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“Marcus Lamb, co-founder and CEO of the conservative Christian Daystar Television Network who vocally opposed Covid vaccines, has died at age 64”

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Of COVID. He sent others into the valley, but at least he keeps them company.

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“In Greece, the prime minister announced that Covid vaccinations would be obligatory for people age 60 and older, and that those who failed to book a first shot by Jan. 16 would face fines.”

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Mandate!

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“The New York Times described the speech as Biden “trying to project an image of calm, and to keep the country from panicking, while also ensuring that Americans get vaccinated and take other precautions.” Perhaps he was calm, and the panic was largel

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link.

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“contextual menu which appears when you Control-Shift-Click on the disk icon in the Time Machine pane.”

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Ctrl-option to verify. WTF Apple, is this documented anywhere?! Works in Mojave and probably earlier.

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Monterey: “screensavers like the Classic, which displays a series of images, are as broken as they have been in Big Sur.”

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Hope this attention will lead to an Apple fix. Thanks Howard!

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Monterey bugs and annoyances.

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Mojave was good.

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“There were no COVID-related deaths yesterday in New York City, where the vaccination rate is 90%”

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. NYC for the win.

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Accessible Underground Passageways of Saint Paul and Minneapolis

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Visit by bike or foot.

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Simpson’s Paradox and Vaccines: “all-cause death rates for vaccinated people aged 10-59 are significantly higher than for unvaccinated people in the same age group.”

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Age effect swamps vaccination effect. Great example.

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Master Mask Testing Data Set

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Two years into the great endemic and this is the best consumer oriented information to guide mask purchases. We are truly a failed state.

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Nurdles: the worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard of

Posted on November 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “… colloquial term for “pre-production plastic pellets”, are the little-known building block for all our plastic products”

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Healthcare Industry Predictions For 2022.

Posted on November 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Doesn’t mention private equity; a suspicious omission. Useful as a guide to what money people say out loud to each other.

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“As college graduates increasingly married other college graduates, earning power became concentrated within households, rather than being more evenly distributed across them.”

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The dominance of women in college education, and soon in lifetime earnings, will force changes to existing social roles.

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“we are in a position where we have unilaterally broken nearly all of the contractual trade commitments that we made to other nations over the last 30 years.”

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Biden hasn’t fixed this Trump problem.

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“In the middle decades of the 20th century, people on all sides seemed to agree about the problem: the vulnerability of rootless, ignorant mass society to political persuasion and propaganda.”

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Rupert Murdoch is our Goebbels.

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Big Sur “Classic” screensaver doesn’t actually, you know, work.

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Crazy I never saw mention of this. I guess nobody uses it! Basically it has never worked and it still doesn’t. If you enable clock display it will work. Wonder if it works in Monterey.

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“federal government has ramped up prosecution of crimes on flights, especially by passengers refusing to abide by Covid protocols”

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A few well advertised prosecutions will help.

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‘Afghan Girl’ From 1985 National Geographic Cover Takes Refuge in Italy

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. An unwilling symbol that the Taliban could not long ignore.

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Iraqis Return From Belarus.

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Putin pulled the leash.

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“molnupiravir, reduced the risk of hospitalization and death in high-risk Covid patients by 30 percent. An earlier analysis had found a 50 percent reduction.”

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Versus 90%+ for immunization. The meds won’t save the unvaccinated from their folly.

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Iran runs out of water: “driest summer in 50 years”

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Mismanagement sure, but likely climate change. Iran needs Israeli water tech.

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Afghan Economy Nears Collapse.

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Article doesn’t describe the negotiations presumably happening.

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Israel and Iran cyberwar attacks civilians directly.

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Iran likely to attack US healthcare. Which could lead to non-cyber war.

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Early stem cell therapy for DM I works better than expected.

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Lifelong immunosuppression still needed but this is a rare stem cell success in an experiment. Puny amount of development money and huge academic and personal effort. Years from the market.

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Minneapolis tries a different integration approach – but Black parents are disinterested.

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. St Paul Central High meets their goal — but advanced academic classes still have few Black students.

