Link. I love his honesty. Even the dullest most apathetic American knows who he is.
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“the good “suburban housewife” he believes will vote for him, and nasty women who have not shown him or his political allies sufficient respect.”
Link. Is this really a good strategy for him?
NY COVID 2020 comparable to 1918 crisis.
Link. We have far older population and most expect a full lifespan.
Apple warns White House about severe implications of banning WeChat
Link. Trump to Cook: Serve me or I will destroy you.
“Backup Server Control is software from Marcel Bresink Software-Systeme for setting up a Time Machine backup server on a Mac for network access”
Link. Like macos server
Apple Maps new stuff still limited to handful of cities.
Link. Great story, crappy coverage. Why so slow?!
“Kamala Harris is a black woman who doesn’t know her place.”
Link. Trump is a genius at playing his base … but I wonder if he’s slipping a bit.
Gyms rebelling
Link. If you open churches…
“If you had told me that Trump was doing this as a favor to the schools-must-not-open crowd, I’d believe you,” said Rick Hess, director of education policy at the American Enterprise Institute”
Link. He doesn’t care if open or not.
Kushner and Kanye.
Link. Does anyone believe in reality any more?
COVID is a dog’s best friend
Link. Our guy is totally spoiled.
GOP welcomes QAnon
Link. New party needed.
“COMMA-LAH,” not “KUH-MAL-UH.”
Link. I don’t do TV or radio news so have only read it.
Honeybee’s tongue adjusts to syrup viscosity.
Link. Efficient.
Dying young of COVID: “roughly comparable to the number of younger people who were murdered over the same time period in recent years.”
Link. Presume 10x that is severe disease
“Portland Bible burnings appear to be one of the first viral Russian disinformation hits of the 2020 presidential campaign”
Link. GOP leaders happily disseminated. I suspect they knew it was fake
COVID virus cultured from aerosol in high flow room
Link. N95 masks needed for caregivers.
Seas of Ceres: “the bulk of the salts were supplied from a slushy area just beneath the surface that was melted by the heat of the impact that formed the crater about 20 million years ago”
Link. Water everywhere.
Underground gyms.
Link. Not a big deal yet… (I’m dropping $$$ now to build home gym. Few can do that. 3 week+ wait for gear.)
The Russian Vaccine.
Link. Lysenko lives.
Trunp will announce a vaccine in October.
Link. At the very latest. This is inevitable. He may order military to use it. If orders use by VA, will not go well.
Anker T3 7-1 hub with power supply.
Link. I like.
NYT wants FDA commissioner to call them more often
Link. I read that as the main point. Hahn chose to work for Trump, so suspect he will fall.
“Facebook, Google and Twitter are making the same mistakes the news media made decades ago, looking for balance rather than confronting the plain reality of the moment”
Link. This is very generous. Do they care about anything but prpfit?
“there have been 246 proofs of a statement known as the quadratic reciprocity law following Gauss’ original proof in 1796″
Link. Some much simpler or more elegant
Atypical COVID: “DNA sequencing revealed that each of them had a rare form of a gene on his X chromosome that was linked to a deficient immune response”
Link. Lots of mutations in all of us.
“Coffee seems to have profound positive effects on the liver in general, and the more coffee the better … HALT C (Hepatitis C Antiviral Long-Term Treatment against Cirrhosis) trial, increased coffee consumption was associated with less severe disease an
Link. If all DM II have NALF, and 20% get NASH, why don’t we recommend 3 cups/day for every Type II?
“If you get COVID “relief” in the form of a payroll tax holiday, you still have to pay it back! After the election!”
Link.
“Electric cars will enjoy a long lifespan and low maintenance”
Link. Million mile battery?
Tocilizumab fails for COVID-19
Link. Looked promising. Thank you to all who researched this.
Apple amok: the rogue kill switch.
Link. With great power comes great arrogance and negligence.
Read S.L. Huang’s Hugo-Winning Story “As the Last I May Know”
Link. Free.
“iris-tracking model is able to determine the metric distance of a subject to the camera with less than 10% error, without requiring any specialized hardware. This is done by relying on the fact that the horizontal iris diameter of the human eye remains
Link.
Russia’s Trump assistance: “The director of national intelligence was asked to modify the assessment — he did not — and not long afterward, Mr. Trump declared the director was out”
Link. Russia’s attack on America is the most successful military action in the history of warfare.
“I made decisions out of political expediency, or hubris, or naivete”
Link. Welcome friend, we need you.
“locker rooms designed like first-class luxury airliner cabins now look like protruding, tumorous distortions, worthy of recoil and disgust.”
Link. The best guides to America are our college sports and our prisons.
“next six months could make what we have experienced so far seem like just a warm-up to a greater catastrophe”
Link. Yep.
“flat earthers’ claim Einstein said you cannot distinguish upward acceleration from downward gravity. That’s the equivalence principle, supposedly. So, you see, Einstein said it and therefore the earth is flat.”
Link. Jesters are playing with vulnerable minds. It’s cruel.
“fundamental slogan of this area of mathematics (originally stated by Theodore Motzkin): “Complete disorder is impossible.”
Link. Infinity is problematic.
Seattle CHOP: “Much of the violence they saw and the intimidation of their patrons came from a group these business owners identified as antifa, which they distinguished from the Black Lives Matter movement.”
Link. Police are necessary
“If the neutrinos cannot emerge fast enough to heat an explosion, the supernova is likely to fizzle and the newly-birthed neutron star will collapse into a black hole”
Link. Otherwise neutron star.
Reflections on the end of the American era.
Link. COVID-19 was our Berlin wall fall. There will be a New World Order – for reals.
That Kodak Deal: “no doubt a weird coincidence that a former manager of Southeastern Management (Ted Suhl) recently had his sentence for bribery and fraud commuted by President Trump”
Link. Russia 2.0.
“The quantum-resistant algorithms will be standardized far in advance of any practical quantum computer,”
Link. Thank you!
Serverless: A simple overview
Link. Helped me.
Chronicles of Charnia: the discovery of precambrian life.
Link. Good story well told.
MSP Paddlesports Map
Link. Minneapolis and St Paul
Rad Power Bike story
Link. $1000 eBike
1/3 of infectious people have no symptoms at all.
Link. Why we need universal precautions
“According to officials, God was killed this morning on the moon by a highly trained team of seven astronauts”
Link. Already done. Suck it Trumpo.