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“Pandemic and quarantine and economic collapse and George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and anti-maskers and the election and the Stupidest Attempted Coup in Modern World History and 300,000 people dead”
Link. My small personal writing project stuck too.
Future war: “one trend in 21st century defense will be reassuringly human: the continued rise of special forces”
Link. All with college degrees. In the US the military was a major government run employment service for the non-college. That will slowly go away.
State colleges face the crunch.
Link. Overspent on amenities but depending on budget quirks they might not have saved much of that anyway.
“constraints on the amount of spatial curvature we have … tell us that it must go on for at least ~400 times the part visible to us in all directions”
Link. Furthest theoretically visible object is 61 billion ly. “energy conservation only works at a particular location, not for the expanding Universe”
“The intellectual forces behind Goldwater’s sudden rise thought that Eisenhower and J.F.K. were agents, wittingly or otherwise, of the Communist conspiracy”
Link. Democracy, like science, is not something most humans enjoy.
Wonder Woman 1984 Is Bursting With Unfinished Thoughts | Tor.com
Link. I agree. There’s a good movie buried by odd choices. The possession was nuts.
“We seem in India to be regressing into a Hindu version of Pakistan”
Link. A bad case of Trump-disease.
Chinese Demography: first of a series
Link. Noah Simpson is doing a series on China’s Power.
Zika: “the virus ran its course, infected a large portion of the population, and herd immunity developed”
Link. There wasn’t time to test a vaccine. Good retrospective, I went looking for it.
There is a climate doom cult around “Deep Adaptation” book.
Link. Poorly edited piece obfuscates how bad book is.
“in reality, there’s no clear cutoff between a virus that travels in aerosols and one that travels in larger droplets”
Link. Names are powerful. Confusing classification with reality is a perennial problem in medicine. The model is not the truth.
“For hours, the alarm on the teacher’s bedside monitor bleated. Her oxygen level was dangerously low, her pulse racing and her blood pressure soaring. Still, she remained conscious, saying she could not breathe”
Link. South Africa. Spread there is weird.
Toxic Fumes On Planes.
Link. “Senior Boeing engineers worried that data from sensors would prove damaging in lawsuits by sick passengers and crew member.”. Another job for Biden.
Nuclear weapons agency breached.
Link. Cybersecurity agency overwhelmed.
“Russia has not terminated its chemical weapons program, but has instead disguised its development capability behind a network of state-run institutes.”
Link. Very bad people.
“President Trump’s grants of clemency to convicted liars, corrupt congressmen and child-killing war criminals”
Link. His people.
How Amazon Wins.
Link. Ugly.
Immunocompromised hosts accelerate viral evolution.
Link. Obviously must happen all viruses, not just COVID-19.
Middle class existence requires a college degree.
Link. This has been true for a long time.
536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’
Link. Icelandic volcano. Took a lot to kill the Roman Empire.
The US needs genomic surveillance now.
Link. When high risk mutants identified intensify local vaccination and reduce spread.
Camera geekery: ProRAW.
Link. Goes deep fast.
Brave CEO is a Trumpista.
Link. Do not give this guy money.
For history: Trump pardons of 12/22/2020.
Link. Hoping we find new crimes to return them to prison.
Pollster comes close to admitting urban riots cost Dems Senate.
Link. I’m amazed Biden pulled it off.
“Park Avenue apartment that Ms. Vrablic, Mr. Scalzi and another Deutsche Bank colleague purchased for about $1.5 million from a company called Bergel 715 Associates in June 2013. Mr. Kushner held an ownership stake in that company at the time.”
Link. There is so much of this ahead.
Germany also has a Nazi problem.
Link. 2020.
“The Ashburn area outside D.C. is the largest data center market in the world,” said Mr. Lin of Equinix. “It’s really the hub of the digital economy in a lot of ways”
Link. Underseas cables come ashore.
Seoul COVID eruption.
Link. Doesn’t explain how controls failed. We thought SK was on top of this thing.
FFmpeg FOSS video editing toolkit.
Link. Are there similar projects now?
SolarWinds was good at selling to government.
Link. The disaster analysis should focus on why SolarWinds won government contracts. I suspect this will highlight regulations and laws that confound gov software buys.
Save America, move to Austin.
Link. It could work.
Ad Tech bubble.
Link. The tech is camouflage, the real story is monopoly rent.
“Some of them are also less afraid of contracting Covid-19 because the pandemic appears to have been mostly stamped out in China, he said.”
Link. Easier decision here.
Spike model: “… an innovation that was rejected for publication by scientific journals five times because reviewers questioned its relevance.”
Link. Genius needs persistence.
Pfizer anaphylaxis – PEG or not.
Link. Good review of the analyses.
“Trump’s unofficial election advisory council now includes a felon, adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory, a White House trade adviser and a Russian agent’s former lover”
Link. In the movie this kind of team always wins in the end.
“Case studies on these immunocompromised people have shown that the virus can accumulate a large number of mutations as it replicates in their bodies for a long period of time.”
Link. Grim news.
“Mr. Trump was tweeting out anti-mask claims minutes after Mr. Pence received his vaccine.”
Link. Pence v Trump will be fun to watch.
Engaging With Trump’s Die-Hard Supporters Isn’t Productive.
Link. Mass delusions are common in every culture and history. Sometimes they destroy societies, most often they collapse. What do experts say about engagement with the deluded?
“The Republican Party has been radicalized, with countless Republican lawmakers and other prominent figures within the party having revealed themselves to be moral cowards”
Link. No moral credibility at Federal level.
A little more clarity on the latest fail of US cybersecurity.
Link. That we know of.
“skepticism of science, impatience with health restrictions, prioritization of personal politics over public safety, undisciplined communications, chaotic management style, indulgence of conspiracies, proclivity toward magical thinking, allowance of tur
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“If you disable SIP on an Apple Silicon Mac, you lose support for the Apple DRM. (FairPlay)”
Link. Follow the money.
“AppTrackingTransparency is a great step forward for Apple. When a company does the right thing for its users, EFF will stand with it”
Link. Suck it Facebook.
“An arrangement brokered by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will deliver cheap vaccines throughout most of Latin America.”
Link. Credit.
My 2015 post on why Trump was a sign of a healthy democracy.
Link. I didn’t actually say a *President* Trump was good for democracy.
Monitoring the patient with chronic kidney disease — my ABFM QI project criteria.
Link. I like my new personal CKD monitoring checklist.
“police killings went from about 4% of violent U.S. deaths at the turn of the century to about 9% in the 2010s”
Link. We need so much more social science research.