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“Joe Biden gets yawns when he promotes progressive policies that would generate howls if promoted by a President Sanders or a President Warren”
Link. Sedation as a super-power.
“for every million M1 users, Apple’s software update servers would have to deliver 78 million GB, that’s 78 petabytes”
Link. Remember when a Pb was a lot?
Bezos and Musk love Iain M Banks.
Link. Sh*t. Iain would laugh I hope. Terrible for me to share a love with Musk.
Brave Search.
Link. Damn. Hope this works.
“Covid-19 appears to be one of many infections, from Ebola to strep throat, that can give rise to stubbornly persistent symptoms in an unlucky subset of patients”
Link. Lots of illnesses are thought to have relationships to lots of resolved infections – including diabetes, schizophrenia and myocardial infarction.
Weird world example: “virtual cameras” for online videoconferencing.
Link. Google search is dead and perhaps the web is too. So how are we learning about things now?
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari – a brief review.
Link. Long after it was ‘hot’, I read and liked it — even if for me it was more review than new.
“Big Sur has proven itself more solid than 10.15 Catalina”
Link. Our M1 Big Sur Air has been crashy.
“First, we aim to defend and promote liberal democracy in the United States.”
Link. The Economist kind of owns this space.
What killed George Floyd?
Link. A sober review. Lots of fentanyl but he was opioid tolerant, lots of cardiac disease.
Obsidian: “everything is based on a collection of Markdown files, which means you control your data and can easily get it out of Obsidian if you get drawn to something else new and shiny.”
Link. I’m still Simplenote, but data freedom gets my attention. (Once this was PIM, now PKM).
“Japan has 718 vehicles owned per 1000 people, compared to 875 in the U.S”
Link. They drive 1/3 as much but cars are hard to give up.
“I just laughed,” she told WECT last week. “We have a great sense of humor in my adoptive family and I thought, ‘Of course, my father’s a murderer!’ ”
Link. Finding birth parent a mixed experience for some.
Genomic surveillance – a new public health tool.
Link. Insane numbers. UK and Denmark excel, US only catching up with Biden.
“Trump had fathered “30,573 false or misleading claims” during his presidency.”
Link. Pray this record is never broken.
“Carriers are the enemy: T-mobile follows the industry.”
Link. We all need VPN. (I think encrypted DNS may help.)
“far-right has a weakness for misinformation that the rest of the political spectrum does not.”
Link. Education effect most likely.
“argues that most of the slowdown in TFP comes from slowing educational attainment, lower geographic mobility and economic dynamism, and and the shift from goods to services.”
Link. IT enables new realms of scams.
“poverty-like cognitive burdens even on the middle class”
Link. Generating information asymmetry by complexity attacks to maximize profit or reduce costs. Enabled by IT. One of K’s more important columns.
“cameras that you can fool by slapping a sticker labelled “THIS IS NOT THE DROID YOU ARE LOOKING FOR” on the front of the droid the camera is in fact looking for.”
Link. The best predictions extrapolate scams and laziness.
“Everett will never make you feel stupid for asking the questions an inquisitive child would; he’ll simply tell you answers that are as clear, logical, and internally consistent as they are metaphysically extravagant.”
Link. I think I’m close to the Aaronson state.
“Chinese researchers told them they didn’t have enough properly trained technicians to safely operate their BSL-4 lab.”
Link. If it were found to be a lab escape nobody would be surprised.
Mac firmware problems: “the iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015 – the dreaded iMac17,1.”
Link. Apple’s lemons come up every few years but often take a while to be recognized.
“growing intellectual shift toward the idea of direct cash benefits as the optimal form of government intervention in the economy.”
Link. Rather than setting a higher minimum wage.
China National Digital Currency
Link. “Chinese government more power to monitor finance flows because a digital currency system can record every transaction.” Buries the lede.
“Heidelberg is buying a fleet of hydrogen-powered buses and designing neighborhoods to discourage all vehicles and encourage walking”
Link. The future.
“Once Trump starts squawking, domestic extremists will start walking to the targets he designates in speeches and social media feeds.”
Link. Trump’s malevolence does help FBI know next targets.
COVID Tracking Project: “our data compilation will come to an end on Sunday, March 7,”
Link. Majestic work. We have a functioning governmemt now, so time to rest.
Long term care staff turnover: “average annual rate was 128 percent, with some facilities experiencing turnover that exceeded 300 percent.”
Link. My children know to place me in a 1 star facility with 300% turnover located by a cliff.
After full approval health care employers can mandate immunization.
Link. VA probably will.
“Hindustan Syringes makes its needles from stainless steel strips imported from Japan. The strips are curled into cylinders and welded at the seam”
Link. The supply, design, manufacturing, distribution wonderously global.
Market heat: “second highest since our data began in 1881.”
Link. But in other ways, not so much. New world.
“generous expansion of tax credits for low-income Americans with children, would reduce the poverty rate by more than a quarter for adults and cut the child poverty rate in half.”
Link. Elections matter. So does Manchin.
“companies and organizations that use Microsoft’s Exchange program should assume that they had been hacked sometime between Feb. 26 and March 3”
Link. Always assume China owns you.
Why is my Mac’s Gatekeeper data so out of date?
Link. “data is apparently no longer used by macOS”. Be nice if Apple picked up its trash.
“Exercise equipment shipped by container from Asia to North America more than doubled between September and November”
Link. The containers themselves are in short supply. China rules the world.
“they don’t really care, they’re just going to do what’s right for their business,”
Link. CEOs ready to exterminate workforce post-COVID. But they always were. I don’t get what is new here.
“intermingling of religious faith, conspiratorial thinking, and misguided nationalism on display at the Capitol offered perhaps the most unequivocal evidence yet of the American church’s role in bringing the country to this dangerous moment.”
Link. Russian orthodox church sustained Putin.
The healthy human virome: from virus–host symbiosis to disease – ScienceDirect
Link. On my reading list. Zimmer recommended.
“Democrats gained somewhere between half a percent to one percent among non-college whites and roughly 7 percent among white college graduates”
Link. 7%! Summer riots/defund turned Hispanic voters to GOP.
“Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine,” she added, “because once you’re dead, then that’s a bit too late.”
Link. Woman of the hour.
The weird story of DNP – a drug that reduces weight by mucking up mitochondria
Link. Methamphetamine is definitely safer.
“you missed a payment on your Apple Card” to “we’re locking you out of your Apple ID”.
Link. I really don’t like Apple.
“the proper debate should be about the country and the preservation of the democratic order”
Link. Conservative intellectuals find a noble cause.
“After getting two strikes, the user’s account will be blocked for 12 hours. With three strikes, the account will be blocked for another 12 hours. Four strikes results in a seven-day lockout, while five strikes results in permanent suspension from Twi
Link. Twitter.
“Recruit America’s best high-altitude climbers to place a nuclear powered observation device atop the world’s greatest mountain range”
Link. What similarly insane schemes is CIA pursuing today?
“before long the ecumenicism was gone and the Moral Majority was largely displaced by the Christian Coalition.”
Link. Excellent retrospective from Reagan era CPAC chair. How the GOP collapsed into Trumpism.
“APFS does appear to have achieved its objective of eliminating the routine accumulation of file system errors to which HFS+ was prone. In doing so, it has also removed any need for periodic maintenance.”
Link.
“The fate of humanity in the 21st century and beyond hinges on whether African countries can figure out the riddle of industrialization.”
Link. Or India’s services-first model? It depend most of all on whether humans are still important for manufacturing.