Link. Xi is utterly humorless.
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How mountain bike tires work.
Link. So much more than I knew.
Dlive – streaming for deplorables.
Link. “BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file sharing service, stepped in to buy Dlive. BitTorrent’s parent company, Tron, is owned by Justin Sun, a Chinese cryptocurrency multimillionaire.” Shows micro-currencies can work.
“every sample of serum in the study neutralized the virus, regardless of its mutations, Dr. Bloom said, adding that it would take a few more years before the vaccines need to be tweaked.”
Link. Evolutionary biologists and vaccine specialists cautiously optimistic. It is adapting faster than some expected however.
America’s Cold Civil War – Noahpinion
Link. I have some analytic objections but this is an excellent starting point.
“there’s evidence that even though it’s not conscious, humans are actually still capable of detecting Earth’s magnetism.”
Link. Cryptochromes is a great name.
“textbook example of cascading mistakes of intelligence, preparation, training and, most of all, police leadership”
Link. Early analysis.
147 GOP Federal legislators voted to overturn an election. A hall of shame.
Link. Fischbach and Hagedorn from MN. Remember this. One day, a monument to them in DC.
“50 police officers were injured as the mob swarmed barricades, threw objects, battered doors, smashed windows and overwhelmed some of the officers who tried to resist the advancing crowd.”
Link. Lots of arrests to come.
GOP can’t reform – their voters are truly devoted to Trump.
Link. Cruz and Hawley forever.
“The election should be overturned because Trump and his coalition are supposed to have won and supposed to remain in power, because their voters are entitled to legitimate political representation and the opposition’s are not.”
Link. The worst President ever yes. But how bad is the GOP today compared to political parties of the past?
SF Books That Did Not Belong in the Childrens’ Section of the Library
Link. A friendly librarian let me smuggle out adult books. One day I got caught.
NYT IDs several rioters.
Link. Get a lawyer now.
“Second, we love power. Imagine how much you love your children, and then multiply it by a thousand.”
Link. Resignation letter.
Multiple security force resignations and firings post insurrection.
Link. We need to learn much more.
Flying is higher risk than expected.
Link. Wear N95 or closest available. Do not eat. Do not remove. Ideally avoid flying unless immunized or post-infection.
Trumpsurrection: take from the Left.
Link. I like description of GOP split between Romney party in Senate camp and POT in House.
Madness on Capitol Hill
Link. Superb description.
Fix Autocorrect’s Bad Habits by Resetting Your iPhone Dictionary | WIRED
Link. Doing this. AC is awful now.
Facebook bows to Apple.
Link. Once it was strong, now it is weak.
When2Meet replaces Doodle.
Link. Outlook uses FindTime.
“You are chewing real, gristly fat from some animal you just killed and cooked because if you eat only lean meat you’ll starve to death or get protein poisoning”
Link. Dogs don’t have energy hogging overdeveloped brains to feed.
Rat abandons ship: Facebook and Trump.
Link. Zuck is king of the rats.
“greater proportion of Democrats and especially Black voters returned to the polls than Republicans and white voters without college degrees”
Link. Black race and white college. Curious to see gender data.
The ACA lives: “Democrats could use reconciliation to reverse those changes, although they’d be likely to reinstate only a nominal fee for going uninsured.”
Link. Winning the Senate means ACA likely to survive for decades. Public option unlikely though.
“As the jellyfish rises in the water, the starting and stopping vortices meet, producing a virtual wall that aids propulsion.”
Link. Surface effect.
Why the evolution of vaccine resistance is less of a concern than the evolution of drug resistance | PNAS
Link. I’d wondered why. Appreciate this.
“If the self-styled revolutionaries were lawless, that was because their leaders told them that the law had already been broken, and in the most profound, irreversible way”
Link. Trump and GOP own the coup. The invading bozos are brainless pawns.
Kim Dine, who was chief of the Capitol Police from 2012 to 2016. “How it happened, I can’t figure that out.”
Link. Yep.
This is a Coup.
Link. White non-college underemployed riot.
“inactive people start moving more if they receive daily step targets on their phone that exceed their usual number of steps — but only up to a point.”
Link. Useful for practice.
“More than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways, and access point controllers contain a hardcoded admin-level backdoor account that can grant attackers root access to devices via either the SSH interface or the web administration panel.”
Link. Apple should not have left the business.
“Under a steady vaccine supply of 6 million doses per week, the flexible strategy would result in an additional 23% to 29% of COVID-19 cases averted compared with the fixed strategy”
Link. Delaying 2nd vaccine.
Making the case: Coronavirus Escape From a Wuhan lab.
Link. Xi’s actions over past few months make this more plausible.
“We are witnessing one of the greatest challenges and attacks on the American republic in the country’s history”
Link. Those who served tryranny must be remembered.
“plain-spoken politician, Ms. Sturgeon said she did not know what Mr. Trump’s travel plans were, but that she hoped his immediate plan was to exit the White House. “
Link. I like to think that is a paraphrase of a more colorful reaponse.
More than 40 people tested positive after Christmas services at a church in Massachusetts. – The New York Times
Link. Photo suggests a ventilation nightmare. No discussion in article.
Cleta got caught violating her firm’s rules.
Link. She lied. Didn’t dream call would cone out.
Republicans may crash American government.
Link. Trump will go all the way. Many GOP will follow him. America has entered a new historic era.
“South Korea’s fertility rate, a measurement of the average number of children per woman, is the world’s lowest”
Link. SK needs a rethink.
EPA adopts plan developed to protect smoking from science.
Link. There are so many many reasons the GOP should die. (Biden will repeal.)
The Vaccine War: managing resistant COVID
Link. Would be a lot easier without Cruz, Hawley, and their fellows.
Trump’s Georgia Fraud Claims. Debunked.
Link. It’s useful to see the list. Basically anything Team Trump could imagine.
WI vaccine saboteur was mentally ill and risk to his family.
Link. Sounds like a real danger to his wife and children. I hope judge made the right decision in releasing him.
Masks and Face Coverings for the Lay Public: A Narrative Update: Annals of Internal Medicine: Vol 0, No 0
Link. Exhaustive.
The Office we expected in 1998 may be here.
Link. I’ve seen so many false starts over 25 years. Maybe this time for real?
ER docs and paradox of COVID unemployment.
Link. “private-equity firms, that employ thousands of doctors who work at hundreds of hospitals.”. Learnimg why everyone fears private equity.
SolarWinds: “company puts its engineering in the hands of cheaper Eastern Europe coders, where it’s easier for Russian engineers to penetrate their product development.”
Link. At root — problems with incentives, government purchasing, and measuring sotware quality.
AT&T, Charles Schwab and Citigroup fumd the coup.
Link. Thank you Lincoln project.
“Asking whether he thinks this or that claim is ‘true’ would make no more sense to him than asking a novelist whether her latest chapter is ‘true’.”
Link. Psychopath for sure, but I think he believes.