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“past zoonotic coronavirus transmission in humans, unknown viruses that apparently did not lead to serious disease, which have provided some people with a level of T-cell based protection to the current pandemic”
Link. That’s interesting. Dogs? Cats? Pigs?
Alex Berenson explained: a crackpot journalist.
Link. Talented but nutty. Good match for Elon.
Pompeo corruption.
Link. He has a lot too hide.
Trump’s militia: “explicitly invoking the Antifa hysteria one sees on Fox News and right wing media to justify what are commonly understood as secret police tactics.”
Link. The war on antifa gets intel from Qanon.
“conventional measures of corruption are not applicable to the U.S. under Trump. Corruption is no longer deviant in this country: it is instead the defining characteristic of this Presidency”
Link. Recovery will take decades. If it is possible.
“Federal employees may express support for Black Lives Matter in the workplace,”
Link. Trump loyalists are stressed.
“Normally, Dr. Fried pointed out, seniors would find decision-making less knotty because the C.D.C. would be providing detailed, science-based guidance for at-risk groups, updated weekly.”
Link. Obama understood science
“For scientific affirmation, they turned to Dr. Deborah L. Birx … she was a constant source of upbeat news for the president and his aides, walking the halls with charts emphasizing that outbreaks were gradually easing.”
Link. Peter principle: “Everyone rises to the level of their incompetence.” Or … Trump’s power to corrupt.
Twiiter hack was geeks – “who got to know one another because of their obsession with owning early or unusual screen names, particularly one letter or number, like @y or @6”
Link. At least in part.
Hospital-at-home for COVID-19.
Link. Innovative.
“helped to facilitate partnerships with Mr. Xi’s older sister as well as with the son-in-law of Jia Qinglin,”
Link. Hundreds of billions in value, debts likely bigger
Children “between the ages of 10 and 19 can spread the virus at least as well as adults do.”
Link. Not a surprise.
“The Wayfair conspiracy theory — which baselessly claims that the company is trafficking children through its website — began to gain steam on Friday. It has spread alarmingly quickly around Instagram.”
Link. Remember when we worried about AOL connecting to the Inter-Net?
Details on Trump’s support of coronavirus.
Link. Maybe his next arcane ritual has a high sacrifice requirement?
VPN services: “The vast majority of companies that operate these services use patently false marketing, have very murky corporate provenance, and in some cases are literally run by convicted financial crime felons”
Link. i use CloudFlare and TunnelBear.
“Within two years there were 65 open-air schools around the country either set up along the lines of the Providence model or simply held outside.”
Link. Tuberculosis and COVID have similar spread.
[priv] OWC Thunderbolt 3 Mini Dock $120
Link. “two HDMI 2.0 ports (up to 4K UHD at 60Hz with HDCP 2.2 support), a Gigabit Ethernet jack (with PXE Boot and Wake-on-LAN support), a 5Gbps USB 3.0 port, and a USB 2.0 port”.
Catalina 10.15.6 update is now available, with Mojave and High Sierra Security Updates 2020-004
Link. Download standalone installers
Mints app for analysis of TM backups
Link. TM is complex
“You should put your money in cheap media markets in close states close to the election, and you should talk about popular issues, and not talk about unpopular issues.”
Link. All politics is about votes of people with limited knowledge and less interest.
Reincubate Camo turns iPhone into webcam – $40/year
Link. Easier to buy Logitech webcam.
“Facebook adding screen sharing support for iPhone and iPad in Messenger Rooms video calls”
Link. Huge help for remote support. Apple should have enabled long ago
“most salient fact — which straight news reporting won’t just come out and state — is that they are really, really stupid”
Link. This is the true “third rail”. At least 1/3 of Americans are cognitively disabled in the post-industrial world. And they know it.
“Federal officers from the U.S. Marshals Service and Department of Homeland Security have stormed Portland’s streets as part of President Trump’s promised strong response to ongoing protests.”
Link. National reporting begins.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Says President Trump Is Invading Portland as an Election Stunt – Willamette Week
Link. General strike.
“men and women who drink limit themselves to a single serving of wine, beer or liquor per day”
Link. Women at risk of pregnacy should not drink at all.
Living With Aphantasia, the Inability to Make Mental Images.
Link. I score at low end of phantasia abilities. It hasn’t been significant disability though
Mekong River peoples are COVID resistant. Genetics?
Link. Dengue susceptible is thought genetic. ACE inhibitors and Black Americans.
WHO: “People should NOT wear masks when exercising.”
Link. I think they mean exercising outdoors, they should fix that ASAP.
In rodents exercise stimulates hepatic GPLD1 production. That hormone induces neurogenesis.
Link. Possible commercial implications.
“Voters without a four-year college degree are far less likely to respond to telephone surveys — and far likelier to support Mr. Trump.”
Link. *White* voters. Damnit 538, get that right
Workplace training: “Canada spends three times as much, Germany about six times more and Scandinavian countries up to more than 12 times as much”
Link. Compared to Canada, America has large numbers of college-capable workers without a degree. Especially in Black America.
Progress in Sudan
Link. Apostasy law emds.
“S&P 500 will generate a 6 percent annual return over the next decade, versus nearly 14 percent over the past decade”
Link.
“I confronted him with scientific studies providing evidence of safety and efficacy,” and highlighted a new study that he said showed a 50 percent reduction in the mortality rate when the medicine is used”
Link. Navarro on HCQ sciemce. He has publicly humiliated himself. He is so incredibly stupid.
NYT on Twitter hack.
Link. Developing story.
Reference for Smithsonian “whiteness and white culture” infographic.
Link. I liked it. They forgot “dogs as family”. “Bikes as recreation” and “Gun worship” would be contenders. I don’t think can have both “science focus” and “Christian” as simultaneous cultural traits.
Lessons from the Life and Death of the Segway
Link. Micromobility needs bikeways.
“I can’t explain Peter Navarro,” he added. “He’s in a world by himself.”
Link. Grifter culture elevates the drones.
COVID vaccine exceeds expectations
Link. “More than half of the participants had side effects, including fatigue, chills, headaches, muscle aches and pain at the injection site.”
“B. miyamotoi is not available at most labs at this point. The disease is just too new.”
Link. Crap. Another lousy tick borne disease.
“The Trump administration has been a godsend for Xi, if only in making him seem like a reasonable leader.”
Link. Xi’s most important ally
Blood type unrelated to COVID risk.
Link. Red herring.
“Online learning is ineffective for most elementary-school children and special-needs children, the panel of scientists and educators concluded.”
Link. Good to see special needs callout. True at all ages. That cohort needs person contact
“The odds of them fusing together to make a deuterium nucleus are about the same as winning the Powerball lottery three times in a row”
Link. Did 1950s physicists understand fusion couldn’t work?
Use regular expressions in Numbers on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac.
Link. Numbers slowly improves.
DF rants on the NYT’s dickbar
Link. I read using Reeder.app’s text only display
Should race be a variable in medical algorithms?
Link. It’s not obvious. ACE inhibitors, for example, are not first line therapy for Black Americans.
Ethics of Coronavirus Vaccine challenge trials.
Link. Rescue remdesivir?