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“Putin has taken as many as 400,000 Ukrainians to Russia as potential hostages as he tries to bargain his way out of crippling sanctions or into land concessions.”

Posted on April 4, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Stalin has a rival.

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Kiev in the 1970s, and Kyiv Now.

Posted on April 4, 2022 by jgordon

Link. James Fallows brother — who sure sounds like CIA. “Posted”. “My only explanation is, “Vladimir has lost his marbles”.

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“The best guess is that Putin’s intent was to decapitate Ukrainian society by executing political, cultural, and religious leaders — something like what the Nazis and the USSR did to Poland when they teamed up to conquer it in 1939.

Posted on April 4, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Did not expect such fidelity to WW II.

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Living Wage Calculator – MN

Posted on April 4, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Not middle class, just getting by.

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Vasylkiv: “some of the Russian attackers were already present in the town, and had been living as sleeper cells for months.”

Posted on April 3, 2022 by jgordon

Link. There really was a Russian plan.

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“What they were actually trying to do was logistically bonkers”

Posted on April 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. 1. It’s not necessarily to our credit that we excel at warfare.
2. We’re Russian planners trying to sabotage the invasion?

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New ALS Drug likely ineffective.

Posted on April 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Wow. That’s a lot of clinical trial problems.

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Insulin: “The drug is more than 100 years old, so there are no development costs.”

Posted on April 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Rare to have HCR misfire like this. Today’s insulin is very different from B&B’s insulin.

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“Putin’s interest in unscientific medicine sounds strange” given that several of his close relatives hold medical degrees”

Posted on April 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Yes, he’s crackers. Should have been an early warning. Likely disk injury: “followed by a group of neurosurgeons”. Source of thyroid cancer rumors.

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Atwood on Hitchens: “At least he didn’t accuse me of hurting his feelings, nor did I accuse him of hurting mine. Having feelings was not a thing back then. We would not have admitted to owning such marshmallow-like appendages, and if we did have any f

Posted on April 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I remember.

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“Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, has declared that providing Ukraine with tanks and planes would cross a “red line”, turning NATO into a “co-belligerent”.

Posted on April 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. France is a problem.

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Inflation and rising wages for the non-college worker.

Posted on April 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Inflation may be a prerequisite for shifting economic gains to non-college workers. It comes from somewhere.

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5G Home Internet: “T-Mobile costs $50 per month (if you use autopay, $55 if you don’t) with unlimited data and no contract, fees, or equipment charges.”

Posted on April 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Here power is not a problem and 5G can be genuinely useful. Urban for now. I may switch from XFINITY

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“5G offers no substantial practical advantages over LTE”

Posted on April 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. There’s a deeper lesson here about money and the foolishness of crowds. (But the wise ones get little credit and probably took a career hit.)

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“We’re relearning the lessons of World War I: The benefits of globalization are always at risk from the threat of war and the whims of dictators.”

Posted on April 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Economic integration does not prevent war or support democracy.

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Florida: “2000 voter purge cut ten times as many Black voters as White voters from the rolls that year before victory in the presidential election came down to a few hundred votes in Florida for Republican candidate George W. Bush”

Posted on April 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Judge Mark E. Walker remembers.

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Frontotemporal Dementia: “we may end up classifying aggregation diseases as much by their protein folds as by the names of the individual proteins involved”

Posted on March 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Damn. Progress. PS Does HCQ changes lysosomal pH?

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Evolution of the mammalian brain.

Posted on March 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. As predicted but great to see the evidence.

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Mulvaney of CBS.

Posted on March 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A milestone in the long decay of broadcast television.

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What is triald and why is it taking so much disk space? (Big Sur+)

Posted on March 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “Trial’s root directory at ~/Library/Trial should be added routinely to all backup exclusion lists. Apple should add it to Time Machine’s system exclusions at the earliest opportunity.”

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“ U.S. Marines may have seen the writing on the wall; this year they will stop using tanks.”

Posted on March 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Javelins.

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ALS experimental treatment “25 percent slower decline for patients receiving the treatment.” but no longevity and no change in objective measures.

Posted on March 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I doubt it works.

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Episodic exhaustion responding to migraine therapy.

Posted on March 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. That is a really weird case. Patient had migraines but they morphed in an extreme way.

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China: “departure from the heavy silence that has prevailed under Mr. Xi’s rule”

Posted on March 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Watching this space.

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“if you are boosted and have already had Omicron, you probably don’t need another booster yet”

Posted on March 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Why I’m waiting until Aug/Sept.

