find more liars, more know-nothings, and before long, a whole month will have passed, and you still haven’t filed your story about how the president’s attorney wound up undermining democracy in a parking lot off I-95”
Link. Read the full quote.
In 2020, Minneapolis had 82 homicides, making it the third worst year for killings
Link. Back to the 90s, much worse than 2019.
Mullenweg’s favorite 2020 things
Link. I appreciate these lists. I put a few on my Amazon wish list.
How to be an annoying person … with physics!
Link. “You probably meant you lost mass.” Physics humor is droll.
MN: “The seven-day positive case average … is 5.1 percent.”
Link. An unexpected respite, but we aren’t vaccinating very quickly.
WaPo reviews a police reform report prepared by police.
Link. Some of it is good, some less good, but mostly better than status quo.
This weekend: “Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him to act and threatened him with vague criminal consequences if the secretary of state refused to pursue his false claims”
Link. He is terrified.
“Brian Urquhart, a troubleshooting British diplomat who joined the United Nations at its birth in 1945 and over the next four decades was a chief aide to five secretaries general while directing peacekeeping operations around the world,”
Link. Civilization relies on people who are far from famous.
USB 4: Everything We Know, Including Apple Support (Thunderbolt 4).
Link. Starting to understand why nobody wants to write about this.
There’s weirdly little documentation of “Thunderbolt Alternate Mode” (USB 4)
Link. Enables T3 hubs instead of daisy chain only, so I’m surprised discussion so limited.
“after the nurses are finished with everyone who had appointments, rather than waste whatever already-thawed supply is left, they simply go into the street and offer the extra doses to anyone passing by.”
Link. How to run a vaccine program. 24×7.
“The fleeing driver had 50 previous arrests, no driver’s license and had been incarcerated eight times in state prison”
Link. 47yo. We don’t have an answer for people like him.
Cities in distress: “Sometimes it feels like we’re losing our grip on civilization.”
Link. Minneapolis too.
“When factoring in those who are at least somewhat confident that the police would treat them well, a majority of Black Americans (61%) are generally confident”
Link. Preference for police presence similar to white. Aug 2020.
“In 2017, only 10 percent of deaths were registered in Nigeria”
Link.
Once again articles on VCs destroying markets.
Link. Popular around 1998 or so. Too much money, too few opportunities.
“Neutralizing antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 are sustained, associated with COVID19 severity, and evaded by emerging viral variants”
Link. Evaded.
WHO | SARS-CoV-2 Variants.
Link. I suspect SA variant will be found to be more dangerous as well as more communicable.
Natural immunity: “The presence of anti-spike or anti-nucleocapsid IgG antibodies was associated with a substantially reduced risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection in the ensuing 6 months.”
Link. Good.
“lawmakers in the House have flocked to support the effort. In the brief that Mr. Gohmert initially filed in federal court, he indicated that over 140 House Republicans intended to object to Mr. Biden’s victory.”
Link. The death throes of a party. Or of America.
“I’ve never found that V.R. games and social apps live up to the hype. But V.R. fitness does.”
Link. IDSTOC. “I didnt see that one coming.”
“The problem with the Republican “establishment” and with elected officials such as Josh Hawley is not that they are crazy, or that they don’t know any better; it is that they are cowards, and that they are weak.”
Link. Worse than Trump.
Our mild recession: “millions of people no longer working because of the pandemic were disproportionately in lower-paying service jobs”
Link. “Americans’ income from unemployment insurance benefits was 25 times higher from March through November 2020 than in the same period of 2019.”
Trump war on science: resistance by Federal climate scientists.
Link. Virginia Burkett fought honorably. So many slimy characters worked for Trump and his party.
Laïcité: France’s secular ideology.
Link. Quebec is similar, I lived through the transformation from a Catholic to secular state. That was astounding.
GE wind turbine: “A single one will be able to turn out 13 megawatts of power, enough to light up a town of roughly 12,000 homes”
Link. The innovation we need.
Apple silent about recent key service outages.
Link. Were they hacked? Why the secrecy?
Terpstra: “TextSniper is instant OCR for your screenshots, allowing you to just capture an area of your screen and automatically turning it into editable text in your clipboard”
Link. $6.50
“Apple avoided or delayed cutting ties with offenders”
Link. Don’t believe Apple.
Google Authenticator 3.1
Link. Gopgle’s no-backup approach has been disastrous for many.
UK Hail Mary on vaccines: “… is simultaneously the correct decision for them to make and also very bad news”
Link. Biden-Harris, we need you now.
Lilla is back: Dems … “redirected their energies from party politics to movement politics, focusing attention in particular on minority and gender identity movements.”
Link. He’s right. Related: education is NOT the answer to the problems of the Left Behind.