Link. In human lice. Consistent with land bridge crossing 23kya.

Link. “Chamberlain doesn’t have to worry about competition, because it is owned by a private equity fund that “rolled up” all of Chamberlain’s major competitors into a single, giant firm…”

Doctorow taught me a lot with this one.

Link. The author of this essay is way more polite than my title, but internally she seethes.

“It is predicated on a sanitized version of disability in which there is no such thing as severe cognitive impairment.”

They are f* on another plane of reality. It drives parents of cognitively disabled adults to despair.

Link. “ The company is using over a billion gallons more water than it had in past years to help keep its data centers cool.”

Hell of a gamble.

Link. Hamas feared irrelevance; the dull burden of governance. They thought war might save them, and Israel had shown they would pay any price to free a hostage. Then they succeeded beyond their wildest expectations.

Link. “Subsequent research has shown that most bacterial species have a diverse set of satellite-helper systems, like that of P4-P2. But viral satellites are not limited to bacteria…”

Most of this is over last 10y.

Link. “No, it is really important, and you are great at this and can do it, I know you can! (A new paper shows the AI responds to emotional pleas — LLMs are weird — and it seemed to work here)

Link. Nobody can say they didn’t know.

Link. Keep this ref to share in 2024.

Link. Extensive New Yorker profile of China under the Emperor’s heel. It’s ugly.

Many will want to emigrate to Canada — the country Xi hates most.

Link. There’s a tsunami of new meds headed our way over the next decade.

Link. “deaths from drugs, alcohol and suicide happen everywhere, they’re happening disproportionately not in liberal big cities but in left-behind rural regions”

It’s the rural where the GOP lives and rural really does suck. They aren’t making that up.

Link. The wealth isn’t just a tax evasion illusion, it’s real. A fascinating story.

Link. “apparent rampant stimulant use at FTX” does deserve more attention — I gather stimulant/cognitive drug use is popular among SV types who are too young to remember how it turns out. Stimulants are a great way to send someone on the edge over the edge.

SBF does seem a tragic figure to me — as are many crooks big and small. I wonder what story he’ll tell after a few years in prison.

Link. From 2009 but I don’t think there’s much better since. Exercise can cause weight loss assuming some dietary control — but it’s a LOT more exercise than most people imagine.

Greater amounts of PA (>250 min wk(-1)) have been associated with clinically significant weight loss.

Link. Not original design but the model “knows things”.

Link. Israel has no moral authority any more. Hamas deserves to be destroyed. Biden’s approach is probably the best the US can do.

Link. Republican? Maybe if you have a time machine.

Link. “All Seasons Press, which published Meadows’ memoir The Chief’s Chief in 2021, is seeking nearly $3 million in damages”

Link. They were warned.

Link. Not a shock.

Link. If one side uses human shields the other side still cannot disregard their safety. Siege is not legal (I think).

Link. Blame the GOP.

Link. For once nobody is surprised.

Link. It would kill Apple revenue.

Link. For things like this there are Nobel prizes.

Link. This is going to be very interesting. Apple is going to be embarrassed.

Link. An obvious threat that will require many interlocking defenses.

Link. A warning to left Dem.

Link. Employers have infinite choice so make candidates travel to interview.

Link. Up for Native American, Alaska Native and white mothers, Black infants remain at highest risk.

Link. ““We looked into the deeper Earth,” said Qian Yuan, a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology who led the research. “We found big chunks of the impactor Theia.”

Link. “When backing up to APFS, Time Machine reverses the design used in High Sierra: instead of using snapshots to determine what needed to be backed up before creating a backup using traditional hard links, most of the time Time Machine determines what has changed using the original method with FSEvents”

Link. We can’t fix it and it doesn’t matter economically any more. Oil disruption only speeds decarbonization.

Asia is what matters. Containing China.

Link. Many Mozi victims in China and Russia. Sounds like Mozi’s author is now cooperating.

Link. Her review of the “obesity is not a disease” movement is as fair as can be.

The inverse correlation between wealth and weight suggests room for cultural factors (or curious genetics).

Link. Loss numbers don’t fit the media story.

Link. But no effect in a less at-risk group. I’m skeptical. I doubt the real effect is anywhere near 48%.

Link. I hope the experiments are one day feasible. I didn’t think one could use entanglement to pass information back (very small jump) in time .. seems suspiciously similar to FTL.

Link. Similar to adding an eavesdropper to a phone call in 1935.

Link. “emerald jewel wasp both eats the cockroach’s heart out and takes its breath away”

Ampulex compressa. Your next Halloween costume.

Link. TIL the 3 different names for bonds.

Link. The GOP base is saying their finances are ok but the US economy is catastrophic. It’s not the economy that’s the problem.

Link. I’ll wait until spring to upgrade.

Link. Data freedom is the work of net heroes.

Link. This is a stub article, but is already better than what I can find via Kagi or Google today. It’s for Ventura but will be updated to Sonoma in next few months.

Link. It’s more scriptable than I’d thought but there doesn’t seem to be a home for the user scripts. #photos #AppleScript

Link. I wonder how much was COVID accelerated inheritances.

Link. “Singapore, which UNCTAD still classifies as a “developing” country, is among the very richest countries on the planet. It’s far richer than the U.S., Canada, Australia, Switzerland, or the countries of North Europe.”

There’s a lot of China’s money flowing through Singapore. The (free) essay also explains what makes a country “developed” per UN. (Hint: It’s up to the country.)

Link. Economists lose a key real-time indicator of economic activity.