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“I try to be as positive as I can, thankful for what I have. I try to keep the dignity of a hard-working man.”
Link. Mass disability, SK style.
“Monday is the 161st anniversary of the Weeping Time slave auction, which took place on the eve of the Civil War. Four hundred and thirty-six men, women and children — including 30 babies — were put on the auction block in Savannah, Ga.”
Link. Slavery still permeates American culture and politics. It is the background and the context.
“United States has agreed to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan in exchange for assurances by the Taliban that it will deny sanctuary to terrorist groups like Al Qaeda”
Link. The longest American war.
“People who are surviving Wuhan’s restrictions are buying benefits for us in the United States — and neither Parmet nor Sauer were certain we were using that time well”
Link. Isolation yes, quarantine no. Also, we may pay a price for the poor choices of American voters.
Flexicurity: the Scandinavian model is not particularly socialist.
Link. I’m surprised by lack of estate tax. By Zakaria so I tend to believe it.
FCC Announces Hilariously Inadequate Penalties Against Cell Companies for Allowing Third Parties Access to the Real-Time Location of Subscribers
Link. They have moral obligation to shareholders to keep breaking the law.
Share Internet Service With Neighbor?
Link. No. I did try this with a good friend, but the wireless link was a PITA.
Android malware can steal Google Authenticator 2FA codes.
Link. Watch this space.
Google Drive Sorting: “Last Modified By Me or Last Opened By Me”
Link. Too clever, discovery too hard.
“After active measures were implemented, the R0 for the 2003 SARS epidemic, for example, went from around three, meaning each person infected three others, to 0.04.”
Link. Didn’t know that number.
Researchers Identify Three Separate Strains of COVID-19
Link. Simulations post SARS 1 suggested multiple strains of varying infectivity and lethality. I don’t know later literature. Hope to read more on this.
Axios Edge: Billions going to waste
Link. This is a great newsletter. I read rss version
“The decision to put Mr. Pence in charge was made on Wednesday after the president told some people that the vice president didn’t “have anything else to do,”
Link. Trump despises his toadies. It’s one of his best features.
“Pedestrian fatalities on U.S. roads have increased by more than 50 percent over the past decade”
Link. Smartphones and SUVs are cause. Solution is drop speed limits to 20mph, 4/3 conversions, mandate bike-ped detection systems, more crosswal lights, tax cars by the pound.
Lake MXZ 200 cycling boot review.
Link. Not warm enough for MN.
COVID-19: “It’s all a swift reversal from the insistent, don’t-worry tone of my last column.”
Link. Watch Italy and Israel to get an idea of what to expect.
“wrote a program to record every possible 8-note, 12-beat melody and released the results — all 68+ billion melodies, 2.6 terabytes of data — into the public domain.”
Link. Brilliant. There was an SF story about copyrighting melodies
Chinese medical staff request international medical assistance in fighting against COVID-19.
Link. “14 000 nurses from across China have voluntarily come to Wuhan to support local medical health-care professionals … We declare no competing interests”. Must read.
“C.I.A. moved about 100 prisoners through 10 different sites from Afghanistan to Thailand, Poland, Morocco and Guantánamo — and kept them almost entirely in isolation and always out of reach of the International Committee of the Red Cross”
Link. Remember when director destroyed the tales? They were so keen to torture.
“4–5 hours a day in the plank pose,” he told CNN in an interview. “Then I do 700 pushups a day, 2,000 sit-ups a day in sets of a hundred, 500 leg squats a day.”
Link. Got me beat.
Roman Dial Confronts His Son’s Disappearance in ‘The Adventurer’s Son’
Link. Elsewhere: “Cody Roman Dial died in July 2014, when a tree fell on his camp in a remote off-trail canyon in Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica“. I suspect something like that killed my brother. We never found his body.
“nominating Sanders would drive many Americans who would otherwise vote for a moderate Democrat to vote for Trump”
Link. American youth do not vote. It’s the iron law of politics.
From the Department of ‘I Did Not Know That’: iOS Files App Has View Options for List and Column View
Link. Crazy.
[toread] Phone Trends: 5G is awful.
Link. Avoid 5G phones if you can. Nothing interesting in this list
Simplenote is again under active development
Link. I use it constantly. Tags need thoughtful rework.
Thousand dollar phones
Link. The base problem is imequality driving design for the high end.
Microsoft Office iPhone app: “use the iPhone camera to convert images of spreadsheets and text into editable data, scan QR codes, create PDFs and sign them”
Link. OCR is great.
PSA screening.
Link. Mostly I do it in Black men. They have higher risk of early onset and they often ask for testing.
iCab: an alternative browser.
Link. Still exists. Kiosk mode.
Podcast locations in Catalina: 243LU875E5
Link. I wonder if intent was to name based on local language but that part of release was dropped
Someone is hacking at my Vanguard account and Vanguard can’t stop them locking me out.
Link. This problem was solved long ago – but not by Vanguard.
Naltrexone helps people stop harmful alcohol use
Link. We need to use more of it.
“the Planck length … is associated with an energy called the Planck energy. If you go to higher energies than that, you will just make larger black holes. So the Planck length is the shortest distance you can measure.”
Link. Not that simple of course
Amyloid rx for Alzheimers: “an unbroken record of clinical failure. Lengthy, expensive, complete clinical failure”
Link. Do something else.
Machine Learning for Antibiotics: a deeper dive
Link. Lowe got this out fast. Genuine progress.
“Have fun with it, don’t worry about how many goals go in, this is your moment, have fun with it.”
Link. Hockey players are the best players.
“wonder how much more efficient the versions database is than APFS file clones. Is it still worth it?”
Link. Wrong road taken. Time to stop.
AdSense Extortion Scheme: “SO, we just suffered and I couldn’t get any support from Google.”
Link. Why monopolies are bad.
App Store Confidential
Link. Cook kind of reminds me of Trump.
What does the Move To command do in Pages, Numbers & Keynote?
Link. It’s dumb.
Coronavirus and the Blindness of Authoritarianism.
Link. The most persuasive explanation of Saddam Hussein’s behavior I read was that he really thought he had WMDs. His minions were afraid to tell him the truth.
MacOS permissions: “driving me to the depths of despair, to the point where I just want to give up.”
Link. Is it salvageable?
GOP climate pivot: Trump’s trillion trees.
Link. It is a kind of progress maybe. Sort of
“ancestors of West Africans and the ghost archaic population interbred roughly 50,000 years ago”
Link. They would have been more different than neandertal.
Dizzy patient improves with antidepressant and a story.
Link. For a physician this is a bemusing article.
Australia after the fires
Link. Government still denialing.
“coffee seems to be good for most people — that’s 3 to 5 cups”
Link. I doubt the goodness but I like my AeroPress.
“compared with mothers who took penicillin in the first trimester, those who took macrolides had a 55 percent increased relative risk of having a baby with a major birth defect involving the nervous, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, genital or urinary
Link. Still infrequent but will change use. Retest to see if truly Pen allergic
Bloomberg exploits Facebook’s Trump-exemption
Link. He’s a bad choice for primary, but I love his Zuck torment