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Cash prizes for drug abstinence: “significant improvements in attendance to therapy sessions, significant reductions in drug and alcohol use.”

Posted on October 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Not a vote winner.

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“Mr. Biden has a relatively poor 78-11 lead among Black men“

Posted on October 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Hispanic men very close. Reparations said to poll poorly among Black voters as well. Any GOP reform is based on pivot to Hispanic voters (GWB strategy)

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“an expired certificate isn’t normally revoked”

Posted on October 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Great primer on code signing.

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Autoimmune diseases in long haul COVID.

Posted on October 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. More evidence RA starts with viral infection.

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“modified Hellfire hurls about 100 pounds of metal through the top of a target’s vehicle. If the high-velocity projectile does not kill the target, the missile’s other feature almost certainly does: six long blades tucked inside, which deploy second

Posted on October 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The longest American war.

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The recession is coming.

Posted on October 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I do not understand why we haven’t yet crashed hard.

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XProtect: more macOS antimalware.

Posted on October 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Quietly macOS has acquired a lot of malware protection. I wonder how well it works.

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The Font of Misinformation and Lies at Trump Campaign Rallies.

Posted on October 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. 1.5 lies a minute. His base believes.

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“he has shown contempt for American ideals; he has made cruelty a sacrament; he has provided comfort to propagators of hate;”

Posted on October 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. There are a lot of semicolons.

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“Apple pushed MRT 1.68 (on 19 October), which has wreaked havoc on many Macs from El Capitan to Catalina. That’s the third update in three months to prove flawed.”

Posted on October 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Remote work contributing?

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macintouch hacked via wordpress.

Posted on October 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Ric comments on the evolving net hellscape.

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“Trump is really not the deep structural cause.”

Posted on October 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I think IT starting 1970 and globalization (esp rise of China) are root causes; growing inequality is a result.

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“the Messenger told his two ministers in Chicago that day that the Muslims and the Klan indeed had similar goals but with different shading”

Posted on October 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I’d like to read more about Elijah Mohammed. A peculiar kind of madman.

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How Trump could use emergency powers in the upcoming U.S. election

Posted on October 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. We only get to rest if Trump clearly wins.

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“Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that he saw nothing criminal in Hunter Biden’s past business ties with Ukraine or Russia”

Posted on October 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Trump calls go direct to voice mail now.

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A not bad critique of the Barrington thing.

Posted on October 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The problem is it’s so absurd, and contains so many flaws, that it’s hard to know where to start a critique. Maybe what we need is a serious description of what a “herd immunity” strategy would actually look like.

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“popular news outlets, rather than social media platforms, were the main drivers of a disinformation campaign meant to sow doubts about the integrity of the election.”

Posted on October 25, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Right wing propaganda shops that sell newspapers. Funded by advertisers seeking the gullible and credulous with money — now concentrated in GOP.

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“Falun Gong Epoch Times created Facebook fueled Trump supporting unreality engine.”

Posted on October 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Fox, QAnon, Epoch Times, Talk Radio. GOP is a true train wreck.

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Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing.

Posted on October 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. A top 100 is also good. Frum in The Atlantic had focal summary recently. NYT Magazine detailed list.

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“We estimated a 4-fold increased risk for COVID-19–related hospitalization and a 10-fold increased risk for COVID-19–related death in persons with Down syndrome, a group that is currently not strategically protected”

Posted on October 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Could be many factors besides immune issues and these studies are very hard to do and interpret.

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UnitedHealth Flu Kits for 200K: tamiflu and Coronav test.

Posted on October 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Innovative! Seems a good idea. Telemedicine component.

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“It’s possible to fill a volume with extended attributes and run it out of free space, and that space may also be ignored by services which manage storage use, for example space allocations for clients in a server system”

Posted on October 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Is gain worth complexity?

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The peculiar persistence of the colonial French Empire.

Posted on October 24, 2020 by jgordon

Link. France pays well.

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How Trump committed to unrestricted infection.

Posted on October 23, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Trust only the Divine.

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The State Department is now Trumpland.

