Link. The widow Rogers is a fun interview.
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7,000-plus Missouri college students have tested positive for COVID-19.
Link. “none of the college-age students have become seriously ill”. Really? Out of 7,000? Something doesn’t add up.
“To me, the signs on the American horizon are flashing blood red.”
Link. Where to run? Canada can’t absorb millions of US refugees.
Left demonstrators attacking homes of Dem mayors.
Link. Trump’s best friends. Also, idiots.
Intoxication, psychiatric disorders, spit fear, and police restraint – another story.
Link. Spit fear is irrational. Stop the hood. Beyond that, what is safe restraint?
“… the utter contempt Trump and the entire Republican party have for the basic concept of democracy”
Link. Obama spoke of this. The Trump base, 40% of Americans, dislikes majority rule.
“Pompeo wins. Congratulations to the worst secretary of state in American history!”
Link. Tillerson was the wrong person, but Pompeo is evil.
Learn WordPress site.
Link. It’s complicated.
“Western civilization is doomed—and immigration, political correctness, transgenderism, the culture, the establishment, the left, and the “Dems” are responsible”
Link. Ingraham can’t handle the truth.
Walmart prime: “Walmart+ will require an order of at least $35,”
Link. Walmart RIP. Also, Amazon Prime student rate very low. We use our son’s rate.
China bus outing: 1/3 infected. Air conditioning
Link. “The only factor that may have mitigated the risk of infection was sitting near a window that could be opened, or near the door.”. Implications for offices
“several female soldiers said they worried that officers at Fort Hood had not moved swiftly to crack down on men and women who they say have preyed on those they believe to be weaker”
Link. and women?
“the pathology of Covid-19 is likely the result of Bradykinin Storms rather than cytokine storms,”
Link. Simulation based.
“Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced that he and wife Priscilla Chan are donating $300 million to increase voter turnout and bolster state and local election security efforts.”
Link. I am surprised. How could this help Trump?
“iOS 13.7 lets you opt-in to the COVID-19 Exposure Notifications system without the need to download an app”
Link. I will do this of course.
Thermal throttling with 16-inch MacBook Pro
Link. Inlike to by older models that are well understood
Aukey’s 12-in-1 USB-C Hub Lets You Connect Up to Three Monitors to Your Laptop
Link. These hubs are getting crazy. Needs major power supply.
LG unveils battery-powered air-purifying face mask.
Link. Workings mysterious, unclear if output filtered. Might be popular in healthcare.
“Attorney General William Barr’s recent decision to remove the head of a Justice Department office that helps ensure federal counterterrorism and counterintelligence activities are legal”
Link. Prepare general strike.
“Moderna’s vaccine needs to be shipped and stored at -20 C (minus four Fahrenheit), while the Pfizer/BioNTech one needs to be at -70 C (-94 F)”
Link. Even MN isn’t that cold.
Voice Control’s Dictation is different from macOS dictation
Link. Headache time. Wonder if VCD has double entry bug.
Good Products by John Siracusa
Link. Stuff he likes. Influences me
“crucial unemployment provisions were devised largely by Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon”
Link. Mnuchin at least did not oppose
Why the US abandoned contact tracing.
Link. Phone spam, robocallers, Fox, Murdoch, Trump, no budget, unbiquitous identity theft and phone fraud, out of control infection, social media … don’t even try.
Sen. Ron Johnson’s lies about postal service.
Link. He’s scum.
The Hatch Act means a lot outside of Trump appointees
Link. Another reason to vote them out.
Amazon held liable for defects in its third party goods.
Link. Amazon has made a lot fron counterfeits and fraudulent goods.
A symmetric rash puzzle
Link. I was thinking vasculitis. Wrong.
Long term Airbnb rentals for college learning pods.
Link. YouTube influencers pioneered, before them reality TV. I see the appeal.
Taiwan prepares for Chinese invasion – without allies
Link. A nuclear deterrent would be handy
“After his death, Schinella’s wife discovered a large collection of bondage and S&M gear that had been hidden in his house, along with 24 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition.”
Link. Very senior US military intelligence official. Killed himself as new wife fled.
Breonna Taylor death and context
Link. I think NYT is saying there was likely legal cause for a search but the judge erred in nature of search and police were incompetent at best.
“no one seems to have considered the problems which can be caused by orphaned snapshots, so they’re a key macOS feature which is essentially unmaintainable”
Link. Too complex for humans.
“RealFarmacy, which according to Avaaz is on track to become one of the largest health misinformation networks in the world, received an astonishing 581 million views in a year.”
Link. Money for Facebook.
“Canada increased its maximum payment to about $4,800 per child per year (in American dollars), and quickly reduced child poverty by a third”
Link. Canada has had this for at least 50 years, a kind of guaranteed income. Helped feed me.
Replacing a Time Capsule with a Synology NAS for multiple users
Link. I wrote the original article in 2015 and updated it in 2020 when an OS update killed one of my machine backups. This kind of end-user “how to” article is hard to find in the twilight of the web.
“Some apps legitimately need location access, and once that’s granted there’s little that can be done to protect you”
Link. Don’t give location data to anyone but Apple?
“Trying to get a job at a legitimate tech company after staying at Facebook through 2020 will be like trying to get a job at a legitimate news publication after a stint at Fox News.”
Link. I wish that were true.
Intimidating math theorem’s elegant proof.
Link. I loved Huang’s description of how he plugged away at it as a secret hobby for many years. Helped falling asleep at night, solved when writing grant application.
China’s concentration camps mapped.
Link. Xi will go down in history with Stalin, Mao, and Hitler.
“Changes in Spotlight Search on iOS and iPadOS 14 beta, a significant update to its Applebot support page, and an increase in crawling from AppleBot signify that Apple may be launching a search engine soon.”
Link. Google search results lousy in many domains. They are vulnerable.
“administration officials have suddenly started referring to the pandemic in the past tense”
Link. Of course.
Kyle Rittenhouse profile.
Link. Almost certainly cognitive disabilities, could be my special needs son. Insane that he had a weapon.
“Almost 10% of patients with COVID-19 infection have a prolonged QTc interval on admission”
Link. Explains why HCQ was unexpectedly toxic. It’s generally a safe medication…
“University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy director Michael Osterholm told Stat. “The two foundational organizations in this country for public health really have been the CDC and the FDA and the credibility of both has
Link. The Party of Trump will destroy all science.
Abbott’s $5 Covid-19 Rapid Antigen Test Gets Emergency-Use Status From FDA – WSJ
Link. “Abbott said Wednesday it plans to ship tens of millions of the newly authorized tests in September, with plans to increase production to 50 million tests in October.” I will buy.
“The FDA can no longer call itself an independent and science-based regulatory agency,” Luciana Borio, former acting FDA chief scientist, told BioCentury.”
Link. FDA down. CDC down. HHS down. NIH?
“presenting oneself as a Black activist is the most effective disinformation tactic for driving online engagement”
Link. Russia and Iran.
CDC testing guidelines not written by CDC.
Link. The CDC has fallen.
HIV “cure” without immune system transplant
Link. Mechanism too complex for article to describe