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OWC Envoy Express: T3 bus powered SSD enclosure – 2280 M.2 NVMe SSD compatible.

Posted on April 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Integrated 10 inch T3 cable.

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“Thunderbolt 3 external SSD from Other World Computing, the 1 TB model of the Envoy Pro EX, for just under $300”

Posted on April 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Practical advice, all good.

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Bhutan vaccinated 85% adults in 1 week.

Posted on April 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. 1 COVID death so far.

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“even with a marginal tax rate close to 60 percent, high-earning New Yorkers”

Posted on April 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. In MN our marginal tax rate is not a lot lower.

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Muon g-2 Results – the case for disinterest.

Posted on April 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Why yawn is good.

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Muon misbehavior reviewed.

Posted on April 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Seeking a new Force. A sober review.

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Gravitons as Dark Matter?

Posted on April 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Not impossible but very unlikely. Graviton likely massless.

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“To celebrate, our colleague Gina Kolata reports, Dr. Kariko ate an entire box of Goobers chocolate-covered peanuts. By herself.”

Posted on April 8, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Nobel should buy lots of Goobers.

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“better understand why President Biden is making such a sharp break with Joe Biden.”

Posted on April 8, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We expected Gerald Ford and got FDR.

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Cross West St Paul: Kaposia Landing to Brickyard Trail

Posted on April 8, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I love this knd of urban exploring and the climbs are delightful. The street route was safe and pleasant riding. Next step is to add more local sites.

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Neurotoxins – from 2002

Posted on April 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Derek Lowe has been blogging about pharm science for eons.

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GOP may have misjudged American support for suppressing Black vote.

Posted on April 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Can’t blame them really, they got away with so much for so long. Suddenly Americans care. So fickle.

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Strength training 2021: the science of muscle.

Posted on April 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “the entire CrossFit philosophy is essentially based on activities that last longer than 70 seconds, and a few of those bastards are pretty muscular.” Particularly important for Olds.

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American infrastructure and the GOP.

Posted on April 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Lincoln history new to me.

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Shipping: More CO2 Than Aviation

Posted on April 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link.

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Long COVID is not unique – many infections have sequelae.

Posted on April 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Diabetes and schizophrenia may both be post-infectious sequelae.

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Display drivers are old tech. That’s a problem.

Posted on April 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “No one is building more mature-node manufacturing lines because it doesn’t make economic sense.”. Can’t expand.

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Georgia: “the act does contain some provisions that expand access primarily in rural, heavily Republican areas.”

Posted on April 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Very Trump of them.

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Fox lawyer: “Mr. Dinh, a sociable and relentless Republican lawyer who was the chief architect in 2001 of the antiterrorism legislation known as the Patriot Act,”

Posted on April 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. An evil man.

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The Trump recurring donations fraud — we need names.

Posted on April 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. There were people who did this. People with names. Probably tobacco industry alumni. Society does need to know who they are.

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“Watching Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) debate science with Fauci during committee hearings is like watching Albert Einstein being disputed by his dry cleaner.”

Posted on April 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Very unfair to people in dry cleaning industry, sone of whom might be fans of modern quantum physics.

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“the University of Texas set up a licensing arrangement for HexaPro that allows companies and labs in 80 low- and middle-income countries to use the protein in their vaccines without paying royalties.”

Posted on April 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. So many heroes here, Innes anong them.

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Defective Macs ‘knowingly sold by Apple’

Posted on April 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Not the first time. Early iMacs too. A trillion dollar fine would be nice :-)

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“Music on Mac is just an utter embarrassment for Apple”

Posted on April 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Head-to-head Mojave crushes Big Sur.

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Apple broke its Bug Sur log timestamps.

Posted on April 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Arghh.

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“it’s the telephoto lens— not the larger sensor, faster aperture, or even ProRAW— that makes the iPhone 12 Pro Max the photographer’s phone”

Posted on April 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Via Tsai. A great review.

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The Child on the Train. 2003.

Posted on April 4, 2021 by jgordon

Link. John Scalzi of 2003 reflects on a lost pregnancy. Came up in a recent post. I was ok until the last paragraph; but then I wept. He got the truth of it.

