Link. Sad. Go Tucker. Go Murdoch.
Tag Archives: pinboard
A repository of stories of anti-vaxxers who died or came close to dying of COVID.
Link. Send the link to Rogan.
“The wife of Nyce tells the newspaper he tested positive on Nov. 2 and died Saturday at a hospital in Manteca.”
Link. Nyce was a cop who refused vaccination and was put on leave. Thank you Joe Rogan.
Profile of Trump’s hooligans.
Link. Weak minded people are easy mob fodder.
Your chronic pain is really all in your head.
Link. In the glia perhaps. Very misleading headline, this does NOT “solve” chronic pain. It more tells us things not to do. (Current mainstay approach is exercise, psych meds and some centrally acting agents.)
Muller’s Ratchet. xkcd May 2021
Link. Explaining gene edits by net image analogy.
Lots of “openings”, but employers very picky.
Link. Employers prefer to wait, even at the cost of current earnings. This could explain unhappiness in face of supposed growth. “Nearly half of employers say they quickly reject candidates who haven’t worked in more than six months.”
The Metaverse and (near-)infinite economic growth.
Link. “the trend is your friend til the bend at the end.” 1976 was when history changed.
Disk Utility much improved in Monterey.
Link. “enable you to maintain snapshots and to copy items from them”
Romania: “many local clerics and some influential bishops denounced vaccines as the Devil’s work”
Link. Not selected for smarts.
Telegram is new home of the whacko right.
Link. Surprised Trump doesn’t use it.
Peloton finding less ad targeting success, blames Apple.
Link. Makes me feel good about the iPhone! The real reason is people returning to the gym. (Hope all are well vaccinated.)
“I deeply regret not making the decision to get vaccinated,” he told one of his doctors.
Link. “the hospital staff treated him with compassion and kindness at every stage.” and “He’s urging those who are skeptical about the vaccine, as he was, to speak directly to their doctors.”
Inevitable “human trafficking” blunder traumatizes mixed race family.
Link. When my daughter was young and traveling with me this would have hurt her a lot. We always carried adoption documents and family photos. The “spot trafficking” campaign is hysterical stupidity.
“Even people whose bodies compensate for 50 percent or more of the calories they expend during physical activity will burn more calories per day than if they remain still, Dr. Halsey pointed out. A more intractable problem with using exercise for weight
Link. It takes extreme exercise.
“Alan Greenspan wrote a book lauding ingenious new derivative securities that would spread risk to those most willing to take it and lower the cost of mortgages and other borrowing to the rest of us. This would usher in a new era of economic growth and pr
Link. 2007. Forgot he’d done that.
Persian-American scientist: “he placed seventh out of 1.3 million”
Link. Work-life balance isn’t for everyone. His compulsion is a win for science.
Oil and Gas against humanity: “Among the climate provisions that are likely to be left out of the plan is an effort to dismantle billions of dollars in fossil-fuel tax breaks.”
Link. Immense amoral power. Successful with barely any effort.
China’s Latest History: “Traumatic times like famine and purges will fall further into a soft-focus background — acknowledged but not elaborated.”
Link. Reminds me of my 7th grade World History text. (Quebec, 1971, written and published by pre-Vatican II church.)
75 million years ago the Earth burned.
Link. We don’t know why but Oxygen levels fluctuated quite a bit.
Cry socialism: roots of the GOP’s perennial panic.
Link. Hah. They should be glad I am not the Tyrant.
“Mike Elk, a labor reporter and founder of paydayreport.com, has compiled a database of 1,600 walkouts since March 2020 that included as many as 100,000 workers.”
Link. An system of semi-stable local minima has a disruptive jolt.
Cancer therapy changing: less chemotherapy.
Link. Rise in alternative treatments and genetic testing to target therapy — but also a recognition that sometimes there’s no treatment and chemo would be pointless.
“obese people typically lower their risks of heart disease and premature death far more by gaining fitness than by dropping weight or dieting.”
Link. 30% reduction with exercise alone, 16% reduction with diet alone.
