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“Many voters are still supporting Trump because they’re living in a hermetically sealed disinformation bubble that is impermeable to reality.”

Posted on October 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. You likely can’t imagine what life is like with an IQ under 100. Which is half of America. Everything is mysterious. Good information is paywalled and you can’t process it even when it’s available.

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Outbreak in an indoor spin class.

Posted on October 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Hope to see case report. What was ventilation like? (Bad news for my CrossFit box — and maybe for ice hockey)

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Murdoch MN: “Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA) are part of a larger movement termed “Neo-Völkisch” that raises up Northern European and Germanic ancestry”

Posted on October 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Fertile soil.

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George Floyd’s high school years.

Posted on October 12, 2020 by jgordon

Link. WaPo is doing a deep dive on his life. Springsteen’s Glory Days in High School. White kids like him are Trump’s base.

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“These two statements are known, today, as the Weak Anthropic Principle and the Strong Anthropic Principle”

Posted on October 12, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I didn’t know definitions before.

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Origin of life: “you really needed to do to get the pathway started was drop two stable reactants into buffered water and stick it on a warm hotplate”

Posted on October 12, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Anyone could do the experiment … if they had the idea.

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How to get a reasonable plaintext listing of calendar events using Google Calendar or OS X Calendar.app (2013)

Posted on October 12, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “Simple tasks, like a plaintext agenda view one’s Calendar, are mysterious or impossible on the modern Mac. (Classic had much better Calendar tools.)” In 2020 things are actually worse.

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Gravity is conserved, so how does dark matter create structures?

Posted on October 12, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Expansion of space and asymmetry of approach vs departure mass.

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ABLE Accounts improve with new IRS rules.

Posted on October 12, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Transfer from 529 through 2026! Most state ABLE implementations are horrible though. Way too hard to use the money.

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“In 987 severely ill patients, at least 101 of them had such antibodies against at least one of the Type I interferons”

Posted on October 11, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Severe COVID may be related to having an immune system mistake.

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“To define a perfectoid space, the three mathematicians had to combine more than 3,000 definitions of other mathematical objects and 30,000 connections between them.“

Posted on October 11, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Using Lean, an environment for mathematical proofs.

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A Trumpista gets COVID – bad. So does his family.

Posted on October 11, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Hell of a way to learn that he had put his trust in con men and bastards.

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NYT exciting 2018 ISIS story probably fraudulent.

Posted on October 11, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The truth is often boring.

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Addressing structural underemployment of the Never-College (2013)

Posted on October 11, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Part of why Trump won in 2016 was because the Never-College thought he was going to focus on their needs. If Biden wins he will need to act quickly.

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Electric vehicles will end another non-college job – the auto mechanic.

Posted on October 11, 2020 by jgordon

Link. If President Biden doesn’t address this problem we’ll get another Trump in 2024.

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Changing Apple ID used for for Family Sharing (every 90 days)

Posted on October 11, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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How the ‘The Babylon Bee’ went from anti-Trump to supporting Trump.

Posted on October 11, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The path of the American Evangelical.

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“beats Christofides’ 50% factor, though they were only able to subtract 0.2 billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a percent”

Posted on October 10, 2020 by jgordon

Link. That’s weird.

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“nearly three-quarters of Americans may be at increased risk of severe Covid-19 if infected with the coronavirus”

Posted on October 10, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I’m skeptical it is that big a risk factor.

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NYT Biden endorsement reaches out, throttles uncooperative reader.

Posted on October 10, 2020 by jgordon

Link. They didn’t leave much unsaid.

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Recovery post COVID ICU stay is long.

Posted on October 10, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Hypoxemia, nerve damage from proning. Mostly not COVID specific.

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VxWorrks And RTEMS: RTOS in space.

Posted on October 10, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I think PalmOS was an RTOS originally?

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“if cars in the future are going to be more autonomous, this is going to be needed to help A.V.s avoid riders”

Posted on October 9, 2020 by jgordon

Link. In other words AVs will be dangerous to cyclists. As we have suspected.

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“King, Warrior, Magician, Lover” book: Moore in 2016 murdered his wife before dying by suicide.“

Posted on October 9, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Book is useful clue for women evaluating a prospect. Mine book would be “geek, dweeb, nerd, father, husband”.

