Link. And now whites die more frequently.
Monthly Archives: June 2022
China acts as thought it thinks COVID was a lab leak.
Link. Continuing to block research.
Starbuck’s public bathroom policy is failing.
Link. Started to reduce police contact with Black men who are not customers.
Expensive cancer screening tests want to bypass FDA.
Link. Huge wealth awaits. Uncertain value. Certain cost.
Rules for Contrarians: 1. Don’t whine. That is all
Link. “if annoying people is what you’re trying to do, then you can hardly complain when annoying people is what you actually do”
Paxlovid indications and the Test to Treat program.
Link. I am stunned how hard it was to find the information that went into this post.
“do need you to love San Francisco a little bit, like I do a lot, in order to hear the story of how my city fell apart”
Link. I’m of her era, when I fell in love with the city. Bruce Springsteen at Winterland.
Good news in cancer therapy.
Link. Immune methods and novel diagnostics.
“Rosetta 2 can be used to run Intel binaries in ARM Linux”
Link. Curious.
XKCD: Exercise Progression
Link. It’s a thing. Middle-aged nerds becoming exercise nerds.
“secure classroom doors at Robb Elementary School were different. They had metal frames, and opened outward, making it impossible to force them open with a ram”
Link. The road to sanity begins with dropping cable TV to cut Fox revenue.
Trump base after Trump: “full-time anti-trans panic”
Link. On the bright side Trump seems to be fading.
“Representative Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania” – key role in the coup attempt.
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“The job of the Fed used to seem easier because it wasn’t taking enough risks.”
Link. Stable by sub-optimal.
“We’re going to sit on stage, before multi-network national TV cameras. And we’re not going to say a word.”
Link. January 6 committee: discipline.
“Studying biographies of strongmen/tyrants shows that they all share the same essential character structure, or more accurately a character defect (disorder): a severely impaired conscience”
Link. Expert review. 2017.
App Shortcuts may be one useful.
Link. Maybe.
“surely never a more damning indictment presented against an American president than outlined on Thursday night”
Link. “John Tyler sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War”
“…Jared Kushner is shown dismissing the threats of Pat A. Cipollone, then the White House counsel, to resign in the face of Mr. Trump’s machinations as “whining”
Link. Knew Trump had lost the vote. Planned to keep power anyway. Forever.
Ukraine: “Stay the course.”
Link. Kissinger is such a moron.
Pew: 5 percent of 18-30 identify as trans or nonbinary.
Link. Does not say what % identify as gay or lesbian.
“Recessions are rare things, and if you always predict growth, you’ll be right much more often than you’re wrong.”
Link. We are not in a recession.
Predicted axial Higgs mode detected, particle arises due to dual symmetry breaking.
Link. Standard model allows particles to exist with multiple symmetry violations.
Poor Single Mom: Pregnancy a choice not a mistake.
Link. They want to be mothers and they have very unrealistic expectations of their male partners.
Autonomous Ships.
Link. Can’t respond to SOS.
“it took a few hundred years of living with chickens to get to know them well enough to begin eating them regularly.”
Link.
Monkeypox Can Be Airborne.
Link. Like smallpox.
Trastuzumab deruxtecan effective in low HER-2 metastatic breast cancer.
Link. Two years more. Progress.
“a user can set up an account recovery contact to make sure that they always have access to their account, even if they forget their Apple ID password or device passcode.”
Link. Can I back them up myself?
“Longer torso and long arms = poor deadlift”
Link. Why I should NOT lift from the floor.
“private-equity firms and developers are often circling nearby, looking to buy up such properties and turn them into more lucrative ventures”
Link. 20 million Americans in mobile homes facing real trouble.
Global markets, photolithography: “The world market … dominated by a single firm in the Netherlands, ASML:
Link. A good example.
Crypto: “It sounds extreme and implausible to suggest that an asset class that has become so large, whose promoters have acquired so much political influence, could lack any real value.”
Link. K discounts the illegal too quickly.
Gun cult: “Americans are actually far more religious than adults in other wealthy nations, so we are not suffering from a prayer deficit.”
Link. Clearly we need to promote atheism.
Fox: “News Media CEO Suzanne Scott decided to lure viewers back by giving them, as he notes, what they wanted: “False hope.”
Link. Fox went insane because their audience is insane.
Hacking Bitcoin: “the extranonce’s leaky behavior was tolerated because it allowed Bitcoin’s creator to keep an eye on miners”
Link. “even on occasions when the mining pool became centralized, the dominant miners declined to attack it.”
“Google Wave would go on to revolutionize how we call, communicate, work, and interact online. It remains an indispensable tool to this day, but could its runaway success story…”
Link. A startling into to Apple Freeform.
New parental controls come to iOS 16.
Link. It’s been a dumpster fire in an earthquake.
The end of SETI@home.
Link. I ran it for a time.
12 of Google failures.
Link. Taught me to never trust Google.
“the speech was bland. Its long sentences were hard to follow. It was vague”
Link. Marshall presents his plan for Europe.
Longevity and coffee: “the study didn’t find the same correlation for artificially sweetened coffee.”
Link. Wealthier people buy quality coffee and drink it without sweetener.
“The first thing that motivated New Industrialism was the China Shock.”
Link. “our economy had become too financialized”. Now if only the GOP would go away…
Early use of checkpoint inhibitor with 100% remission in 18 patients with rectal cancer.
Link. The inhibitors can help when all else fails, but this is about using them first. We’ve not done that. With this kind of result there may be immediate off-label use.
“Cupertino plans to dis-intermediate the mobile carriers — becoming themselves a satellite-based global phone and data company.”
Link. That would be interesting.
The 10,000 Swing Kettlebell Workout
Link. In comments a then 70yo cut the reps in half. That sounds right for 70. I’d do women’s weight.. Doesn’t need a lot of equipment.
“Fuelled by international private equity funds, consolidating firms have been on a tear in other health-professional fields as well, buying up practices in fields such as veterinary medicine, dental care, optometry and pharmacies and assembling them int
Link. PE is a parasite.
“At another black site in 2004, the C.I.A. infused a dietary supplement into his rectum for refusing to eat.”
Link. The Bush-Cheney-Haspel torture program. America never recovered, never will.
WorldWideWeb: a simple web server for iPadOS and macOS.
Link. Free.
SoftBank Vision fund: “for many of its portfolio companies to earn their first profit, or to sustain those they were beginning to enjoy, they’d need more than cash to burn—they’d need to restructure society to realize profits that were previously
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