Link. Argentina basically.
Monthly Archives: June 2020
Weekly Summer Group Rides in Minnesota
Link. Updated weekly. Great resource. Aligns with MN COVID guidance.
Lung transplant for COVID damaged lungs.
Link. Young woman with preexisting condition that made COVID damage worse. Heroic intervention.
Dynamic Entropy
Link. Oxymoron? Who can say?!
“Arbiter of Truth”: what Twitter and Facebook must do
Link. Zuckerberg is a problem.
“Facebook had tasked a dedicated employee to unmasking Hernandez”
Link. 2017, details emerging. A very bad person.
“The Touch Bar is more annoying than I expected, and I plan not to buy another Mac that includes one”
Link. Tsai’s judgment is my command. Seriously, if it bugs him that much it will bug me too.
“with the aid of computers and modern numerical and statistical methods, records from the Covid-19 pandemic will be even less reliable” … than pen and ink.
Link. Human computers were once common. Very slow execution but extremely flexible and could self-program.
Barr is stupid.
Link. He’s genuinely stupid. How was he so successful in his career?
“When it comes to a furious Twitter mob, the truth doesn’t even have shoes.”
Link. I rarely block, but maybe we should block people who dox and mute twitter mobs.
The Two Autopsies Of George Floyd are consistent.
Link. Reassuring.
Viktor Frankl – on expectations and the behavior of people.
Link. Goethe: “When we treat man as he is we make him worse than he is.
When we treat him as if he already was what he potentially could be we make him what he should be.” Remember this in the struggles.
Viktor Frankl Lecture – YOUTH IN SEARCH OF MEANING, 1972
Link. From unique.ac: “YOUTH IN SEARCH OF MEANING, 1972 [4:22]
Frankl speaking at the “Toronto Youth Corps” in 1972. See Frankl “at his best” as he vividly explains his theories, and even draws analogies to piloting an aircraft – a passion he had recently picked up.”
Handgun ownership is ‘a substantial and enduring risk’ for suicide.
Link. This data is a political problem for VA.
“The report is from OAN’s Kristian Rouz, whose prior media employment was with Sputnik News — an outlet funded by the Kremlin”
Link. I want to believe GOP-Kremlin journalists have the best parties.
Monoclonals for COVID are coming this year.
Link. Small volumes but likely to change outcomes when available.
[toread] “Trump’s edge over Biden among non-college-educated white voters has slipped by 10 points”
Link. Why his madness is growing.
“Trump apparently got the idea that Gugino is a high-tech antifa supersoldier from One America News Network”
Link. GOP blocked impeachment.
“On Sunday, about 50 black owners of CrossFit affiliate studios joined a Zoom conference call with Greg Glassman, the chief executive of CrossFit.”
Link. No real details. Survival will depend on black owners, often with military backgrounds.
George Floyd bio.
Link. He tried.
Coronavirus 6m retrospective: “this virus would infect virtually every human on the planet.”
Link. Without science tens of millions would die and hundreds of millions would be terribly ill.
3D model of the SARS-CoV-2 virus at atomic resolution.
Link. A package of inanimate molecules waiting to bump into something that will run the code.
“Type A blood was linked to a 50 percent increase in the likelihood that a patient would need to get oxygen or to go on a ventilator”
Link. That’s an impressive effect.
“The soft bodies of the abyssal class are made of mucoid and gelatinous materials — somewhat like jellyfish, only stranger.”
Link. Aliens on earth.
“Dr. Sullivan the first person to both walk in space and to descend to the deepest point in the ocean.”
Link. Astronauts are amazing people. (Often surprisingly nice too.)
Forgotten no more: the white women who sustained American racism.
Link. No surprise to anthropologists. In patriarchal societies women create and sustain culture.
Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is ‘very rare,’
Link. If this were not true I think our numbers would be much worse.
Shutdown benefits substantial: “School closures seemed to have no significant effect”
Link. If children are less infectious than thought that is one heck of a lucky break.
Cotton “shoot em all” editorial leads to resignation of NYT OpEd editor.
Link. NY can’t fire Sulzberger.
Putin helped push Trump over the edge.
Link. They are a lot alike, may be as close to friends as sociopaths can get.
CDC: Americans Are Misting Their Bodies With Disinfectant Spray and Gargling Bleach to Prevent Coronavirus
Link. Trunp should have been fired for that comment alone.
CrossFit’s CEO has a disastrous response to the revolution.
Link. I can imagine a comination of Musk-like arrogance, isolation, egomania, and cluelessness. Or maybe Glassman is a closet white nationalist. Unlike Musk his business can’t survive his being, at best, stupid.
Noreay requires a college degree for police.
Link. “Candidates become police officers in Norway after completing a three-year Bachelor’s degree in Police Studies”.
Meanwhile, US foreign policy is insane.
Link. Trump throwing the porcelain at the world. Is there any point where this stops working for Putin or Xi?
“we hypothesize that SARS-CoV-2 [the virus that causes COVID-19] may carry special tropism towards posterior circulation and endotheliopathy may be suggested”
Link. Understanding pathophysiology of COVID neurology.
MPLS police alleged to slash tires of media and protesters.
Link. If true they are juvenile delinquents.
“It’s not just Ebay scanning your ports, there is allegedly a network of 30,000 websites out there all working for the common aim of harvesting open ports, collecting IP addresses, and User Agents in an attempt to track users all across the web”
Link. Never think you are anonymous.
“Twitter’s decision to label Trump’s posts as misleading was a hinge moment.”
Link. Facebook employees now own a turning point in the history of America.
St Paul arson in May riots: white people in ATF photos.
Link. I thought local stories of white arsonists burning neighborhood businesses were too comforting, but I hoped security camera photos would emerge.
Zuckerburg feels pressure from his workers.
Link. Worker rebellion is the only pressure that slime ball feels.
“It’s important to understand what the people around the president are thinking. But if they’re honest about what they’re thinking, it’s usually too disgusting to engage with”
Link. Cotton’s GOP is outside the realm of democracy.
How to file a DOT complaint when Delta won’t process a refund.
Link. Online form.
“relative humidity of 40 percent to 60 percent could help the body fight off the virus”
Link. It’s a numbers game. If this were true it is doable indoors in winter. The pilot study is neat.
“the Dropbox password manager appears to intended only for those with a paid Dropbox storage subscription”
Link. Arghh. In a utopia Apple would clone this.
Pandemic and child education.
Link. We should offer early retirement to vulnerable teachers and danger pay for all.
The claim that white terrorists burned St Paul businesses in the May 2020 riots.
Link. I’m suspicious of comforting stories, but now I do wonder some. There was so much arson.
COVID-19 killing doctors in Egypt and elsewhere
Link. No country escapes.
“Among white Catholics, the same poll also found that his approval has fallen by 27 points since March.”
Link. Explains the gas-attack Bible.
“Thirty percent of American households where people have lost income because of the coronavirus have missed meals or relied on food handouts in recent weeks,”
Link. Riots and Reform are hiding the COVID economic crisis. Desperation is made here.
“65 percent of Americans describe themselves as Christians, down 12 percentage points during the past decade.”
Link. Trump is the best recruiter secular humamists could have