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In 2020, Minneapolis had 82 homicides, making it the third worst year for killings
Link. Back to the 90s, much worse than 2019.
Mullenweg’s favorite 2020 things
Link. I appreciate these lists. I put a few on my Amazon wish list.
How to be an annoying person … with physics!
Link. “You probably meant you lost mass.” Physics humor is droll.
MN: “The seven-day positive case average … is 5.1 percent.”
Link. An unexpected respite, but we aren’t vaccinating very quickly.
WaPo reviews a police reform report prepared by police.
Link. Some of it is good, some less good, but mostly better than status quo.
This weekend: “Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him to act and threatened him with vague criminal consequences if the secretary of state refused to pursue his false claims”
Link. He is terrified.
“Brian Urquhart, a troubleshooting British diplomat who joined the United Nations at its birth in 1945 and over the next four decades was a chief aide to five secretaries general while directing peacekeeping operations around the world,”
Link. Civilization relies on people who are far from famous.
USB 4: Everything We Know, Including Apple Support (Thunderbolt 4).
Link. Starting to understand why nobody wants to write about this.
There’s weirdly little documentation of “Thunderbolt Alternate Mode” (USB 4)
Link. Enables T3 hubs instead of daisy chain only, so I’m surprised discussion so limited.
“after the nurses are finished with everyone who had appointments, rather than waste whatever already-thawed supply is left, they simply go into the street and offer the extra doses to anyone passing by.”
Link. How to run a vaccine program. 24×7.
“The fleeing driver had 50 previous arrests, no driver’s license and had been incarcerated eight times in state prison”
Link. 47yo. We don’t have an answer for people like him.
Cities in distress: “Sometimes it feels like we’re losing our grip on civilization.”
Link. Minneapolis too.
“When factoring in those who are at least somewhat confident that the police would treat them well, a majority of Black Americans (61%) are generally confident”
Link. Preference for police presence similar to white. Aug 2020.
“In 2017, only 10 percent of deaths were registered in Nigeria”
Link.
Once again articles on VCs destroying markets.
Link. Popular around 1998 or so. Too much money, too few opportunities.
“Neutralizing antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 are sustained, associated with COVID19 severity, and evaded by emerging viral variants”
Link. Evaded.
WHO | SARS-CoV-2 Variants.
Link. I suspect SA variant will be found to be more dangerous as well as more communicable.
Natural immunity: “The presence of anti-spike or anti-nucleocapsid IgG antibodies was associated with a substantially reduced risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection in the ensuing 6 months.”
Link. Good.
“lawmakers in the House have flocked to support the effort. In the brief that Mr. Gohmert initially filed in federal court, he indicated that over 140 House Republicans intended to object to Mr. Biden’s victory.”
Link. The death throes of a party. Or of America.
“I’ve never found that V.R. games and social apps live up to the hype. But V.R. fitness does.”
Link. IDSTOC. “I didnt see that one coming.”
“The problem with the Republican “establishment” and with elected officials such as Josh Hawley is not that they are crazy, or that they don’t know any better; it is that they are cowards, and that they are weak.”
Link. Worse than Trump.
Our mild recession: “millions of people no longer working because of the pandemic were disproportionately in lower-paying service jobs”
Link. “Americans’ income from unemployment insurance benefits was 25 times higher from March through November 2020 than in the same period of 2019.”
Trump war on science: resistance by Federal climate scientists.
Link. Virginia Burkett fought honorably. So many slimy characters worked for Trump and his party.
Laïcité: France’s secular ideology.
Link. Quebec is similar, I lived through the transformation from a Catholic to secular state. That was astounding.
GE wind turbine: “A single one will be able to turn out 13 megawatts of power, enough to light up a town of roughly 12,000 homes”
Link. The innovation we need.
Apple silent about recent key service outages.
Link. Were they hacked? Why the secrecy?
Terpstra: “TextSniper is instant OCR for your screenshots, allowing you to just capture an area of your screen and automatically turning it into editable text in your clipboard”
Link. $6.50
“Apple avoided or delayed cutting ties with offenders”
Link. Don’t believe Apple.
Google Authenticator 3.1
Link. Gopgle’s no-backup approach has been disastrous for many.
UK Hail Mary on vaccines: “… is simultaneously the correct decision for them to make and also very bad news”
Link. Biden-Harris, we need you now.
Lilla is back: Dems … “redirected their energies from party politics to movement politics, focusing attention in particular on minority and gender identity movements.”
Link. He’s right. Related: education is NOT the answer to the problems of the Left Behind.
“he got a job as a custodian in the biology department at Washington and Lee in 1963. Within a year he was working as a lab assistant and, once the school allowed Black students, taking night classes”
Link. Hell of a story.
“give it out randomly, like a Walgreens did in Kentucky.”
Link. Vaccination now needs to focus on those who want to be vaccinated.
“The summit of Mount is Everest is about the size of two Ping-Pong tables.”
Link. NYT picks 74 facts for 2020.
“the European Union is finally freed to develop in the way that its other major members clearly want”
Link. Free of Britain.
Post-COVID psychosis.
Link. Presumably organic brain syndrome related to neural injury by virus or immune. Clues to how schizophrenia develops post viral infection. Rare so far.
U.S. Diet Guidelines Sidestep Scientific Advice to Cut Sugar and Alcohol.
Link. These are always political, not clear this is Trumpism or more business as usual.
“Trump is the villain of the year. Of the decade. Perhaps of the century.”
Link. Killed more than bin Laden.
“Black suicide rate is about one-third that of whites.”
Link. That is an astounding difference if true. Gun ownership a factor. I suspect also misclassification. Compare Canada?
“Mr. Xi’s speech foreshadowed what was to come — rewriting the history of the crisis even as it was happening”
Link. So much like Trump.
Britain takes some calculated vaccine risks.
Link. Spacing out 2nd dose, gambling on AZ.
Best CO2 sensors for workplace and gym.
Link. Should be mandatory use.
20 Macs for 2020: #4 – MacBook Air (2nd generation)
Link. My 2016 13” Air is the best computer ever made. Still.
Facebook’s Unknowable Megascale.
Link. “tobacco company executives would have loved to invent tobacco products that didn’t cause cancer.”
The problem is the attention driven business model.
Mac App Store Updates Failing on Mojave
Link. Don’t blame the devs.
“If you update to Safari 14.0.1 or 14.0.2 you will be unable to attach anything to an email”
Link. I can’t upload to web site either. Drives me crazy. I was blaming the web sites.
GOP guy gets COVID at House GOP event because he is an idiot.
Link. He had a hard ride and likely little sympathy.
The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable.
Link. Homer didn’t have a college degree but earned enough to be middle-class in 1980. Very unlikely now.
Jan 1, 2020: “WHO immediately switched to emergency mode. In North Carolina, it was three o’clock in the morning when the conference started.”
Link. And we heard about it when?