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Unvaccinated Black Americans are often not classical anti-vaccine.
Link. Very low trust in authority, disconnected from trustworthy information sources but cued by untrustworthy sources.
“those who say that they know, don’t know, because those who do know say that they don’t know.”
Link. True words from an unexpected gold medalist. The confident deserve some distrust.
Much of Oklahoma is native land now.
Link. Supreme Court is likely to walk back some of their ruling. Transition has been fast.
The Day the Good Internet Died: Google Reader.
Link. Google Reader Social is what I miss most.
“the coffee drinkers had a 21% reduced chance of developing chronic liver disease; a 20% reduced risk of chronic or fatty liver disease; and a 49% reduced chance of death from chronic liver disease.”
Link. Weird source for a medical review but not bad job. I first learned the coffee liver effect on thecurbsiders podcast. Well known in hepatology.
Why is China smashing its tech industry?
Link. “levied a multi-billion dollar antitrust fine against Alibaba (which is sometimes compared to Amazon), deleted its popular web browser from app stores, and took a bunch of other actions against it.”
“Dr. Mercola has built a vast operation to push natural health cures, disseminate anti-vaccination content and profit from all of it”.
Link. Invents a ludicrous disease then sells scam cures. $100 million in profit. Scams that kill people. Pure evil.
The thrash of camp counselor work 2021.
Link. Nobody was ready.
Rand Paul is getting less amusing and more nazi.
Link. A dim, dangerous, and nasty man.
“it costs $99 for a three-month subscription to XLoader customized to infiltrate MacOS devices”
Link. Hopeless.
“Shifting the focus of our transportation investments from speed to safety would save thousands of lives and prevent tens of thousands of injuries each year.”
Link. The culture is changing.
“From 2011 to 2013, Chinese-backed hackers targeted, and in many cases breached, nearly two dozen companies that own such pipelines”
Link. Hopeless.
“waging a war against the filibuster would play into the hands of Republicans seeking to hold up his agenda”
Link. The fight McConnell wants.
“Apple managers threatened security companies to shut up because otherwise their apps in the @AppStore might get extra reviewed”
Link. Apple “security” is faked.
Protein Folding Progress – What’s It Mean?
Link. Means we work on the next set of unsolved problems limiting real world impact.
“you aren’t getting a fix for the flaw that makes your iPhones easy prey for Pegasus spyware”
Link. We will need to update phones every year.
Scientists Finish the Human Genome at Last.
Link. “Dr. Phillippy admitted that part of his motivation for such an audacious project was that the missing gaps annoyed him.”
Why Is Biking A 4-Minute Mile So Much Easier Than Running One?
Link. No up and down bounce.
“Dayton, Ohio, the police cleared only 21 percent of their murders, 94 percent of which were done with a firearm.”
Link. Solutions require a lot of investigators. Prevention is maybe a better idea.
Blanket party.
Link. Useful to know about if one treats veterans. Often inflicted upon the vulnerable and the weak, it usually contributes to their long term mental health needs.
“AlphaFold passed the test, correctly predicting both shapes.”
Link. So much harder than we thought in 90s.
“McConnell wants to see spending cuts to bring down the deficit.”
Link. Hahahahahahahaha. I’ve been waiting for that.
“By pulling out, McCarthy has boosted the committee’s legitimacy and credibility immeasurably.”
Link. Hysterically funny to think GOP could add integrity.
“Where else in America, besides NBA basketball maybe, are you going to find an elite field so dominated by one minority race?”
Link. Elite tech is Chinese and Asian-American.
“they could even trash the Biden administration for taking credit for their hero’s unbelievable wisdom and execution.”
Link. This won’t work — we libs can’t fake offense. What works is intense pressure on Lachlan Murdoch.
“One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.”
Link. “And now all you really see is their fear and their regret. And even though I may walk into the room thinking, ‘Okay, this is your fault, you did this to yourself,’ when I leave the room, I just see a person that’s really suffering, and that is so regretful for the choice that they made.”
“his systematic review showing the mannitol halved death from head injury was based on trials that had never happened”
Link. “Many of the trials came from the same countries (Egypt, China, India, Iran, Japan, South Korea, and Turkey”
The Title app. macOS.
Link. “As you move from browser to brower and web page to web page, TheTitle shows you the full page title – unobscured.
“These noise and blur reduction strategies are critical components of the recent Google Photos editor updates, which includes “Denoise” and “Sharpen” tools that enable users to enhance images that may have been captured under less than ideal condi
Link.
“the sort of calendaring and scheduling interoperability I advocated for in decades past is no closer to happening”
Link. The things that don’t happen are revealing.
“We’re not going to be able to secure the Internet until we deal with the companies that engage in the international cyber-arms trade.”
Link. By “deal with” we mean send executives to an American prison.
“Funk was also an accomplished outdoorswoman, spending time riding her bike or her horse, skiing, hunting, and fishing.’
Link. Hope her wikipedia profile gets expanded now she’s oldest ever astronaut.
“The Mechanisms of Cult Production” compares the behavior of political elites across a wide range of dictatorial regimes, from Caligula’s Rome to the Kim family’s North Korea, and finds striking similarities.”
Link. GOP too of course.
J&J vaccine recipients will likely need mRNA booster.
Link. Our two guys in their 20s will need mRNA. Wonder if we can just go get it.
Apple’s security marketing is bullshit.
Link. Apple may not want phones to be too secure.
Haiti vs. the Dominican Republic: economic divergence.
Link. Corrupt government and aversion to trade as a legacy of French enslavement.
“Beta has accounted for just 5.6 percent of virus samples sequenced in South Africa”
Link. Delta displaced it!
“the American Neurological Association’s executive committee told the doctors who are its members that “based on the clinical evidence, Aduhelm should not have been approved at this time.”
Link. Needs OIG investigation.
“when you set up a new M1 Mac, or set one up after restoring it in DFU mode, the primary admin account created is special: it’s the Owner account of that Mac”
Link. Damn.
How to connect the Apple Watch to any NordicTrack or iFIT bike, tread, rower, or vault.
Link. Crazy this is not part of iOS.
“On this site we’ve emulated the Apple II and The Print Shop software, so that visitors can easily use The Print Shop to create their own cards, posters and banners”
Link. I think I used a DOS version of this?
Eight ways to save time with proxy icons.
Link. To create a file in a specific folder, open the target folder. Create the file and save it anywhere. Then use proxy icon that appears to move it to the target folder.
“He could commit to a lie in the frame of his body and in the timbre of his voice so fully, despite all statistical and even video evidence to the contrary.”
Link. OJ Simpson and Lance Armstrong were also like that. It is a kind of super power.
“despite their ordeals, none of them changed their minds about getting vaccinated”
Link. We don’t understand the human mind.
“A neutron star has a fluid core, and elastic crust and on top of that a thin fluid ocean.”
Link. I did not realize neutron star geophysics was a thing.
NYT: “Pegasus can allow spies to gain access to an infected phone’s hard drive…”
Link. Hard drive. NYT, that’s embarrassing.
“NSO Group, a private Israeli firm that is a worldwide leader in the field of private surveillance. NSO is the developer of Pegasus, a powerful spyware tool”
Link. The US can restrain NSO.
Wartime Paris and the serial killer.
Link. These are bettter days.
Damn Interesting – “Facebook stopped showing our posts to approximately 94% of our followers, demanding a fee to “boost” each post into an ad, which would make it visible to more of our audience.”
Link. I admire the slow sneaky way Facebook monetized Pages.