Link. She spent 10y in one of Stalin’s gulags.
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Rumors of Zawahiri’s death.
Link. Not an optimal source.
Nation Can’t Believe They Spent So Long Overlooking Obvious Solution Of mRNA Instructions For Spike Protein Encapsulated In Lipid Nanoparticle
Link. so good.
Google’s mysterious new blogging platform.
Link. Not truly “new” but definitely mysterious. Internal only, resembles WordPress and their new Sites. Blogger 2.0?
Blogger will republish old posts with new dates but keep old URL.
Link. Probably been like this forever but I never tried before. I’ll use it to selectively republish old posts that I update.
Scholar Button browser extension update
Link. I love scholar. Note the old school blogger platform.
“All three of my active Macs, including my production system, are now running Big Sur.”
Link. Wow. That’s a change from Catalina. I might update in January rather than my usual June.
“West of Hudson Group, for one, operates a network of content houses where many prominent young influencers live.”
Link. For an Old this is all delightfully weird.
Mars may have volcanoes.
Link. We know of seismic activity, but this would be a step up.
“Ord is most concerned about two possibilities: empowered artificial intelligence unaligned with human values (he gives it a one-in-ten chance of ending humanity within the next hundred years) and engineered pandemics (he thinks they have a one-in-thirty
Link. 1/10 and 1/30 seem plausible to me. I’d have gone for 1/5 and 1/50 myself.
Gordon’s Tech: macOS Mojave Safe Mode can take hours, the progress bar is no help. Also – Disk Utility and APFS
Link. FYI. That progress bar is a bug.
“galaxies are built through mergers of smaller galaxies across time”
Link. Heracles is one of them in our home.
Senior journalist on end of “neutral” reporting.
Link. It had to die, but there were reasons.
Anger builds in Black community over Trump’s claims of voter fraud in big cities
Link. It must burn him to be defeated by Black America.
“If I’m being manipulated by Trump … then he is the greatest con man that ever lived in America,” Caleb Fryar said. “I think he’s the greatest patriot that ever lived.”
Link. He’s half right.
“Because Trump is attempting to remain in power, rather than remove someone else from it his efforts come closer to what scholars call an attempt at a “self-coup” — or, using the Spanish term, an autogolpe”
Link. A sober summary.
“the merger of QAnon, the Republican Party, and the large part of the conservative movement that earns its bread by peddling miracle veggie pills to gullible elderly people on the radio”
Link. The bit about radio scams is important. Besides voting the GOP is a mechanism for herding sheep to be fleeced.
Trump “cyber analyst” was Ron Watkins, an administrator on far-right site 8kun, and son of its owner, Philippines-based pig farmer Jim Watkins.”
Link. Q.
Information warfare – Trump’s genius.
Link. Maybe we should think of GOP politiciams as victims, much like GOP Left Behind. They are not in on the scam, they are dupes.
“majority of those who contracted the virus at work did so while eating in a break room with a mask off.”
Link. Mayo clinic, MN.
Humdifiers can decrease COVID spread.
Link. Another tool.
Humdifiers can decrease COVID spread.
Link. Another tool.
“two board members, Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, apparently weren’t prepared for the intensity of the response”
Link. They live in an imaginary world.
“iOS software uses reference counting for memory management, running on silicon optimized to make reference counting as efficient as possible”
Link. I didn’t expect them to do so well.
Biden’s lost agenda
Link. “Wave good-bye to it, but don’t give up entirely. There’s something in there that can be saved.”
Amazon Pharmacy: “Compare your medication cost with and without insurance before you pay.”
Link. That is a game changer. Long expected, still big news.
“at least three health care workers who interacted with infected patients—a medical resident, an ambulance worker, and a gastroenterologist—also developed illness, with two eventually dying”
Link. Biden can’t rebuild CDC soon enough.
“Graham also asked whether Raffensperger had the power to toss all mail ballots in counties found to have higher rates of nonmatching signatures”
Link. Most people’s signatures are inconsistent, so this is a GOP ploy to eliminate mail-in ballots — which are mostly Dem. Graham is a scum’s scum.
Hoover disowns Atlas.
Link. Or at least Stanford speaking for Hoover.
Offline YouTube videos: “youtube-dl ‘URL-TO-VIDEO-HERE’ and it just works.”
Link. Sounds useful.
Barcelona superblocks.
Link. Getting there … one day.
“What I think is fair is to take a look at what’s happened in Canada, where they still have had big problems but their death rate per capita is about 61 percent lower than ours. “
Link. Obama brakes the American rule – “never compare to Canada”.
“Everything we hear is that the individual postal workers have been working hard and working overtime, doing everything they could to follow their instructions and do everything they could to deliver ballots on time,”
Link. Hope DeJoy gets to spend some time in front of investigations.
Newton’s ‘Principia’: 386 copies in all, including ones far beyond England in Budapest; Oslo; Prague; Zagreb, Croatia; the Vatican; and Gdansk, Poland.
Link. A much bigger initial impact than once thought. (Caltech historian!)
Parler, Backed by Mercer Family
Link. So at least not Moscow alone. Design sounds decent. No algorithm!
Donald Trump is a sign of a healthy democracy (from 2015).
Link. Written before the catastrophe, back when he was a comical figure. I’m writing an update on why mission #1 for Dems is engineering big income increases for the non-college (aka The Left Behind).
Evernote Goes Electron.
Link. Sadness.
“I assume that malicious actors are investigating how to launch a denial-of-service attack against ocsp.apple.com.”
Link. Big Apple screw-up.
“Al Qaeda’s second-highest leader, accused of being one of the masterminds of the deadly 1998 attacks on American embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran three months ago, intelligence officials have confirmed”
Link. Zawahiri next?
“Biden has not only appeared unthreatened by Trump’s attacks—he’s seemed to react to each desperate maneuver with a mixture of amusement and pity.”
Link. Biden is not as nice as people think he is.
Trump state health care workers over the abyss.
Link. In a just universe the GOP legislators and governors would have to do patient care.
Addressing economic disruption of remote work.
Link. The tax isn’t politically feasible but I had not considered all the longterm disruptions of persistent telework.
The Best USB-C Hubs in 2020.
Link. Essential now.
“White House’s Presidential Personnel Office, whose 30-year-old director, John McEntee, has recently intensified efforts to purge appointees who have failed to demonstrate sufficient fealty to the president”
Link. Marvel and DC have both featured supervillain presidents.
Big Sur: some Photos and Messages improvements.
Link. Yawn.
Minneapolis violence hits 1990s levels.
Link. This was widely expected. COVID + broken police department + riots.
2021 iPhones sound like real improvements.
Link. I can wait.
Apple has two system status pages.
Link. I actively avoid reliance on Apple services.
“this summer’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota was “absolutely unnecessary,’ and that data shows it helped spread the virus beyond that state”
Link. MN Health department feels Sturgis was a true disaster. It’s bad to be ruled by anti-science.
“The GOP, as it is, is a cancer of American democracy”
Link. The modern GOP is a marker of a civilization that is breaking down. We don’t have much time to recerse this.