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“A little hook at the end of the spike protein, in light blue below, sometimes flips up above the sugar shield”

Posted on October 9, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Science is all we have now.

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HCQ: “administering it to infected patients now constitutes medical malpractice.”

Posted on October 9, 2020 by jgordon

Link. People taking it for Lupus should not stop however.

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“President Trump berated his own cabinet officers on Thursday for not prosecuting or implicating his political enemies”

Posted on October 9, 2020 by jgordon

Link. For the scrapbook and the histories.

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Another story of Apple abusing app store power.

Posted on October 8, 2020 by jgordon

Link. They should lose control.

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White hat hackers rippped Apple wide open.

Posted on October 8, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Imagine what China has done.

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“8.3 million Americans reported being behind on rent in mid-September, and 3.8 million reported that they were likely to be evicted in the next two months”

Posted on October 8, 2020 by jgordon

Link. No jobs for service workers. UI ending.

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“F.B.I. said it had learned so much about the group by intercepting encrypted messages and because it had undercover agents and confidential informants working with the group.”

Posted on October 8, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Fortunately white supremacist militia are easy for FBI to infiltrate.

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“Among the 24 countries we examined, the difference between youth and general turnout ranged from less than a percentage point to more than 20 points”

Posted on October 8, 2020 by jgordon

Link. US among worst of course. But is Canada a lot better?

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A Nobel for CRISPR.

Posted on October 7, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Deep explanations.

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checkra1n T2 Exploit

Posted on October 7, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Has the price of stolen iPhones increased?

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“18 to 24 shopping bags full of small plastic fragments for every foot of coastline on every continent except for Antarctica”

Posted on October 7, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Something will evolve to eat it… in a million years or less.

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Venezuala’s oil collapse.

Posted on October 7, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Trump is following Chavez path.

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“A batch of contracts worth $194 million went to Health Supply US, a company founded six months ago by a former Trump administration official”

Posted on October 7, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Billions more to loot.

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Stolen Instagram Account? “official channels just don’t seem to work”

Posted on October 7, 2020 by jgordon

Link. We need to be able to sue vendors who deliver ad-based services.

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These 24 Planets Might Be Better Places to Live Than Earth.

Posted on October 7, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Our radio signals will hit them soon.

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Dem House: “Another proposal is to require all tech companies to offer ways for users to easily transfer all data from one platform to another, allowing consumers to switch between products or services whenever they want.”

Posted on October 7, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Legislating against data lock is very hard but worthwhile. Aperture is a great example to consider. Apps would have to be built for data freedom.

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VMware Fusion Player 12 free for personal use.

Posted on October 7, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Needs Catalina+. Sadly Aperture can’t run in a VM.

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Science and the Trump assault.

Posted on October 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. It’s not Trump, it’s the entire GOP and it began decades ago. I think it’s the left-behind syndrome.

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COVID in Iran: “hospitals across the nation had reached full capacity and there were no more empty beds in intensive care units in Tehran.”

Posted on October 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Do they have rivaroxaban?

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T2 Apple security hole.

Posted on October 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Maybe hold off on new machine buy until addressed? Might be tricky to find a patched device.

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“Of the 14 staying at the house, 12 of them, including the girl, came down with Covid-19”

Posted on October 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I’m curious how other two missed it.

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Another article on suicide in physicians.

Posted on October 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Fear of dementia is often mentioned — physicians spot it early in themselves and know how it ends. Medicine also attracts and rewards people prone to guilt, overwork and self-sacrifice.

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Trump proved the Presidency is above the law.

Posted on October 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Corruption is his genius. It was always true, but he saw it.

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“Abraham Lincoln was incubating smallpox when he delivered the Gettysburg Address”

Posted on October 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Did you know that?

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A mother’s political and personal journey in advocacy for persons with mental illness.

Posted on October 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. There are happy moments, but you don’t look for happy endings. Yeah, I know this beat. With you woman.

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“the President went into Tuesday night’s debate without getting tested. “

Posted on October 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Of course. The test is unpleasant and undignified. He lied.

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