Link. And recently it got more lethal!
Monthly Archives: June 2022
China: “22 of more than 33,000 patients hospitalized after testing positive for Omicron developed severe illness”
Link. More curious and hard to parse numbers.
“The first thing to check if you experience sporadic networking failures is iCloud Private Relay”
Link. Too fragile.
“it was not until June 2 that General Edmund Kirby Smith surrendered the Confederacy’s Trans-Mississippi Department,”
Link. Keep as reference.
“we have a recession? Well hell yes! Will stock and real estate prices fall? Well hell yes!”
Link. Crypto was on average a funds transfer from the unlucky to the lucky.
“….dictating the ways in which the events at the Alamo are remembered; protecting Confederate monuments; ending gay marriage…”
Link. Texas GOP platform “planks” 2022.
Sheryl Sandberg and the Crackling Hellfire of Corporate America: “you cannot simultaneously dedicate yourself to making untold fortunes for a giant corporation and to championing a social good.”
Link. Great writing and love the title.
All the Pixar Movies, Ranked.
Link. Damn, Pixar is so good.
Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea: “susceptible to the experimental antibiotics lefamulin and zoliflodacin”
Link. Hope vaccine works. We need more bioscientists!
iCloud Shared Photo Library doesn’t follow iOS definition of a “family”.
Link. This won’t be pretty.
“Ports are also fundamental to Network Address Translation (NAT). That uses dynamic port numbers, between 49152-65535”
Link. Very old and I didn’t know that.
Ubiquitous computing: a smart power adapter.
Link. Can it run Doom? Also, I remember when devices needed specific watts. Now they can live off anything.
macOS App crashing mysteriously? Check disk space.
Link. Would have been easier to debug in the blog era.
“handed control of the firm to a former plastic surgeon named Giancarlo Devasini, who has stored some of Tether’s assets in a bank in the Bahamas run by one of the creators of the “Inspector Gadget” cartoon.”
Link. On the bright side the fentanyl trade still needs Tether.
Foxes eating avian flu infected birds dying of a brain disorder.
Link. No mention of wolves or dogs. Believed not spreading between fox kits.
“The fallout from the burglary gained no traction before the election, which Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew won with an astonishing 60.7 percent of the vote”
Link. Nixon authorized to a burglary and remained very popular. Bork was his lackey.
Bone marrow hematopoiesis drives multiple sclerosis progression.
Link. Idea is to target clones producing the auto reactive T cells. Would work for other diseases. We don’t know how.
Slowing sea level rise by impeding melt of Greenland’s glaciers.
Link. Something like this.
“A Proud Boy told the committee that if they had found Pence, they would have killed him.”
Link. Luttig’s testimony surprising. Not as Scalia as we expected.
“that minute imperfections in phones caused during manufacturing create a unique Bluetooth beacon”
Link.
GOP candidate for MN Governor has had multiple investigations of his medical license.
Link. He’s a raving loon crackpot with medically dangerous practices. We don’t know if there’s more.
“Sierra Club, Demos, the American Civil Liberties Union, Color of Change, the Movement for Black Lives, Human Rights Campaign, Time’s Up, the Sunrise Movement, and many other organizations have seen wrenching and debilitating turmoil”
Link. The Progressive paradox.
Brain temp varies over day, can peak at 105F.
Link. Lots of surprises to come.
“religious sect, which believes a higher consciousness can be achieved by embracing fine arts and culture, has also gained a foothold inside a business unit at Google.”
Link. Peak California.
“The amyloid hypothesis has been targeted again and again and again from different directions with different drug candidates, and never, ever even once has it shown signs of truly helping Alzheimer’s patients.”
Link. Stake. Cut off head. For all we know Amyloid is helpful.
“T-Mobile users are getting free high-speed worldwide data, free in-flight data with major airlines, a free year of AAA membership”
Link. AT&T charges $10/day for high speed data.
“Loudermilk had led individuals through the U.S. Capitol complex on January 5, 2021, in what sure looks like a reconnaissance tour.”
Link. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA).
Canada-Denmark whisky war.
Link. “governments found political value in dragging out the dispute”
Omicron: “Deaths have stayed below 400 a day for several weeks.”
Link. Good news.
“49 percent of 350 Japanese companies surveyed in March said they were still using Internet Explorer”
Link. Japan has issues.
“Teslas operating with Autopilot, the more ambitious Full Self Driving mode or any of their associated component features were in 273 crashes. Five of those Tesla crashes were fatal.”
Link.
“wheel as a whole automatically adjusts its wiggling motion to compensate for uneven terrain.”
Link. Simple rules, emergent travel behavior. Fun video.
“Black Death arrived in 1338 or 1339 near Issyk-Kul, a lake in a mountainous area just west of China in what is now Kyrgyzstan.”
Link. 8y later Eurasia. Future tourist spot.
2017 to 2020 abortion up 6-7%
Link. Unclear why, previously declining. More coverage? Less birth control?
“In its war against Ukraine, Russia appears to be using the abduction of Ukrainian children to put extra pressure on the Ukrainian population and the government to surrender.”
Link. Crimes against humanity.
“Oxfam very regularly serves up statistics based on highly questionable data and models, often in a sloppy and/or misleading way.”
Link. Probably unfixable.
NYT long long article on gender therapy.
Link. Frustrating to read but buried data in there. High rates mental health disorders, surge in birth female transition male. Tiptoes around shift from gay/lesbian.
“The money went to Trump’s own political action committee, the Save America PAC, which used the funds to pay off people in Trump’s orbit”
Link. 250 million dollars from Trump’s minions.
Leave Joe Biden Alone: “I think he’s done a pretty good job”
Link. Me too. I do not understand American voters at all.
Pediatric idiopathic hepatitis: “trying to determine whether the cases represent a new phenomenon or are simply a new recognition of one that has long existed”
Link. My money leans 80% to the latter.
“Walker has openly described struggling with his mental health, including in “Breaking Free: My Life With Dissociative Identity Disorder,”
Link. His stories are very often untrue.
Seven dumb features from WWDC 2022
Link. Not saying no.
“When you read [your work] aloud, there are parts you might skip over—you find yourself not wanting to speak them. Those are the weak parts”
Link. Same with presentations.
Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer (AI story, free)
Link. Clarkesworld mag. SF writers have been exploring AI for centuries. They are where you start.
“Taiwan’s defenses are, by many accounts, ill-equipped and understaffed.”
Link. As usual no mention of a nuclear option.
WaPo: how to create a share link that’s free for all for 14 day.
Link. “You can gift up to 10 articles each calendar month. Each gifted article can be shared with multiple recipients for up to 14 days.”
How to Use the Google Flights Explore Map to Find the Cheapest Place to Fly
Link. It’s obscure.
“technological determinist … it stands mostly above any one society, and it sets the constraints under which every society must operate.”
Link. In the 80s I thought a lot about technocentrism. How societies became more similar as they adopted technologies.
“Google announced Thursday its new Dynamic World app—which uses the Google Earth engine—and actively displays how the earth’s surface is changing due to climate change and land development.”
Link.
Monkeypox and moving male Pride events to the Fall
Link. It’s a gay male STD for the moment.