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“Exxon is expecting oil prices to fall over most of the next decade”

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

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”

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. You can always rely on people to do things perfectly every time.

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“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”

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Taiwan needs a nuclear deterrent.

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NYT covers Veteran suicide risk and never mentions the gun problem.

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Removing guns from home is most important intervention and politically unacceptable to advocate.

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“proposed change would scale back the required quarantine period to between one week and 10 days, followed by a test for the virus”

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Especially for health care workers.

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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”

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Limited by the tree availability.

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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”

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Hospital accreditation needs to include ability to recover from attacks.

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Illegal Tampering by Diesel Pickup Owners Is Worsening Pollution.

Posted on November 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. America has too many assholes. The best response is to tax trucks more.

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What Ever Happened to the Vaping Lung Disease?

Posted on November 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Good overview. Vit E cutting THC main cause. Regulation needed.

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macOS Finder is deeply confused.

Posted on November 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. This is ridiculous.

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Acorn and Big Sur

Posted on November 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. My version of Acorn is pretty old but my needs are limited. Big Sur will bea big update.

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“Apple says in its tech specs the M1 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook only support up to 1 external display”

Posted on November 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Sounds like it will get fixed.

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“Mark Zuckerberg is a sociopath. A real-life Bond villain.”

Posted on November 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Zuck is CEO of a tobacco company. He needs to market addiction and hide the disease it causes.

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“Hahn, in Topol’s telling, had come to a decision: He was willing to be dismissed rather than serve as a presidential puppet.”

Posted on November 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Azar a villain here, but there will be other stories and books.

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“614G roughly a 20 percent advantage in its exponential rate of growth”

Posted on November 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. A substantial “improvement”.

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“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.”

Posted on November 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. GOP is a values-free political party.

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Fox paid seven figures to settle lawsuit over bogus Seth Rich conspiracy story

Posted on November 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. One of the original Trump-Russia attacks on HRC.

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“He briefly attended Ocean County College, but dropped out”

Posted on November 24, 2020 by jgordon

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.)

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“former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who said on Fox News that the theft is being “financed by people like George Soros,”

Posted on November 24, 2020 by jgordon

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.

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Noahpinion blog returns.

Posted on November 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I still had old inactive Feed in feedbin. This must not be missed. Reeder picked up feed easily.

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Facebook: “the new algorithm successfully reduced the visibility of objectionable content. But it also lowered the number of times users opened Facebook”

Posted on November 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. So they turned off the new algorithm. Their business model requires evil.

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“The United States is in deep trouble, but democracy isn’t.”

Posted on November 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. True, America’s constitution was a poor choice. I think Dyer is too optimistic about democracy globally however.

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Metallic Monolith Discovered in Utah canyon.

Posted on November 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Now that’s weird.

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Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria treat: “Zokinvy, a farnesyltransferase inhibitor, is an oral medication that helps prevent the buildup of defective progerin or progerin-like protein”

Posted on November 23, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Been studied for over 11 years. Sounds like not a cure, but a help.

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“the degree to which the president is now pinpointing voters of color for disenfranchisement is striking even by modern Republican standards”

Posted on November 23, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Clarence Thomas is supportive.

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“Trump’s bad con continues to show how easy it would be to stage a good one. Then we would call it a coup.”

Posted on November 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Is he really done?

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“30,000 ventilators over four months at an idled car parts plant in Indiana”

Posted on November 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Telehealth tech can offset local specialist shortage. Some vent settings are easy.

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Can We Find Out If Gravitons Exist?

Posted on November 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. We *might* come up with a clever way to show gravity and/or space is quantized, but gravitons seem out of our reach.

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“for the next two to three months, no activity is truly safe unless you’re at home with your family.”

Posted on November 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Not quite true. If you have had COVID it looks like most things are pretty safe.

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High prevalence of pre-existing serological cross-reactivity against SARS-CoV-2 in sub-Sahara Africa – International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Posted on November 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Virology is the hot science now.

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High prevalence of pre-existing serological cross-reactivity against SARS-CoV-2 in sub-Sahara Africa – International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Posted on November 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Virology is the hot science now.

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COVID: South Dakota vs New Mexico.

Posted on November 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Be good to read an academic comparison.

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“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.”

Posted on November 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. She spent 10y in one of Stalin’s gulags.

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Rumors of Zawahiri’s death.

Posted on November 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Not an optimal source.

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Nation Can’t Believe They Spent So Long Overlooking Obvious Solution Of mRNA Instructions For Spike Protein Encapsulated In Lipid Nanoparticle

Posted on November 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. so good.

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Google’s mysterious new blogging platform.

Posted on November 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Not truly “new” but definitely mysterious. Internal only, resembles WordPress and their new Sites. Blogger 2.0?

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Blogger will republish old posts with new dates but keep old URL.

Posted on November 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Probably been like this forever but I never tried before. I’ll use it to selectively republish old posts that I update.

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Scholar Button browser extension update

Posted on November 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I love scholar. Note the old school blogger platform.

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“All three of my active Macs, including my production system, are now running Big Sur.”

Posted on November 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Wow. That’s a change from Catalina. I might update in January rather than my usual June.

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“West of Hudson Group, for one, operates a network of content houses where many prominent young influencers live.”

Posted on November 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. For an Old this is all delightfully weird.

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Mars may have volcanoes.

Posted on November 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. We know of seismic activity, but this would be a step up.

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“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

Posted on November 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. 1/10 and 1/30 seem plausible to me. I’d have gone for 1/5 and 1/50 myself.

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Gordon’s Tech: macOS Mojave Safe Mode can take hours, the progress bar is no help. Also – Disk Utility and APFS

Posted on November 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. FYI. That progress bar is a bug.

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“galaxies are built through mergers of smaller galaxies across time”

Posted on November 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Heracles is one of them in our home.

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Senior journalist on end of “neutral” reporting.

Posted on November 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. It had to die, but there were reasons.

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Anger builds in Black community over Trump’s claims of voter fraud in big cities

Posted on November 20, 2020 by jgordon

Link. It must burn him to be defeated by Black America.

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“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.”

Posted on November 20, 2020 by jgordon

Link. He’s half right.

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“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”

Posted on November 20, 2020 by jgordon

Link. A sober summary.

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“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”

Posted on November 20, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The bit about radio scams is important. Besides voting the GOP is a mechanism for herding sheep to be fleeced.

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Trump “cyber analyst” was Ron Watkins, an administrator on far-right site 8kun, and son of its owner, Philippines-based pig farmer Jim Watkins.”

Posted on November 19, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Q.

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