Link. Manchin’s corruption is out in the open.
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“The argument for a return to prepandemic norms is straightforward”
Link. Deglobalization would drive a reindustrialization of America. There would be places for money to go.
Kyiv and Kabul: One fought, one not.
Link. Both times US guessed wrong.
“It’s fun to sit at the guillotine and watch these people that you resent getting their heads chopped off. There were wild street dances.”
Link. Usually an “elite”; someone the dancers secretly believe is better than them.
“the U.S. Treasury made $28 billion in special payments, known as “Trump bribes,” in my hometown, to compensate U.S. farmers for phantom losses due to Chinese perfidy.”
Link. Vote buying essentially.
“Ms. Rice was similarly struck. “Something is definitely different,” she said. “He’s not in control of his emotions. Something is wrong.”
Link. Portrays Putin as getting progressively nastier and more corrupt over 20y. Feels inevitable.
“Russia used to be much colder and much more northern country with its most productive, advanced and richest population living far north. In fact, just 350 years ago pretty much all of Russian taxpayers used to live in the towns of Arctic region.”
Link.
“New research supports doctors’ earlier theories that girls who developed tics during the pandemic had pre-existing mental-health issues making them susceptible to other disorders.”
Link. TikTok Tourettes.
Events Calendar (events calendar.co)
Link. It’s $5/month to do anything interesting but I’m considering it for my bike outings.
Bike MN events calendar
Link. Bike related events across MN. Only a fraction of what’s happening but a good place to check when every quarter or so.
“Apple silently provided an option to bring back proxy icons completely in macOS 12 Monterey.”
Link. Apple hides a lot of these quiet retractions in Accessibility. Adam has great examples of how to use the proxy icon.
Willam Barr: “Rather, he said, they meant individual morality: the ability to govern oneself. And, since people are inherently wicked, that self-government requires the authority of a religion: Christianity.”
Link. “Madison never actually said the quotation on which Barr based his argument.”
WTF do I only read this now? Why is HCR the only source?
“Mr. Browder’s relentless lobbying over the next decade—driven by grief and anger over Magnitsky’s murder”
Link. Putin has many enemies.
Franklin Graham: “A few days before the invasion of Ukraine, he asked people to “pray for Putin”
Link. Evangelicals.
“In the 1950s, the Supreme Court based civil rights decisions on the Fourteenth Amendment, and it continued that trajectory in the 1960s and 1970s.”
Link. Today’s GOP hates the 14th.
Cancel Culture defined.
Link. Is real. Zealotry a core component, forgiveness forbidden.
Telegram Is Not End-to-End Encrypted by Default
Link. It’s not a safe solution.
Incentives in Product Design and Development.
Link. AKA: why bugs don’t get fixed. Jobs comment applies to Duopolies too.
“try turning off 5G to save battery life and see if you miss it at all.”
Link. Trying.
15 yo randomly kills MPLS woman: “suspect had committed other violent crimes but had been released”
Link. The juvenile detention centers were closed. Our armed carjackers are mostly children.
“the standard used internally in the Mac’s Core Audio currently employs 32-bit floating-point numbers for precise representation of digitised waveforms.”
Link. Good review.
iPhone overdoes the computer side of photography.
Link. Sensor needs more pixels.
“Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) said “I think we should recognize that the jackassery we often see around here is partly because of people mugging for short-term camera opportunities.”
Link. Even Rs hate Cruz.
Gini Thomas is crackers.
Link. A real nutcase.
“Agnew spent the remainder of his life quietly, rarely making public appearances. He wrote a novel and a memoir; both defended his actions. Agnew died at his home of undiagnosed acute leukemia.”
Link. A rare example of prosecuting the powerful.
“only guarantee I can give is that no one here will ever read your exit-interview notes.”
Link. When an employee leaves – the raw truth. (Ends on an oddly positive note.)
“The book that most clearly saw where Putinism was heading was not a history or biography but a novel. “Day of the Oprichnik” by Vladimir Sorokin”
Link. Putin in books – some came closer, none the full horror.
A bit more on NY DA Bragg’s termination of Trump investigation.
Link. NYT treats Bragg very gently.
“60% of people supported Finland joining NATO, a massive jump from previous years”
Link. Now is the time.
“Senator Braun is correct: it is not possible to overrule the Supreme Court’s use of the Fourteenth Amendment to protect civil rights on just one issue.”
Link. Yep. Pull on the string and slavery is at the end.
“if we try to deal with the problem of expensive health care, child care, and higher education by throwing more money at it, the result will be that although consumers will pay less, society as a whole will pay more”
Link. Economists hate Baumol. Don’t know why.
“My mind had been blown open, and I was seeing possibilities and connections I never had before. I was full of energy and ambitions: I was going to write a graphic memoir, launch a parenting website, renovate a house.”
Link. Great portrayal of mania. And, yeah, Kanye is a great example of media and mental illness.
“A “good number” of Russian flights in the war never leave Russian or Belarusian airspace”
Link. Out of range of defenses.
“Putin will do what he says he is going to do.”
Link. Trump is more subtle.
“he maneuvered his jet through a series of extreme banks, dives and climbs in order to exhaust the fuel supplies of the missiles coming after him”
Link. “My skills are better than the Russians. But on the other hand, many of my friends, and even those more experienced than me, are already dead.”
“Putin has his own strong opinions about Ukraine. He’s writing articles about the history of Ukraine, and he’s talking incessantly about Ukraine. How can you challenge him?”
Link. He can never admit he was wrong.
ACE Inhibitors probably have psych brain activity.
Link. Seemingly not bad effects.
Axios: “Minnesota has some of the highest costs of care in the country because we have higher standards for teachers and lower ratios of kids-to-teachers, per the report.”
Link. Quality child care is expensive.
“…. Eastern Orthodoxy and Russian empire. Orthodoxy’s combat against Western Christianity and Western decadence could be harnessed to the geopolitical war to come.”
Link. Secularists always forget the power of religion.
“the lowest temperature ever observed on Earth: minus-128.6 degrees (minus-89.2 Celsius), set on July 21, 1983.”
Link. I didn’t realize Earth could get that cold. Now it’s 70F degrees above normal, so -10 or so.
Turning conditional call forwarding on and off (Google Voice voicemail for a phone)
Link. I did this for my son’s iPhone and forgot about it. When we didn’t reverify his number his voicemail stopped working. It’s probably not a good idea.
“We should begin making arrangements for war-crimes trials, and begin naming defendants, as we should have done during World War II.”
Link. Putin obviously.
Apple web form for reporting a problem with an Apple content (media) purchase.
Link. Top secret.
“Chaos Climbers on the Right and Left both have some incentive to want Putin to win”
Link. I like this framing.
Russian military strategy is to kill civilians until leaders surrender.
Link. Tamarlane did this.
Monterey’s Visual Look Up and paintings.
Link. VLU is an awesome feature.
“squats or probably lower-body training in general, doing just 18 sets a week makes you significantly stronger than doing 24 sets.”
Link. I suspect the number falls with age.
Living at the bottom in America.
Link. Not cognitively disabled by obsolete legal standards, but effectively disabled now. #massdisability
“be gracious to people that are staring or looking or asking for pictures”
Link. MN family tallest in the world. They are really tall.
Deep Neural Nets: “modern libraries have adopted a design that splits into 3 components: 1) a fast (C/CUDA) general Tensor library that implements basic mathematical operations over multi-dimensional tensors, and 2) an autograd engine…”
Link. Surprisingly readable.