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Link. Whoa. Lots of weirdness here.
“many companies in the private sector and federal and state government agencies remain rife with vulnerabilities that Russian actors can find and exploit.”
Link. People who live in glass houses …
“once we actually account for LBJ’s programs in the statistics, we see that the War on Poverty was actually a big success.”
Link. Rightist critics look only at income, omitting the poverty reduction interventions.
Haiti – still broken.
Link. We don’t know how to create a stable society. The proposals in the article are unpersuasive.
COVID and the brain: astrocytes, pericytes and autoantibodies.
Link. All of these things likely happen in other diseases. The autoantibodies are suspect in schizophrenia.
Big risks to unvaccinated. Clues to so many other disorders including CFS.
Sea Otter proton leak: “Sea otters are churning through calories even without a lot of physical activity because that energy goes straight into heat.”
Link. Be handy in several ways if humans could do that.
Anti-Androgen Therapy for the Coronavirus: “Brazilian trial showed a 77% reduction in mortality, which is either very impressive or too impressive”
Link. I’d bet on fake.
Sheryl Sandberg visits the underside of the bus.
Link. The knives are sharp, but she is hardly innocent.
“Mao Zedong is a hero who speaks to their despair as struggling nobodies.”
Link. “online calls for violence against capitalists … go uncensored on China’s internet.”
Similar to American non-college but in China is broader.
Space startups: “SPACs allow companies to go public earlier than a traditional initial public offering, giving investors an opportunity to cash out much earlier. The value of the public company is often based in part on growth projections rather than ac
Link. Fintech.
Minneapolis founder of Major Taylor bike club – racing and racism at 80 yo.
Link. Unusual to hear a voice like his. Lives by George Floyd memorial.
Mating rituals of the geeky millennial.
Link. Or maybe Gen Z? Curious indeed.
Vaccine reluctant: rural, also “vaccination rates were also below average for Americans under 50; Black Americans; Republicans; and people without a college degree.”
Link. “state legislators in Missouri have warned hospitals not to require employees to get vaccinated”
Does non-college alone explain all the variability? Need regression analysis.
Biden is preparing an executive order targeting noncompete clauses for workers.
Link. Peculiar continuity with Trump admin. Sadly limited impact on deplorable states like MN.
“He has come to mistrust the Alzheimer’s Association, calling it “a big promoter, almost a marketer, for Biogen,”
Link. Grim.
“It took 79 days, on average, for their resting heart rates to return to normal, compared with just four days for those in the non-Covid group.”
Link. Surprising. What is physiology?
MacOS “discover which third-party kernel extensions are installed is in System Information: select the Extensions item in Software, then order the list using the Obtained From column”
Link. Kernel extensions are a leading cause of panics/OS crashes.
VITT “just under 1 per 100,000 vaccinations”
Link. The therapeutic ratio for a young person is not as good as we like.
Printed Twin Cities Bike Map Discontinued.
Link. I miss printed maps.
“95% of the stars in our galaxy are less massive than our Sun”
Link. And earth is about as massive as a rocky world can get. We are in a weird solar system.
Apple ID problem: sharing iTunes Apple ID in two factor world means authentication requests go to one of many possible devices
Link. Apple ID management has been a long painful thrash.
Disk Utility First Aid problem in Mojave: Working around the Disk Locked bug
Link. I couldn’t find a fix in Google. Perhaps because Google isn’t as useful as it once was.
Apple Card for Families: non-owners have a $250/transaction limit but no cap on total spend
Link. Not as useful as I’d expected.
What mRNA is Good For (and less good for).
Link. Vaccines mostly. He doesn’t mention auto-immune diseases.
“Jupiter is one such planet; despite being three times the mass of Saturn, it’s only ~15% larger, as its atoms are gravitationally compressed.”
Link. Damn. I didn’t know that. Great article. “Earth, the largest rocky planet in our entire Solar System, is almost as “super” as a rocky planet can get.”
Lebanon’s collapse: “unsustainable monetary policies that finally collapsed, leaving the banks largely insolvent”
Link. I wonder if they will dollerize.
Murdoch’s legacy: “I can only guess that the destructive editorial policy of Fox News is driven by a deep-seated vein of anti-establishment/contrarian thinking in Rupert that, at age 90, is not going to change.”
Link. Brain rot and the bloody curse of the “contrarian”.
6 Training Rules For Over-40 Lifters
Link. The grip stuff is silly, but the rest is very good.
Apple fought China – and quietly won.
Link. The party didn’t care that much and the corporations buckled.
How to recognise and diagnose kernel panics.
Link. Save for reference. Our M1 Air on early Big Sur had a lot of them.
Boeing’s 737Max Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System
Link. Wikipedia article needs a rewrite; as written Boeing looks very bad.
The Underside of the Aducanumab Approval
Link. A legitimate scandal at the FDA.
Concrete: “lifespan is roughly 50-100 years, thanks to the way in which modern concrete is reinforced.”
Link. America has trillions of dollars of concrete to replace.
“Authorization does not guarantee appropriation.”
Link. A terrific tutorial on how Federal spending works, including the infrastructure bill.
Save cognitively disabled from well-intended but stupid-smart progressives.
Link. “Conviction of some advocates and policymakers that larger settings like Misericordia”
Good intentions and denial of reality do not go well together.
COVID warning was his final wish.
Link. Kept putting it off, feared side-effects of vaccine. Lots of guys in 40s think they are young. (Forty is not young.)
APFS Volume Names: “a bug in Disk Utility, which fails to normalise volume names to Form D as the Finder does. But there’s also a bug in Spotlight indexing which results in volumes with Form C names not being indexed at all”
Link. Computers haven’t been able to handle English language paragraphs since about 1980. So don’t expect this to be fixed.
“despite starting from a very humble base, Hispanics are treading the same upward path that American immigrant groups always tread”
Link. The fall in Hispanic high school dropout from 1996 to 2016 is remarkable.
“That’s what it takes to make a new universe. 10 kilograms.” (of false vacuum)
Link. The key is energy is not conserved if space changes over time. There is such a thing as a free lunch.
“Delta is presenting with symptoms closer to those for the common cold than those seen with other variants.”
Link. Less anosmia? Will Delta end the pandemic? Read this one.
An Introduction to Dfinity and the Internet Computer.
Link. “Since 2016, Dfinity has been focused on building the “Internet Computer”, a decentralized blockchain network that aims to expand the functionality of the internet.”
“Thirty percent of South Korea’s population have received one vaccine dose and 9.5 percent are fully vaccinated,”
Link. Much better than Japan or China. Wonder how Taiwan compared.
“recently completed a study of cats and dogs living in households with humans who had Covid, found several cases of cats with severe symptoms”
Link. Project your cat by getting vaccinated.
Joe Rogan Profile.
Link. Long but scannable. A lot like Limbaugh.
SolarWinds hack was “S.V.R., a competing Russian intelligence agency that was an offshoot of the K.G.B.”
Link. Lots of small details in this article.
Protein Aggregation Diseases.
Link. Especially brain. So much room for basic science research. My bet is that amyloid can be a physiologic response in aging neurons.
“there are 15 different types of fish that can be called tuna by the F.D.A.”
Link.
“Unlike the 2017 collision of two neutron stars, telescopes were unable to spot any particles of light from the explosions. The black holes appear to have been big enough to swallow the neutron stars quickly.”
Link. All in gravity waves.
“Trump increasingly looks like President Richard M. Nixon, whose support eroded as more and more sordid information about his White House came to light.”
Link. He is fading. I don’t think it’s new information though. It’s boredom. Americans need new blood.