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Krebs – an honorable man: “Trump officials are mad that CISA refuted a conspiracy theory alleging that a covert intelligence agency supercomputer (supposedly named Hammer and Scorecard) quietly flipped votes nationwide”
Link. We should have a special award ceremony for civil servants who did their job and paid a price. Followed by rehiring and promotion.
“the Pfizer vaccine can be kept safely for up to five days in a normal refrigerator”
Link. Article by a geek physician is pretty good.
Current take on why our polling sucks.
Link. Current GOP voters are less likely to answer a poll even when control for education, income, race, etc.
Mass Disability – how did I come up with 40%?
Link. Another 2016 post I’m rewriting for 2020. Link to the sleepless night post — after Trump’s win.
2017: “Democrats and white middle class” – post-election analysis
Link. I’m going to get back to this one. Shortly after the election Trump won.
“The president has insisted to aides that he really defeated Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Nov. 3, but it is unclear whether he actually believes it”
Link. He despises his male lackeys as weakimgs. He enjoys seeing Graham dance.
Salvaging American government.
Link. GOP war on America.
No, Dominion voting machines did not cause widespread voting problems.
Link. Trump doing his usual fraud.
“It’s meaningless, you know, people calling for you to be beheaded, fired, thrown in the fire pit or whatever … That’s just noise. You don’t pay attention to that.”
Link. Fauci in the Trump pit.
Herd immunity: “As of Wednesday, more than 85 percent of the prison’s inmates had tested positive”
Link. Worth studying.
GOP reaction to Biden win is 21st century normal.
Link. Really dates to 1990s. Boosted by Trumpism but this is the norm now.
“The expanding array of relatively low-cost drones can offer countries air power at a fraction of the cost of maintaining a traditional air force”
Link. “ Unable to match Azerbaijan’s drone power, Armenian forces, demoralized and racked by covid-19, suffered a series of military calamities.”
“Mr. Trump abruptly installed Mr. Miller as acting defense secretary this week — making him, at least on paper, Mr. Pompeo’s equal for the administration’s last two months.”
Link. Ooh, that must sting. Poor Pompeo.
Whacko idea of PA GOP picking electors is even more whacked than you think.
Link. Don’t give it much thought.
Is the Coup Happening?
Link. A long post by Dr Gelwan’s standards. He marshals the evidence. TLDR – maybe it is underway, but it seems farcical and incompetent. Trump’s saving grace.
“Because I’m a mammal,” the girlfriend replied, which only pissed Musk off even more.”
Link. Women who date billionaires are far above my station, but were I young and single I might ask.
“more than 4 trillion photos are stored in Google Photos, and every week 28 billion new photos and videos are uploaded”
Link. In 20 years every atom on earth will be part of Google Photo storage. Turns out “free” doesn’t scale. (Remember when free gmail storage cap increases routinely?)
How I think about the Trump voter and America.
Link. I don’t blame the White Left Behind. I don’t much blame the religious fundamentalist. I cannot be a friend to the elite who vote Trump.
Egypt: a military-authoritarian state.
Link. Democracy is a huge challenge.
Don’t stay at “Sea View resort on the island of Koh Chang”
Link. Thailand’s speech laws are worthy of North Korea.
Trump’s record-breaking spree of federal executions could come to an end under Biden
Link. Added this to the list of 26 reasons I oppose Trump. Any one sufficient by itself.
“United States Cyber Command dived deep into Russian and Iranian networks in the months before the election, temporarily paralyzing some and knocking ransomware tools offline”
Link. I had wondered. Did Trump know?
“bamlanivimab, should be administered as soon as possible after a positive coronavirus test, and within 10 days of developing symptoms”
Link. Reserve for highest risk patients — obese males with lung disease over 70 or adults with Downs syndrome.
“death rate among all patients with Covid-19 was 0.6 percent. By contrast, 1.22 percent of those with developmental disorders and Covid-19 died, as did 3.37 percent of those with intellectual disabilities.”
Link. This study didn’t call out Downs separately.
