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“A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can—although they have not yet done so—break 2048-bit RSA.”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Don’t worry, the paper is flawed.

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“Halteria in a small pond may be able to eat as many as 10 trillion chloroviruses a day”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. “[Viruses are] made up of really good stuff: nucleic acids, a lot of nitrogen and phosphorous,”

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Jedeed’s New Republic piece on Patriot Academy: “deeply Christian founding and to religious men such as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. I love her writing. She knows of, course, that neither were religious men.

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“No matter how many times you tell people they may not like everything you have to say about them, they never really believe it until they see it in print

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Laura Jedeed has a big one in The New Republic. “No one will force you to be a Christian in Rick Green’s America. But you will largely need to live like one.”

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The Next Ukrainian Offensive.

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Persuasive. “US military aid to Ukraine so far is less than the annual cost of its long war in Iraq, and about one-tenth of the current US defence budget. This is the best bargain in American military history.”

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“Inflation is fundamentally the outcome of the distributional conflict, between firms, workers and taxpayers”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. This is a good K article. (Free at this link)

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Minneapolis violent crime down some: “Carjackings dropped from 655 to 524, gunshots fired reports declined from 11,536 to 9,097,”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Kids back in school? Carjacking numbers and gunshot numbers insane. We need years of much greater declines.

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UI Inconsistencies in Windows 11: “ODBC Data Sources utility there is a Windows 3.1-styled folder selection window!”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. I’ve seen that! Is so funny. I don’t mind the bold UIs, some are better than current fashions.

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“Benjamin Bratton, described TED’s influence on intellectual culture as “taking something with Valium and substance and coring it out so that it can be swallowed without chewing.”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. I saw one that wasn’t bad very early on but then lost interest. The style annoyed.

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“There is just a 20-millisecond interval in the heart’s cycle when a strong blow can cause an arrhythmia”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. I didn’t know of the diastole timing. “Precordial thump” was an old and ineffective approach to cardiac arrest.

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Can you rely on macOS Ventura for malware protection?

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. He say most of us can. For now.

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From 2008: “Andrew Olmsted, who also posted here as G’Kar, was killed yesterday in Iraq. Andy gave me a post to publish in the event of his death; the last revisions to it were made in July.”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. So long ago, so near at hand. Via a Mastodon post. Obsidian Wings is and was a multi-author blog. Still active, still old school.

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“The dreams of the 90s are alive in the Fediverse”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Excellent overview from Ars Technica. ActivityPub fediverse includes Mastodon.

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“how the bipartisan infrastructure law is rebuilding the country, providing jobs that don’t need a four-year college degree”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. The gap between 20/h and 80/h. Biden hasn’t forgotten the non-college.

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