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Information warfare – Trump’s genius.

Posted on November 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Maybe we should think of GOP politiciams as victims, much like GOP Left Behind. They are not in on the scam, they are dupes.

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“majority of those who contracted the virus at work did so while eating in a break room with a mask off.”

Posted on November 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Mayo clinic, MN.

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Humdifiers can decrease COVID spread.

Posted on November 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Another tool.

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Humdifiers can decrease COVID spread.

Posted on November 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Another tool.

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“two board members, Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, apparently weren’t prepared for the intensity of the response”

Posted on November 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. They live in an imaginary world.

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“iOS software uses reference counting for memory management, running on silicon optimized to make reference counting as efficient as possible”

Posted on November 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I didn’t expect them to do so well.

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Biden’s lost agenda

Posted on November 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “Wave good-bye to it, but don’t give up entirely. There’s something in there that can be saved.”

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Amazon Pharmacy: “Compare your medication cost with and without insurance before you pay.”

Posted on November 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. That is a game changer. Long expected, still big news.

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“at least three health care workers who interacted with infected patients—a medical resident, an ambulance worker, and a gastroenterologist—also developed illness, with two eventually dying”

Posted on November 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Biden can’t rebuild CDC soon enough.

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“Graham also asked whether Raffensperger had the power to toss all mail ballots in counties found to have higher rates of nonmatching signatures”

Posted on November 16, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Most people’s signatures are inconsistent, so this is a GOP ploy to eliminate mail-in ballots — which are mostly Dem. Graham is a scum’s scum.

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Hoover disowns Atlas.

Posted on November 16, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Or at least Stanford speaking for Hoover.

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Offline YouTube videos: “youtube-dl ‘URL-TO-VIDEO-HERE’ and it just works.”

Posted on November 16, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Sounds useful.

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Barcelona superblocks.

Posted on November 16, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Getting there … one day.

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“What I think is fair is to take a look at what’s happened in Canada, where they still have had big problems but their death rate per capita is about 61 percent lower than ours. “

Posted on November 16, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Obama brakes the American rule – “never compare to Canada”.

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“Everything we hear is that the individual postal workers have been working hard and working overtime, doing everything they could to follow their instructions and do everything they could to deliver ballots on time,”

Posted on November 14, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Hope DeJoy gets to spend some time in front of investigations.

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Newton’s ‘Principia’: 386 copies in all, including ones far beyond England in Budapest; Oslo; Prague; Zagreb, Croatia; the Vatican; and Gdansk, Poland.

Posted on November 14, 2020 by jgordon

Link. A much bigger initial impact than once thought. (Caltech historian!)

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Parler, Backed by Mercer Family

Posted on November 14, 2020 by jgordon

Link. So at least not Moscow alone. Design sounds decent. No algorithm!

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Donald Trump is a sign of a healthy democracy (from 2015).

Posted on November 14, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Written before the catastrophe, back when he was a comical figure. I’m writing an update on why mission #1 for Dems is engineering big income increases for the non-college (aka The Left Behind).

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Evernote Goes Electron.

Posted on November 14, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Sadness.

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“I assume that malicious actors are investigating how to launch a denial-of-service attack against ocsp.apple.com.”

Posted on November 14, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Big Apple screw-up.

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“Al Qaeda’s second-highest leader, accused of being one of the masterminds of the deadly 1998 attacks on American embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran three months ago, intelligence officials have confirmed”

Posted on November 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Zawahiri next?

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“Biden has not only appeared unthreatened by Trump’s attacks—he’s seemed to react to each desperate maneuver with a mixture of amusement and pity.”

Posted on November 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Biden is not as nice as people think he is.

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Trump state health care workers over the abyss.

Posted on November 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. In a just universe the GOP legislators and governors would have to do patient care.

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Addressing economic disruption of remote work.

Posted on November 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The tax isn’t politically feasible but I had not considered all the longterm disruptions of persistent telework.

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The Best USB-C Hubs in 2020.

Posted on November 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Essential now.

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“White House’s Presidential Personnel Office, whose 30-year-old director, John McEntee, has recently intensified efforts to purge appointees who have failed to demonstrate sufficient fealty to the president”

Posted on November 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Marvel and DC have both featured supervillain presidents.