QAnon Struggles
Link. “Ron Watkins, a 8kun administrator who some believed was Q himself, announced on Election Day that he was stepping down from the site”. No more posts.
Turkish-German immigrant billionaire married COVID vaccine inventors.
Link. “The two billionaires live with their teenage daughter in a modest apartment near their office. They ride bicycles to work. They do not own a car.”
“Restaurants were by far the riskiest places, about four times riskier than gyms and coffee shops, followed by hotels”
Link. Limiting capacity dramatically reduces risks.
“Election officials in dozens of states representing both political parties said that there was no evidence that fraud or other irregularities played a role in the outcome of the presidential race”
Link. “Statewide officials in Texas did not respond to repeated inquiries.”
“From an app’s perspective, the standard scaling mode of the iPhone 12 Mini is not a new size: it’s the same exact pixel dimensions as the 11 Pro, XS, and X”
Link. Good eyes recommended. Bigger than an iphone 8!
“The Intel MacBook Air is no longer for sale”
Link. Damn. I might have bought one.
“If we’re wearing masks and not coming within five feet of each other, we’re safe”
Link. Safer than doing nothing but not “safe”. Be great to study what happens there.
What Went Wrong With Polling?
Link. A complete cluster. Trump’s control of the Left Behind is complete.
“Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon are pushing the most extreme election-fraud conspiracies because they want to curry favor with Trump for pardons.”
Link. Trump employs people who tend towards a need for pardons. It is a feature for him. He owns them. Until he isn’t president. Then they may seek revenge.
DOJ Lawyer Resigns in Protest.
Link. I would support some kind of monument to people who left Trump’s service when told to do wrong.
Remember the Loretta Lynch scandal?
Link. We Dems are a fainty bunch. Thinking of Al Franken too.
Barr attacks: “Mr. Barr’s authorization prompted the Justice Department official who oversees investigations of voter fraud, Richard Pilger, to step down from the post within hours”
Link. “weakening a key safeguard that prevents political interference in an election by the party in power.”
Biden COVID-19 Advisory Board
Link. Super-talent. Not Fauci … yet. He’s still engaged.
Aducanumab for Alzheimers: it doesn’t work.
Link. Wonder if Biden FDA will rescind.
Cabotegravir injection 6/year prevents HIV infection in women.
Link. Progress.
“Papa John’s, whose stock is up 32 percent this year, reported surging sales, profits and cash flow and announced a new stock buyback program”
Link. Economy reconfiguring.
Dog Aging Project.
Link. We don’t breed dogs for longevity. That tells me most people don’t want a dog that lives 20 years.
“To calculate dog years, you must now multiply the natural logarithm of a dog’s age in human years by 16 and then add 31”
Link. Dog lifespans vary by breed. Glad that is being studied.
Pfizer 90%: “Because it is made with mRNA, the doses will need to be kept at ultra cold temperatures.”
Link. It will not be our beat vaccine because distribution is so hard. Very novel mechanism of action.
Good riddance to the Trump administration.
Link. Only covers the media names, not all the cabinet secretaries.
“In the 1800s, Napoleon finally authorized permanent bookstands on the parapets of the Seine, popularizing the bouquinistes and making them magnets for students, intellectuals and writers”
Link. Hard times.
3/4 voters said BLM protests were major factor in voting.
Link. The article dodges the question of how votes shifted. I suspect the riots did cost Dems the Senate.
“Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Meadows often mocked reporters who wore masks around him, saying the face coverings muffled their voices”
Link. Asshole. He’ll probably do fine with COVID but a few minor scares would be well deserved.
Maggie Haberman: the master of Trump reporting.
Link. “I don’t think that people fully understand what it’s like when the president of the United States is personally attacking you,” she said, noting that while it’s simply the way Mr. Trump works, among his supporters “there are enough people who think that’s real”
“Truly beyond parody that this obscure, junky-looking parking lot in northeast Philly was the last gasp of the Trump reelection campaign.”
Link. The writers pulled it together for the show finale.