Link. The directors know their science, but it is a story. (Also I liked it very much.)
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“Ukraine had managed to deliver weapons via helicopter under cover of darkness to the steel plant in Mariupol, The Associated Press reported.”
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Gerhard Schröder: “mocking his detractors over copious amounts of white wine … Putin, 69, whom he considers a friend and sees regularly”
Link. The alcohol helps.
“This is the black hole information loss paradox. You take quantum mechanics and general relativity, combine them, and the result doesn’t fit together with quantum mechanics.”
Link. The simplest and clearest explanation of the paradox I have read.
Apple’s Thunderbolt 4 Pro Cable: “Among the 19 wires, there are 5 tinned copper wires used for power supply. The video notes that most of the wires are plated with silver and pure copper.”
Link. $130. The Intel CPU can probably run Doom and is sure to be hacked.
“In industrial control systems, there is still so much low-hanging fruit,” Keuper told MIT. “The security is lagging behind badly.”
Link. Glasshouse.
Monterey command line network Quality Tool tests Internet Responsiveness… “Eero has added a Smart Queue Management feature”
Link. Optimize videoconferencing. On XFINITY upload capacity is often lousy.
“more than 100 years after general relativity was first put forth, there are still only about ~20 exact solutions known in relativity, and a spacetime with two point masses in it still is not one of them”
Link. It is insane that Einstein came up with this.
“Within weeks, though, faced with Trump’s continuing popularity with his base, McConnell and McCarthy had lost their courage.”
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“the whole thing is ridiculous, and not just because of the man receiving light therapy atop a pile of stone slabs in the dead of night”
Link. Useful cultural context.
The Epstein Cello: How he operated.
Link. He had a talent for playing people.
When two different respiratory viruses infect the same cell chimera may be produced.
Link. It took a long time for medicine to accept that people get more than one infection at the same time.
Scientists find no benefit to time-restricted eating: “I was a devotee,” he said. “This was a hard thing to accept.”
Link. Weight loss was just calorie restriction, timing didn’t matter. Only works in mice.
“People actually have strong associations between the concept of creativity and other negative associations like vomit and poison,”
Link. Ok, that explains a lot in my life.
Five ways to paste plain text on a Mac
Link. Great reference.
“Apple Maps now shows cycling directions in Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Charleston.”
Link. Not Minneapolis-St Paul. I thought the project had been killed.
“Full migration to Apple Silicon Macs still isn’t feasible.”
Link. Will take 1-3 years to get all the missing pieces.
“hope that the nation will have a better vaccine by the fall, when the coronavirus is considered likely to re-emerge in force.”
Link. Tells me to get my 2nd booster in July.
“health care providers to test children with unexplained hepatitis for adenovirus infections and to report those cases to health officials.”
Link. Curious.
15 years for 5 carjackings. “Ironrope has nearly two dozen other criminal cases pending in Hennepin County District Court in connection with alleged crimes from January 2020 until shortly before his arrest in January 2021.”
Link. Terrible childhood, terrible adult. The carjackings are a plague here.
“It is insane to me that cryptocurrencies are still a thing.”
Link. Schneier.
Brave and DDG Remove AMP By Default.
Link. Safari please?
Terminal pain relief and murder charges: innocent this time.
Link. What an incredible hell ride.
“self-reported non-White respondents were consistently more susceptible to Truth Decay. Although race was not always significant, it often was significant even after controlling for other variables, such as education, political party, and biases or reas
Link. “Truth Decay is the diminishing role of facts in American public life.”
Putin, the Patriarch, and the corruption of Orthodox Christianity: “the era of hope that began in 1989 is over. Ukraine is now the scene of the largest conflict in Europe since World War II. NATO and Russia are openly enemies again”
Link. Putin seems a sincere religious fanatic.
“the G.O.P. as a whole has turned to hate-based politics”
Link. It has worked for Putin.
“The high point of techno-democratic optimism was arguably 2011, a year that began with the Arab Spring and ended with the global Occupy movement.”
Link. Thesis is social media is corroding bonds of civilization.