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Why … “fears about sexual orientation and trans rights be so powerfully motivating that it could help convince people to sacrifice fundamental political rights?”

Posted on March 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Great question.

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Why … “fears about sexual orientation and trans rights be so powerfully motivating that it could help convince people to sacrifice fundamental political rights?”

Posted on March 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Great question.

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“Ginni Thomas was a guiding force for Groundswell, setting agendas for its meetings and actively coordinating messaging among its participants, and that the group had a dark, paranoid, and Manichean view of American politics.”

Posted on March 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Bonkers for years.

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“Western analysts took basic metrics (such as numbers and types of tanks and aircraft), imagined those measured forces executing Russian military doctrine, then concluded that the Ukrainians had no chance.”

Posted on March 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The war is in its early days however.

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“Surely Putin would be satisfied by the annexation of Crimea”

Posted on March 31, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Germany especially should have worried more. “So are Belarus, North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, Nicaragua, Hungary”. And probably Saudi Arabia. Israel?

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For mental health “moderate exercise may be the most beneficial for mental health”

Posted on March 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. She’s a hard core athlete but her research favors moderate exercise. Interesting focus on neuroinflammation in treatment resistant depression.

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“Mr. Putin seemed genuinely unaware that the Russian military had been using conscripts in Ukraine, and that drafted soldiers were among those killed in action.”

Posted on March 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. That’s very precise Intel. Not much surprises me any more, but this is amazing.

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“a point of light lined up with one of the ripples, and its shine was magnified by a thousandfold or more.” Ripples in space-time.

Posted on March 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Star 900 million years after the Big Bang. Long long dead “now”.

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Oliver Sacks’ Days on Muscle Beach

Posted on March 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “with the speed of reflex I grabbed our patient and held him upside down; his cerebellar tonsils and brain stem went back into the skull, and I felt I had snatched him from the very jaws of death.”

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Apple only pushes iOS auto-updates after collecting early adopter experience.

Posted on March 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Manual updaters are doing release testing. This is what I thought Apple did and it’s great.

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“Cruz and John Eastman, the author of the Eastman memo outlining a strategy for then–vice president Mike Pence to throw the election to Trump, have been friends for close to 30 years, since they clerked together for then–U.S. Appeals Court judge J.

Posted on March 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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“3.39-fold higher risk of genital defects in these children [of fathers taking metformin] compared to others”

Posted on March 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Also seen in some animal studies so more likely real. This is terrible news. What is the mechanism?!

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Russian oligarchs used Britain’s insane libel law to silence the truth and keep power.

Posted on March 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The libel laws must be reformed. Also, England is deeply compromised.

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Remembering Grozny.

Posted on March 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Putin’s next step is to amplify the war crimes and kill everything.

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“hypothesis that present-day Pluto is an ocean world”

Posted on March 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “Signs of cryovolcanic activity on the dwarf planet in the recent geological past must be driven by an underground body of water”

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CivTech: So you want to reform democracy (2015)

Posted on March 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Written before the Trump crisis. Still a good guide.

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“Apple reports that running face recognition end-to-end on a recent ANE takes less than 4 ms, which is eight times faster than running it on a GPU.”

Posted on March 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. All local.

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Spacecraft Debris Odds Ratio.

Posted on March 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. This should be part of medical student education.

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Eastman: “Election was Stolen by a strategic Democrat plan to systematically flout existing election laws for partisan advantage; we’re no longer playing by Queensbury Rules.”

Posted on March 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A classic bit of delusion, self-justification, and faux-tough rhetoric

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“the federal judiciary is now heavily weighted toward judges with backgrounds representing the rich and powerful”

Posted on March 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Good backgrounder. Jackson also served wealth, but not ONLY wealth. “Biden himself briefly worked as a public defender”

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Scout early warning system for near-earth asteroid strikes.

Posted on March 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “a city faced with a future Chelyabinsk-like space rock can at least be warned”. Taking shelter would avoid injuries.

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The CalDigit TS4 and OWC T4 Docks

Posted on March 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. About $380. He mentions T4 cable he likes.

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Museum docent volunteers: “older, white females for an art museum, or older white men for a railway museum”

Posted on March 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Since this 2019 article many are ending volunteer programs and creating employee roles instead. The goal is to be less white/more diverse.

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African COVID: mystery or hidden mortality?

Posted on March 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Probably some of both. Little interest in vaccine.

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“it’s easier to encode instructions for building simple, symmetrical structures”

Posted on March 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Why natural selection favors symmetry.

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