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Big Sur: some Photos and Messages improvements.

Posted on November 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Yawn.

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Minneapolis violence hits 1990s levels.

Posted on November 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. This was widely expected. COVID + broken police department + riots.

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2021 iPhones sound like real improvements.

Posted on November 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I can wait.

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Apple has two system status pages.

Posted on November 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I actively avoid reliance on Apple services.

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“this summer’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota was “absolutely unnecessary,’ and that data shows it helped spread the virus beyond that state”

Posted on November 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. MN Health department feels Sturgis was a true disaster. It’s bad to be ruled by anti-science.

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“The GOP, as it is, is a cancer of American democracy”

Posted on November 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The modern GOP is a marker of a civilization that is breaking down. We don’t have much time to recerse this.

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“hedge fund manager Bill Ackman was able to replicate exactly the same credit default swap bet, at exactly the same prices, that he made in February — the one where he turned $27 million into $2.6 billion in the space of less than a month.”

Posted on November 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Learn to live cheaply.

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Krebs – an honorable man: “Trump officials are mad that CISA refuted a conspiracy theory alleging that a covert intelligence agency supercomputer (supposedly named Hammer and Scorecard) quietly flipped votes nationwide”

Posted on November 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. We should have a special award ceremony for civil servants who did their job and paid a price. Followed by rehiring and promotion.

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“the Pfizer vaccine can be kept safely for up to five days in a normal refrigerator”

Posted on November 13, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Article by a geek physician is pretty good.

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Current take on why our polling sucks.

Posted on November 12, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Current GOP voters are less likely to answer a poll even when control for education, income, race, etc.

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Mass Disability – how did I come up with 40%?

Posted on November 12, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Another 2016 post I’m rewriting for 2020. Link to the sleepless night post — after Trump’s win.

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2017: “Democrats and white middle class” – post-election analysis

Posted on November 12, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I’m going to get back to this one. Shortly after the election Trump won.

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“The president has insisted to aides that he really defeated Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Nov. 3, but it is unclear whether he actually believes it”

Posted on November 12, 2020 by jgordon

Link. He despises his male lackeys as weakimgs. He enjoys seeing Graham dance.

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Salvaging American government.

Posted on November 12, 2020 by jgordon

Link. GOP war on America.

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No, Dominion voting machines did not cause widespread voting problems.

Posted on November 12, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Trump doing his usual fraud.

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“It’s meaningless, you know, people calling for you to be beheaded, fired, thrown in the fire pit or whatever … That’s just noise. You don’t pay attention to that.”

Posted on November 12, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Fauci in the Trump pit.

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Herd immunity: “As of Wednesday, more than 85 percent of the prison’s inmates had tested positive”

Posted on November 12, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Worth studying.

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GOP reaction to Biden win is 21st century normal.

Posted on November 12, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Really dates to 1990s. Boosted by Trumpism but this is the norm now.

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“The expanding array of relatively low-cost drones can offer countries air power at a fraction of the cost of maintaining a traditional air force”

Posted on November 11, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “ Unable to match Azerbaijan’s drone power, Armenian forces, demoralized and racked by covid-19, suffered a series of military calamities.”

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“Mr. Trump abruptly installed Mr. Miller as acting defense secretary this week — making him, at least on paper, Mr. Pompeo’s equal for the administration’s last two months.”

Posted on November 11, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Ooh, that must sting. Poor Pompeo.

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Whacko idea of PA GOP picking electors is even more whacked than you think.

Posted on November 11, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Don’t give it much thought.

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Is the Coup Happening?

Posted on November 11, 2020 by jgordon

Link. A long post by Dr Gelwan’s standards. He marshals the evidence. TLDR – maybe it is underway, but it seems farcical and incompetent. Trump’s saving grace.

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“Because I’m a mammal,” the girlfriend replied, which only pissed Musk off even more.”

Posted on November 11, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Women who date billionaires are far above my station, but were I young and single I might ask.

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“more than 4 trillion photos are stored in Google Photos, and every week 28 billion new photos and videos are uploaded”

Posted on November 11, 2020 by jgordon

Link. In 20 years every atom on earth will be part of Google Photo storage. Turns out “free” doesn’t scale. (Remember when free gmail storage cap increases routinely?)

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