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“Just eight Republicans, 3 percent of all GOP lawmakers, voiced support for Trump’s current strategy of claiming victory and asking state legislatures to declare him the victor in states that he lost.”

Posted on December 5, 2020 by jgordon

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”

Posted on December 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Good news.

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“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.”

Posted on December 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Had the election been closer the coup would have led to mass strife.

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Tony Hsieh’s self-destruction.

Posted on December 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Imagine the grief of his parents.

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“Biden’s popular vote margin by percentage (4.4 percent) far surpasses Obama’s 2012 victory over Mitt Romney.”

Posted on December 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. America, in the end, rejected Trump by as much as is probably possible for America.

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Newsmax viewed. Beyond Fox.

Posted on December 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. If Fox is heroin, Newsmax is meth.

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“substantial proportion of the 50 billion pounds has been siphoned off and is being used for illegal activity such as money laundering”

Posted on December 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Illegal enterprises growing with COVID.

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Long haul COVID group: “85 percent report cognitive dysfunction, 81 percent had numbness and other neurological sensations”

Posted on December 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Brain injury. We don’t know prevalence or age distribution.

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“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”

Posted on December 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. This has not been communicated well.

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The Puzzle of Low Interest Rates – Mankiw

Posted on December 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Money/opportunity ratio high. Wealth concentration. Redistribution by government is most economically productive use now.

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Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling

Posted on December 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Obviously I don’t understand but it soumds important.

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Fauci day: “11:50 a.m. to 12 p.m. A bathroom break and more email”

Posted on December 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Insane energy and discipline.

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6PPD-quinone, produced from car tire preservative, kills coho salmon.

Posted on December 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Doubt only them.

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“we are well into stage three of GOP gutlessness.”

Posted on December 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The Benedict Arnold Party.

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Where are you in vaccine queue?

Posted on December 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I’m near front.

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Bezos: reversible and irreversible decisions.

Posted on December 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. So much better than the usual CEO advice.

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“46-minute videotaped speech that denounced a “rigged” election and was filled with lies”

Posted on December 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Quality journalists know how to cover Trump.

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“Trump tried to leverage the power of the presidency to subvert the vote and overturn the election results.”

Posted on December 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. If he had won we’d be done.

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“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”

Posted on December 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. This year we have had lots of proof that very stupid people can be quite successful.

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Elastomeric masks: when you really don’t want COVID.

Posted on December 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. We need more like ths.

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“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.”

Posted on December 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Nixon.

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“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”

Posted on December 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Sounds like a rough neighborhood.

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Trump despicable again: claims COVID carr facility is fake

Posted on December 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. He is a horrible person.

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“it can be done by policy, by making life more secure for those without a college degree.”

Posted on December 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. When David Brooks and I agree the apocalypse is nigh. But what policy?!

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“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.”

Posted on December 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Science is the miracle.

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“The FEC should be reshaped to emulate Australia’s independent election commission”

Posted on December 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Essential reforms. Stop Trump II takeover.

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Predict Hospitalization Risk for COVID-19 Positive

Posted on December 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Age, gender, BMI

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“Atlas said what Trump wanted to hear so Trump elevated him to say the same things to the American public”

Posted on December 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. A fair appraisal of Atlas. A useful minion.

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‘The Paranoid Style in American Politics’

Posted on December 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. We have always been like this.

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The Biden administration should crack down on Tesla.

Posted on December 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. No sh*t. They are insane.

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McKinsey: Q3/4 for pandemic end

Posted on December 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Earlier return to normalcy – maybe summer. As good a summary as I have seen.

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Vaccine vs natural immunity: often one is better.

Posted on December 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Measles vs HPV. Early indications are COVID vaccine immunity will be longer lasting and more reliable than infectious immunity.

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Protein Folding, 2020 – Derek Lowe

Posted on November 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. He’s more restrained than me but puts into context of last decade of progress. Huge promise across this area.

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AlphaFold: Google claims ability to model protein folding accurately.

Posted on November 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. If true this is an earthquake class event.

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App Store apps failing to install on High Sierra

Posted on November 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Apple admits nothing.

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How Sidney Powell veered off the rails.

Posted on November 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I want an MRI and a PET scan.

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“In its extreme form, which is what we’ll talk about here, narcissism acquires antisocial (psychopathic) features”

Posted on November 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Reads as though an experienced therapist contibuted. Desire and belief merge.

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“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.”

Posted on November 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. There have been so many bad Presidents. We might do better with a lottery.

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WaPo digs into the Trump-GOP 2020 attack on democracy.

Posted on November 28, 2020 by jgordon

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.”

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Byrne and his MAGA hacker team: Saving Trump.

Posted on November 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. He’s almost certainly schizophrenic.

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“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?”

Posted on November 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link.

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Salvaging the EPA.

Posted on November 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. If Trump had won it would have died.

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macOS Big Sur Known Issues.

Posted on November 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Why update before these are fixed?

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Francis essay.

Posted on November 27, 2020 by jgordon

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.

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The future of COVID control: adjusting vaccines

Posted on November 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. It will move in and out of animal reservoirs and new vaccines will be needed.

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“Derek Kaye, who ran a feet of food trucks before the pandemic stunted his business, switched gears this summer to start NYC Propane Delivery”

Posted on November 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Respect.

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Crampons, Gaiters & MICROspikes®: Winter Hiking Traction

Posted on November 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link.

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Thanksgiving – Sean Carroll: Black hole entropy.

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Read the predecessors. (Also, I’ve been reading him a ong time.)

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Autoimmune Disorders don’t seem to change COVID-19 risks.

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

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.

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“… 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”

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

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.”

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