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Peter Thiel is a white nationalist.
Link. Sometimes the simplest explanation works. Note realtionship to Facebook. Under Trump his Palantir has thrived, Biden would be bad for him.
Eclectic light universal freeware: “these Universal Apps are only 100-300 KB larger than their Intel-only versions.”
Link. Gifts to us.
“Up until the release of iOS 9, Applebot ran entirely on four Mac Pro’s in an office. Those four Mac Pro’s could crawl close to 1B web pages a day.”
Link. Google search is vulnerable.
Screen Recording in Big Sur Requires Admin Account
Link. That is crazy
IFTTT Pro: “$9.99/month. That’s the same as Adobe’s Photography plan, more than Microsoft 365″
Link. Crazy pricing.
“Individuals close to Murdoch told Sherman that the Fox Corporation co-chair believes Trump will lose in November”
Link. Murdoch and McConnell are both worse than Trump.
“Trump is furious that his staff didn’t hook him up with Woodward because he thinks if Woodward had interviewed him, he’d have charmed Woodward and looked better in the book.”
Link. He’s always dumber than we think.
“AT&T is that their bullshit “5G-E” network, which isn’t actually 5G, is faster than their actual 5G network.”
Link. I plan to avoid this year’s 5G phones.
Missing 80yo hiker shows up at rescue meeting.
Link. “Phil and his wife couldn’t help but find the humor in the fact that Harvey had a pleasant time during those four days off the grid.”
“Educators in Missouri, Mississippi, South Carolina, Iowa and Oklahoma have died as the fall semester started in their districts.”
Link. Not necessarily infected in schools. I suspect data will be hard to find.
Hotel Orlando: “The hot water didn’t work, and the toilet was clogged with hypodermic needles and crack pipes”
Link. There has been little coverage of the slow collapse of American society
“unsuspecting people were scooped up from the city’s streets by federal agents in the middle of the night, based on information that turned out to be inaccurate or insufficient to charge them with a crime.”
Link. A taste of life under a second Trump term.
“filming in Xinjiang was “extensive” and thank multiple Chinese governmental bodies, such as the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Committee (a propagandistic mouthpiece for the wider party)”
Link. Filming next door to Dachau and thanking the SS for their support.
MSP riots put MN in play for Trump
Link. It’s his best strategy.
Facebook Engineer Ashok Chandwaney Quits With Scathing Letter
Link. Zuckerburg is a smarter Trump.
MN inspection: “Of the 167 establishments, 79 were found to be not in compliance with COVID-19 requirements”
Link. Unclear if targeted sample.
“DHS brass ordered that reports be changed to downplay the threat of white supremacist terrorism and falsely portray antifa groups as a major terror threat”
Link. We knew.
Effective Political Giving – a primer
Link. I trust Maciej
iOS Print to PDF.
Link. Ridiculously obscure. How many know this?
The Landmarks of Tomorrow – 1959.
Link. “Knowledge worker” came from this. My date for the start of the 21st century #nevercollege crisis.
The physics of the sunken Trump flotilla.
Link. Pretty dim bunch.
“Trump explicitly tied the vaccine to his reelection schedule. Yet, remarkably, the question of whether Trump is politicizing this process is still being treated as one that’s up for debate”
Link. I don’t watch network news so I don’t see the bothsideism as much.
Trump v the officer class.
Link. Non-corrupt leaders dislike Trump
Autistic youth police shooting.
Link. Race not mentioned, so presume white. This is a shared issue across Black-white America. St Paul Police had a registration program for autistic persons we enrolled in.
US colleges: too much capacity.
Link. They finally got ahead of demand
Trump is short campaign money. So where did 700 million go?
Link. To the Trump family certainly. Beyond that, 2nd tier corruption
Moving to a New Mac: What’s Left to Do After Migration?
Link. Subscription service pain and endless icloud authentications.
Bradykinin and the Coronavirus.
Link. “ACE2, in fact, appears to increase by 200-fold”. Lots of interesting physiology. Brady hyp deserves some research.
“The USA has spies and analysts and cryptographers and spooks coming out of its metaphorical ears”
Link. One of Charlie’s gems. Spy stuff is one way we absorb our crazy cognitive surplus.
[toread] “Sturgis Motorcycle Rally generated public health costs of approximately $12.2 billion.”
Link. Can we sue the governor of South Dakota? I mean, her personally.
When will computers full automate mathematical conjecture and proof?
Link. Decades, not centuries.
“if we find experimentally that a constant without units is very large, then this does not mean math alone cannot explain it and it must therefore be a signal for new physics”
Link. Great examples of weird huge constants that are properties of mathematics itself.
“you could transform a matter particle (a neutrino) into an antimatter particle (an antineutrino) simply by changing your motion relative to the neutrino”
Link. That is … hard to fathom
“ribosomal complex is surrounded by other proteins whose job is to constantly look for trouble and try to correct it”
Link. The cell is weirder than we can imagine.
Vaccin me review: Aug 2020.
Link. January plausible. “Vaccine technology will never be the same after this – it’s going to be like aircraft design before and after World War II”
Obesity and COVID: background and a story.
Link. South Dakota is not slender.
“Trump was likely inspired to make this move by one report from Fox News’ head white supremacist, Tucker Carlson.”
Link. Ending a brief initiative resonding to BLM.
Delong’s annual 1870-1914—Lecture on technology and development.
Link. Glad to reread this. I wish his blog would return to these themes.
“If your student lives off campus, you can use 529 funds to cover the cost of rent and utilities — up to the college’s housing allowance,”
Link. Save this 529 ref. Need same for ABLE plans!
“73 percent of Republicans, supported mandatory building codes in risky areas, and 57 percent supported making it illegal to build in those areas.”
Link. Instead we subsidize insurance coverage.
Musth: “When females rejected the adolescents’ advances, the young males took their aggression out on white rhinos, killing more than 40.”
Link. Human adolescent males have some similarities.
Why should childess employees do the work for parent colleagues?
Link. I’m a parent, two of my three are special needs. Our price, our choice. My sympathies are wirh the childless here.
“DeJoy would instruct that bonus payments to staffers be boosted to help defray the cost of their contributions”
Link. Add to pardon queue.
“Mr. Strzok concludes that Mr. Trump is hopelessly corrupt and a national security threat.”
Link. Not only the worst President, but also by far the most corrupt.
“In North Sumatra, students climb to the tops of tall trees a mile from their mountain village. Perched on branches high above the ground, they hope for a cell signal strong enough to complete their assignments.”
Link. Remote study with COVID
Achondroplasia treatment: “We’ve got 12- and 13-year-old girls who now for the first time can do their own feminine hygiene and don’t need to be helped by someone because their arms are longer,” he said”
Link. Most are born to parents without the disorder.
Wirecard fraud: “is one of the biggest corporate frauds in European history”
Link.
Pfizer and Fed science pushback on Trump fake vaccine
Link. “Dr. Slaoui told Science magazine on Thursday that he would “immediately resign if there is undue interference in this process”
“QAnon is a collective delusion, and that’s what BuzzFeed News will be calling it from now on.”
Link. Faith, Cult, Religion, Delusion.