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How the South won Reconstruction: “as many as 300 African Americans died in the Wilmington coup.”
Link. Race, inequality, and redistribution – from the Civil War to Reagan’s “welfare queens”.
Pediatric growth hormone therapy: “the risk of developing a cardiovascular event like a heart attack or stroke was two-thirds higher for men and twice as high for women”
Link. Retropective case-control of course. But do short adults have less heart disease?
Kyle Rittenhouse Deserves the Kind of Mercy My Son Did Not Receive.
Link. A few minutes ago I noted how much sorrow there is in life. Applies here.
“economists really did think free trade was good (and most probably still do). What was dishonest — and knowingly dishonest — was the justification given for why it’s good.”
Link. Must read. Why experts lie.
WaPo update on immigration surge.
Link. Biden asked for this job.
VIPIT: alleged AZ vaccine disorder resembles HIT.
Link. Treat like HIT, avoid if history HIT.
Notion for academic collaboration
Link. Sounds interesting.
“Broadly speaking, the racial distribution of mass shootings mirrors the racial distribution of the U.S. population as a whole.”
Link. Like most I assumed was a white thing.
CDC Funding Gun Violence Research For First Time in Decades.
Link. “In 2019, Dr. Rosenberg and Mr. Dickey’s former wife, Betty, a retired former prosecutor and chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, helped persuade Congress to restore the funding.”
Damn. That was kept very quiet.
“The luckiest skiers — or the unluckiest ones, depending on how you feel about wildlife — may run into a snow leopard or a brown bear on the way down.”
Link. I have long wanted to visit Kashmir and return with my head.
Bolsonaro outdoes Trump.
Link. The stupidest of the Americas.
Guantánamo Bay Detainees who were releases.
Link. More relative recovery than I’d have guessed.
MacOS sparse files are a problem for HFS+ Time Machine.
Link. I use several, didn’t realize how much space they took up.
Being Overweight: “I really do agree with all these things! Except when it comes to me.”
Link. An honest personal story from a young woman. My (much older) women friends who have beat their genetic fates exercise like maniacs.
James Henry Hammond: “If they knew the tremendous secret, that the ballot-box is stronger than ‘an army with banners,’ and could combine, where would you be?”
Link. “told anti-slavery northerners how the world really worked”. Hammond’s political career was not derailed by his raping his four nieces.
“Is unintentional lab release a possibility? Yes, as the review commission has noted”
Link. NYT is quite confused about this.
“acknowledged the possibility that the gunman’s motives might never be known”
Link. The probability is schizophrenia. Not that complicated.
REI Member can trade in used gear (in good condition)
Link. Has to be something in their search catalog. Get gift certificate. I’d generally donate but maybe for specialized things…
How to derive E = mc².
Link. Relatively simple!
QAnon pivots to vaccine conspiracy.
Link. Shape-shifting alien lizards meet pedophile pizza dungeons meet lunatic physicians meet Proud Boys meet antivaxxers. All as white as bleached bone.
“everyone quietly stopped believing in the usefulness of academic macro theory”
Link. Macro after the fail.
Is there a limit to intense exercise?
Link. I shouldn’t do CrossFit 7 times a week? This is interesting work. Hope to see more.
“public accounting of the Trump administration’s political interference in science,”
Link. Excellent.
Wolfram on consciousness.
Link. It is a tough topic.
“One of Alissa’s brothers, Ali Aliwi Alissa, 34, told the Daily Beast in a phone interview that his brother was mentally ill and paranoid”
Link. The typical age for schizophrenic break.
Beyond the Standard Model.
Link. Sober physicists are starting to hope.
“The results don’t prove that zombies are theoretically possible”
Link. Slipped that one in you did.
MN: “None of the seven people whose deaths announced Tuesday were residents of long-term care facilities.”
Link. LTC vaccinated – it works. But variants spreading fast.
“patients who got the infused treatment within 10 days of developing symptoms or testing positive had a roughly 70 percent reduced risk of being hospitalized or dying”
Link. Bigger effect than many expected. They do delay vaccination
Neurologic symptoms post-COVID.
Link. From abstract: “most frequent comorbidities were depression/anxiety (42%) and autoimmune disease (16%).”
How to update your Mac’s stuck firmware: wage a war on Apple.
Link. On some machines replacing drive prevents firmware updates.
DeLong: readings in the interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Link. 1990s mostly. I’m not quite many worlds, maybe something like “no worlds”.
Deleting Message conversations as “spam” can disable a user’s account.
Link. Algorithmic. It’s easy to accidentally mark as spam.
“more than 100 U.S. labs working with potential bioterror pathogens had faced secret federal sanctions for safety violations, and that regulators had allowed them to keep conducting experiments while failing inspections, sometimes for years”
Link. Why would Wuhan labs be better?
US may finally fix draft registration inequity.
Link. Insane men-only lasted into 2021.
Post-COVID psychosis.
Link. Sure sounds post-viral. A PET scan would be interesting.
Mars. “water was almost all gone by three billion years ago, around the time on Earth when life consisted of single-cell microbes in the oceans.”
Link. Into rocks. Happens here too, but our volcanic suduction frees water.
“selective pressure on the virus will increase, and if strains emerge that can evade this immunity, these strains can spread.”
Link. This phrasing may be accurate; I don’t know the technical definition of “selection pressure”. NOTE he is not saying immunization increases the risk of disease, but rather increases the probability that new disease is an escape variant.
“main thing accomplished by China’s new “speak loudly and carry a big stick” approach is that other countries are getting freaked out.”
Link. Xi is seen as a Trump-class lunatic — without Trump’s political constraints.
“leaving the theater door open so they can evade the morning and afternoon stonings from passing school children.”
Link. Kabul life is rough.
“investigation of the Carver County outbreak produced one of the most detailed maps of COVID-19 transmission in the yearlong history of the pandemic”
Link. Schools and sports. B117 is taking over MN. As expected.
B.1.1.7 can infect dogs and and produce myocarditis.
Link. I was afraid of that.
“anger at those misguided, arrogant people who would violently protest at local officials’ homes”
Link. Physicians need to be angry now. The protests at people’s homes are bipartisan despicable.
Apps with gross window behaviors: especially Teams.
Link. Teams window handling tells me we are in The Bad Place. “override ⌘W to hide the app instead of whatever broken behavior it would normally do.”
“Writing is not a lucrative career. As with acting or drug sales, only a few very lucky superstars make any money.”
Link. Humans love to write.
“77.5 percent of Minnesotans age 65 and older have received at least one dose of a vaccine.”
Link. Our numbers are rising and so are admissions, but younger now. Need to go even faster.
“77.5 percent of Minnesotans age 65 and older have received at least one dose of a vaccine.”
Link. Our numbers are rising and so are admissions, but younger now. Need to go even faster.
“supplying an edited audiotape or a piece of false evidence to one of the bottom-feeders of the information ecosystem is incredibly easy; after that, others will ensure that it rises up the food chain”
Link. Russia was shocked that Trump lost.
Black and hispanic youth double white COVID death risk.
Link. Do we know if test positivity is higher?