OWC miniStack STX: “3 Thunderbolt ports in addition to the one that goes back to the Mac. It’s $279 for the base configuration with no storage.”
Link. That’s surprisingly affordable. Hope it works.
DALL-E: “economics of the metaverse …virtual worlds needs virtual content created at virtually zero cost, fully customizable to the individual.”
Link. Descendant of ad-funded bot-generated spam pages that often dominate Google searches. I’m sure this will go well.
M1 Thunderbolt ports don’t fully support USB 3.1 Gen 2
Link. “normal testing, 5 Gb/s should yield around 500 MB/s, 10 Gb/s gives around 1200 MB/s, and 20 Gb/s about 2400 MB/s.” Apple is open to litigation since they claim support.
“most M1 Macs don’t support the USB 3.1 Gen 2 standard, making Thunderbolt transfers slower than they should be, in both theory and practice.”
Link. Bugs and chip limitations. Intel better!
“Democracy is failing and authoritarianism rising, Karaganov said, because of democracy’s bad moral foundations.”
Link. al Qaeda was infuriated by feminism, Russia is infuriated by LGBTQ.
“Instead of arresting him, the sheriff’s office kept digging, in part because “it was clear to deputies that the man communicated differently,”
Link. Damn good police work.
“Nineteen states have changed their election laws to enable Republicans to win their states regardless of the will of the voters, sending Republican electors to put a Republican president in place”
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“In Russia, however, such acts are rarely investigated or even acknowledged, let alone punished. That leaves it unclear how much the low-level brutality stems from the intent of those in charge or whether commanders failed to control their troops.”
Link. Trump pardoned a serial killer war criminal.
Putting COVID risks in perspective.
Link. Similar to 2011 Afghan military service for 40yo — at most likely, much less now.
“he rarely missed a 6 a.m. run, as far as 15 miles, before working for 12 hours a day in Koiban, his village in Nandi County. He always ran alone, doing so out of pure enjoyment.”
Link. Great story.
“Zelensky says, “they are afraid to admit guilt.” He compares them to “alcoholics [who] don’t admit that they are alcoholic.” If they want to recover, “they have to learn to accept the truth.”
Link. Rejecting guilt is a core principle of America’s white nationalist party.
“liberals see ideals of full democratic participation and equality before the law not just as formal commitments, but as rooted in deep respect for the human worth of others”
Link. A pretty good summary of modern liberalism. What Douthat hates and fears.
Xinjiang prisoner describes life inside China’s detention camps
Link. “If the cameras saw anyone speak, a booming voice would tell them not to talk.”
“Think of how many of those 5,300 schools you’ve actually heard of. Now think how many you’ve seen mentioned in conversations about what does, or should, happen in a college classroom.”
Link. He is so right.
“all but 13 of China’s top 100 cities (by gdp) were implementing covid restrictions (see chart). Ten cities are in “severe lockdown”, meaning more than half of residents are confined to their homes. Changchun, Xuzhou and Shanghai were recently in
Link. In a democracy Xi’s gov would fall.
Donbas: “allowed those displaced since 2014 to vote — the majority would be likely to vote to remain in Ukraine. However, a vote restricted to just those remaining in the Donbas would be likely to endorse joining Russia.”
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“new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactured in large quantities”
Link. Seems like bigger news if true. 2D polymer.
Monterey backup problems.
Link. I’m having trouble with backup to a CCC generated disk image.
“Bitcoin had turned out to be practically the opposite of untraceable: a kind of honeypot for crypto criminals that had, for years, dutifully and unerasably recorded evidence of their dirty deals.”
Link. Why it’s not banned.
Stabyl Browser for iPad: counteract tremor.
Link. Brilliant.
Doctorow does billionaire taxes.
Link. The GOP delivered.
“March 23 theft of roughly $625 million worth of cryptocurrency from the Ronin blockchain”
Link. North Korea. I think stealing this from a US Bank might get more attention.
“authors found that substitution of as few as five amino acids can lead the program to predict very different three-dimensional structures, which is the equivalent of an image-recognition declaring that a picture of Richard Nixon is in fact a begonia”
Link. Protein folding prediction.