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The Economist on the GOP’s anti-vaxx ideology.
Link. Leave GOP states.
The Economist on the GOP’s anti-vaxx ideology.
Link. Leave GOP states.
“IBM discontinued Watson for Genomics, which grew out of the joint research with the University of North Carolina. It also shelved another cancer offering, Watson for Oncology”
Link. There’s a 60y tradition of computer execs thinking healthcare is easy and losing their shirts.
“In January I got a hundred of the seven-speed freewheels. They lasted about a month.”
Link. I’m impressed they’re available anywhere! 1980s bikes are on the road again.
Biden plan: “we should levy tariffs on imports from countries that don’t take sufficient steps to limit greenhouse gas emissions”
Link. I independently reinvented carbon tariffs years ago, well before I read about the idea. It’s the only way.
“older White men and women who lived paycheck to paycheck with plenty of time on their hands — retired or close to it, estranged from their families or otherwise without children.”
Link. For a brief moment they were important. Meaningful. Trump cared about them.
“We need to get the ladies away from the aisle. Let me help you.’ I smacked his hand away and told him, ‘Get away from me. You f–king did this.’”
Link. The gallant Jim Jordan vs Liz “no-fucks-to-give” Cheney.
The Thunder Road lyric wars will never end.
Link. I heard it first from Bruce in SF Winterland. Maybe 1978 or 79? Memory fuzzy for some reason.
“Russia’s three spy agencies were ordered to find practical ways to support Trump, in a decree appearing to bear Putin’s signature.”
Link. GOP being very quiet. Russia’s brilliantly executed attack on America was among most successful in history.
“Fitch Ratings, a credit rating company, is considering downgrading the AAA rating of the United States government bonds.”
Link. Because American Fascism is scaring them.
Is it safe yet to upgrade to Big Sur?
Link. From Catalina, yes he says. I like upgrading just before next release but my old Air will stay on Mojave until it expires.
“When we look at modern birds, we can see little mementos of their more ferocious history locked deep inside their genes—extinct developmental programs for building longer tails and teeth.”
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Peak conspiracy: “Salem Witch Trials in 1692 and the Satanic Ritual Abuse cases of the 1980s”
Link. I remember those 1980s cases. Only time I recall WSJ editorial page being right about something.
Cancel culture and language of controversy: “less about swarming mob justice and more about shitty media incentives that encourage coverage of low stakes internet drama”
Link. “The term itself becomes a linguistic, political trap.” Love this essay.
Why Cuba is having an economic crisis.
Link. What US could do.
“maybe there’s just an ebb and flow to life where something’s supposed to wipe out a certain amount of people, and that’s just kind of the way evolution goes”
Link. He’s quite handsome. Probably tall too. So being a complete dingbat isn’t a problem for him.
Apple’s Security Bounty kind of sucks.
Link. Greek Gods were more responsive.
“pilot study at Imperial College London identified autoantibodies common among people with long Covid symptoms.”
Link. Maybe 50% chance this works.
“Conservatives disparage arguments made by “snowflake” college students. But the case against CRT is made of the same stuff.”
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“In Kentucky, the most extreme example, the annual inflow of federal money per capita is $14,000 greater than the outflow.”
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“seasonal flu shot is associated with roughly one to two additional cases for every million vaccines administered.”
Link. So J&J maybe 5x higher risk than seasonal flu.
Thailand latest to decide Sinovac is lousy.
Link. China is in the crosshairs of Delta. I bet Xi gets mRNA.
“growing Christian movement that is nondenominational, openly political and has become an engine of former president Donald Trump’s Republican Party”
Link. Authoritarian movements usually have companion churches. Article omits sacrament of the gun.
Fox is Carlson: “Its return to the top came thanks, in part, to a programming strategy that gave more hours per week to opinion shows”
Link. Stop watching all Fox programming.
Unable to update date of birth associated with an Apple ID: “… could not be changed because of a server error”
Link. I don’t think this is a common bug, but it hurts nonetheless.
