Link. I’ve got this bug too. It took some work to get to the step where my son’s device claims a verification code was sent — but none was received. I’ve yet to try the fix of adding a credit card then removing it. Seems like an old bug.
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“A group of conservative operatives using sophisticated robocalls raised millions of dollars from donors using pro-police and pro-veteran messages.”
Link. It was all a scam. A legal scam. Not too different from what GOP routinely does.
“… 37-year-old Republican consultant from Wisconsin named John W. Connors, a central figure who appears to connect all five nonprofits.”
Does polar bear fur have useful optical properties?
Link. It has to be white, but beyond that the optics are murky.
“American congressional democracy is broken … We had sustainable finances in the bag. Then the new George W. Bush administration put a rock in the bag and threw it into the Marianas Trench.”
Link. “Fixing our politics will require large numbers of our citizenry to give up deeply-held self-delusions … More in future weeks.”
Lotterman is basically an “Arne Carlson*” old time MN conservative — an extinct species that we sorely need to resurrect. I’m very curious what he’s going to advise.
(The modern MN GOP hates Carlson with supernova intensity.)
“The first to perish were to be children, who were “to fast in the sun so they would die faster,”
Link. Hard to read but one must. Humans are barely sane at the best of times. We need to better understand mass madness and how to protect against it.
Why arguments against EVs fail.
Link. Full text free, a great reference.
Project Tailwind: “upload a business plan and some draft marketing materials for a new product, and ask Tailwind to suggest a list of additional features for the product, based on those sources”
Link. A creation assistant.
Cars may lose AM radio, reds upset.
Link. Reds fear loss of propaganda stream and of scam revenue.
Are Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Really DIstinct Disorders?
Link. They can look a lot alike.
Lowe impressed with Pancreatic Cancer mRNA vaccine trial.
Link. “That’s a huge effect size, and these results are being taken very seriously indeed.”
Eventually I wonder if they will just do surgery and vaccine. Now do ovarian.
Insane experimental brain surgery actually works.
Link. Gonzo surgeons and a desperate family.
Brain Microglia: “important in maintaining and shaping consciousness”?
Link. Based on reaction to anesthesia.
BBEdit Grep Quick Reference PDF
Link. A classic.
Red House whackos: “… conceded that they had yet to find evidence of a specific corrupt action Mr. Biden took in office in connection with any of the business deals his son entered into”
Link.
“We Buy Ugly Houses”: “Casanova was incapable of engaging in a complex negotiation. Although she was once a skilled bookkeeper and president of the local women’s club, dementia now carved into her short-term memory”
Link. HomeVestors of America preys on the cognitively limited. It’s very American of them.
Slavery in the Ottoman Empire: “Responding to the influence and pressure of European countries in the 19th century, the Empire began taking steps to curtail the slave trade… Legislation explicitly prohibiting slavery was finally adopted in 1964.”
Link. Read this after an excellent audiobook on Ottoman history which time and again returns to role of Ottoman slaves. Slavery was hugely important to sustain empire and lasted into late 19th century.
The sad story of macOS Help.
Link. Does iOS have anything? The best Help tool I recall was 1990s WinHelp. I rarely find Help useful, the user guides are more useful.
Phoenix homeless camp clearing: “Instead of clearing out hundreds of people at once, it is working with residents and homeless services groups to move people off the sidewalks and into shelter, person by person, week by week.”
Link. Many shelters bar pets.
“Although multicellularity is thought to have evolved at least 20 times in the history of life on Earth”
Link. What? 20 times! Extended experiment in evolving towards a multicellular organism.
Home sleep monitoring with Apple Watch and Google (Nest) Home Video in adult with limited ability to describe a nocturnal health issue
Link. Apple Watch is optional but useful. If home security cam is already purchased additional cost is most often $12-$16 but may be 0$.
Tumor-specific mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer: 8/16 respond, “Patients who did respond …showed no signs of relapse during the roughly 18 months they were tracked”
Link. Very early trial.
Alex (Roots) Haley was a fraud: invented MLK criticism of Malcolm X.
Link. Nothing Haley wrote can be trusted.
Greg Egan’s self-published eBooks: “This page lists eBooks that I have published myself. They are all currently priced at US$3.99, and they are DRM-free”
Link. I’m a fan.
“Take Minneapolis’ retail sector, for example: The minimum wage increase led to 28% fewer retail jobs than researchers would’ve expected from a similar city during the same five-year period”
Link. MSP minimum is $15/h. It’s a bigger negative impact than I’d expected. State wide unemployment remains very low.
