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Monthly Archives: July 2022
MN unemployment: “lowest rate ever chalked up by any state in any year since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tabulating the metric in 1913”
Link. It’s the bike paths.
“Ms. Nichols worked with series creator Gene Roddenberry, her onetime lover, to imbue Uhura with authority”
Link. Didn’t know that bit.
“I don’t think you’re going to go down at all at the end of the day,” Gaetz told Stone. “Gaetz sits on the House Judiciary Committee”
Link. Barr broke the Justice Department.
American public education is at least average. But compare Canada.
Link. Debunking a common myth
“The exercise, which was taught by a single teacher, asked students to answer questions about whether they had experienced or perpetrated discrimination or bullying, according to News 9. The district determined that the lesson violated the law because it
Link. Oklahoma is kind of a wreck.
“Republicans have voted against protecting the right to abortion, the right to use birth control, the right to cross state lines to obtain reproductive health care, and gay marriage”
Link. More like this.
NYT claims Murdoch has turned away from Trump.
Link. For the moment. Because of money. Nothing honorable
“Ukrainians’ destruction of Russian ammunition depots had “made it much more difficult for them to replenish arms stocks and maneuver.”
Link. Terrorism is all Russia has now.
Economist article on weight loss and diet.
Link. OTOH disses exercise for weight loss, but then the fox for this dude’s weight is CrossFit (and healthy eating). It’s both interesting and a bit of a mess.
Economist article on weight loss and diet.
Link. OTOH disses exercise for weight loss, but then the fox for this dude’s weight is CrossFit (and healthy eating). It’s both interesting and a bit of a mess.
“Displays pane: switch the resolution to Scaled while holding the Option key, tick the box to Show all resolutions, and you should be offered additional HiDPI settings.”
Link. Dang option key.
Wi-Fi Calling not working? Your probably SIM-swapped and your IMEI is wrong and you don’t have HD Voice
Link. Manual SIM swaps don’t update AT&T’s IMEI records.
Preparing your Mac for Trade In or passing on: “old Mac is an Intel model without a T2 chip, EACAS isn’t available to you, and you’ll have to do it by hand”
Link. A good list.
“On the whole, though, the Inflation Reduction Act is a very good bill, and I’m very excited to see it pass.”
Link. Premature celebration.
Upscaling: “already-extremely-permeable line between photograph and illustration is now even more so”
Link. The digital painter bot.
“Theories of ecosystem chaos fell out of scientific fashion by the mid-1990s.”
Link. Non-linear effects make a bit of a comeback.
“Jerome Powell, was asked in every way possible whether he thought the economy was in, or headed toward, a recession. And every time, he answered: No, not at all.”
Link. GDP/GDI gap biggest since 1947!
“For those 2,600 years, in other words, Europeans were consuming milk despite almost none of them being able to make lactase as adults.”
Link. Fermented?
Selling the right fake phones.
Link. Definitely not made in China.
Manchin Agrees to Quick Action on Climate and Tax Plan
Link. Another Biden win?! “ease the way for a project in which Mr. Manchin has taken a personal interest, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would transport Appalachian shale gas from West Virginia to Virginia”
Matt Holman, F.D.A.tobacco science lead, jumps to Philip Morris.
Link. Damn. That’s real dark.
“AdS/CFT originally came out of string theory, but then notoriously “swallowed its parent,”
Link. Strings passé
Google enhances bicycle routes: “see elevation on the route, as well as whether there are steep hills, stairs, or heavy car traffic along your route. The new feature will also give you a highly detailed breakdown of the route”
Link. I thought they’d abandoned bicycle directions. Apple certainly has.
“health officials have reported around 100 monkeypox cases among women worldwide”
Link. Women should not be worrying at this time. A well done and sober review.
OAN dropped by Verizon cable, now near death.
Link. Don’t pay for cable. Comcast funds Carlson.
Federal prisons are worse than you thought.
Link. Only in America. Ok, maybe Russia too.
Recession: Sahm Rule says no.
Link. GOP may he disappointed.
