Link. There was a lot of optimism about terminal care guidance documents in 90s. Did not work out well. Harder problem than you think.
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Feedbin makes it easy to follow YouTube channels.
Link. Great new feature. I’ve used Feedbin for years, so pleased with it.
No one knows how much the government can borrow.
Link. “Our lack of knowledge about borrowing constraints represents a deep, profound ignorance”. Must read.
Vaccine supply: current status
Link. Overall encouraging.
Scientific computing: ten advances
Link. Many familiar. They should have included Medlne/Pubmed though.
darktable: open source photo management
Link. In a just world Apple would support as penance for the Aperture disaster.
Trump Is the Worst President in History.
Link. A well researched case. We have had some horrendous stinkers, but Trump’s record may never be surpassed.
Unles Hawley wins.
“turnout, as a percentage of the voting age population, jumped from 54.8 percent to 62.0. That’s the highest in well over a century.”
Link. Immense struggle.
Convert Tweets to SVG Images – Tweetpik
Link. For attachment, instead of screenshots.
“the cyberpunk writers of the 80s were just too good at predicting the future”
Link. Gibson kind of ruined the revolution for me. Nothing was terribly surprising – except tech regressions.
The Apple charger morass.
Link. Buy Anker.
General relativity was work of many minds.
Link. Rich collaborations. 2015
“In four years, President Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims”
Link. A record that may never be broken.
“Some Proud Boys became furious that Mr. Trump did not appear interested in issuing presidential pardons for their members who were arrested.”
Link. Betrayed. Not only violent misogynistic racists, also gullible fools.
QAnon crumbles.
Link. Q jumps ship. Grifters moving on.
The Unlamented Man.
Link. Like the rhythm of this one.
To the end Redfield defends Trump – by omission
Link. What did Trump have on him? Why this bizarre loyalty?
Fox moves even further to the chaos fringe.
Link. Lining up with Trump’s Patriot Party — because their advertisers need gullible viewers.
Thomas Tempelmann – Prefs Editor GUI for defaults command.
Link. Recommended by Eclectic Light. Free.
OWC Thunderbolt 4 dock: “three 40Gbps downstream Thunderbolt ports, three 10Gbps USB (Type A) ports, a USB 2 port (e.g. for keyboard, mouse, or iPhone), a Gigabit Ethernet jack, an SD card slot (312 MB/s), a 3.5mm audio jack”
Link. One port will connect via adapter to my trust elgato T2 dock which has firewire 800/400 connections.
TNC writes again.
Link. Short and not remarkable — except it’s the first I have seen from him in ages.
“commission produced its report just four months after it was created and less than a month after Mr. Trump publicly announced its members.”
Link. Written by interns.
Gene therapy cures for sickle-cell anemia and beta-thalassemia. (Dec 2020)
Link. Autologous BMT required, but still.
The modified MOG-epitope mRNA treatment “was capable of blocking all clinical signs of EAE in mice”
Link. Treating mouse model of MS by inducing immune tolerance to mRNA produced antigen. Early days, etc etc.
“he never forgot a slight, slept only a few hours a night and married several times, lastly to a woman named Milonia.”
Link. Hah hah. Caligula of course.
“since the emergence of the new coronavirus, some scientists have revisited a theory that a pandemic in 1890, which killed about one million people worldwide, may have been caused by OC-43, one of the four common cold coronaviruses.”
Link. For today’s population that would be 5 million, and the population in 1890 skewed much younger. So today maybe 6-9 million dead from OC-43 were it to appear today. Now it causes a runny nose.
Trump denialists posted fake Fed climate docs to a denialist site.
Link. Last days of the idiocracy.
“wild pig, outlined and filled in with mulberry-hued pigment, dates back at least 45,500 years, according to a study published on Wednesday in Science Advances. It was discovered deep inside a cave called Leang Tedongnge in December 2017”
Link. A good day for a grad student.
“Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Cerner, Epic Systems, the Mitre Corporation and the Mayo Clinic — announced on Thursday morning that they were developing technology standards to enable consumers to obtain and share their immunization records through hea
Link. Where’s Apple?
M1 Mac startup mode.
Link. Diagnostics seems a bit obscure.
Mac Intel – startup modes reference.
Link. I didn’t know Internet Diagnostics vs Diagnostics.
China has too much talent.
Link. So does the world. We have a glut of talent. Also an ocean of money looking for opprtunity.
1776 report: slavery not an issue because of things.
Link. Do they even mention native peoples? History by Charlie Kirk.
The genius Biden plan: “the obvious plan for combating Covid-19, full of ideas many others have thought of and strategies it is appalling we haven’t yet tried”
Link. We can do this.
Zwift sort-of has some Apple Watch integration … maybe
Link. It doesn’t work so far on my iPhone, but in theory there’s something. (I think their instructions have confused Zwift.app with Zwift Companion.)
TidBITS reviews Signal
Link. Best summary anywhere.
M1 Mac Fast User Switching bug with screensaver lockout.
Link. I had something similar with Mojave on my 2015 Air but bug was fixed in last point update.
Charles Stross imagines Mars after Musk – with COVID-70.
Link. Fun! Charles knows the tech context is unimaginable that far out, but it’s a neat bit of world building.
“using extra solar peak capacity for BTC-mining could make solar a better financial proposition for a utility”
Link. Weird idea but I get it. There are lots of other ways to use the “excess capacity” buffer though.
“It’s not clear whether 3.5 percent unemployment will be the exact level America will achieve again. What is clear is that many policymakers want to test what the economy is capable of, rather than guessing at a magic figure in advance.”
Link. I remember advocating for this in the 90s. If only I were Emperor.
Loathsome Gazelka and MN GOP make national news after COVID death.
Link. “Afterward, Republicans alerted their own caucus about the virus outbreak, but not Democrats. They instructed Republican staff members not to go to the Capitol for a special session of the Legislature on Nov. 12 — but did not inform Democrats … Mr. Gazelka’s mother-in-law died in December after contracting Covid-19.”
COVID-19 twin studies: substantial variation
Link. “identical twins differ by an average of 5.2 early and naturally occurring developmental mutations”. Intriguingly similar to variation in schizophrenia between identical twins.
Nordic ski program to roadless Alaskan communities: “… other coaches and I went for an 11 p.m. walk in dim sunlight and got charged by a polar bear.”
Link. Pre-industrial humans lived there. Almost every paragraph in this article surprised me.
“There’s only one multibillion-dollar media corporation that deliberately and aggressively propagated these untruths. That’s the Fox Corporation, and its chairman, Rupert Murdoch; his feckless son Lachlan”
Link. Why isn’t this said weekly or daily?
“The police visible in the videos fought tenaciously, and the resulting sense of betrayal in the crowd is palpable.”
Link. The best documented mob in the history of mobs.
“America needs to humble itself and start copying best practice from countries that have things figured out more than we do, instead of imagining that we can reinvent the wheel.”
Link. Hell yes. Start with Canada and Germany then Taiwan and Singapore.
“31 percent of Americans believe it is a good idea to have a “strong incumbent leader who does not have to bother with Congress and elections.”
Link. Oct 2020 poll. The government of ancient Egypt waa stable for thousands of years of very limited learning.
“Peloton has a customer rating of 1.4 out of five stars with the Better Business Bureau”
Link. My Schwinn IC 4 was far less expensive, has worked well, and can be used with Peloton app, Zwift, and other services.
“his allies collecting fees from wealthy felons or their associates to push the White House for clemency,”
Link. Of course.
“Mr. Irving, the House security chief, was against putting the National Guard on alert because he had concerns about the “optics” of such a move”
Link. Lots of people want to talk with him.