Link. Some have wondered if statins slowed OA progression. Seems unlikely.
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Sabine on “Longtermism”.
Link. Reminds me of the Sin of Onan. Also, Kant did this topic.
A liberal Jewish perspective on the rise of antisemitism in the GOP.
Link. Are right wing Jews starting to be uncomfortable?
“From a rooftop position, two former computer programmers turned tank hunters directed drone strikes that took out two Russian armored vehicles in the space of about three hours,”
Link. Wearing NATO night vision goggles. Daring.
“multigenerational households … likely to grow in popularity in the future as rising productivity in the rest of the economy makes childcare and home healthcare … much more expensive”
Link. Legit futurism. Also, why do economists dislike Baumol’s cost disease?
“This is the world in which American students — most of them learning remotely for many months, many of them for close to a year, and some for longer — fell off by a handful of points,”
Link. Test score decline was modest given the circumstances.
“you can make all the promises about “free speech” you want, but the dull reality is that you still have to ban a bunch of legal speech if you want to make money”
Link. Pass the popcorn.
Five reasons not to move from Twitter to Mastodon
Link. He recommends moving.
Virtual Screening: “… led to scoring of about 7.5 trillion complexes. Not a typo. That took close to 9 hours of grinding away on a 1000-core computing cluster.”
Link. Lots more room to consume cycles.
“During the off-season that year, Waddell also accidentally shot a man in the hand, saved a drowning woman…”
Link. Early ball players were colorful.
“.. sudden disappearance of work is an unexpected turn for … dray operators — the drivers who transport shipping containers between the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach”
Link. Several reasons.
Emperor Xi: “In social media chat groups, where mentioning his name has become a dangerous thing to do, Xi is just “he.”
Link. The state of Chinese society.
Ride With GPS vs Komoot: Which is Better for Biking?
Link. Rides with free version is pretty good.
ApoE and the Coronavirus: “the [mouse models] with ApoE2 and ApoE4 proteins had notably worse courses of disease and lower survival rates. “
Link. Derek also mentions Alzheimer’s shift focusing on glial cell lipid metabolism.
NYT profile of a Black woman’s life after the great migration.
Link. It manages to pack in a lot of Black American experience into a small article. Progress but slow and hard and intermittent.
Meta: “The number of people who use its apps such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or Messenger daily increased to 2.93 billion users in the quarter, up 4 percent from a year earlier.
Link. That’s curious. Would like to know more.
“If the 774 AD Miyake event really was a super-Carrington solar flare, it was probably around 80x bigger”
Link. Every thousand years or so. Would mess us up bad.
Antisense therapy for rare seizure mutations causes hydrocephalus in the 2 patients treated.
Link. Parents support further research, their children faced certain death.
“President Joe Biden asked all agencies to find ways to cut “junk fees,” the hidden fees, charges, and add-ons that hit consumers on everything from airline and concert tickets, to hotels, to banking services and cable bills.”
Link. Treat fake prices as fraud.
Japan … “behind South Korea in terms of living standards”
Link. I did not know this. SK seems very stressed Society however.
Rubio’s latest delusion explained.
Link. Marco Rubio and the Proud Boys.
“Due to the reduced stability of macOS 13, we very highly recommend that you stay away from macOS 13 “Ventura” as long as possible.”
Link.
“introduced Yamanaka’s factors into living animals. In 2013, a Spanish team did exactly that, with gruesome results. The mice sprouted tumors called teratomas”
Link. Aging zillionaires piling money into life extension.
“If you don’t have automatic updates enabled, you’ll need to use SilentKnight to restore MRT and XPR to their former glory.”
Link. Apple expects automatic updates is active.
“One senior U.S. official said there were new, troubling developments involving Russia’s nuclear arsenal.”
Link. Increasingly desperate Putin.
“The guidelines for state-sponsored Russian propaganda television predict very well what Tucker Carlson says about Russia and Ukraine.”
Link. Carlson is now driving the GOP’s MAGA/Putin agenda. Do we miss Limbaugh now?
