Link. We need better medications — and we need to use better the few we have. Bariatric surgery is high risk necessity for now.
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Electric and Plug-In Cars Have 21 Percent Fewer Lifetime Emissions Than Gas Ones
Link. Needs to get better.
Now Madagascar?!: “Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close confidant of Mr. Putin who was indicted in the United States for helping to orchestrate Russia’s effort to manipulate the 2016 American election,”
Link. Remember Prigozhin. Damned hard to spell.
POSSE: “Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, a content publishing model that starts with posting content on your own domain first, then syndicating out copies to 3rd party”
Link. I’ve used Pinboard to publish to my Kateva.org/sh and to Twitter (once app.net) for years. At least 5 I think.
Whole media archiving of floppy disks and, one day, vhs tapes.
Link. Resurrecting lost things. 360K floppy becomes 20 MB image. M
Time Machine and backing up in Catalina.
Link. Unclear if I can still use Synology. Happily I have no Catalina plans
“27.5” in the rear with a 29” upfront (which I think will become the new standard for riders between 5’6″ and 5’11”).”
Link. Mountain bike wheel size is a religion.
“Propaganda brought to you in part by the insistent gullibility of the media.”
Link. Maybe we need better journalists?
At last, someone who thinks about dogs seriously.
Link. We can breed a 40lb dog who lives a healthy life of 20 years or more.
Weird and sordid world of Giuliani’s friends.
Link. Fun in some ways but ends badly.
Teen hacker crime story.
Link. Same old, thousands like this. Best understood as an addiction behavior.
Why SF has a housing crisis: rents are too low.
Link. They have hit peak cost.
Hybrids: IOT podcast
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Bike Lights: the best
Link. NiteRiders have never failed me
Why parents should not hide their illness from children.
Link. Surprised me. I’d have been inclined to keep it secret.
Minnesota schools have poor graduation rates for Black, Hispanic, and Native students.
Link. New Mexico, Oregon, Wisconsin only a little better. We don’t know why. I’m not even able to find a decent theory.
How Putin sold Trump on idea Ukraine hacked election for Dems.
Link. There must be some Republicans tired of looking this stupid.
“as the GOP has struggled to defend Trump, they’ve often reverted to nonsensical and illogical arguments to do so.”
Link. Pathetic.
“not only did President Trump want investigation of potential Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, he also wanted the Ukraine president to link it to the word “Clinton.”
Link. GOP
“a theory of everything is both a theory of quantum gravity and a grand unified theory.”
Link. I didn’t know.
Pigovian taxation of targeted ad clicks finally goes public.
Link. In years of advocating this here I did not get a reply or even a “like”. Weird how something so obvious took so long to get traction.
Dying at home often sucks more than dying at a hospital.
Link. Dying is a generally a lousy experience under the best conditions. I’d go for the hospital myself.
Poop aversion is a problem for many women.
Link. Didn’t occur to me, but in retrospect I can see it.
Cipro – “Fluoroquinolones are known to have various side effects, including tendon rupture, tears in the heart (aortic rupture) and nerve damage”
Link. And now heart valve issues. Use only when the good meds don’t work.
Teenage ESR elevation associated with 78% increase in later cancer risk.
Link. That’s disturbing.
“existence of a vast, unregulated, shadowy marketplace of illicit or bootleg vaping products that are essentially a stew of unknown chemicals concocted, packed and sold by unknown manufacturers and sellers”
Link. “Vitamin E acetate is sticky, like honey, and clings to lung tissue, the C.D.C. said. Researchers do not know exactly how it harms the lungs, but studies in animals are being considered to help explain that”
LA Times spiked celebrity story: “There were too many relationships at stake. It was too hot for them.”
Link. Woody Allen.
“the hard work of following every lead and probing every dark corner to collect as much information as possible about accusers and sow doubt about their motivations and character.”
Link. The industry.
TipBITS: Quickly Access App Updates in iOS 13
Link. Arcade displaced old method.
Apple “privacy”: macOS “sends your entire browsing history to Apple”
Link. Not the brightest bulbs
“county officials shuttered the public schools rather than comply with court-ordered desegregation, leaving black children with no formal education”
Link. Yesterday. Trump is a flashback to this world.
“Valisure checks the chemical makeup of drugs before it ships them to consumers, and rejects more than 10 percent of the batches because their testsdetect contaminants, medicine that didn’t dissolve properly or pills that contain the wrong dose, among
Link. This is a big problem
Don’t support Bill Maher in any way.
Link.
Safe Booting in Catalina: “no useful check of the integrity of storage is performed any more”
Link. Catalina boot drives must be SSD.
Gum Disease and Hypertension Risk
Link. Association but causal link unclear
Breathalyzers are often unreliable
Link. A complex medical device unsuited to its use. Need a blood test that works from finger stick.
“statin users had about a 40 percent increased relative risk for staph infections”
Link. Curious. What’s the mechanism? DM risk is bigger deal.
Britain’s Rees-Mogg may be more despicable than Trump.
Link. I’m a nice guy and I want to punch him.
Fitness benefit for dementia risk greater than expected
Link. I’m testing theory there’s no dose limit for exercise.
“Dopamine fasting” for people who suffer insufficiently.
Link. 0th world problems.
Don’t buy MacBook. Apple only replaces self-destruct keyboard twice.
Link. Keyboard fiasco is now worst decision in Apple hardware history. My Airs are old but won’t be replaced until new keyboards are out.
Trump extortion ploy almost worked.
Link. Zelensky had capitulated.
Bill Gates comes out as Republican.
Link. Even Trumpist. Widely suspected.
DeDRM breaks Adobe DRM, won’t work on Catalina.
Link. Catalina will make it harder to read the books I buy.
“So long as the inflationary field couples to at least one of the Standard Model particles in a non-negligible fashion, all of that inflationary energy will get converted into that particle”
Link. Cosmic reheating is another misnomer.
A Beginner’s Guide to Notion
Link. Reminds me of the Personal Information Management apps of the 1980s and early 90s. Glory Days! The problem, of course, is data lock. You can never leave.
In Catalina there’s no way to backup Photos.app shared/group albums
Link. Even in Mojave was a bit of a hack. Grim news but not shocking.
Casio MQ24-1E is the ultimate wrist watch.
Link. 3,000+ Amazon fan reviews. It’s the watch equivalent of the great white shark — the apex of evolution. Nothing extra. Sleek and relentless. Also, costs about $12. I own 4 or so.
“The “core claim of populism” is that only “some of the people are really the people.”
Link. The Volk.
“expanding at around 67-to-74 km/s/Mpc today”
Link. 70 basically. Units are interesting.