Link. Did CBS actually believe Trump staff when they promised? Are they really that stupid? Is a lie still a lie if nobody trusts you?
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Ukraine and the fake email trade.
Link. Trump and GOP embrace the sleaze of Ukraine and Russia. Their Delaware computer shop was a Giuliani front.
Bannon bioweapon scam: “it’s important to point out that this is not science … It’s infuriating, because everybody has better things to do.”
Link. If Trump wins American science will be grievously wounded
“Finer grained analyses of performance support the hypothesis that COVID-19 has a multi-system impact on human cognition.”
Link. Clue to Alzheimer etiology?
“slow lorises are remarkably territorial, and that they frequently use their venom to settle disputes”
Link. Platypus similar.
5G iphone: “download speeds ranged from much slower than to twice as fast as my older iPhone, which was on Verizon’s 4G network.”
Link. Maybe I’ll wait another year. Spend money on my fat bike “Kovie”.
“Face ID and Touch ID for the web provides both the security guarantees of multi-factor authentication and ease of use”
Link. Potentially a big deal.
Evolution of the Programming Languages From iPhone OS 1.0 to iOS 14
Link. “As with macOS, we can lament the shocking number of bugs that go unfixed, even unacknowledged, but it’s also a wonder that it works at all.”
Smartphones easy to hack, no backdoor needed.
Link. Maybe Apple leaves them open? Or doesn’t try too hard?
DNI Ratcliffe serves Trump, not America.
Link. So where are the leaders who can stand up to this? Where is Mitt Romney?
COVID-19 Death Rates Are Going Down, And Not Just Among The Young And Healthy : Shots – Health News : NPR
Link. Despite Remdesivir seeming ineffective.
Super-spreader event list.
Link. Twitter.
New salivary glands discovered.
Link. Every few years a new anatomy discovery makes it to Science news.
Sturgis rally COVID impact review.
Link. Gov Noem proves women leaders can also be morons. It’s reassuring that outcomes matched predictions but disappointing attendance only down 7%.
Face ID and Touch ID for the Web
Link. After passwords era.
Apple Beats Flex BT earbuds: $50
Link. Weirdly good value from Apple. W1 chip, 12h battery. Will be very popular this Christmas.
Google Responds to Warrants for “About” Searches
Link. “We have knowingly and willingly built the architecture of a police state, just so companies can show us ads”
Google creates time travel streetscapes.
Link. Early component of the historical simulation we are all addicted to as the last stars fade.
“Maine Business Daily is part of a fast-growing network of nearly 1,300 websites that aim to fill a void left by vanishing local newspapers across the country. Yet the network, now in all 50 states, is built not on traditional journalism but on propaganda
Link.
“Iwasaki’s work indicates the T-cell response of men in their 30s and 40s is equivalent to that of a woman in her 90s.”
Link. Minor positive: men have less auto-immune disease.
“for remdesivir, it looks like the argument now is “Does it help a bit or just not at all?”
Link. Inhaled interferon also limited hope now. At least we still have Dexa. Then there are the monoclonals that only the powerful get …
Reeder 5 RSS is $5.
Link. Reeder has had a burst of development. I wonder if he’s doing yearly updates now; yearly $5 price is quite fine. I’ll buy in a few months.
“the epistemic capture in the US of (not only, but in particular) poor and working class whites by conservatives, billionaires and propagandists is one of the great social engineering success stories of the last half century”
Link. Great explanation of the Trump base. I believe this.
microCOVID risk calculator.
Link.
COVID – activity risk calculator.
Link.
Cold, dark, and COVID: the coping.
Link. Sleep a lot.
Making movies: “But never, ever, kill the dog.”
Link. Not even cats.
“health club was opened late last year by Maryam Durani, 36, an indomitable women’s rights advocate who has survived two suicide bombings, an assassination attempt and countless death threats”
Link. Extreme heroism is a kind of pathology — but also, you know, heroic.
Independently Microsoft, US gov and others fight Russian election hackers.
Link. Too many independent efforts for Trump to block.
“find an antibody that not only works against the current virus, but also past viruses that might re-emerge, like SARS, and future viruses that exist already in the bat reservoir”
Link. A prize worthy of pursuit.
Physical Therapy for Back Pain – Limited benefits.
Link. Damn hard to study. I believe in very intense strengthening, far beyond usual PT, but I don’t have good ecidence.
Early data on post COVID lung recovery.
Link. Roughly what we expected. Most get mostly better over months to year, many have some residual lung damage. (Also true of everyday pneumonia.)
Miss Havisham Syndrome:”I’ve spent much of the last week in the squalor that is macOS.”
Link. Technical debt grows exponemtially. Apple has had poor software leadership.
“because most transmission is probably occurring through particles of at least 1 µm, according to Marr and Jimenez, the actual difference in effectiveness between N95 and other masks might not be huge.”
Link. Excellent summary on mask data writtem for lay audience.
“The cow bone scaffold had been reabsorbed into the pigs’ bodies. What was left was a jawbone indistinguishable from the one that had originally been there.”
Link. Relevant to a family member. Maybe knees one day.
“average electric vehicle in the United States was found to be responsible for emission levels equivalent to those generated by a gasoline vehicle that gets 88 miles per gallon”
Link. Even EV supercars are not bad.
“iPhone 12 is $130 more expensive than the iPhone 11 was”
Link. $165 if you add cost mussing power adaper and headphobe. Inflation returning?
The Laundry Files: an updated chronology
Link. I’ve read them all – except newest (yet).
Third Justice Dept. Prosecutor Publicly Denounces Barr.
Link. Barr is perhaps the most dangerous of Trump’s lackeys.
Profile of an alt-right woman celebrity.
Link. Not very bright but addicted to celebrity. The people I’ve known like her feel slighted, inferior, and inadequate. They bitterly resent people they feel are better than they are.
NYT endorsement equivocates: “Donald Trump’s re-election campaign poses the greatest threat to American democracy since World War II.”
Link. Unsure if this is sufficiently clear. Maybe democracy is a bad thing.
“A study in the journal Nature later estimated that rapid screening could have reduced the scale of the Ebola epidemic by one-third.”
Link. These tests require high viral titers so they are hard to characterize. PCR maybe wrong metric.
Russia and Trump: “raising the issue will often derail his regular intelligence briefings by an analyst, so it has fallen to Mr. O’Brien to brief him on such matters”
Link. The least sane president ever.
“Apple’s customers would be best served by having a good, updated, user-friendly line of AirPort base stations, rather than just another ‘smart’ wireless speaker.”
Link. Yes.
“Calgary spin studio Ride Cycle Club had an outbreak that infected 65 people”
Link. Wish we knew more about air flow in these outbreaks.
LGBTQ filmmaker and Biden voter is also Giuliani’s daugher.
Link. Beyond being sane and thus a Biden supporter, she shares the pain of having a crazy man father she doesn’t actually hate. Giuliani (father) is such a human train wreck.
China: “accepting these people could jeopardize the “health and safety” of 300,000 Canadians who live in the former British colony.“
Link. Xi is fine with Trump but he hates Canada.
Where Birx went bad: The CDC takedown.
Link. Was Larry Ellison involved?
John Snow Memorandum: herd immunity is a “dangerous fallacy unsupported by scientific evidence”
Link. Good to have this.
Airline industry docs say air travel is COVID safe.
Link. Huge bias but perhaps a useful reference.