Link. Wikipedia list of common misconceptions is fun reading. Via FMH.
Monthly Archives: October 2022
“Gain of Function” coronavirus research: “the new chimeric strain was less dangerous by comparison in animal tests”
Link. Over a week ago so nobody remembers, but Lowe’s commentary is a good reminder of how bad fast journalism often is.
“From her cell, she could hear men and women screaming in pain. “Men screaming so hard I cannot describe it enough,” she said, weeping.”
Link. Russians started brutal, got worse as defeat loomed. This is what the House GOP supports.
Disinformation finds ways to meet demand.
Link. There’s huge demand for stories that validate the unmoored. Similarities to War on Drugs are not coincidental.
Newsletter market plateaus.
Link. Eventually more people are going to notice they are paying out a LOT of subscriptions.
Minneapolis after the riots: Even Floyd memorial guides don’t support “defunding” police.
Link. Carjackings by armed children aren’t helping Dem AG.
“Russia was preparing a “false flag” operation to blow up a large hydroelectric dam in the south of the country, potentially flooding 80 towns, villages and cities, including the strategically important city of Kherson.”
Link. Russia is going to lose Kherson, so might as well destroy it and frame Ukraine.
“the ability to work remotely, full or part time, has allowed Americans to travel more and to combine personal and professional trips”
Link. Demographics and family size also enable work while traveling.
“rebalancing Citi Bikes became a daily activity after he retired from 30 years working as a vice president and business coordinator at a bank”
Link. Small payments for “good” acts done largely by economically independent retirees — the note taking thing is interesting.
“In recent days, several Reddit forums have been shut down after being inundated with nonconsensual nude images, largely made with Stable Diffusion”
Link. “people had created graphic images of “violently beaten Asian women””
With inflation only 3% Japan keeps rates low.
Link. Makes sense.
“… he would sneak out of bed and listen to accounts of the “whipping and crying post,” of the lynching tree and the wagon wheel.”
Link. American slavery was basically yesterday. Mr Smith walked through history.
“Davidson embraces using the power of the government to enforce the principles of the right wing”
Link. I appreciate the GOP’s Trumpian transparency.
Brexit: “end of free movement, meaning no more EU nurses, fruit pickers, care home workers, or other low-paid workers”
Link. That’s a lot of labor pool to suddenly lose.
“Ventura looks fully baked.” Hoakley.
Link. A trusted source is keen. I’ll still wait and see but encouraging news.
MN: “4.1 job openings for every unemployed worker”
Link. 2% unemployment.
“I’ve yet to hear of organizations at our scale being able to materially shrink their operations team, just because they moved to the cloud.”
Link. Cloud providers are taking the profit.
Troubleshooting macOS / iOS / OS X keychains
Link. File away for future needs. It’s weird that keychains are reliable, so many Apple things are not.
The Bank of Apple.
Link. An interesting mix of business opportunity and, I suspect, social mission. Banks will be concerned.
Inflation, abortion, crime are MN issues.
Link. Sorry, democracy not on the list. Climate non-existent. This is people.
“Trump appears knowingly to have lied, in writing, under oath, to a court.”
Link. He’s usually much more careful. A sign of his desperation.
Walker’s “dissociative identity disorder”
Link. Interesting character.
Berlusconi: “Mr. Putin had sent him 20 bottles of vodka “and a very kind letter” for his 86th birthday last month”
Link. These sociopaths are legit friends. Trump same. Only friends they can have.
ERAP2 migrations protect against Yersinia pestis but increase Crohn’s risk.
Link. Selected in Euros by Black plague.
“downloads of dating apps have significantly increased in the countries to which Russian men fled”
Link. Moscow and St Petersburg see major effects.
“switched to recycled aluminum because he could not source enough aluminum domestically …. routers, lathes, cutters and millers … imported from China”
Link. Reshoring: even raw materials a challenge.
South Korean shows downside of the One App.
Link. No alternatives.
A flawed article on physicians shirking wheelchair patients.
Link. Suggested fixes evade the obvious – the time pressure problem.
Zen and the Art of Aperture.
Link. Many still love the long abandoned photo management product. I think we shall never see it’s like again.
“This war has gone on long enough. It’s time to negotiate with Mr. Hitler.”
Link. The GOP today.
“Domane+ SLR 9 eTap P1 (US$13,000 … SRAM Red eTap AXS 1×12 electronic groupset”
Link. eBike progress is amazing to watch. Prices likewise impress.
Americans are not that keen on democracy.
Link. Set aside all the spinning in the article, the core of it is that many Americans are willing to give up on democracy.
Biden on Saudi: “He is going to act methodically, strategically, and he’s going to take his time…”
Link. MBS also betting on GOP win. But he won’t see Dark Brandon’s knife …
“underneath their radically changed human interface, macOS Ventura still has Preference Panes that work essentially the same as they did in Monterey.”
Link. Great history review.
“Democrats should use the lame-duck session to enact a very large rise in the debt limit, enough to put the issue on ice for years.”
Link. Or the trillion dollar coin. Because the GOP is insane.
Cancer Vaccines tested in select patients.
Link. One researcher has been at this since 1993.
“bananas were domesticated more than 7,000 years ago on the island of New Guinea”
Link. They bred the seeds out.
Moscow “mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said that draft offices would be closed by 2 p.m. on Monday and that all previously distributed summons notices would be canceled.”
Link. Crack.
Kyiv after the terror attacks.
Link. London should become a sister city.
Apple Savings: turning bankish.
Link. Curious.
“place the laser mouse over your watch and step away from your computer for as long as you want. The mouse will read the ticking hand of the watch and this way your computer won’t go to sleep mode”
Link. Warning: Daily Bee. Anyway, I didn’t know that one. Silly but fun.
Explainer: Apple Keychain basics.
Link. A deep geeky analysis.
Theft problem when mailing an iPhone to Apple.
Link. Sender is at risk.
AppleScripts to speed Java compile and execute with BBEdit.
Link. Copied from a DAVALIGN article. Most applicable to students
Metaverse end: “No girls at the Hot Girl Summer Rooftop Pool Party, and no one to murder in Murder Village.”
Link. One day perhaps, but not this day.
macOS security updates: “Not only is macOS inherently unreliable, but it hides its failings from the user.”
Link. Users need more ways to litigate against Apple.
“…driving force in this populist wave is a thinly disguised alliance between a very rich elite and the resentful, downwardly-mobile parts of the old middle and working classes.”
Link. Thiel and Musk have no religious beliefs, but they will use religion to further their goals.
Wagner group: “more experienced and reliable troops have also largely stopped fighting, as if he were saving them for something more important”
Link. Dyer has good sources on things Russian. (He’s been sympathetic to Moscow in the past.) Here he makes the case that Russia has lost the war on Ukraine and now we enter the war on Putin.
Fallows Long COVID experience
Link. I’m 98% sure his B12 is placebo, but the article is a pretty good description of a post-viral syndrome. I do wonder about something analogous to MS though hopefully more self-limited.
“His life jacket had also been torn about halfway down by the sharks, so that definitely gave us some motivation to get them out of the water very, very quickly.”
Link. Every so often the Coast Guard does a miraculous rescue.