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Texas COVID data sucks.
Link. Not a Trump thing, seems to be chronic failure of government. A GOP thing.
Myanmar Rohingya Slaughter – genocidal.
Link. “Kill all you see, whether children or adults.”
“Before the helicopter’s arrival, Mr. Crouch had waded into a lake up to his neck to escape the smoke and whipping embers, shivering in the cool water. “It was go underwater, come up, take a breath,” he recalled”
Link. Incredible rescues
Dentists Are Seeing an Epidemic of Cracked Teeth.
Link. Poor sleep, stress, grinding teeth at night.
“300,000 of the 1.2 million crew members at sea were essentially stranded on their ships, working past the expiration of their original contracts and fighting isolation, uncertainty and fatigue.”
Link. A forgotten city.
Iowa’s governor and Des Moines schools: She is an asshole.
Link. SD governor similar. Good to see women GOP leaders being as lousy as the men.
“What the scientists had not taken into account was that some students would continue partying after they received a positive test result”
Link. Assholes. Hope they get bounced with prejudice.
Senior FDA scientists warn they will not cooperate with Trump fake vaccine effort
Link. Good to see. The plasma hype probably backfired on Trump
CMS chief Seema Verma’s corruption inpressive even by Trump standards.
Link. Baseline DC corruption is bad enough, but she kicks it up a notch. Only the worst work for Trump.
China and Russia both hacking for Trump.
Link. Trump and GOP work to conceal Russia hacks and deceive on China’s intent.
Disney’s Mulan fiasco: “Top studio executives had not seen the Xinjiang credits, according to three people briefed on the matter, and no one involved with the production had warned that footage from the area was perhaps not a good idea.”
Link. Did Disney do similar in Hitler’s Germany?
NYT confirms Politico report on Caputo’s CDC attack.
Link. Politico credited, NYT brings to wider audience. Caputo is a whack job. Non-tenured so easy for McMasters to dump him.
Trump’s Caputo poisons CDC: “CDC officials have fought back against the most sweeping changes, but have increasingly agreed to allow the political officials to review the reports and, in a few cases, compromised on the wording”
Link. GOP corruption spreads.
QAnon Key Figure Revealed as Financial Information Security Analyst from New Jersey
Link. Not a good career move and it doesn’t sound like he made much if any money off QMap. I’d love to know what motivated him and if he was truly a believer. I suspect high functioning schizophrenia.
The future of the office – The Economist
Link. A quite good overview. Cubicles, at least, may have met their end. Reduction in sick time and commute time is big, but home workers also work more hours.
Rio Tinto Executives to Step Down After Miner Destroys Sacred Australian Sites
Link. Even by US stabdards that was a terrible crime
COVID surges in France and Spain
Link. Canada still under control.
Trump Accomplishment list analyzed.
Link. The list is mostly misleading. Corruption and treason omitted.
“industry sold the public on an idea it knew wouldn’t work — that the majority of plastic could be, and would be, recycled — all while making billions of dollars selling the world new plastic.”
Link. I didn’t know.
Peter Thiel is a white nationalist.
Link. Sometimes the simplest explanation works. Note realtionship to Facebook. Under Trump his Palantir has thrived, Biden would be bad for him.
Eclectic light universal freeware: “these Universal Apps are only 100-300 KB larger than their Intel-only versions.”
Link. Gifts to us.
“Up until the release of iOS 9, Applebot ran entirely on four Mac Pro’s in an office. Those four Mac Pro’s could crawl close to 1B web pages a day.”
Link. Google search is vulnerable.
Screen Recording in Big Sur Requires Admin Account
Link. That is crazy
IFTTT Pro: “$9.99/month. That’s the same as Adobe’s Photography plan, more than Microsoft 365″
Link. Crazy pricing.
“Individuals close to Murdoch told Sherman that the Fox Corporation co-chair believes Trump will lose in November”
Link. Murdoch and McConnell are both worse than Trump.
“Trump is furious that his staff didn’t hook him up with Woodward because he thinks if Woodward had interviewed him, he’d have charmed Woodward and looked better in the book.”
Link. He’s always dumber than we think.
“AT&T is that their bullshit “5G-E” network, which isn’t actually 5G, is faster than their actual 5G network.”
Link. I plan to avoid this year’s 5G phones.
Missing 80yo hiker shows up at rescue meeting.
Link. “Phil and his wife couldn’t help but find the humor in the fact that Harvey had a pleasant time during those four days off the grid.”
“Educators in Missouri, Mississippi, South Carolina, Iowa and Oklahoma have died as the fall semester started in their districts.”
Link. Not necessarily infected in schools. I suspect data will be hard to find.
Hotel Orlando: “The hot water didn’t work, and the toilet was clogged with hypodermic needles and crack pipes”
Link. There has been little coverage of the slow collapse of American society
“unsuspecting people were scooped up from the city’s streets by federal agents in the middle of the night, based on information that turned out to be inaccurate or insufficient to charge them with a crime.”
Link. A taste of life under a second Trump term.
“filming in Xinjiang was “extensive” and thank multiple Chinese governmental bodies, such as the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Committee (a propagandistic mouthpiece for the wider party)”
Link. Filming next door to Dachau and thanking the SS for their support.
MSP riots put MN in play for Trump
Link. It’s his best strategy.
Facebook Engineer Ashok Chandwaney Quits With Scathing Letter
Link. Zuckerburg is a smarter Trump.
MN inspection: “Of the 167 establishments, 79 were found to be not in compliance with COVID-19 requirements”
Link. Unclear if targeted sample.
“DHS brass ordered that reports be changed to downplay the threat of white supremacist terrorism and falsely portray antifa groups as a major terror threat”
Link. We knew.
Effective Political Giving – a primer
Link. I trust Maciej
iOS Print to PDF.
Link. Ridiculously obscure. How many know this?
The Landmarks of Tomorrow – 1959.
Link. “Knowledge worker” came from this. My date for the start of the 21st century #nevercollege crisis.
The physics of the sunken Trump flotilla.
Link. Pretty dim bunch.
“Trump explicitly tied the vaccine to his reelection schedule. Yet, remarkably, the question of whether Trump is politicizing this process is still being treated as one that’s up for debate”
Link. I don’t watch network news so I don’t see the bothsideism as much.
Trump v the officer class.
Link. Non-corrupt leaders dislike Trump
Autistic youth police shooting.
Link. Race not mentioned, so presume white. This is a shared issue across Black-white America. St Paul Police had a registration program for autistic persons we enrolled in.
US colleges: too much capacity.
Link. They finally got ahead of demand
Trump is short campaign money. So where did 700 million go?
Link. To the Trump family certainly. Beyond that, 2nd tier corruption
Moving to a New Mac: What’s Left to Do After Migration?
Link. Subscription service pain and endless icloud authentications.
Bradykinin and the Coronavirus.
Link. “ACE2, in fact, appears to increase by 200-fold”. Lots of interesting physiology. Brady hyp deserves some research.
“The USA has spies and analysts and cryptographers and spooks coming out of its metaphorical ears”
Link. One of Charlie’s gems. Spy stuff is one way we absorb our crazy cognitive surplus.
[toread] “Sturgis Motorcycle Rally generated public health costs of approximately $12.2 billion.”
Link. Can we sue the governor of South Dakota? I mean, her personally.