Link. Of the 8 I’d guess 1-2 are idiots and the rest don’t give a sh*t.
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“metrics in the HHS dataset that we are able to evaluate appear to be at least as accurate and reliable as the state data”
Link. Good news.
“30% of the PA Assembly seeking to overturn the results of an election that Biden won by 82K votes. Signers include the House Speaker & Majority Leader.”
Link. Had the election been closer the coup would have led to mass strife.
Tony Hsieh’s self-destruction.
Link. Imagine the grief of his parents.
“Biden’s popular vote margin by percentage (4.4 percent) far surpasses Obama’s 2012 victory over Mitt Romney.”
Link. America, in the end, rejected Trump by as much as is probably possible for America.
Newsmax viewed. Beyond Fox.
Link. If Fox is heroin, Newsmax is meth.
“substantial proportion of the 50 billion pounds has been siphoned off and is being used for illegal activity such as money laundering”
Link. Illegal enterprises growing with COVID.
Long haul COVID group: “85 percent report cognitive dysfunction, 81 percent had numbness and other neurological sensations”
Link. Brain injury. We don’t know prevalence or age distribution.
“they were less worried than last spring about socializing outdoors, touching surfaces or sending young children to school. They were more worried about indoor air transmission and the dangers of not wearing masks”
Link. This has not been communicated well.
The Puzzle of Low Interest Rates – Mankiw
Link. Money/opportunity ratio high. Wealth concentration. Redistribution by government is most economically productive use now.
Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling
Link. Obviously I don’t understand but it soumds important.
Fauci day: “11:50 a.m. to 12 p.m. A bathroom break and more email”
Link. Insane energy and discipline.
6PPD-quinone, produced from car tire preservative, kills coho salmon.
Link. Doubt only them.
“we are well into stage three of GOP gutlessness.”
Link. The Benedict Arnold Party.
Where are you in vaccine queue?
Link. I’m near front.
Bezos: reversible and irreversible decisions.
Link. So much better than the usual CEO advice.
“46-minute videotaped speech that denounced a “rigged” election and was filled with lies”
Link. Quality journalists know how to cover Trump.
“Trump tried to leverage the power of the presidency to subvert the vote and overturn the election results.”
Link. If he had won we’d be done.
“McInerney, who served as the Air Force’s assistant vice chief of staff in the 1990s, told Howse he’d heard reports that U.S. soldiers were killed in a CIA-led operation to retrieve ballot servers in Frankfurt, Germany”
Link. This year we have had lots of proof that very stupid people can be quite successful.
Elastomeric masks: when you really don’t want COVID.
Link. We need more like ths.
“What about the Black Africans?’ Well, you can see something, the vitality, there. I mean, they have a little animallike charm. But God, those Indians, ack, pathetic.”
Link. Nixon.
“Holm 15A, formed from yet another merger of two already-huge cored elliptical galaxies that wprobably formed from the combination of eight smaller spiral galaxies over billions of years”
Link. Sounds like a rough neighborhood.
Trump despicable again: claims COVID carr facility is fake
Link. He is a horrible person.
“it can be done by policy, by making life more secure for those without a college degree.”
Link. When David Brooks and I agree the apocalypse is nigh. But what policy?!
“Collectively, as a society, we wrung our hands and ran in circles and screeched and died and screeched and died and screeched and died until scientists made vaccines against the virus.”
Link. Science is the miracle.
“The FEC should be reshaped to emulate Australia’s independent election commission”
Link. Essential reforms. Stop Trump II takeover.
Predict Hospitalization Risk for COVID-19 Positive
Link. Age, gender, BMI
“Atlas said what Trump wanted to hear so Trump elevated him to say the same things to the American public”
Link. A fair appraisal of Atlas. A useful minion.
‘The Paranoid Style in American Politics’
Link. We have always been like this.
The Biden administration should crack down on Tesla.
Link. No sh*t. They are insane.
McKinsey: Q3/4 for pandemic end
Link. Earlier return to normalcy – maybe summer. As good a summary as I have seen.
Vaccine vs natural immunity: often one is better.
Link. Measles vs HPV. Early indications are COVID vaccine immunity will be longer lasting and more reliable than infectious immunity.
Protein Folding, 2020 – Derek Lowe
Link. He’s more restrained than me but puts into context of last decade of progress. Huge promise across this area.
AlphaFold: Google claims ability to model protein folding accurately.
Link. If true this is an earthquake class event.
App Store apps failing to install on High Sierra
Link. Apple admits nothing.
How Sidney Powell veered off the rails.
Link. I want an MRI and a PET scan.
“In its extreme form, which is what we’ll talk about here, narcissism acquires antisocial (psychopathic) features”
Link. Reads as though an experienced therapist contibuted. Desire and belief merge.
“I do it to discredit you all and demean you all, so that, when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you.”
Link. There have been so many bad Presidents. We might do better with a lottery.
WaPo digs into the Trump-GOP 2020 attack on democracy.
Link. “you were treated like a dog,” Trump complained, using one of his favorite put-downs, even though many people treat dogs well, like members of their own families.”
Byrne and his MAGA hacker team: Saving Trump.
Link. He’s almost certainly schizophrenic.
“travel extremely close to the speed of light: overtaking a left-handed neutrino so that its spin would appear to reverse from your perspective. Would it suddenly display the properties of a right-handed antineutrino?”
Link.
Salvaging the EPA.
Link. If Trump had won it would have died.
macOS Big Sur Known Issues.
Link. Why update before these are fixed?
Francis essay.
Link. “Pope Francis is the head of the Catholic Church and the bishop of Rome.” Good to know. Everyone getting dings in on Trumpo now.
The future of COVID control: adjusting vaccines
Link. It will move in and out of animal reservoirs and new vaccines will be needed.
“Derek Kaye, who ran a feet of food trucks before the pandemic stunted his business, switched gears this summer to start NYC Propane Delivery”
Link. Respect.
Crampons, Gaiters & MICROspikes®: Winter Hiking Traction
Link.
Thanksgiving – Sean Carroll: Black hole entropy.
Link. Read the predecessors. (Also, I’ve been reading him a ong time.)
Autoimmune Disorders don’t seem to change COVID-19 risks.
Link. Might be that people with disorders are more careful, or that they tend to have hair trigger immune systems that do well with COVID-19.
“… a new iOS kernel exploitation technique that turns a one-byte controlled heap overflow directly into a read/write primitive for arbitrary physical addresses, all while completely sidestepping current mitigations”
Link. “I don’t think this technique represents the current state-of-the-art … it might represent the state-of-the-art of a few years ago.”