Posted on October 23, 2020 by jgordon

Link. In unlikely event Trump loses Biden could ask HRC to guide the rebuilding.

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“even with 5G turned off, the iPhone 12’s battery drained almost an hour faster than the iPhone 11”

Posted on October 23, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I try very hard to avoid 1st gen Apple tech.

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What I would add to the standard blog model

Posted on October 23, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Author editing of publication date and notification generation.

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Another Trumpet trying to assasinate Biden.

Posted on October 23, 2020 by jgordon

Link. There are more like him. Deluded people with powerful weapons amd explosives. Trump incites them.

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“U.S. officials said Thursday that Russian hackers have targeted the networks of dozens of state and local governments in the United States in recent days, stealing data from at least two servers”

Posted on October 23, 2020 by jgordon

Link. What we know about.

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Review of vaccine-free “herd immunity”

Posted on October 23, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Might work on a contained population with odd network spread and young age skew where you can protect the 50+. We are not contained, no evidence odd network, skew older, can’t protect the 50+.

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macOS and iOS File Attributes

Posted on October 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. APFS on iOS is case specific, no normalization.

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US pedestrian fatalities moving wrong direction.

Posted on October 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. SUVs and iPhones are what changed. EU keeps getting better, we get worse. Bikes too.

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“CBS said that the president’s aides had pledged to use the footage “for archival purposes only.”

Posted on October 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Did CBS actually believe Trump staff when they promised? Are they really that stupid? Is a lie still a lie if nobody trusts you?

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Ukraine and the fake email trade.

Posted on October 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Trump and GOP embrace the sleaze of Ukraine and Russia. Their Delaware computer shop was a Giuliani front.

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Bannon bioweapon scam: “it’s important to point out that this is not science … It’s infuriating, because everybody has better things to do.”

Posted on October 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. If Trump wins American science will be grievously wounded

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“Finer grained analyses of performance support the hypothesis that COVID-19 has a multi-system impact on human cognition.”

Posted on October 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Clue to Alzheimer etiology?

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“slow lorises are remarkably territorial, and that they frequently use their venom to settle disputes”

Posted on October 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Platypus similar.

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5G iphone: “download speeds ranged from much slower than to twice as fast as my older iPhone, which was on Verizon’s 4G network.”

Posted on October 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Maybe I’ll wait another year. Spend money on my fat bike “Kovie”.

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“Face ID and Touch ID for the web provides both the security guarantees of multi-factor authentication and ease of use”

Posted on October 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Potentially a big deal.

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Evolution of the Programming Languages From iPhone OS 1.0 to iOS 14

Posted on October 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “As with macOS, we can lament the shocking number of bugs that go unfixed, even unacknowledged, but it’s also a wonder that it works at all.”

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Smartphones easy to hack, no backdoor needed.

Posted on October 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Maybe Apple leaves them open? Or doesn’t try too hard?

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DNI Ratcliffe serves Trump, not America.

Posted on October 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. So where are the leaders who can stand up to this? Where is Mitt Romney?

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COVID-19 Death Rates Are Going Down, And Not Just Among The Young And Healthy : Shots – Health News : NPR

Posted on October 20, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Despite Remdesivir seeming ineffective.

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Super-spreader event list.

Posted on October 20, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Twitter.

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New salivary glands discovered.

Posted on October 20, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Every few years a new anatomy discovery makes it to Science news.

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Sturgis rally COVID impact review.

Posted on October 20, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Gov Noem proves women leaders can also be morons. It’s reassuring that outcomes matched predictions but disappointing attendance only down 7%.

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Face ID and Touch ID for the Web

Posted on October 20, 2020 by jgordon

Link. After passwords era.

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Apple Beats Flex BT earbuds: $50

Posted on October 20, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Weirdly good value from Apple. W1 chip, 12h battery. Will be very popular this Christmas.

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Google Responds to Warrants for “About” Searches

Posted on October 19, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “We have knowingly and willingly built the architecture of a police state, just so companies can show us ads”

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Google creates time travel streetscapes.

Posted on October 19, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Early component of the historical simulation we are all addicted to as the last stars fade.

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