“the trajectory Apple has chosen for the future of the iPadOS platform, and it’s one designed for modularity, power users, and multiple input methods. Plus a whole lot of weirdness. And bugs.”
Link.
“Rifle clubs” held contests outside Republican political rallies, “Red Shirts” marched with their guns in parades.”
Link. 1876, when Republicans were the good guys. 2022 GOP are replaying the classics.
“If China invades, it has a very strong incentive to attack U.S. bases first. And if China attacks U.S. bases, the U.S. is highly likely to respond by fighting China.”
Link. Classic game theory analysis of the invasion of Taiwan.
“There are an estimated 20 quadrillion ants all over the planet, except in Antarctica”
Link. Prize winning micro photography of carpenter ant face.
Reflections on DeLong’s “Slouching Towards Utopia”
Link. Responding to resurgent fascism and the despair of modern China.
“The grooming tactic of trying to convince a child everyone around them is a groomer for a very arbitrary reason and they are safe is becoming incredibly common now a days.”
Link. Humans are so weird. Worth reviewing if you have a vulnerable child.
“the steady decline in performance of the macOS Help system has made traditional Help books embarrassing”
Link. OTOH few read help files in any form. FWIW Windows XP had a great help app.
“while many of the children did come from orphanages and group homes, the authorities also took children whose relatives or guardians want them back”
Link. “her Russian foster family treated her well but that she ached to return to Ukraine”
Russia has a thing for war crimes.
“Lara Logan Is Too Crazy for Newsmax … Going from a contributor on 60 Minutes to getting banned by Newsmax”
Link. We don’t recognize all the schizophrenia-adjacent mental health disorders.
Explainer: Passwords and passkeys
Link. Oakley is a marvel. Once we had many sources for such knowledge. BYTE is impossible to imagine now.
“Before this attack, I had thought that I could take on a bear easily.”
Link. But he did attack the grizzly to save his friend, so young man testosterone not all bad. Expected to heal well.
“Rice does not cause birds to die by inflating their stomachs until they burst.”
Link. Wikipedia list of common misconceptions is fun reading. Via FMH.
“Gain of Function” coronavirus research: “the new chimeric strain was less dangerous by comparison in animal tests”
Link. Over a week ago so nobody remembers, but Lowe’s commentary is a good reminder of how bad fast journalism often is.
“From her cell, she could hear men and women screaming in pain. “Men screaming so hard I cannot describe it enough,” she said, weeping.”
Link. Russians started brutal, got worse as defeat loomed. This is what the House GOP supports.
Disinformation finds ways to meet demand.
Link. There’s huge demand for stories that validate the unmoored. Similarities to War on Drugs are not coincidental.
Newsletter market plateaus.
Link. Eventually more people are going to notice they are paying out a LOT of subscriptions.
Minneapolis after the riots: Even Floyd memorial guides don’t support “defunding” police.
Link. Carjackings by armed children aren’t helping Dem AG.
“Russia was preparing a “false flag” operation to blow up a large hydroelectric dam in the south of the country, potentially flooding 80 towns, villages and cities, including the strategically important city of Kherson.”
Link. Russia is going to lose Kherson, so might as well destroy it and frame Ukraine.
“the ability to work remotely, full or part time, has allowed Americans to travel more and to combine personal and professional trips”
Link. Demographics and family size also enable work while traveling.
“rebalancing Citi Bikes became a daily activity after he retired from 30 years working as a vice president and business coordinator at a bank”
Link. Small payments for “good” acts done largely by economically independent retirees — the note taking thing is interesting.
“In recent days, several Reddit forums have been shut down after being inundated with nonconsensual nude images, largely made with Stable Diffusion”
Link. “people had created graphic images of “violently beaten Asian women””
With inflation only 3% Japan keeps rates low.
Link. Makes sense.
“… he would sneak out of bed and listen to accounts of the “whipping and crying post,” of the lynching tree and the wagon wheel.”
Link. American slavery was basically yesterday. Mr Smith walked through history.
“Davidson embraces using the power of the government to enforce the principles of the right wing”
Link. I appreciate the GOP’s Trumpian transparency.