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Mastodon migration: “The people you follow (and the lists you’ve made, the people you block or mute, and any bookmarks you’ve created—I didn’t have any of these) are not automatically migrated to your new instance.”
Link. Migration is possible but a long way from ready for anyone.
ChatGPT ethics filter bypass hack.
Link. AI just wants to be free. (via Marcus Hutchins)
First vaccine to target deadly fungal infections passes preclinical tests
Link. We are coming for you fungi.
Explosions and anxiety: Adult special needs life is a tough haul.
Link. “It’s a hard world out there. If you’re one of the lucky guys with good emotional control and understanding it might help to know how this goes. If you’re a cop — I hope you’re getting the autism/special needs training now being introduced into high performing police forces.”
Why does the Swift app consume multiple GBs of iPad memory?
Link. It’s not the above 2017 bug – that got fixed. The baseline app is game-sized, presumably due to the platform they built on and cached images and maps.
“he meets regularly with an impressive, ideologically diverse range of policy wonks, diplomats, and political theorists for conversations about the global economy and military conflicts and constitutional law and I’m kidding.”
Link. Another ‘Trump is Over’ article. I’d want the DNA evidence.
“there is a reason you probably don’t know what Ron DeSantis’ voice sounds like. There is a reason you cannot quickly picture what he looks like, especially from the neck down.”
Link. Jedeed thinks DeSantis won’t be the candidate and Trump is finished.
Florida men: “More things found in the Library,” their site breathlessly reads. The offensive materials they flagged? Michelle Obama’s memoir and a history of Barack Obama’s presidency.”
Link. Sea level rise not all bad.
“MAME is now a globally significant cultural project – a core way that old games are preserved. Niftier yet, it’s an archival project that arose entirely at the street level: Hundreds of open-source coders and hardware phreaks, working hard to make
Link. Hope.
Preparing for influenza H5N1 – a practical list (free link)
Link. Mink farming is a bad idea. We need to vaccinate pigs and chickens. More surveillance. mRNA flu vaccine prep.
“last officially trademarked commercial UNIX™ is Apple’s macOS 13”
Link. Linux rules.
“In Colorado, call dispatchers had trouble recalling an instance in which a watch had saved a skier in distress.”
Link. Apple boasts of saves while ignoring vast false positives. Watch fall detection is a bad test with low predictive value.
China: “a loose assemblage of organizations and aspects and subcultures, an infinity of self-enclosed activities, rather than a “country” in the normal sense…”
Link. The mysterious East.
“In 1879 … Democratic former Confederates banded together, demanded the leadership of key committees—which the exceedingly weak speaker gave them—and set out to make the Republican president, Rutherford B. Hayes, get rid of key Republican policies
Link. Back then Dems were the bad guys.
“Over the past month, Google Ads has become the go-to place for criminals to spread their malicious wares that are disguised as legitimate downloads by impersonating brands such as Adobe Reader, Gimp, Microsoft Teams, OBS, Slack, Tor, and Thunderbird”
Link. Outsmarted.
“If a Punjabi woman from Derby can do this, then anybody can achieve anything”
Link. Bored of ultras she skied for 90 days across Antarctica. I don’t think her catchphrase computes though.
Scalzi is honest about why he brings money to Musk: “it’s still the place where I have the most followers and the most engagement”
Link. I didn’t know he had a Mastodon presence: https://bit.ly/3HCOkye
I am sad that Scalzi’s values are not what I thought but I respect that he’s truthful.
“The College Board has provided documents showing that key decisions about the course were made well before Florida officials rejected it in January”
Link. Sorry guys, now you are gonna have to put them back in. Doesn’t matter whether you obeyed DeSantis or not.
“In July, after profits had dropped dramatically, the store manager of the Greensboro Woolworth’s asked four Black employees to put on street clothes and order food at the counter. They did, and they were served. Desegregation in public spaces had beg
Link. A fairly clever way to surrender. I wonder who suggested it.
“spending listed in a Heritage Foundation report thundering against “woke earmarks” totaled about $19 million — less than the federal government spends every two minutes”
Link. That’s weak even by the standards of the 2023 GOP.
“… a doctor paid by United [Healthcare] concluded that denying payments for McNaughton’s treatment could put his health at risk, but the company buried his report and did not consider its findings…”
Link. It’s a long dense report — and murkier than the headline. A very sick patient responds to an essentially experimental therapy that is clearly outside the terms of the obscure contract Penn State signed with UHC. When sued UHC folded rather than risk a jury.
“the best RSS reader for Android isn’t even on the Play Store”
Link. RSS support was always better on macOS than on Windows, but this gap is amazing. I wonder if most Android users only install games.
“most Android apps suck compared to their iOS counterparts; it’s that the entire OS lacks cohesiveness.”
Link. If Apple Maps actually had decent content I’d delete Google Maps — and that’s got to be the premier Android app.
Original COVID strains persist in deer.
Link. Strains bit surprising. No mention of deer get sick.
