Link. They aren’t big enough to handle this.
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J&J vaccine and the variants.
Link. This is the time for voters to *scream* at GOP legislators to free up funds. We need to ring fence the variants so we need base control urgently.
“On the day of the vote, Lee — who had to escape the Capitol on Sept. 11, 2001 in high heels — decided to wear tennis shoes, just in case.”
Link. Dem reps realizing the GOP legislators are insane.
“the editorial board was making a busy work editorial, and it was foolish.”
Link. Dissing the EOs. WaPo is less stupid and a cheaper subscription.
“A party starts out complaining that taxes are too high; after a while it begins claiming that climate change is a giant hoax; it ends up believing that all Democrats are Satanist pedophiles.”
Link. Where has this happened before?
Game. Stop. – Margins by Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk
Link. Must read.
“don’t force people to subsidize Fox News by including it in basic packages.”
Link. Cable packages that is. The word is getting out. Get rid of your cable TV service now.
“that this is a strain more transmissible but not more severe — that’s not what is happening in Manaus”
Link. Manaus is the laboratory for what happens when you follow Denialist advice.
Google maps adds smart routing for EVs with charge stop plans
Link. High value if works.
Filibuster “win”.
Link. “It is critical to find a way to structure a lot of votes, and work press coverage of them, to make Republicans own their opposition to popular legislation.”
Black nursing home staff in Maryland initially refuse vaccine.
Link. Many respond to patient and individual counseling. Patients often vaccinated. Question is how long to wait before mandate.
The minimum wage pushback – Noahpinion
Link. Keep as a reference. Federal gov interesting case since spans states.
“B.1.351 seems to evade the Lilly monoclonal outright, although the two-antibody Regeneron cocktail still seems effective as that mixture.”
Link. In some situations we will need to type specific patients.
“GameStop looks less like a speculative bubble and more like a contemporary, internet-mediated version of the “bull raids” that were characteristic of the stock market in the early 20th century”
Link. Bryson’s 1927 book mentions these. I think has happened in China for years. Good to see private equity get hurt.
23kya humans and wolves were isolated in Siberia – and dogs were a result.
Link. A hypothesis for the start of a good relationship.
“M1 MacBook Pro could not provide enough power through the two T3 ports to power both SSDs”
Link.
“Many users have reported a worrisome issue with the M1 chip devices. The computers crash suddenly and restart randomly.”
Link. Yep, seeing that. Waiting to decide whether return or not. Do not buy.
“For just $596, an online fraud-protection company that Giuliani called “the only folks to trust that I know of” was selling four years of online defense from home-stealing “cyber thieves.”
Link.
“Pentagon essentially took that power and other authorities away from him ahead of a pro-Trump protest on Jan. 6.”
Link. Lots of murkiness but not yet conspiracy.
The GOP Dem Senators: “Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona”
Link. Winning Ohio seems unlikely – but would be very helpful. Also, we need these two even if we don’t love them.
Portrait of a cultist: Navy SEAL Trumpist.
Link. I wonder if even Trump could deprogram him. Non-college (enlisted).
Analysis of remote work by a digital nomad.
Link. He concludes there are still big advantages to urban clusters. I agree. I’d add developing friendships snd alliances within a company is much easier in person.
Big Sur bug: turn off iCloud syncing for Apple News or burn your data plan.
Link. Nasty.
Publishing code as HTML in WordPress articles.
Link. For both viewing and copy/paste. I think would work on any web page?
Why iPhone is today’s Kodak Brownie Camera.
Link. I was shocked to see the Brownie picture — because I think my father might have had the real thing. I remember touching it.
How to Use Your iPhone as a Webcam
Link. Ani6 gives better results than almost any webcam.
“Minnesota will hold a clinic to vaccinate 15,000 metro area Minnesotans who work in schools or child care facilities.”
Link. Finally.
#Jan25: Arab Spring 10 years Later
Link. Not forgotten.
From 2005: Creating a reference (inetloc) to an network share (smb, afp) that works with keychain (OS X 10.3 – macOS 10.14)
Link. Frustrated with Mojave refusing to remember my slide share folder I dimly recalled a solution from 2005 using inetloc files. Written for OS X 10.3 it works on Mojave.
“no evidence that Mr. Black had participated in any of Mr. Epstein’s criminal activities, or that Mr. Epstein had ever introduced Mr. Black to any underage girl”
Link. Epstein gave great advice on avoiding taxes and Mr Black was terribly grateful so he gave Epstein lots of millions.
NYT Firing of Lauren Wolfe.
Link. “we didn’t end someone’s employment over a single tweet” Article says she had a contingent employment arrangement, not full employee.
Adjusting to a $15 minimim wage.
Link. Reasonable precautions.
ICYMI: “A U.S. carrier group entered the South China Sea, immediately after China mounted a large aerial incursion of Taiwan’s air defense zone.”
Link. I have always thought Taiwan had secret nuclear weapons.
Lockdowns and COVID: fiendishly hard to study.
Link. Sometimes we have to go with expert advice amd extrapolation.
Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen.
Link. Teachers over 45 should be immunized alongside general population over 65.
Saving democracy: A Dem alliance.
Link. I didn’t think we were this smart. No more “defund the police”. They were ready to flood the streets if Trump succeeded in his coup.
Put display to sleep on Mac with Touch ID: ctrl-shift-power replaced by hot corner
Link. I sleep display when I go to bed.
Fauci: “It isn’t like I took any pleasure in contradicting the president of the United States. I have a great deal of respect for the office. But I made a decision that I just had to. Otherwise I would be compromising my own integrity, and be giving a f
Link. Birx was the good soldier who didn’t contradict the commander. Sadly.
macOS: “UserDefaults doesn’t help the user here, and can’t even restore defaults. That must be why it bears its name.”
Link. There’s always a temptation to start over. It’s rarely a good idea.
Birx: “I was not going to go outside of the chain of command”
Link. A good soldier, even when her nation needed something better.
mRNA Vaccines: What Happens.
Link. Way more complicated than the cartoon version.
“36,000 pertussis deaths from 1926 to 1930 in the United States, most in young infants; from 1970 to 1974, there were 52”
Link. Now I know why we call it “acellular”.
Atrial fibrillation and alcohol.
Link. If you have intermittent afib try stopping alcohol. I’m a bit skeptical though. More research.
Don’t blame your hub when your USB Flash (thumb) drive disconnects from your Mac
Link. But let me know if you have one that passes this test!
Hush: free content blocker for Safari.
Link. I will get.
“ informed Mr. Rosen midday on Sunday that the president intended to replace him with Mr. Clark, who could then try to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College results.”
Link. So many impeaxhable acts.
OWC Thunderbolt 4 Hub
Link. “it’s taking forever to get USB-C to where USB-A hubs are—and were 20+ years ago—in terms of price or number of ports, but this is progress.”
Fake GOP rage over Biden’s ‘unity’ speech is a sucker’s game.
Link. The NYT is pathetically eager to play the sucker.
The FBI seems to have a lot of evidence on the Oath Keeper attackers.
Link. They are not cognitively gifted.
“More than 400 teachers and other staff members couldn’t report to school, he said, because they were infected or quarantined, and there weren’t enough substitutes to fill in”
Link. Atlanta suburb with a high comcentration of stupid. (70% Trump)