Link. Peak Oil came and went and we barely noticed.
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AWS outage: “one of the inputs to the command was entered incorrectly”
Link. You can always rely on people to do things perfectly every time.
“China now reserves the right to arrest Hong Kong activists anywhere in the world, and it’s trying hard not to let Hong Kongers escape to countries like Canada”
Link. Taiwan needs a nuclear deterrent.
NYT covers Veteran suicide risk and never mentions the gun problem.
Link. Removing guns from home is most important intervention and politically unacceptable to advocate.
“proposed change would scale back the required quarantine period to between one week and 10 days, followed by a test for the virus”
Link. Especially for health care workers.
Poison rat: “chew chunks of the plants and spit them back out into their fur, anointing themselves with a form of chemical armor that most likely protects them from predators like hyenas and wild dog”
Link. Limited by the tree availability.
Hospital attacks: “unusual demands, combined with the coordination of the attacks, make “it seem that it was meant to be a disruptive attack” rather than a profit-seeking one”
Link. Hospital accreditation needs to include ability to recover from attacks.
Illegal Tampering by Diesel Pickup Owners Is Worsening Pollution.
Link. America has too many assholes. The best response is to tax trucks more.
What Ever Happened to the Vaping Lung Disease?
Link. Good overview. Vit E cutting THC main cause. Regulation needed.
macOS Finder is deeply confused.
Link. This is ridiculous.
Acorn and Big Sur
Link. My version of Acorn is pretty old but my needs are limited. Big Sur will bea big update.
“Apple says in its tech specs the M1 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook only support up to 1 external display”
Link. Sounds like it will get fixed.
“Mark Zuckerberg is a sociopath. A real-life Bond villain.”
Link. Zuck is CEO of a tobacco company. He needs to market addiction and hide the disease it causes.
“Hahn, in Topol’s telling, had come to a decision: He was willing to be dismissed rather than serve as a presidential puppet.”
Link. Azar a villain here, but there will be other stories and books.
“614G roughly a 20 percent advantage in its exponential rate of growth”
Link. A substantial “improvement”.
“the country had experienced a “‘Lord of the Flies’ moment” that revealed just how willing some powerful actors were to enable an undisguised effort to sabotage a free and fair election.”
Link. GOP is a values-free political party.
Fox paid seven figures to settle lawsuit over bogus Seth Rich conspiracy story
Link. One of the original Trump-Russia attacks on HRC.
“He briefly attended Ocean County College, but dropped out”
Link. Wayne Gretzky too. Also Steve Jobs. See? You don’t need a college degree to be middle class. (Also, see rule, proof by exception.)
“former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who said on Fox News that the theft is being “financed by people like George Soros,”
Link. Once he passed as an “intellectual”. He was always a vicious fraud. Remember that the next time a Paul Ryan rises; standards on the right are low.
Noahpinion blog returns.
Link. I still had old inactive Feed in feedbin. This must not be missed. Reeder picked up feed easily.
Facebook: “the new algorithm successfully reduced the visibility of objectionable content. But it also lowered the number of times users opened Facebook”
Link. So they turned off the new algorithm. Their business model requires evil.
“The United States is in deep trouble, but democracy isn’t.”
Link. True, America’s constitution was a poor choice. I think Dyer is too optimistic about democracy globally however.
Metallic Monolith Discovered in Utah canyon.
Link. Now that’s weird.
Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria treat: “Zokinvy, a farnesyltransferase inhibitor, is an oral medication that helps prevent the buildup of defective progerin or progerin-like protein”
Link. Been studied for over 11 years. Sounds like not a cure, but a help.
“the degree to which the president is now pinpointing voters of color for disenfranchisement is striking even by modern Republican standards”
Link. Clarence Thomas is supportive.
“Trump’s bad con continues to show how easy it would be to stage a good one. Then we would call it a coup.”
Link. Is he really done?
“30,000 ventilators over four months at an idled car parts plant in Indiana”
Link. Telehealth tech can offset local specialist shortage. Some vent settings are easy.
Can We Find Out If Gravitons Exist?
Link. We *might* come up with a clever way to show gravity and/or space is quantized, but gravitons seem out of our reach.
“for the next two to three months, no activity is truly safe unless you’re at home with your family.”
Link. Not quite true. If you have had COVID it looks like most things are pretty safe.
High prevalence of pre-existing serological cross-reactivity against SARS-CoV-2 in sub-Sahara Africa – International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Link. Virology is the hot science now.
High prevalence of pre-existing serological cross-reactivity against SARS-CoV-2 in sub-Sahara Africa – International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Link. Virology is the hot science now.
COVID: South Dakota vs New Mexico.
Link. Be good to read an academic comparison.
“Stalin was God,” she said. “How to say it? Stalin wasn’t at fault at all. It was the party and all those people. Stalin just signed.”
Link. She spent 10y in one of Stalin’s gulags.
Rumors of Zawahiri’s death.
Link. Not an optimal source.
Nation Can’t Believe They Spent So Long Overlooking Obvious Solution Of mRNA Instructions For Spike Protein Encapsulated In Lipid Nanoparticle
Link. so good.
Google’s mysterious new blogging platform.
Link. Not truly “new” but definitely mysterious. Internal only, resembles WordPress and their new Sites. Blogger 2.0?
Blogger will republish old posts with new dates but keep old URL.
Link. Probably been like this forever but I never tried before. I’ll use it to selectively republish old posts that I update.
Scholar Button browser extension update
Link. I love scholar. Note the old school blogger platform.
“All three of my active Macs, including my production system, are now running Big Sur.”
Link. Wow. That’s a change from Catalina. I might update in January rather than my usual June.
“West of Hudson Group, for one, operates a network of content houses where many prominent young influencers live.”
Link. For an Old this is all delightfully weird.
Mars may have volcanoes.
Link. We know of seismic activity, but this would be a step up.
“Ord is most concerned about two possibilities: empowered artificial intelligence unaligned with human values (he gives it a one-in-ten chance of ending humanity within the next hundred years) and engineered pandemics (he thinks they have a one-in-thirty
Link. 1/10 and 1/30 seem plausible to me. I’d have gone for 1/5 and 1/50 myself.
Gordon’s Tech: macOS Mojave Safe Mode can take hours, the progress bar is no help. Also – Disk Utility and APFS
Link. FYI. That progress bar is a bug.
“galaxies are built through mergers of smaller galaxies across time”
Link. Heracles is one of them in our home.
Senior journalist on end of “neutral” reporting.
Link. It had to die, but there were reasons.
Anger builds in Black community over Trump’s claims of voter fraud in big cities
Link. It must burn him to be defeated by Black America.
“If I’m being manipulated by Trump … then he is the greatest con man that ever lived in America,” Caleb Fryar said. “I think he’s the greatest patriot that ever lived.”
Link. He’s half right.
“Because Trump is attempting to remain in power, rather than remove someone else from it his efforts come closer to what scholars call an attempt at a “self-coup” — or, using the Spanish term, an autogolpe”
Link. A sober summary.
“the merger of QAnon, the Republican Party, and the large part of the conservative movement that earns its bread by peddling miracle veggie pills to gullible elderly people on the radio”
Link. The bit about radio scams is important. Besides voting the GOP is a mechanism for herding sheep to be fleeced.
Trump “cyber analyst” was Ron Watkins, an administrator on far-right site 8kun, and son of its owner, Philippines-based pig farmer Jim Watkins.”
Link. Q.