Link. Huge help for remote support. Apple should have enabled long ago
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“most salient fact — which straight news reporting won’t just come out and state — is that they are really, really stupid”
Link. This is the true “third rail”. At least 1/3 of Americans are cognitively disabled in the post-industrial world. And they know it.
“Federal officers from the U.S. Marshals Service and Department of Homeland Security have stormed Portland’s streets as part of President Trump’s promised strong response to ongoing protests.”
Link. National reporting begins.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Says President Trump Is Invading Portland as an Election Stunt – Willamette Week
Link. General strike.
“men and women who drink limit themselves to a single serving of wine, beer or liquor per day”
Link. Women at risk of pregnacy should not drink at all.
Living With Aphantasia, the Inability to Make Mental Images.
Link. I score at low end of phantasia abilities. It hasn’t been significant disability though
Mekong River peoples are COVID resistant. Genetics?
Link. Dengue susceptible is thought genetic. ACE inhibitors and Black Americans.
WHO: “People should NOT wear masks when exercising.”
Link. I think they mean exercising outdoors, they should fix that ASAP.
In rodents exercise stimulates hepatic GPLD1 production. That hormone induces neurogenesis.
Link. Possible commercial implications.
“Voters without a four-year college degree are far less likely to respond to telephone surveys — and far likelier to support Mr. Trump.”
Link. *White* voters. Damnit 538, get that right
Workplace training: “Canada spends three times as much, Germany about six times more and Scandinavian countries up to more than 12 times as much”
Link. Compared to Canada, America has large numbers of college-capable workers without a degree. Especially in Black America.
Progress in Sudan
Link. Apostasy law emds.
“S&P 500 will generate a 6 percent annual return over the next decade, versus nearly 14 percent over the past decade”
Link.
“I confronted him with scientific studies providing evidence of safety and efficacy,” and highlighted a new study that he said showed a 50 percent reduction in the mortality rate when the medicine is used”
Link. Navarro on HCQ sciemce. He has publicly humiliated himself. He is so incredibly stupid.
NYT on Twitter hack.
Link. Developing story.
Reference for Smithsonian “whiteness and white culture” infographic.
Link. I liked it. They forgot “dogs as family”. “Bikes as recreation” and “Gun worship” would be contenders. I don’t think can have both “science focus” and “Christian” as simultaneous cultural traits.
Lessons from the Life and Death of the Segway
Link. Micromobility needs bikeways.
“I can’t explain Peter Navarro,” he added. “He’s in a world by himself.”
Link. Grifter culture elevates the drones.
COVID vaccine exceeds expectations
Link. “More than half of the participants had side effects, including fatigue, chills, headaches, muscle aches and pain at the injection site.”
“B. miyamotoi is not available at most labs at this point. The disease is just too new.”
Link. Crap. Another lousy tick borne disease.
“The Trump administration has been a godsend for Xi, if only in making him seem like a reasonable leader.”
Link. Xi’s most important ally
Blood type unrelated to COVID risk.
Link. Red herring.
“Online learning is ineffective for most elementary-school children and special-needs children, the panel of scientists and educators concluded.”
Link. Good to see special needs callout. True at all ages. That cohort needs person contact
“The odds of them fusing together to make a deuterium nucleus are about the same as winning the Powerball lottery three times in a row”
Link. Did 1950s physicists understand fusion couldn’t work?
Use regular expressions in Numbers on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac.
Link. Numbers slowly improves.
DF rants on the NYT’s dickbar
Link. I read using Reeder.app’s text only display
Should race be a variable in medical algorithms?
Link. It’s not obvious. ACE inhibitors, for example, are not first line therapy for Black Americans.
Ethics of Coronavirus Vaccine challenge trials.
Link. Rescue remdesivir?
“internal polling showing a softening of support among suburban voters, especially women without college degrees”
Link. WWCW is why Black Democrats chose Biden.
Korea protects child pornographer.
Link. Very light sentences by western stabdards.
NOAA allowed to say seas are mysteriously rising and will food coastal America.
Link. “The question of what is causing seas to rise is, she said, “a little different.”
Hospitalization and Mortality among Black Patients and White Patients with Covid-19.
Link. “black race was not independently associated with higher mortality”. At least once admitted the black group did bit better than white group.
Reviving damaged human lungs by connecting then to healthy pigs.
Link. THIS.IS.WILD. Did not see that one coming
Incorporating heterogeneity into models of COVID immunity.
Link. I doubt this is a new discovery. I suspect it was considered in 90s. It could and should guide pre and post vaccine polcy.
“Finder’s error of more than 139 TB is most probably because it’s using the wrong integer type in its calculation.”
Link. Oops.
Post about breast cancer, get Facebook ads for scam treatments.
Link. The ad-funded Internet is an inevitable disaster.
Go outdoors, better masks, easy quick testing.
Link. Most sensible McCardle I can recall. Obvious by late March. Biden will do this.
“White House salvo appeared aimed at undermining the public’s trust in the renowned immunologist [Fauci] in hope that Americans will be more inclined to believe Trump’s far more optimistic version of events as the November election marches closer.”
Link. Trump can’t fire him.
Curbsider CME for non-internists through VCU Health
Link. Best thing I’ve seen in months.
“Government experts said they have been surprised at the speed with which federal workers have internalized President Trump’s antagonism for climate science”
Link. This isn’t Trump. It’s the entire GOP.
Understanding COVID: “about 4 percent of the world’s population, around 349 million people, would require hospitalization if they became infected”
Link. Age and conditions. Sounds about right. Of those about 1/8 to 1/10 will die, and almost all will have weeks to years of significant disability.
Best macOS/Mac OS X? Snowie.
Link. If I could run Aperture on Snowie in a VM …
Tennessee did some good things, but the people did not cooperate
Link. Sounds like core problem was Tennessee voter.
PPE crisis: “The United States remains dependent on overseas manufacturers and fly-by-night middlemen who have jacked up prices sevenfold amid soaring global demand,”
Link. This is GOP and esp McConnell – as well as Trump.
“We need Disk Utility to be able to list all snapshots stored on a volume, and their current effective size, together with a command to delete those which are purgeable.”
Link. The basics. Carbon Copy Cloner helps for now. Big Sur uses lots of disk space.
Trump dumps corrupt buddies into USAID jobs.
Link. Money for nothing.
“Today, Americans are only allowed in a few Caribbean islands and the Balkans”
Link. What’s wrong with the Balkans?
Gravel biking explained
Link. Bikepacking so much better than “touring”.
“In the late 18th century, one in five Londoners contracted syphilis by their mid-30s”
Link. Riddled with STDs. Huge suffering. How did that change culture?
“rumors of COVID parties in other states, most recently from Alabama, have been shared by officials and turned out to be false.”
Link.