Link. Overload failure of the lossy neuro-ophthalmic algorithm.
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Worldwide Cyclery – painless purchase with Amazon and Google Pay
Link. They showed up in a web search for some grips and I knew their reputation. Surprising part was how painless checkout was. I didn’t have to create an account.
“large projects employ international surveying firms whose employees are unaware that America has two feet”
Link. Nobody knew.
“testing remdesivir and placebo against remdesivir and beta interferon.”
Link. A prior combo trial is thought to be negative. Science!
Ex-C.I.A. Officer Is Accused of Spying for China
Link. Clever sting
A Senescent Cell Therapy for OA fails.
Link. Not great news, but I didn’t know senescent cell therapy was a thing. OA is a mess of things we don’t understand at all.
Herd immunity reconsidered: “Rather than uniformly vaccinate all groups, governments could identify and immunize those most likely to be exposed in “superspreader” events”
Link. New models could make limited vaccine supply more effective.
“Her concern, when it comes to China, is maintaining Giant’s work force there. Young people’s interest in factory jobs is declining.”
Link. Giant is an interesting company.
Native document versions in macOS
Link. I don’t think they are worth the complexity
In Norway, where college is free, children of uneducated parents don’t go.
Link. Free college and hideously expensive American college have similar class-based attendance patterns and in both countries only about 1/3 adults complete a four year degree.
Can you do a Time Machine backup to a USB flash drive (thumb drive)?
Link. Seems to work. I wouldn’t bet my data on it, but useful when traveling and better than nothing.
FDA “approved” KN95 masks available on Amazon – $4 each.
Link. Some N95 are also becoming available though not on Amazon. We should have had this by March.
“FDA approved” KN95 Face Masks – $38 for 10 (Powecom)
Link. There is a “Guangzhou Powecom Labor Insurance Supplies Co” on FDA list.
Race vs Class on the Left
Link. I used to think Class was bigger, but I’ve changed my mind. However Class-based fixes may be more achievable.
Trump broke law with DHS appointments. Will do it again.
Link. Blame McConnell.
TeleTracking Technologies, Trump’s COVID concealment team, says NDA blocks Senate inquiry
Link. Blame McConnell.
China dials back attacks on US
Link. Preparing for a sane administration.
[toread] “Australia’s flu vaccine rate tends to be modest, but this year demand was high.”
Link. Good news.
Where to Buy N95 Mask For Sale: Shop FDA-Approved Respirator Face Mask.
Link. Another from America’s new CDC.
N95 Mask vs. KN95 Mask Difference.
Link. In the failed American state Rolling Stone provides essential public health guidance. Laugh I must.
Surrogacy industry: “Ukraine, with its relatively permissive reproductive health laws and an abundance of willing mothers among a poor population, is a hub of the international business”
Link. And mothers are white.
Trump voters being shy
Link. My takeaway is his voters are feeling some shame. Not enough, but at least a bit.
FDA KN95 approved list: “Authorized Imported, Non-NIOSH Disposable Filtering Facepiece Respirators (FFR)”
Link. Good luck finding any of these!
WaPo vaccine tracker up to 200 vaccines.
Link. If each has a 50% chance of working the probability NONE work is 6*10-61.
“it’s 2020, the worst President of my lifetime is just blithely gibbering at a microphone about suppressing voting, and there’s no point trying to pretend that it’s not what’s happening, and that the president’s party isn’t complicit with it
Link.
“We’ll never know how this fatal flaw in the 10.15.6 update leaked from Apple, but it once again speaks forcefully of lack of testing and absence of quality control, which have bedevilled macOS of late.”
Link. Apple’s desperate finances explains problem.
The Palestinians are on their own now.
Link. Making apparent what has been true for years.
“Three of the most promising and advanced vaccine studies in the world are relying on scientists and volunteers in Brazil”
Link. Also important: Brazil may do stupid things, but it’s not thought vulnerable to external exploitation (vs. Congo).
How a kernel zone memory leak can panic macOS.
Link. “Jetsam is the process which has been brought from iOS to macOS to manage memory more aggressively, to try to avoid shortage from affecting more important processes.”
Osterholm: People who know things don’t mask outdoors (6 ft etc)
Link. Few are willing to go on record.
A great explanation of why COVID control required competent government.
Link. Perfectly designed to confound the Idiocracy.
“You’d think from the moral outrage about these beach photos that fun, in itself, transmits the virus,” the Harvard epidemiologist Julia Marcus told me. “But when people find lower-risk ways to enjoy their lives, that’s actually a public-health
Link. Say it.
COVID monoclonals hard to study, will be delayed.
Link. Even if get tests by time of enrollment many are not very sick. Design requires use early.
Recruiting leaks from USPS employees
Link.
COVID-19 Airline Refund Lawsuits: Litigation Guide
Link. After DOT intervention Delta refunded ONE of my two tickets on a canceled flight to Seoul.
Nanobodies Against the Coronavirus: Something New.
Link. “How about impregnating filter material with this protein so it pulls coronavirus particles out of the air as they pass through it?” Amazing. I had no idea.
COVID Cancelation: The fight with Delta Airlines.
Link. It’s not over yet.
Covid-19 vs Past Pandemics
Link. We have much better treatments
IHS program uses oximeters, not swabs, to ID COVID.
Link. Many kudos tp the IHS. Remarkable findings.
“long-running investigation by Bellingcat, The Insider and Der Spiegel has uncovered that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s disinformation, political interference and military operations are tightly integrated with Russia’s Defense Ministry and its intelligence a
Link. Committee to reelect Trump. Because if Trump loses there will be Hell to pay.
Chrome malware: “Managed by your organization”
Link. Look for a profile in preference panes, delete it, reset Chrome, then run at least two free antivirals (AVG, Sophos, Malwarebytes).
Periodic Reminder That the Dow Jones Industrial Average Is Moronic
Link. In other words, the perfect 2020 economic metric.
“Illegal under international law, the expulsions are the most direct and sustained attempt by a European country to block maritime migration using its own forces since the height of the migration crisis in 2015”
Link. Will EU act?
Chrome “Managed by your organization” virus from Mac – MacSecurity
Link. My son got this. I actually wonder if it was from installing work software from federal census employment.
“Tim Cook told a whopper during the Congressional hearing: “We treat every developer the same.”
Link. A fair, even generous, analysis of Apple’s App Store failings. Should be read by regulators
“Bike Shorts” as fashion
Link. They don’t have thick butt pads – fake and dumb so 2020.
“Trump had colluded with the Russians, but not in the sophisticated ways imagined by his detractors.”
Link. We didn’t imagine sophistication. We understand Trump.
Learning pods explained
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“The Atlanta Journal-Constitution obtained the White House Coronavirus Task Force recommendations for Georgia, dated Aug. 9, from a source”
Link. Georgians voted for this.
Trump payoff to his friend Larry Ellison.
Link. They don’t hide any more.