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Most SEAL elite recruits: “hurried off into a vast military system that often had no obvious place for them, and plugged them into whatever low-level job needed filling at the moment”
Link. The US Navy is FUBAR and the SEAL program should be shutdown.
“detentions in Iran, China, Venezuela, Syria, and Russia account for three-quarters of U.S. nationals currently wrongfully detained.”
Link. Travel advisories matter. China also.
Windows: “if you bring your laptop in to be repaired, you should expect the technician to snoop through your hard drive, taking what they want.”
Link. Presumably Apple techs are lower risk?
“a viable and powerful exploit strategy on x86 Linux”
Link. Impossibly complex and hard to mitigate.
DeepMind’s AlphaCode: “corresponds to a “novice programmer” with a few months to a year of training”
Link. Less than expected.
Carbon tariffs arrive – for metals.
Link. The only way to get China to reduce CO2 emissions.
“employees at Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, joined a virtual brainstorming session to discuss how to build the next Twitter.”
Link. Remember when we thought Facebook was evil? That was pre-Musk.
“The lager yeast appears to be the result of a chance mating in a chilly brewery, where low temperatures allowed the hybrid to thrive.”
Link. Genetics and voyages of beer yeast. “The Tibetan one is a slightly closer relative of the lager yeast than the Irish ones are”
“systemically correct energy imbalance and restore cellular metabolism to improve cartilage homeostasis and protect against pathological progression of osteoarthritis”
Link. OA as energy balance failure in chondrocytes. Wild stuff.
When traffic light sensors miss bikes.
Link. I used to see this but much less now. Induction coils don’t work on alloy or carbon bikes but they are going away. (I press the ped button)
Simplenote introduces “expensive” subscription plan without a price.
Link. If they go subscription I’ll switch to iOS Notes. (I think blog post was published prematurely, the internal links to the plan don’t work.)
“In state after state, the final turnout data shows that registered Republicans turned out at a higher rate — and in some places a much higher rate — than registered Democrats”
Link. Great turnout, but many voted for Dems. Biden wins for a reason.
China: COVID? What COVID?
Link. Totalitarian states can turn on a dime.
“It was unclear whether Mr. Bout’s return would further encourage Russia to arrest Westerners who can be traded”
Link. By unclear they mean absolutely clear.
“sheep herding breeds were characterized by genetic variants associated with a neurodevelopmental process known as axon guidance”
Link. Genetics of behavior in a social animal with diverse populations.
Romney on Trump: “the kiss of death for somebody who wants to win a general election”
Link. Not a fan.
Georgia GOP frustrated by failure of their election gaming.
Link. Some genuine improvements possible. GOP charmingly honest that intent of rules was to suppress Black votes.
“after Kushner discussed isolating Qatar with them without informing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson—Qatar suddenly threw in the necessary cash”
Link. The Trump administration was a criminal enterprise.
The pharmacology of body building (free access).
Link. Some amazing physiology here. The results at the “top” level are repulsive to most people.
MacOS Spotlight: a view of the ever burning tire pile.
Link. “Use the command
mdimport -L
to list all mdimporter plugins currently installed, with their paths.”
New MN federal judge: “Blackwell said he grew up in a house with no running water and an outhouse in the back. He was the first in his family to attend college, the University of North Carolina,”
Link. Watch this guy.
“that between 2019 and the summer of 2022, the unnamed refinery paid Khanna and his brother, Tinu “Gagan” Khanna, more than a half-billion dollars.”
Link. Catalytic converter metals go “overseas” to be used in …. Catalytic converters. (China?)
Pelé eruption 1902: “Nearly all 30,000 residents of the city were killed instantly, and the city burned for days afterward.”
Link. Martinique. All but forgotten. Story of a survivor. (2004 tsunami killed near 10x as many and it’s almost forgotten now.)
Parity violation in early universe?
Link. Nobody is confident and 2 analyses produced differing confirmations.
ChatGPT impact: “in the long run, we are all dead, and even before that, some of us may find ourselves either unemployed or earning far less than we expected, given our expensive educations.”
Link. In the 1950s many had quite agreeable jobs moving index cards around in huge office buildings.
Jim Kolbe GOP legislator (obit): “In 2013 he married his partner of eight years, Hector Alfonso, a special-education teacher, who survives him.”