Conventional wisdom is you can’t lose weight by exercise. I don’t agree, but it takes far more exercise than most can imagine.
Bots for hacking accounts by obtaining 2FA codes.
Link. Fully automated so performs at scale.
Using Apple Locator devices (AirTags) with an older iPhone
Link. It wasn’t obvious they’d work with my i8.
Orthodox C++
Link. 90s OOP, in retrospect, reminds me 1980s renal physiology.
Refurbished used bikes, supposedly from sponsored riders.
Link. COVID prices now.
“It’s believed that the Fabric of the original M1 probably contains as many as a dozen of these ARM cores.”
Link. I learned more than one new thing.
“Around 60% of people with South Asian ancestry carry the high-risk version of the gene”
Link. Doubles COVID bad outcome risks.
University of Florida President Caves.
Link. He unleashed the hellfire. Sucks for DeSantis.
750-Mile Bicycle Route in New York.
Link. Not everything is terrible. But avoid “80 miles in the Adirondacks between Whitehall and Keeseville”
“loophole in federal regulations that allowed flavors to be sold in disposable e-cigarettes while banning them in the pods”
Link. Doesn’t say how this happened or why it has not been fixed.
California tries to improve math education.
Link. Some parts won’t work, but I’m good with dumping calculus. I don’t think stats and probability is easier though!
“employers keep managing to find people to take jobs.”
Link. But paying more. Wages seem to be finding a new equilibrium state. Lots of adjusting ahead.
Neeva search engine: “revenue would come from subscribers, rather than advertisers.”
Link. $5/mo for individual or family? Fallows shows how bad Google search has gotten. Neeva notifications are ads though.
“When there’s a significant memory leak in an app, your Mac will eventually be forced to use swap space, and that’s another tell-tale sign of a leak.”
Link. Great tutorial. I restart my machines reasonably frequently. Old habit.
“Paxlovid, cut the risk of hospitalization or death by 89 percent when given within three days after the start of symptoms.”
Link. Will want starter dose at home next to the Binax.
“single amino acid change found in Delta’s nucleocapsid protein supercharged the particles with 10 times more mRNA compared with the original virus”
Link. Why Delta spreads so quickly. Also, Lucifer’s ase!
“A flood of antislavery fanaticism and sectional hatred, Davis declaimed, had opened a “moral crevasse” that endangered America’s very foundations.”
Link. Great essay.
Virginia. “Chaplain Garland H. White, 28th USCI, Richmond, Virginia, “
Link. TNC in his glory days.
Old school WiFi sync can drain iPhone battery.
Link. Sounds like iOS 15 bug. Few use WiFi sync now.
“After South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond (who had fathered a biracial daughter he kept secret) engaged in the longest filibuster in U.S. history to stop the bill, Congress passed it on a bipartisan basis.”
Link. A short essential history of post civil war Black voting.
Semaglutide and the promise and troubles of obesity meds.
Link. Like BP or lipid meds these are lifelong. So price has to fall a lot. Eventually billions will take better versions of these meds.
“no significant link between the risk of developing knee osteoarthritis and either the amount of exercise done regularly or the time spent exercising”
Link. Other studies find reduced joint disease with exercise. OA is *not* “wear and tear”.
“Reagan is generally remembered as the Great Deregulator. Really, it was Carter.”
Link. Great corrections.
“Seventeen percent of 65-year-olds will need no long-term care. Almost one-quarter will develop severe needs”
Link. Insurance is made for this but we haven’t figured out how to do it. My personal plan is dead by 85.
Deep brain stimulation for depression: “ventral striatum, involved in emotion, motivation and reward, where stimulation “consistently eliminated her feelings of depression,”
Link. Relieving a living hell.
Stem cells in old follicles: “changed their shapes from round to amoeba-like and squeezed out of tiny holes in the follicle. Then they recovered their normal shapes and darted away.”
Link. Consumed by immune system?
“Was Mao’s son, Mao Anying, killed by an American airstrike during the Korean War because he lit a stove to make fried rice?”
Link. Putin is passé, Xi will be next GOP idol.