“In the real numbers, things can be very close to zero without actually being zero. Somehow that is the technical crux”
Link. The Kakeya conjecture is far beyond my ken, yet a fragment of the implications remind one of Zeno’s paradox. And … “prime or not prime, and what way it’s not prime, has a big effect”
Biden “… didn’t even have to promise that American nuclear weapons would be available to deter a potential nuclear-armed Iran. Israel’s several hundred unadmitted nuclear weapons are quite sufficient for that.”
Link. Iran joins North Korea.
“assembling lists of people who would claim — with no basis — to be Electoral College electors on his behalf in battleground states that he had lost.”
Link. More evidence. Absolute assholes the lot of them.
Bone-saw’s Saudi mars station.
Link. I was stuck in Nashville’s Grand-Old Opry for 3 days. Staged an escape with 4 others. OTOH I think there are people who will like this. At first.
Lowe on the amyloid fraud: “we’ve been actually been wasting our time in Alzheimer’s research for even longer than that.”
Link. Scientific disaster, but Lesné’s fraud actually had a limited impact on patients. It never led to any trials.
“double-clicking the name you’re typing and pressing Delete, Photos will freeze hard”
Link. Photos for Mac album sharing. “Apple has reportedly known about this bug for at least two years.”
“DRM laws like DMCA 1201 are now all over the world, spread by the US Trade Representative, who made DRM laws a condition of trading with the USA”
Link. Bill Clinton’s DMCA is why Apple FairPlay works. Also, Amazon is bad to the bone.
“Trump signed an executive order creating a new category of public servant who could be hired by agency heads without having to go through the merit-based system in place since 1883, and could be fired at will.”
Link. How to destroy a nation.
Brin’s ex-wife alleged to have execrable taste in men.
Link. Too much money, not enough to do.
“Transatlantic accent,[1][2][3] is a consciously learned accent of English, fashionably used by the early 20th-century American upper class and entertainment industry, which blended together features regarded as the most prestigious from both American a
Link. English of 30s-40s movies.
“specific claim that modern sex education — including lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity — makes children more vulnerable to pedophiles.”
Link. A useful review to the latest in a long series of American panic attacks. Roots in Judith Reisman’s homophobia (she was extreme).
Putting down a marker on post-COVID encephalopathy (PCE)
Link. Fun to see how wrong I am in 5-10y. This does influence how I adjust my COVID risks.
4th dose: 1/2 symptom risk, 1/4 death.
Link. Rough guess and crummy by Delta standards but glad I got it. Obviously most smart people dying today will have been vaccinated.
“Biden nonetheless shepherded a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill through this partisan Congress, investing in roads, bridges, public transportation, clean energy, and broadband”
Link. HCR shares an impressive list of Biden admin achievements. Top secret apparently.
“your Mac(s) could have failed to install every one of the six security updates pushed by Apple since problems started in early June, and you’d be none the wiser”
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China Airborne: “so many different organizations had to work together so smoothly, in ways that were both informal and tightly regulated.”
Link. Aviation as a mirror of civilization. Dynamic stability.
“all the events that you think happen “now” exist and all other observers say the events that happen at the same time as those events, then all events exist “now”. Another way to put it is that all times exist in the same way.”
Link. A sufficiently large block of granite contains all possible sculpture. Also all writing. Like Sabine, I think The block universe has to be considered.
Japan and the Unification Church (cult).
Link. Capitalism will find a way to prey on the weak. If not UC then Amway or Scientology or Trump or (once) Rome. There will always be something.
MN: “The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to a historic low of 1.8% in June”
Link. If output is supply constrained does decreased demand reduce employment?
Getting Outlook to export Exchange contacts as vCards (vcf) with proper email addresses for use in macOS
Link. Drag them into an Outlook email body and they become vcf attachments.
“thefts of Kias have increased from 24 to 248”
Link. St Paul. We need to sue for a recall.
What’s the Matter With Italy?
Link. Nothing special. “Italy may well represent the West’s future. And it’s bleak.”