Link. When the GOP wasn’t 92% evil.
All-Road bikes.
Link. Surly, Salsa and All-City are all the same company?!
“More Americans will look upon Hunter Biden with some measure of pity than Republicans think.”
Link. Many GOP voters love people who have had substance problems. Also, the big fingers anxiety seems real.
“GPT-4, the next incarnation of the company’s large language model, which is rumored to be coming out sometime next year. We are not ready.”
Link. Faint optimism: It took 25y to go from “wow” speech recognition to speech recognition that we all use.
Mac Cryptexes
Link. “Many of the system components that used to be stored on the Data volume are now loaded by Ventura in cryptexes, including Safari and all its supporting components” Great explainer.
Wonderful Progress Against Severe Lupus; “signs of complete remission of lupus: the patient’s lesions, rash, arthritis, and kidney and cardiac symptoms disappeared, and there was a thousand-fold decrease in antibodies to double-stranded DNA”
Link. Tears in my eyes. Science.
Creative Cloud to Affinity V2: “40%-off sale through 14 December 2022”
Link. Adobe will buy Affinity and kill it.
“every media company but Netflix posted higher losses in the first nine months of 2022 compared to 2021. Disney lost $3.42 billion vs. $1.21 billion in 2021.”
Link. It’s going to change.
“United States should organize and lead a major public and private, international humanitarian effort to help the Ukrainian people make it through the winter.”
Link. Do we still have what it takes?
“Then Taibbi’s Twittergate hit and I was so tired I just gave up and spent the next two days playing The Long Dark cranked to max difficulty”
Link. Jedeed is the chronicler of our time.
Fentanyl. “Dawn, who in her grief has attempted suicide. “That’s why we’re doing this interview is because we want to help.”
Link. (Free) Puts Hunter Biden’s problems in a different light. “Jacob Harding went to treatment and is now in medical school at ECU.”
“stop thinking of tumors as completely human tissues, but rather as mixtures of aberrant human cells and opportunistic bacteria”
Link. Implies some bacteria promote cancer.
America’s Social Security Disability system is broken.
Link. A federal program run by the states. It is easier to fly to Mars than to fix SSDI.
FIFA corruption: “Qatar just played the game everyone else was going to, they just had more means to do it. Whoever was going to win was never going to win this cleanly. There was perhaps no way to win this cleanly.”
Link. Nothing has changed.
“I often tell families that instead of playing violin or piano, which is something almost every Chinese American can check off on their profile, try a different instrument”
Link. It’s about getting into the most elite schools.
Gene therapy for APOE4 Alzheimer’s – a 5 person safety trial.
Link. At least it’s not another useless amyloid thing. “proteins from the added gene appeared in the patients’ spinal fluid, and levels in the brain of two markers of Alzheimer’s disease, tau and amyloid, fell”
Mpox: “nation is now averaging fewer than 10 cases per day — a steep decline from the roughly 450 daily cases at the peak of the outbreak in early August.”
Link. Good work all.
“prior to the industrial revolution, there was insufficient sulfur in the atmosphere to tarnish silver.”
Link. Quick research says sulfur is indeed the agent. I suppose this is plausible.
From the archives (1997) | V.S. Naipaul: “India is a country that, in the north, outside Rajasthan, was ravaged, and intellectually destroyed to a large extent, by the invasions that began in about 1000 A.D.”
Link. Great essay from long ago via Noah.
Yes, He Will Burn It All Down.
Link. “Complete and utter imperviousness to shame is one of Trump’s superpowers.”
GOP meets the sword.
“There are no confirmed sequelae of Covid-19,” said Dr. Chong Yutian”
Link. Until this week China had promoted Long COVID fear to discredit western vaccines. Now they are in full reverse.
My cyberpunk city, my cyberpunk world. “And then those adventures became not just possible, but inescapable and terrifying.”
Link. Stupidmancer, but yes.
52 things I learned in 2022 by Tom Whitwell
Link. “Fees from music playing on Peloton are “a top 10 account for pretty much all major record labels right now.”
“All I want is for you to be nice to me. Please be nice to me. Please be my friend. Will you be my friend?”
Link. The Onion gets it.