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Infrastructure: “cost estimates are “systematically and significantly deceptive.”

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. This is one of our great challenges.

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Preparing your Mac for someone else to own (pre ECAS).

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. This is what I have done.

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macOS Erase All Contents and Settings: “EACAS is a thoroughly practical tool, as well as an elegant demonstration of the benefits of the SSV and Secure Boot.”

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Deep clean your Mac too.

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Three Monterey bugs.

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Memory leaks mostly. Give Monterey a few more months.

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macOS Explainer: .DS_Store files

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Resource Forks were easier. “be prepared to massage the folder until its .DS_Store behaves again.”

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Making the case that the media is screwing America with its Biden coverage.

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The main driver of media coverage is clicks and negative stories get more clicks and engagement. This is American media now. (PS. Don’t look to Cohn for explanations)

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Apple not updating their known malware protection?

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “If I were still reliant on Big Sur or any previous version of macOS, I think I’d use that time to try out some third-party protection”

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2021 e-reader roundup: Kobo Sage, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Paperwhite.

Posted on November 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I’m in the ePUB camp, almost always DRM free. So Kobo.

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Luck maketh the man: lessons from the randomness of WW II torpedoes.

Posted on November 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A brilliant idea.

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“the Republican National Committee (RNC) is using party funds to pay some of former president Donald Trump’s legal bills”

Posted on November 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I admire his ability to torment the RNC.

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Civilization, complexity and the limits of human cognition – another attempt at explaining the 21st century

Posted on November 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Maybe this is as good as it gets?

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Apple Mac App Store: “Unable to download item. Please try again later”: The problem may be that you are not the purchaser.

Posted on November 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Use Accounts feature in App Store to switch to Family Sharing owner’s account.

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“His octogenarian grandparents recovered from their bout with COVID-19 in January without a problem. He’ll get around to getting the vaccine. Eventually. Maybe after this trip.”

Posted on November 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. He is alive and warning people not to be stupid.

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“Moderna is already studying two multi-valent booster candidates in the clinic that were designed to anticipate mutations such as those that have emerged in the Omicron variant.”

Posted on November 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Science.

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Wisconsin killer – why out on bail?

Posted on November 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The key comment (and failure): “If prosecutors believed Brooks was dangerous, she argued, they should have requested a pretrial detention hearing to present that case and see whether the court agrees.” The low bail is a red herring.

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A power lifter’s review of CrossFit.

Posted on November 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Pretty fair really! I think injury risk varies by coach and facility though. (I’m a fan)

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“I have been on ivermectin for 16 months, my wife and I,” Dr. Bruce Boros declared at the end of the meeting at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala… Two days later, the 71-year-old cardiologist fell ill with COVID-19″

Posted on November 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Dementia.

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“For all practical purposes, stealing a bike is risk-free crime.”

Posted on November 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Even though revenue is mediocre still a worthwhile business for a petty criminal. Beyond that bikes are stolen by miserable people who resent anyone’s joy.

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“Sjoquist and his wife often travel with their cross-country skis and fat bikes, alternating between the two depending on the snow conditions.”

Posted on November 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I mourn the end of Nordic skiing, but my fat bike is a consolation. More expensive though.

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“organized bike-theft ring that raided dozens of shops on the Front Range and then sold the stolen bikes, perhaps in Mexico.”

Posted on November 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. $8k here, I wonder how much they sell for.

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“As of Nov. 22, the rate of new Covid cases in Erie County was 16 times higher than in Ontario’s Niagara Region”

Posted on November 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Canadians reluctant to visit Buffalo.

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Huge investments in medicine, science, and infrastructure.

Posted on November 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Because Biden won.

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NYT project finds you a place to live.

Posted on November 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I applied my filters and it said my best option was St Paul MN. Where I have lived since 1994.

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Covid-19 Delta Linked to Four Times Higher Risk of Stillbirth.

Posted on November 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I wonder what other coronaviruses do in pregnancy.

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GoDaddy Hack: “customers’ WordPress administrator passwords”

Posted on November 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The initial generated provisioning passwords. I guess it’s possible to not change them or to change but reuse?

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