Link. Partial restrictions extend the pain.
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“100 new sars-like viruses discovered. In particular, some bats found in China are now known to harbour coronaviruses that seem pre-adapted to infect people”
Link. Why death rated lower in Mekong delta.
Ioannidis is worse than a bad scientist.
Link. Despicable.
Metformin: historical overview.
Link. This is such a crazy history. A medieval herbal remedy is still our best oral DM med. Arguably best all around. and we can’t improve on it …
“Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) introduced a House resolution Thursday calling on lawmakers to ban organizations or political groups that have historically supported the Confederacy or slavery in the U.S.”
Link. Great sense of humor.
Alzheimer’s: “The olfactory bulb, which is critical for smell, is affected fairly early on in the course of the disease,”
Link. Scent test could be effective — if we had a treatment. Otherwise don’t test.
Trump v Cheney.
Link. Win-win.
“risk of similar coronavirus outbreaks in the future remains high”
Link. COVID-2027.
“the President’s corruption is vast, both political and venal. It has touched every sinew of the President’s administration”
Link.
Tucker Carlson launches assault on NYT journalist.
Link. He knows bad news is coming. Ghislaine?
Trump’s MoCA boasting: “test is normally administered only if someone is concerned that they or their loved ones may be experiencing dementia or other cognitive decline”
Link. Don’t tell Trump.
Humans in Americas: 30kya vs 15kya
Link. If 30kya Pacific arrival then small population. Why not more growth?
“CES 2020, Bosch made a splash with its prototype smart glasses, the main difference being that they used tiny laser arrays to beam images straight onto your retina”
Link. I remember Cringely writing about this decades ago
“Because Senegambian people were often forced to work in dangerous rice plantations, where deadly diseases like malaria were especially common, the team speculates that many simply didn’t survive long enough to leave descendants.”
Link. Slavery in the Americas
MSP riot arson: “suspects were so inept they boasted about their activities on social media, often sharing video of themselves committing the acts”
Link. Relatively few charges so far. In MSP we suspect bored teens and young adults, many or most white and uninterested in BLM or social crisis.
Timing Quantum Tunneling.
Link. Diabolically clever experiments.
Search before Google
Link. Alta Vista mostly. It was good but early Google was amazing.
“With Trump, I tend to choose incompetence over malevolence in explaining his actions. It is likely that he thinks this will be a winning political move, even if it is not.”
Link. What does Murdoch want?
“Sweden has a death toll greater than the United States: 556 deaths per million inhabitants, compared with 425”
Link. Raise your hand if you thought Sweden would out-stupid the US.
“decades-long war against the functioning of good government, a collapse of trust in experts and empiricism, and the spread of a kind of magical thinking”
Link. Murdoch + fundamentalist Christianity + rumning a con on thecworking class base. Recipe for the anti-science party.
“The MITS Altair of text-generating AI, an amusing toy that’s also the start of something that will change the world.”
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“If a customer is not cleared for exemption from wearing a mask, they’ll be denied boarding unless they agree to comply with Delta’s mask policy. If they still do not agree to wear a mask, they’ll be placed on Delta’s no-fly list.”
Link. Hard to explain to an employer.
Chris Wallace interview: The 55 worst Trump quotes.
Link. Frontotemporal dementia?
Inhaled interferon for COVID-19: promising but small sample size.
Link. Hospitalized patients aren’t going to ICU at the moment, so hard to test this.
“The president of CPD’s largest union had pushed for the federal government to help fight crime in Chicago as recently as Saturday, sending Trump a letter.”
Link. Naturally the very worst of the urban police would ally with Trump against good cops and citizens alike. Trump’s genius for division and corruption is in play.
Medical computing org with details on Trump COVID data fiasco.
Link. Lot more details than media reports. Evidence for the trial of the century.
Blogger (draft) supports mobile.
Link. Google is quietly rebuilding blogger. Wonder if its 1-2 dev project.
“So the protests were sort of losing the city. But the introduction of federal forces both intensified the street confrontations”
Link. There is no problem Trump can’t screw up worse.
Pfizer on vaccine dev: “if you were calculating return on investment, we would never do these things.”
Link. Uneconomic behavior.
“past zoonotic coronavirus transmission in humans, unknown viruses that apparently did not lead to serious disease, which have provided some people with a level of T-cell based protection to the current pandemic”
Link. That’s interesting. Dogs? Cats? Pigs?
Alex Berenson explained: a crackpot journalist.
Link. Talented but nutty. Good match for Elon.
Pompeo corruption.
Link. He has a lot too hide.
Trump’s militia: “explicitly invoking the Antifa hysteria one sees on Fox News and right wing media to justify what are commonly understood as secret police tactics.”
Link. The war on antifa gets intel from Qanon.
“conventional measures of corruption are not applicable to the U.S. under Trump. Corruption is no longer deviant in this country: it is instead the defining characteristic of this Presidency”
Link. Recovery will take decades. If it is possible.
“Federal employees may express support for Black Lives Matter in the workplace,”
Link. Trump loyalists are stressed.
“Normally, Dr. Fried pointed out, seniors would find decision-making less knotty because the C.D.C. would be providing detailed, science-based guidance for at-risk groups, updated weekly.”
Link. Obama understood science
“For scientific affirmation, they turned to Dr. Deborah L. Birx … she was a constant source of upbeat news for the president and his aides, walking the halls with charts emphasizing that outbreaks were gradually easing.”
Link. Peter principle: “Everyone rises to the level of their incompetence.” Or … Trump’s power to corrupt.
Twiiter hack was geeks – “who got to know one another because of their obsession with owning early or unusual screen names, particularly one letter or number, like @y or @6”
Link. At least in part.
Hospital-at-home for COVID-19.
Link. Innovative.
“helped to facilitate partnerships with Mr. Xi’s older sister as well as with the son-in-law of Jia Qinglin,”
Link. Hundreds of billions in value, debts likely bigger
Children “between the ages of 10 and 19 can spread the virus at least as well as adults do.”
Link. Not a surprise.
“The Wayfair conspiracy theory — which baselessly claims that the company is trafficking children through its website — began to gain steam on Friday. It has spread alarmingly quickly around Instagram.”
Link. Remember when we worried about AOL connecting to the Inter-Net?
Details on Trump’s support of coronavirus.
Link. Maybe his next arcane ritual has a high sacrifice requirement?
VPN services: “The vast majority of companies that operate these services use patently false marketing, have very murky corporate provenance, and in some cases are literally run by convicted financial crime felons”
Link. i use CloudFlare and TunnelBear.
“Within two years there were 65 open-air schools around the country either set up along the lines of the Providence model or simply held outside.”
Link. Tuberculosis and COVID have similar spread.
[priv] OWC Thunderbolt 3 Mini Dock $120
Link. “two HDMI 2.0 ports (up to 4K UHD at 60Hz with HDCP 2.2 support), a Gigabit Ethernet jack (with PXE Boot and Wake-on-LAN support), a 5Gbps USB 3.0 port, and a USB 2.0 port”.
Catalina 10.15.6 update is now available, with Mojave and High Sierra Security Updates 2020-004
Link. Download standalone installers
Mints app for analysis of TM backups
Link. TM is complex
“You should put your money in cheap media markets in close states close to the election, and you should talk about popular issues, and not talk about unpopular issues.”
Link. All politics is about votes of people with limited knowledge and less interest.
Reincubate Camo turns iPhone into webcam – $40/year
Link. Easier to buy Logitech webcam.