Link. Luttig’s testimony surprising. Not as Scalia as we expected.
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“that minute imperfections in phones caused during manufacturing create a unique Bluetooth beacon”
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GOP candidate for MN Governor has had multiple investigations of his medical license.
Link. He’s a raving loon crackpot with medically dangerous practices. We don’t know if there’s more.
“Sierra Club, Demos, the American Civil Liberties Union, Color of Change, the Movement for Black Lives, Human Rights Campaign, Time’s Up, the Sunrise Movement, and many other organizations have seen wrenching and debilitating turmoil”
Link. The Progressive paradox.
Brain temp varies over day, can peak at 105F.
Link. Lots of surprises to come.
“religious sect, which believes a higher consciousness can be achieved by embracing fine arts and culture, has also gained a foothold inside a business unit at Google.”
Link. Peak California.
“The amyloid hypothesis has been targeted again and again and again from different directions with different drug candidates, and never, ever even once has it shown signs of truly helping Alzheimer’s patients.”
Link. Stake. Cut off head. For all we know Amyloid is helpful.
“T-Mobile users are getting free high-speed worldwide data, free in-flight data with major airlines, a free year of AAA membership”
Link. AT&T charges $10/day for high speed data.
“Loudermilk had led individuals through the U.S. Capitol complex on January 5, 2021, in what sure looks like a reconnaissance tour.”
Link. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA).
Canada-Denmark whisky war.
Link. “governments found political value in dragging out the dispute”
Omicron: “Deaths have stayed below 400 a day for several weeks.”
Link. Good news.
“49 percent of 350 Japanese companies surveyed in March said they were still using Internet Explorer”
Link. Japan has issues.
“Teslas operating with Autopilot, the more ambitious Full Self Driving mode or any of their associated component features were in 273 crashes. Five of those Tesla crashes were fatal.”
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“wheel as a whole automatically adjusts its wiggling motion to compensate for uneven terrain.”
Link. Simple rules, emergent travel behavior. Fun video.
“Black Death arrived in 1338 or 1339 near Issyk-Kul, a lake in a mountainous area just west of China in what is now Kyrgyzstan.”
Link. 8y later Eurasia. Future tourist spot.
2017 to 2020 abortion up 6-7%
Link. Unclear why, previously declining. More coverage? Less birth control?
“In its war against Ukraine, Russia appears to be using the abduction of Ukrainian children to put extra pressure on the Ukrainian population and the government to surrender.”
Link. Crimes against humanity.
“Oxfam very regularly serves up statistics based on highly questionable data and models, often in a sloppy and/or misleading way.”
Link. Probably unfixable.
NYT long long article on gender therapy.
Link. Frustrating to read but buried data in there. High rates mental health disorders, surge in birth female transition male. Tiptoes around shift from gay/lesbian.
“The money went to Trump’s own political action committee, the Save America PAC, which used the funds to pay off people in Trump’s orbit”
Link. 250 million dollars from Trump’s minions.
Leave Joe Biden Alone: “I think he’s done a pretty good job”
Link. Me too. I do not understand American voters at all.
Pediatric idiopathic hepatitis: “trying to determine whether the cases represent a new phenomenon or are simply a new recognition of one that has long existed”
Link. My money leans 80% to the latter.
“Walker has openly described struggling with his mental health, including in “Breaking Free: My Life With Dissociative Identity Disorder,”
Link. His stories are very often untrue.
Seven dumb features from WWDC 2022
Link. Not saying no.
“When you read [your work] aloud, there are parts you might skip over—you find yourself not wanting to speak them. Those are the weak parts”
Link. Same with presentations.
Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer (AI story, free)
Link. Clarkesworld mag. SF writers have been exploring AI for centuries. They are where you start.
“Taiwan’s defenses are, by many accounts, ill-equipped and understaffed.”
Link. As usual no mention of a nuclear option.
WaPo: how to create a share link that’s free for all for 14 day.
Link. “You can gift up to 10 articles each calendar month. Each gifted article can be shared with multiple recipients for up to 14 days.”
How to Use the Google Flights Explore Map to Find the Cheapest Place to Fly
Link. It’s obscure.
“technological determinist … it stands mostly above any one society, and it sets the constraints under which every society must operate.”
Link. In the 80s I thought a lot about technocentrism. How societies became more similar as they adopted technologies.
“Google announced Thursday its new Dynamic World app—which uses the Google Earth engine—and actively displays how the earth’s surface is changing due to climate change and land development.”
Link.
Monkeypox and moving male Pride events to the Fall
Link. It’s a gay male STD for the moment.
Black/Hispanic: “vaccination rate for both groups is slightly higher than it is for white Americans”
Link. And now whites die more frequently.
China acts as thought it thinks COVID was a lab leak.
Link. Continuing to block research.
Starbuck’s public bathroom policy is failing.
Link. Started to reduce police contact with Black men who are not customers.
Expensive cancer screening tests want to bypass FDA.
Link. Huge wealth awaits. Uncertain value. Certain cost.
Rules for Contrarians: 1. Don’t whine. That is all
Link. “if annoying people is what you’re trying to do, then you can hardly complain when annoying people is what you actually do”
Paxlovid indications and the Test to Treat program.
Link. I am stunned how hard it was to find the information that went into this post.
“do need you to love San Francisco a little bit, like I do a lot, in order to hear the story of how my city fell apart”
Link. I’m of her era, when I fell in love with the city. Bruce Springsteen at Winterland.
Good news in cancer therapy.
Link. Immune methods and novel diagnostics.
“Rosetta 2 can be used to run Intel binaries in ARM Linux”
Link. Curious.
XKCD: Exercise Progression
Link. It’s a thing. Middle-aged nerds becoming exercise nerds.
“secure classroom doors at Robb Elementary School were different. They had metal frames, and opened outward, making it impossible to force them open with a ram”
Link. The road to sanity begins with dropping cable TV to cut Fox revenue.
Trump base after Trump: “full-time anti-trans panic”
Link. On the bright side Trump seems to be fading.
“Representative Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania” – key role in the coup attempt.
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“The job of the Fed used to seem easier because it wasn’t taking enough risks.”
Link. Stable by sub-optimal.
“We’re going to sit on stage, before multi-network national TV cameras. And we’re not going to say a word.”
Link. January 6 committee: discipline.
“Studying biographies of strongmen/tyrants shows that they all share the same essential character structure, or more accurately a character defect (disorder): a severely impaired conscience”
Link. Expert review. 2017.
App Shortcuts may be one useful.
Link. Maybe.
“surely never a more damning indictment presented against an American president than outlined on Thursday night”
Link. “John Tyler sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War”