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HIV/AIDS denialism – Wikipedia
Link. Before Ioannidis there was Duesberg. HIV. Smoking. Seat belts. Climate. COVID. There are always egomaniacal academics seduced by denialism. Sometimes for money, sometimes fame, not often to feel relevant.
1619 Controversy: slavery and motivated secession.
Link. Mixed seems right.
Xfinity Comcast Data Usage Center
Link. $25 for unlimited – if use their gear
How to Plan Your Week.
Link. Short and mostly practical. I’ll put some of this into my own routine.
The rise and fall of Adobe Flash.
Link. I lived through it so mostly familar. They don’t expain why the security issues were so severe and unfixable.
iOS 13.6: “app-specific controls to disable cellular data seem to be broken yet again.”
Link. Apple doesn’t have automated regression testing?
Lipo: “there couldn’t really have been a clearer sign that Apple Silicon and Universal Binaries were just around the corner”
Link. Apple even documented it.
“DeSantis relies primarily on the advice of his wife, Casey, a former television reporter and host, and his chief of staff, Shane Strum, a former hospital executive”
Link. Idiocracy.
macOS accessibility bug: “dictation is duplicating what I say”
Link. Broken for years, easy to replicate, Apple won’t fix. ADA lawsuit?
“What the Canadian example does show, however, is what the United States could have looked like if the U.S. effort had not been led by malicious, self-seeking incompetents.”
Link. Canada is a very good control case. Remember, our problem is not just Trump,
Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere
Link. Maybe next time
“Busy Beaver function: the staggeringly quickly-growing function that probably encodes a huge portion of all interesting mathematical truth in its first hundred values”
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“Wi-Fi 6e will be the most significant upgrade since Wi-Fi was created”
Link. I’ve heard this before.
Windows 10X As a Web-first OS.
Link. Mac client too? I’d love a virtualized mac running Aperture.
Velominati – Keepers of the Cog
Link. How did I not know of this?
Most “Free” VPN Apps Secretly Owned by China
Link. 2019. Beloved by high schoolers.
“if Google has lost interest in Android generally it’s going to lose interest in Pixels specifically”
Link. Didn’t see that one coming.
Apple’s app store defense: “Hey, at least we’re better than Ticketmaster.”
Link. Apple should cut its losses.
“As many as a third of patients who were never sick enough to be hospitalized are not back to their usual health up to three weeks after their diagnosis”
Link. Virology is making a year’s progress every month.
Trump Commits Two More Impeachable Offenses This Week Alone
Link. The historical record commission will document at least 20 impeachable offenses.
Minneapolis walking tours
Link. Wonderful gift.
“when the virus is widespread, even small amounts of activity can make infections soar”
Link. Partial restrictions extend the pain.
“100 new sars-like viruses discovered. In particular, some bats found in China are now known to harbour coronaviruses that seem pre-adapted to infect people”
Link. Why death rated lower in Mekong delta.
Ioannidis is worse than a bad scientist.
Link. Despicable.
Metformin: historical overview.
Link. This is such a crazy history. A medieval herbal remedy is still our best oral DM med. Arguably best all around. and we can’t improve on it …
“Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) introduced a House resolution Thursday calling on lawmakers to ban organizations or political groups that have historically supported the Confederacy or slavery in the U.S.”
Link. Great sense of humor.
Alzheimer’s: “The olfactory bulb, which is critical for smell, is affected fairly early on in the course of the disease,”
Link. Scent test could be effective — if we had a treatment. Otherwise don’t test.
Trump v Cheney.
Link. Win-win.
“risk of similar coronavirus outbreaks in the future remains high”
Link. COVID-2027.
“the President’s corruption is vast, both political and venal. It has touched every sinew of the President’s administration”
Link.
Tucker Carlson launches assault on NYT journalist.
Link. He knows bad news is coming. Ghislaine?
Trump’s MoCA boasting: “test is normally administered only if someone is concerned that they or their loved ones may be experiencing dementia or other cognitive decline”
Link. Don’t tell Trump.
Humans in Americas: 30kya vs 15kya
Link. If 30kya Pacific arrival then small population. Why not more growth?
“CES 2020, Bosch made a splash with its prototype smart glasses, the main difference being that they used tiny laser arrays to beam images straight onto your retina”
Link. I remember Cringely writing about this decades ago
“Because Senegambian people were often forced to work in dangerous rice plantations, where deadly diseases like malaria were especially common, the team speculates that many simply didn’t survive long enough to leave descendants.”
Link. Slavery in the Americas
MSP riot arson: “suspects were so inept they boasted about their activities on social media, often sharing video of themselves committing the acts”
Link. Relatively few charges so far. In MSP we suspect bored teens and young adults, many or most white and uninterested in BLM or social crisis.
Timing Quantum Tunneling.
Link. Diabolically clever experiments.
Search before Google
Link. Alta Vista mostly. It was good but early Google was amazing.
“With Trump, I tend to choose incompetence over malevolence in explaining his actions. It is likely that he thinks this will be a winning political move, even if it is not.”
Link. What does Murdoch want?
“Sweden has a death toll greater than the United States: 556 deaths per million inhabitants, compared with 425”
Link. Raise your hand if you thought Sweden would out-stupid the US.
“decades-long war against the functioning of good government, a collapse of trust in experts and empiricism, and the spread of a kind of magical thinking”
Link. Murdoch + fundamentalist Christianity + rumning a con on thecworking class base. Recipe for the anti-science party.
“The MITS Altair of text-generating AI, an amusing toy that’s also the start of something that will change the world.”
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“If a customer is not cleared for exemption from wearing a mask, they’ll be denied boarding unless they agree to comply with Delta’s mask policy. If they still do not agree to wear a mask, they’ll be placed on Delta’s no-fly list.”
Link. Hard to explain to an employer.
Chris Wallace interview: The 55 worst Trump quotes.
Link. Frontotemporal dementia?
Inhaled interferon for COVID-19: promising but small sample size.
Link. Hospitalized patients aren’t going to ICU at the moment, so hard to test this.
“The president of CPD’s largest union had pushed for the federal government to help fight crime in Chicago as recently as Saturday, sending Trump a letter.”
Link. Naturally the very worst of the urban police would ally with Trump against good cops and citizens alike. Trump’s genius for division and corruption is in play.
Medical computing org with details on Trump COVID data fiasco.
Link. Lot more details than media reports. Evidence for the trial of the century.
Blogger (draft) supports mobile.
Link. Google is quietly rebuilding blogger. Wonder if its 1-2 dev project.
“So the protests were sort of losing the city. But the introduction of federal forces both intensified the street confrontations”
Link. There is no problem Trump can’t screw up worse.