Link. Ortega usual idiot authoritarian. “10 percent of Nicaragua’s population leaving in the past four years”

Link. Santos is the GOP rep Long Island deserves.

Link. Prices disconnected from reality.

Link. “Officially, seven people have died from the virus since pandemic rules were relaxed on Dec. 7 … crush of hearses outside a crematory in Beijing to the overflow of yellow body bags at some funeral homes.”

Link. I’ve been disappointed but not surprised by the rationalizations for staying. Especially by those who have the tech confidence to go elsewhere.

Link. Carlson senses power slipping away. Are the Murdochs ghosting him?

Link. We expected COVID would beat China. We did not expect the Party to go AWOL. WTF is up with Xi? These are weird days in China.

Link. Fat (winter trail) bikes are possible because of front disc brakes and thru axles. We couldn’t do them in the 90s.

Link. Relatively readable. Been a long time since W3C made waves.

Link. If they can really do interoperability with Mastodon I’d be interested. No date.

Link. The logging data flow is excessive. I wonder how iOS does.

Link. Happy accident or exploit? In gCal settings turn off automatic event creation. (More AI always means more spam.)

Link. I did not know that. This article needs to be widely read especially in high school.

Link. China’s COVID chaos. First China has to invent a narrative that makes Xi seem less stupid.

Link. It’s a form of required rest but very different from terrestrial sleep.

Link. Our blood would clot if we stored it somewhere.

Link. 7 trillion dollars. It’s easy to audit minions, very hard to audit the powerful. Another way GOP is ending America.

Link. White men who voted for democracy rather than the GOP candidate.

Link. I worked in a distant medical relative of this. I get their work. A library science specialty. Interesting perspective pre-AI.

“1973 where a group called the Ethical Culture Society set up a meet and greet with Frankenstein’s monster for kids, as an alternative to sitting on Santa Claus’s lap.”

Link. Testing how credulous the people are. “In Yulin, the authorities ordered pharmacies to ration ibuprofen”

Link. Share price will fall another 50%.

Link. Most users won’t be able to do this and even geeks lost a lot in migration.

Link. This is worth a read. The cohesion of a community is going to be monetized. Standard protocols and data freedom are answer. ActivityPub/Mastodon are right.

Link. “Chinese-owned internet services should be banned in the United States, and TikTok exemplifies why. Just ban it.”

Link. Undetected sure to incompetent oppo research and death of local journalism.

Link. “overwhelming evidence of just how far Trump’s star has fallen”. It’s bad luck to say he’s done. But he’s done. Except in the alternate history novels.

“That woman fucked her way to every podium she’s ever stood behind and hats off to her” is pure Jedeed.

Link. St Paul’s skyways are a preview of the end of man. (Fun to tour and photograph.)

Link. Post-pregnancy comeback but unresolved thrill issues. Not only woman to do this. There are stronger riders but few are this mad.

Link. Reminds me of the time between Gopher and the WWW. Many experiments in hypertext, many roads explored. The #ActivityPub powered #Fediverse is the place to watch today. Twitter is the dead past.

Link. I have met eternal travelers. Members of a fascinating and ephemeral culture.

Link. “And then you’re going to be taken care of.” Good summary of the new details. The Trump insurrection was a serious project.

Link. Lots of natural experiments in macroeconomics. “Basic Keynesian macroeconomic intuition still looks pretty good in the 2020s, just as it did in the 2010s.”

Link. Corruption.

Link. May have fled prosecution in Brazil. “Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, the marquee Wall Street firms on Mr. Santos’s campaign biography, told The Times they had no record of his ever working there. Officials at Baruch College, which Mr. Santos has said he graduated from in 2010, could find no record of anyone matching his name “

Link. Trump playing cards was such a dumb move even the craven sense weakness.

Link. “simple control for boosts that enables me to see my home timeline with or without boosts”. I want option to also show only root posts.

Link. Government made very bad investment decisions.

Link. Caveat: I am following Musk’s Twitter Files ravings from a distance and only scanned this article. Sharing it because I think it’s a good reference to have at hand.

Link. 1990s style semantic markup automation with human readable structured descriptions.

Link. He’d been good about making each small step seem possibly undirected.

Link. Alcohol is abused widely.

Link. I’d expected this ever since Asimov’s Solaris, but it became true so gradually it went unremarked. “Internet America is the place where our myths become dogma.”

Link. Musk aimed his minions at them. Because they hurt his feelings.

Link. Way beyond recent courts.

Link. For at least two weeks. Already 31.9K Followers. I’m amazed I didn’t know.

Link. I’ll go to Ventura in Feb 23 or so.

Link. Their statement translated: “everybody did bad sh*t but we got caught and we will maybe stop some”

Link. China only has pooled PCR testing and that doesn’t work at high positivity. Idiot leaders supremely confident in their talent rule Russia and China; happily our current idiot savant only rules Twitter.

Link. A useful ref.

Link. “amyloid-beta plaques and hyperphosphorylated tau” in dolphins dying of stranding. It’s been often said only humans get AD.