Link. Perhaps twice as many die on land as at sea.

“estimated 90 percent of women and girls traveling along the Mediterranean route were raped”

Link. Both are big but in different ways.

Link. Backup only works for non-optimized storage.

“[backupname]/[backup].backup/Data/Users/[username]/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/“

Link. Every time I read cosmology 101 the story gets a bit different angle. I don’t know if that reflects new insights or evolving explanations.

Link. This is the last of Apple’s security blunders. We promise.

Link. Sandbox unfinished.

Link. It’s messy and confusing.

Link. “they had come across three patients who began to lose their vision from NAION within a week’s time …. all three patients were also taking semaglutide…

… semaglutide mimics the hormone GLP-1, which binds to receptors found in the cells of the optic nerve”

Sounds like a good observational study. Maybe patients taking glutides will need periodic eye checks. But 7x very rare is still rare.

Link. “for more than 100,000 years, Denisovans hunted or scavenged a wide range of animals on the Tibetan plateau”

We know we had contact some where and when.

Link. “The Busy Beaver function is Turing-uncomputability made flesh, a finite function that scrapes the edge of infinity”

Math stuff is fun because I don’t have to even try to understand it.

Link. Newly released data allowed WaPo to construct accuracy maps based on the last 1-2 years. Lately rain forecasts seem accurate for maybe 3 hours. Midwest weather is mathematically chaotic.

Link. From June 10, before the French election, a wild theory: “[Macron] is deliberately giving Le Pen’s National Rally their chance at power three years early … in the hope that they will make a complete mess of it and lose power again in just a few years.”

Link. I like the idea of shifting compute between data centers based on current active solar output.

Link. I have been disappointed with Apple for at least 10y, so it’s a bit of a surprise when a credible case is made that they did something well.

And then I’m even more annoyed with all the simple things they can’t seem to do…

Link. Fraudulent science and fake journals continue to do real harm. Why is the NLM indexing this crap?

Link. Reading between lines Oakley is saying civilians can help by testing Sequoia in a VM on Apple Silicon using a disposable Apple ID. Otherwise you need be a pro.

Link. Lawsuits drive a balanced approach.

Link. I used conflict catcher. DOS TSRs were even worse.

Link. No respiratory spread.

Link. “Herbal” medicines are similarly unregulated in the US.

Link. “Unless the price of the vaccines drops, the cost of immunizing all Americans may not be sustainable”

Link. After they went extinct elsewhere a tiny group of 10 reached a cold island. Their descendants survived thousands of years but gene pool was too small.

Link. A possible key to Alzheimer’s prevention. Sacrificing sleep for a career is maybe a bad idea. (Physicians take note)

One day a medication that supports the synchronized sleep wave waste disposal for everyone over 50?

Link. Youth intervention program — “30% decrease in auto theft reports in 2024 … a 140% increase in car theft … 2019”

Local lore is that most of our carjackings and thefts are the work of a handful of COVID teens. When they are detained rates drop. I think this program was made for them.

Link. That is an extraordinary claim.

Link. Two year backlog, low income filers who are due refunds.

Link. A very hard slog but there is new energy.

Link. Religious zealots are bad everywhere.

Link. This is brilliant. Material will set off alarms at airports. Only a test for now.

Link. Her unhealthy and costly obsession is a great gift to history. Internet active scanning. Linkfest.

Link. This was as good as the web got. The pieces were all in place. Two years later the web began to die.

Link. Microbes of the Mole Man.

Link. I think Ars got this right.

Link. HRC.

Link. Maybe Denver too?

Link. My father’s brother died of amyloid cardiomyopathy. Go pharma.

Link. Voters bring hope to South Africa and promise of a better future to India. Democracy has a pulse.

Link. Dyer dismembers the Putin talking points regurgitated by Trump et al.

Link. The outside view was that it was really wonderful. I wonder if some aspects of it lived on in SharePoint (aka the worst software ever made)

Link. We need the responsible CEOs in prison.

“Boeing’s failure to timely and voluntarily self‑disclose the offense conduct to the department; and Boeing’s prior history, including a civil FAA settlement agreement from 2015 related to safety and quality issues”

Link. Chinese biomedical publications are, at the moment, nearly worthless.

Link. FINALLY.

I believe this is a significant contributor to Trumpism. America’s election system gives small town rural voters power and their communities have been dying since the 80s.

Young people leave for college and never return.

Link. But it doesn’t hurt.

Link. There have been two, ours is bigger.

Link. “reason enough to avoid both of these compounds as sweeteners, and I would extend the caution to the other sugar alcohols as well (maltitol, mannitol, sorbitol, etc.)” OTOH aspartame seems good.

Link. Immense details on immune studies of these 2021 healthy young volunteers. About 1/5 NEVER were PCR positive despite being infected; the innate immune system worked fast. (Most people who say they never got COVID are presumed to be like this. They got COVID (virus), killed it, never noticed).

“authors were also able to find a blood marker that could distinguish the sustained-infection group from those where the virus didn’t get a chance to establish itself … HLA-DQA2, whose function is not really clear yet.”

Link. I mostly agree. The broadband fail is my team (Dem) being stupid. America needs a GOP that is not insane.

Link. Lots of apartment construction and new home — in context of record prices. Signs of rebalancing.

Link. Crime on a staggering scale.

Link. I just wanted to write “Mexico’s female Jewish scientist president” because it blows my mind.