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“Swan tries to get McConnell to say whether there is anything Donald Trump could do or say that would lead McConnell not to support him. The answer Swan eventually got was: No, there is no such line.”
Link. Evil.
“Minnesota’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate reached an all-time best 2.5 percent in March”
Link. Damn. That’s low.
No-knock raids: long WaPo review.
Link. Judicial review doesn’t work. Would need a lot more money/time/resources to be effective. Mostly is about preventing powdered drug flushing.
“used those identifications to inform the families of the deaths of 582 Russians, including by sending them photos of the abandoned corpses.”
Link. A web site of names and identifying information would be less cruel.
EBV Rx for MS phase I trial: ATA188 improved course, myelin growth.
Link. Phase I is super early but, yeah, watch this. Also, EBV vaccine needed.
Science 2022: “fake journals, fake papers, fake author lists, and faked data”
Link. China and Russia.
App Store scams are profitable.
Link. Apple is either incompetent or malicious.
ARBs can cause intractable diarrhea in some.
Link. Wild story. Always suspect the meds (or something else someone is taking)
Fixing supply chain will increase prices.
Link. Consumers will increase home stockpiles as well. Extra bicycle tubes and chains.
“for people to successfully skip surgery, patients need to have their affected foot in a brace early — within the first three days.”
Link. Study makes brace therapy more acceptable but I’d likely lean to repair.
Radio Free Europe sites: “[Russian] Audience numbers have surged during the war despite the censorship.”
Link. Sharing truth.
Amazon seller: “surcharge, which averages 5 percent of the current fulfillment fees, will take effect on April 28.”
Link.
No Mean Girls in CrossFit (Except for Fran)
Link. “I’d overhear my teammates whispering to each other about how chubby I was, and I’d charge the opposition. Our team won a tournament once thanks to my somewhat brutal saves.”
Written by a friend.
“Apple’s app store is so full of scams and garbage, and the firm is so inattentive, that one dude on Twitter – @keleftheriou – is constantly embarrassing Apple”
Link. Cook has been an idiot.
“deeper domain-specific conversations, I find myself engaging in arcane Reddit communities”
Link. Facebook Groups here.
Psilocybin for treatment resistant depression: encouraging research results.
Link. Early days.
“Unlike traditional neural networks, which get trained on lots of data in order to make predictions, a “physics-informed neural network,” or PINN, must satisfy a set of underlying physical constraints as well.”
Link. Hunting singularities in fluid flow equations.
Universal Clipboard (Handoff, Continuity) not working, endless spinning in iCloud Notes (Mojave)
Link. Change DNS from Cloudflare to Google, reset Notes sync (toggle off/on). Be interesting if DNS was really the issue.
“Attitudes toward serious diseases are so unpredictable and inconsistent, said Tom Ewing, a flu historian at Virginia Tech.”
Link. A better vaccine might shift attitudes some.
“death rate was 20 percent among the 98 participants who received sabizabulin”
Link. Versus 50%. “works by disrupting the transport of the coronavirus through microtubules in cells”.
The Two Paper Rule: how to decide if a field is nonsense or interesting.
Link. Astrology example is great.
“fund advisors found Kushner’s new company “unsatisfactory in all aspects.”
Link. Saudi prince deposited 2 billion. A bribe of course, but legal. There is so much like this in America.
Moving from 1Password to KeePass.
Link. Moving is on my to do list. “You can set the duress PIN to display a dummy password database, a phony error, or even wipe the local copy of your database.”
“If you’re using #macOS #HighSierra or #Sierra, #iCloud has stopped working”
Link. Get new cert
“Hill found it dubious that a man so self-interested and lacking in discipline could have colluded with Russia to gain electoral victory in 2016”
Link. Trump’s best defense is that he’s an idiot. This article is a nightmare of Trump administration corruption and incompetence.
China’s Russian strategy.
Link. Before Huawei suspended sales.
“But the SEC looks on everything Musk does with suspicion, and he doesn’t care.”
Link. Lots of people are above the law.
Donetsk: “After beatings and electric shock torture, he said, he spent six weeks in solitary confinement, in a cell so cold that he had to grasp bottles of his own urine to stay warm”
Link. Insight into the ethnic Russian parts of Ukraine.
“Nearly two-thirds of American workers do not have a four-year college degree. Screening by college degree hits minorities particularly hard, eliminating 76 percent of Black adults and 83 percent of Latino adults.”
Link. Gender gaps are large, so much worse for Black men.
Hillsdale charter school pub: “President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was called “a hero to populist conservatives around the world.”
Link. Giving conservatives the mythology they want.
Gridiron dinner: 53 positive, “So far, there are no reports of any symptoms more serious than a sore throat or mild fever”
Link. Love those vaccines.
“South Korea has logged more cases in 2022 than America has during the entire pandemic.”
Link. Population adjusted. “Hong Kong’s official covid mortality rate has been five times higher than South Korea’s.”
“contrast between Germany’s current reluctance to make moderate sacrifices, even in the face of horrific war crimes, and the immense sacrifices Germany demanded of other countries”
Link. A bad look.
“The Standard Model, for the first time in some 50 years, has a bona fide experimental crack in its foundations.”
Link.
“They are bringing in fighters known for brutality in the hopes of breaking the Ukrainian will to fight”
Link. Russia has already played the brutal card. It didn’t work.
“Vaughn needs less oxygen to be sent to those regions of his brain that process language when he is speaking in his native language”
Link. Hyperglot brains process language efficiently.
“money donated to the cause of racial justice has been spent in ways that benefit the leaders of Black Lives Matter personally.”
Link. Equal opportunity corruption.
“Hey Siri, send a voice message to So-And-So”
Link. I didn’t think to try that.
Mitochondria in eye focus light.
Link. Very weird if true.
CDC: “infrastructure was neglected for decades, like the nation’s public health system generally, and the pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges”
Link. Unrelenting attacks by GOP.
Orban: “Do you support the unrestricted exposure of underage children to sexually explicit media content that may affect their development?”
Link. This week the GOP, a party known for pedophilia scandals, is keen on pedophilia accusations. What works in Hungary works for the GOP.
USB-C hub scams: “appear to be paying a lot of money for products that I could buy for cheap on random websites is starting to piss me off”
Link. Worse than expected. Apple store no proof of quality. If you want usb-c hub might as well buy cheap no-name brand. Better quality with T4.
“registered agents who often serve as the only publicly known contact for companies with anonymous owners”
Link. We are a very corrupt nation. This is usually crime money or worse.
“sled dogs poop while they’re running — an incredible sight to witness from 5 feet away”
Link. Now I want to visit Anchorage in February.
“Dr. Malone said he was repeatedly not recognized for his contributions over the course of his career, his voice low and grave as he recounted perceived slights by the institutions he had worked for.”
Link. Now he makes money spreading lies.
“analysis of satellite images by The New York Times rebuts claims by Russia that the killing of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, occurred after its soldiers had left the town.”
Link. It’s harder to hide war crimes now.
Mac have lots of power but Apple’s software is mediocre.
Link. “Apple could have kept improving Aperture and kept making it better than Lightroom. Instead they gave up.”
OmniOutliner Essentials and Pro 5.10
Link. “with added support for reading and importing outlines written by the Symantec MORE outliner”. Did not see that coming.
“you can hit / in any macOS save dialog to open a Spotlight-esque quick folder search “
Link. Monterey. Maybe earlier? Not documented?