The end of the Victoria’s Secret Angels.
Link. A cultural artifact out of time. I suspect it will be back eventually.
mRNA 12-17: “70 myocarditis cases, but would prevent … 215 hospitalizations”
Link. To me that is not a great therapeutic index. Curious to see if there will be full approval.
“Germany’s vaccine commission recommended in April that anyone under 60 who had received a first shot of AstraZeneca should follow it up with either Pfizer or Moderna.”
Link. Our guys got J&J, I’d like a mRNA for them.
“With 2.7 percent of the world’s population, Brazil has suffered 13 percent of the Covid-19 fatalities”
Link. Elect an idiot and die.
Iran: “U.S.- and British-made vaccines banned by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei”
Link. Vote for an idiot, get idiocracy.
M1 Airs are prone to Panics (spontaneous restart with full data loss).
Link. It’s not just our machine – which we named “Crashy”! (To be fair things are much better since last macOS update.) I wonder if it’s a hardware issue.
“HCoV-HKU1, crossed the species barrier in the 1950s. The oldest, called HCoV-NL63, may date back as far as 820 years.”
Link. The history of coronavirus pandemics.
“Telefónica handled a 45 percent jump in data through its network with no increase in energy use. Cogent’s electricity use fell 21 percent even as data traffic increased 38 percent.”
Link. We do more computing, but we are even more efficient. Bitcoin remains a concern.
Breathalyzer for COVID: “breath samples from people with Covid-19 had higher levels of aldehydes”
Link. I’d be surprised if these succeed.
Economics: On police chases and library fines.
Link. Technology can reduce the externalities.
CIA “… reviewed the test flights of the U-2 reconnaissance planes and then A-12 aircraft (the predecessor of the iconic SR-71 Blackbird) in the 1960s and found that roughly half of U.F.O. sightings were attributable to those top-secret programs,”
Link. Air Force invented “natural phenomena” to cover up.
Prostate cancer Rx: “combines a compound that targets a protein on the surface of prostate cancer cells, called prostate-specific membrane antigen, or P.S.M.A., with a radioactive particle that attacks the cells”
Link. Median 4 extra months of life, but these patients were at the very end.
“44 percent of people ages 20 to 29 losing money to fraud, more than double the 20 percent of people ages 70 to 79.”
Link. Dementia mostly bites after 85, but the 44% is higher than I’d have guessed. Different scams for young.
“401 doctors in Indonesia have died… At least 20 of them were fully vaccinated with Sinovac.”
Link. Delta. Sinovac not effective.
Does Free Community College Work?
Link. Quebec has had free community college since the 1960s. Maybe earlier. It is easy to do.
Ramadi, Anbar province, Iraq.
Link. “Along with the $70 million hotel, construction has begun on one of the country’s biggest shopping malls and companies are submitting bids for an international airport.”
Another Western Digital 0-Day.
Link. Use the drives but NEVER use their software.
NYC’s new mayor has a bike with a backwards fork.
Link. The disturbing bit is that nobody dares to tell him. Or he ignores what he is told. (He probably doesn’t actually ride it. Likely just a prop.)
“Republicans have introduced 216 bills (in 41 states) aimed at facilitating hardball electoral tactics. As of June, 24 of these bills had passed.”
Link. “Actually Victoria, they did know it was happening.”
“Ordinary respiratory viruses may play a bigger role in asthma attacks than previously thought.”
Link. Perhaps in heart attacks as well.
Tour de France: “average resting heart rate of 42 beats per minute for the team before the start of the Tour, and 40 bpm after the first rest day”
Link. 30mph peloton speeds.
“We understand the contours of the problem, can even articulate and tweet frantically about them, yet we constantly underestimate the likelihood of their consequences.”
Link. Could America really become a Haiti?
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Link. It still around. Does it add value? In retrospect was it a good idea?
“The core paradox of modern China — that it is a hypercapitalist success story while remaining a Communist dictatorship — is resolving itself in favor of the latter.”
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