“same lineage of people settled in Japan, which could help explain similarities in prehistoric arrowheads and spears found in the Americas, China and Japan”
Link. Across the land bridge. “genetic link between Native Americans and Japanese people, particularly the indigenous Ainu.”
Heart Reports: enhanced iOS reports exportable as PDF
Link. One time $4 to buy unlimited export and it’s family shareable. I have found some minor bugs but overall it’s well worth the price.
Apple Health XML to CSV Converter: runs on browser, creates external reports
Link. macOS Numbers could not process correctly but Excel did. Since schema varies by data type my conversion produced 20 different output files (vs. creating a sparse matrix). Note usual Excel import issues with strings it thinks are numbers.
Chimpanzee language: snake is an important word.
Link. It always starts with the snake.
Google leak: “At the beginning of March the open source community got their hands on their first really capable foundation model, as Meta’s LLaMA was leaked to the public….”
Link. “A tremendous outpouring of innovation followed … barely a month later, and there are variants with instruction tuning, quantization, quality improvements, human evals, multimodality, RLHF …”
I for one welcome. #beafraid
Ultimate List of Bikepacking Straps
Link. The web is not dead yet.
Passkey concerns – Tsai round-up
Link. I love being a later adopter.
“Ukraine’s military said that it shot down all 35 drones, including 30 over Kyiv.”
Link. Russian terrorism thwarted.
Norway previews EV future.
Link. Surprisingly unsurprising.
“You know why the recipe blogs all have 2,000 words of copy before the actual recipe? The Google robot wants it that way.”
Link. Google is a plague.
“after 20 long minutes, the medical team got a pulse” -> she’s mostly recovered.
Link. It’s local media and story is almost certainly not medically accurate — but that’s a hell of a recovery.
Higher HTN in Black Americans: “key factors statistically mediating the racial difference for both men and women included Southern diet score, dietary ratio of sodium to potassium, and education level. Among women, waist circumference and body mass inde
Link. “Southern diet” is just bad.
Protein glues (thalidomide and more) – “The idea that some tiny molecule could bring two big protein surfaces together in a productive manner when they didn’t really show binding before”
Link. Unexpected biochemistry.
“China (and Russia) started Cold War 2 … if we choose to back down, it doesn’t mean going back to the world of 2015. That world is now gone forever.”
Link. An analysis of the road ahead.
“Sometimes there are simply bullies in this world, and someone has to stand up to them, even if that someone is no saint themselves.”
Tucker Carlson’s and the Christian Right: “… the temptations — including the will to power and the quest for vengeance — that plagued the Christians of the past still plague the Christians of today.”
Link. Righteousness is a vice.
“A reminder about gun massacres in the USA … in 1979 the Cleveland Elementary School shooting was so shocking that people wrote songs about it … Yesterday (May 6th) there were THREE comparable spree shootings in the USA: the day before that there we
Link. Americans don’t care enough.
Did China Help Vancouver’s Mayor Win Election? (No)
Link. China pays a lot of attention to Canada in general and Vancouver in particular. But he won by a landslide. So this is kind of a dumb headline.
Econ policy context: “recent idiotic report from the Motley Fool, an investment advice publication. In breathless terms the article noted that the M2…”
Link. MF is just terrible.
AI Free Rider’ problem described.
Link. There is no hope of significantly slowing AI development.
We can treat mouse model glioblastoma with a novel drug delivery method.
Link. Surgery + Paclitaxel + CD47 antibody + cavity filling gel. Many years from human trials but I don’t think we’ve had anything this promising before. I’ve lost 3 friends to glioma.
FDA approves fecal microbiota transplantation pill for C Difficile prophylaxis.
Link. Dramatic improvements in clinical trials.
A post-COVID encephalopathy anecdote – since improving.
Link. Nothing showed on MRI but her relative recovery argues against a coincident dementing disorder. Hope she gets entered into a registry/study.
“Nauru decided to one-up the offshore accounts and offer corrupt kingpins the privilege of an offshore bank instead. For $25,000, anyone on the planet could set-up their own entirely independent financial institution, housed in a server on Nauru.”
Link. Awesome story.
Airbnb developments including “rooms”.
Link. My Airbnb experiences have been fun. But I have weird ideas of fun.
AI with hyperdimensional vector computing.
Link. Augments neural networks.
Natural Chemistry Oddities: “Two terpenoid fragments joined up at opposite sides of a (counting. . .) nineteen-membered ring is not something I’d have come up with any time soon. Why the plant has chosen to do so …”
Link. Evolution scrounges.