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“Most people, I think, believe that it’s a slam dunk,” Harris said of the case against Chauvin. But he said, “the reality of the law and the legal system is, it’s just not.”

Posted on April 4, 2021 by jgordon

Link. 2nd degree requires intent. How do you prove that?

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Bidenomics: “domestically focused engine of mass employment and distributed prosperity.”

Posted on April 4, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Jobs that don’t require college and academic talents. Biden is fixing the mass disability problem.

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“More than a dozen current and former law enforcement officers have been arrested and charged in connection with the insurrection at the Capitol”

Posted on April 4, 2021 by jgordon

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Canada: “shut down indoor dining at bars and restaurants, worship services and indoor group fitness classes for three weeks.”

Posted on April 3, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Trying to slow variants while vaccinating.

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New Brunswick “Public Health is closely monitoring a cluster of more than 40 New Brunswick patients with symptoms similar to those of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatal brain disease.”

Posted on April 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. More details.

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“In March 2021, public health officials in British Columbia, Canada revealed that they’ve been tracking a local cluster of people who have developed a dementia-like condition with no clear cause.”

Posted on April 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Well that’s nice. Also, it’s New Brunswick, not BC!!

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The panicky M1 MacBook Air known as Crashy: something with fast user switching?

Posted on April 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Or maybe it’s all Chrome. Anyway, removing those two seems to have helped.

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“You go smoke weed in Amsterdam, you think you’re all free, and what you don’t realize is that there’s a camera in every shop and there’s a camera on every corner.”

Posted on April 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A longtime black market dealer is first to explain why the black market endures. Seriously, this is obvious but nobody mentions it. He gets first.

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“Global Peace Index ranking the world’s safest countries, where we come in 128th, right after Myanmar, Niger, and South Africa”

Posted on April 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. But we are in top 3 for guns per capita and mass murders. So not all bad.

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NYT article on Latino support for Trump omits memtion of racism and riot backlash.

Posted on April 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Racism and misogyny aren’t white only.

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“Matt Gaetz lifestyle and behavior, if not the specific alleged crimes, appear to have been common knowledge in MAGA world and among DC Republicans generally.”

Posted on April 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Party of the American Evangelical.

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Scalzi on American fascism: “Trump may not have come into the White House as a fascist, but he certainly left as one.”

Posted on April 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Nothing to disagree with here. Trumpism is fascism.

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Boehner unloads on GOP whackos.

Posted on April 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Says conspiracy thinking took over Ailes mind. I think happened to Murdoch too.

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Vaccine resistance is mostly a White non-college thing.

Posted on April 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Black: “13 percent … said that they would “definitely not” get a vaccine… Among Republicans and white evangelical Christians, almost 30 percent of each group”

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Mysteries in Human RNA pseudo-enzymes.

Posted on April 1, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “ there’s the question of what hovlinc is actually doing in human biology. It’s down to us, the chimpanzees, and bonobos”

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The COVID insanity of Alex Berenson.

Posted on April 1, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Massive ego, peculiar delusions, an addiction to applause, and a profitable scam. Like Musk without the actual achievements.

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UFOs again.

Posted on April 1, 2021 by jgordon

Link. They were big in my childhood, one of my few models was a saucer. Makes no sense to be aliems of course, but we lost sense long ago.

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Jurors in the Derek Chauvin Trial.

Posted on March 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Sounds like right people.

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The cost of China’s market is not in dollars.

Posted on March 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Moral corporations risk extinction.

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The science of mixed vaccines.

Posted on March 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Been studied a long time but only now do we have the right trial conditions.

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“of the 31 cases they have analyzed, 29 of them have been women”

Posted on March 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Maybe use AZ in men over 30?

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Lesson from study of COVID in gym: people go when they are sick.

Posted on March 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. For this and future pandemics: people can’t be trusted to stay home when sick. Denial, stupidity, and nastiness are common. Ventilation, remote work, distancing amd masks work because they are verifiable.

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“we should think of China as being more or less the kind of place we used to be, but with better technology.”

Posted on March 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We are bad now, but we used to be a lot worse. Noah is arguing against exoticism, not providing comfort.

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