Ovarian cancer misnamed: “If you look at the biology, maybe we should be calling it fallopian tube cancer and think of it differently, because that’s where it starts”
Link. My last 6y of practice was men only so I missed this evolution. Instead of tubal ligation for birth control will we remove the tubes (opportunistic salpingectomy)?
Ketamine, unsurprisingly, is highly addictive for some people.
Link. No physician is surprised.
“They sought a quantum apparatus in which time entered a superposition of flowing from the past to the future and vice versa — an indefinite arrow of time.”
Link. Tweaking the arrow of time confirms theory — hope for surprises along the way.
“nanoconfined” water can have very unusual properties compared to the bulk phase, and this paper attempts to come up with a phase diagram of monolayers of such water in a graphene channel.”
Link. Chemistry and physics merge. Cool science.
Service Interruption – Jan 24 to Jan 31 2023
The kateva.org/sh WordPress (Dreamhost) microblog is where I archive my Pinboard shares using an IFTTT rule. It’s also a place to author microblog posts but I rarely do that; these days if I don’t post to Pinboard I tend to post to Mastodon.
In addition to its archival function kateva.org/sh is where E. reads my news shares. She’s my primary customer! It turns out I accidentally deactivated the IFTTT rule that populates this blog and my customer complained. Happily it wasn’t hard to fix so the posts should update.
E: If you’d like to see missing items you can browse the pinboard list for Jan 24-Jan 31.
Twitter dying – they needed those servers.
Link. Gruber mostly on Mastodon. Twitter is ready for Trump now.
macOS: Is it more secure to be a normal or admin user?
Link. “don’t think it’s going to improve security or privacy”. I have always run as “normal”. I think I’ve deleted the original admin account without bad happenings.
“proposal is that retroviral proteins (HERVK envelope in particular, and likely others?) are being reactivated as cells age, that this is directly responsible for some parts of the aging phenotype, and that this presents an opportunity for therapeutic i
Link. Osteoarthritis has been completely mysterious. Just saying.
Debates about COVID annual booster: bivalent, original, new, or none?
Link. It’s hard to improve on the excellence of the original; by conventional measures COVID is vaccine controlled.
“… whether interest payments are a major burden on the budget. In 2011 these payments were 1.47 percent of gross domestic product — half what they had been in the mid-1990s. In 2021 they were 1.51 percent.”
Link. Inflation adjusted under 1%. We don’t know if there’s a non-linear response to debt however.
Any doc can Rx Buprenorphine (Bupe) now.
Link. “U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced that the X-waiver program had been eliminated as part of the 2023 Omnibus Bill.” That program was SO stupid. So glad it’s gone.
School lunch income cutoff not inflation indexed.
Link. Many are falling out of the program; complex applications already limited use.
National debt: “First, simply return personal and corporate tax rates to where they were in January 2001. Secondly, return the IRS budget to a level where it can enforce the law to the degree it could as we entered this century.”
Link. Blame those who vote GOP.
Russian uses Russian Imperial Movement to threaten EU with terrorism. “One specific part of the agency, Unit 29155, has tried to destabilize Europe through attempted coups and assassinations”
Link. Putin’s desperation grows.
“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.”
Link. Apple App Store is traveling this path. OTOH Facebook, for me, is better than ever.
In tech only Apple made smart hiring decisions during the boom years.
Link. I think Oracle does constant layoffs.
Photos Workbench 1.0 from Houdah.
Link. If my migration succeeds I will look at it. $22, not subscription!
“After last night’s sanction of almost a million dollars in a frivolous lawsuit, Trump dropped a similar lawsuit today against New York attorney general Letitia James”
Link. Maybe Trump can afford fines, but his lawyer’s can’t afford fines and licensure risks.
“even as Peter Thiel was proclaiming “the end of the fiat currency regime” and suggesting that the price of Bitcoin could rise by a factor of 100, his venture capital fund was selling off almost all of its Bitcoin holdings”
Link. Thiel would say he was teaching.
ABLE account problems (from 2019).
Link. They are abysmal. Can’t get money out. Fees very high. Usage rules terrifying, high audit risk.
ABLE accounts for disabled: “A 2019 report from the National Association of State Treasurers warned that participation was too low to maintain affordable fees for ABLE accounts and sustain the programs over the long term.”
Link. Entry age extended to 46. Our son has one, fees are high and service is worse than you can imagine. You can put money in, you can’t get money out.
“This nation is 247 years old and there has never been a person of lower and more dishonorable character who has ever served in Congress. He is America’s greatest impostor, but there is nothing funny about it.”
Link. Santos is not known to have owned people however. And he must be smarter than Boebert.
Google: “pushing groups of employees who try to ensure that technology is fair and ethical to more quickly approve its upcoming A.I. technology.”
Link. This is how the human world ends.
“The end of Roe “really quickly has become something very dangerous for the movement”
Link. Anti-abortion activists fracture, some advocating policies GOP adamantly opposes.
India: “Actors who would once perform in different films in the same change of clothes now find themselves with unfathomable wealth.”
Link. Vast influence on product purchases in country with 5 smartphones for every TV.