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“Mr. Biden has a relatively poor 78-11 lead among Black men“
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)
“an expired certificate isn’t normally revoked”
Link. Great primer on code signing.
Autoimmune diseases in long haul COVID.
Link. More evidence RA starts with viral infection.
“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
Link. The longest American war.
The recession is coming.
Link. I do not understand why we haven’t yet crashed hard.
XProtect: more macOS antimalware.
Link. Quietly macOS has acquired a lot of malware protection. I wonder how well it works.
The Font of Misinformation and Lies at Trump Campaign Rallies.
Link. 1.5 lies a minute. His base believes.
“he has shown contempt for American ideals; he has made cruelty a sacrament; he has provided comfort to propagators of hate;”
Link. There are a lot of semicolons.
“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.”
Link. Remote work contributing?
macintouch hacked via wordpress.
Link. Ric comments on the evolving net hellscape.
“Trump is really not the deep structural cause.”
Link. I think IT starting 1970 and globalization (esp rise of China) are root causes; growing inequality is a result.
“the Messenger told his two ministers in Chicago that day that the Muslims and the Klan indeed had similar goals but with different shading”
Link. I’d like to read more about Elijah Mohammed. A peculiar kind of madman.
How Trump could use emergency powers in the upcoming U.S. election
Link. We only get to rest if Trump clearly wins.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that he saw nothing criminal in Hunter Biden’s past business ties with Ukraine or Russia”
Link. Trump calls go direct to voice mail now.
A not bad critique of the Barrington thing.
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.
“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.”
Link. Right wing propaganda shops that sell newspapers. Funded by advertisers seeking the gullible and credulous with money — now concentrated in GOP.
“Falun Gong Epoch Times created Facebook fueled Trump supporting unreality engine.”
Link. Fox, QAnon, Epoch Times, Talk Radio. GOP is a true train wreck.
Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing.
Link. A top 100 is also good. Frum in The Atlantic had focal summary recently. NYT Magazine detailed list.
“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”
Link. Could be many factors besides immune issues and these studies are very hard to do and interpret.
UnitedHealth Flu Kits for 200K: tamiflu and Coronav test.
Link. Innovative! Seems a good idea. Telemedicine component.
“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”
Link. Is gain worth complexity?
The peculiar persistence of the colonial French Empire.
Link. France pays well.
How Trump committed to unrestricted infection.
Link. Trust only the Divine.
The State Department is now Trumpland.
Link. In unlikely event Trump loses Biden could ask HRC to guide the rebuilding.
“even with 5G turned off, the iPhone 12’s battery drained almost an hour faster than the iPhone 11”
Link. I try very hard to avoid 1st gen Apple tech.
What I would add to the standard blog model
Link. Author editing of publication date and notification generation.
Another Trumpet trying to assasinate Biden.
Link. There are more like him. Deluded people with powerful weapons amd explosives. Trump incites them.
“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”
Link. What we know about.
Review of vaccine-free “herd immunity”
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+.
macOS and iOS File Attributes
Link. APFS on iOS is case specific, no normalization.
US pedestrian fatalities moving wrong direction.
Link. SUVs and iPhones are what changed. EU keeps getting better, we get worse. Bikes too.
“CBS said that the president’s aides had pledged to use the footage “for archival purposes only.”
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?
Ukraine and the fake email trade.
Link. Trump and GOP embrace the sleaze of Ukraine and Russia. Their Delaware computer shop was a Giuliani front.
Bannon bioweapon scam: “it’s important to point out that this is not science … It’s infuriating, because everybody has better things to do.”
Link. If Trump wins American science will be grievously wounded
“Finer grained analyses of performance support the hypothesis that COVID-19 has a multi-system impact on human cognition.”
Link. Clue to Alzheimer etiology?
“slow lorises are remarkably territorial, and that they frequently use their venom to settle disputes”
Link. Platypus similar.
5G iphone: “download speeds ranged from much slower than to twice as fast as my older iPhone, which was on Verizon’s 4G network.”
Link. Maybe I’ll wait another year. Spend money on my fat bike “Kovie”.
“Face ID and Touch ID for the web provides both the security guarantees of multi-factor authentication and ease of use”
Link. Potentially a big deal.
Evolution of the Programming Languages From iPhone OS 1.0 to iOS 14
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.”
Smartphones easy to hack, no backdoor needed.
Link. Maybe Apple leaves them open? Or doesn’t try too hard?
DNI Ratcliffe serves Trump, not America.
Link. So where are the leaders who can stand up to this? Where is Mitt Romney?
COVID-19 Death Rates Are Going Down, And Not Just Among The Young And Healthy : Shots – Health News : NPR
Link. Despite Remdesivir seeming ineffective.
Super-spreader event list.
Link. Twitter.
New salivary glands discovered.
Link. Every few years a new anatomy discovery makes it to Science news.
Sturgis rally COVID impact review.
Link. Gov Noem proves women leaders can also be morons. It’s reassuring that outcomes matched predictions but disappointing attendance only down 7%.
Face ID and Touch ID for the Web
Link. After passwords era.
Apple Beats Flex BT earbuds: $50
Link. Weirdly good value from Apple. W1 chip, 12h battery. Will be very popular this Christmas.
Google Responds to Warrants for “About” Searches
Link. “We have knowingly and willingly built the architecture of a police state, just so companies can show us ads”
Google creates time travel streetscapes.
Link. Early component of the historical simulation we are all addicted to as the last stars fade.