Link. Crypto is very valuable for a wide range of crime and activities that badly harm vulnerable people. We need to kill it.
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T-Mobile Is selling Android user’s usage data.
Link. They can’t sell iOS data.
“Inside the cells of Thiomargarita magnifica, the researchers have discovered a bizarre, complicated structure.”
Link. An enormous bacteria that has many features of a eukaryotic cell.
“Greek tortoises and black marsh turtles, even displayed negative rates of senescence, meaning their mortality risk decreased as they aged.”
Link. They are pretty sluggish though.
Ukrainian cyber-defense effective: “moving much of Ukraine’s most important systems to the cloud, onto servers outside Ukraine.”
Link. Russia mostly failed on cyber, but great success with n the bio-lab con with help from Lachlan Murdoch.
“The only reliable way that I’ve found to prune Message’s storage use is to set it to only Keep Messages for One Year”
Link. There’s no export capability.
“Xinjiang produces more than 40 percent of the world’s polysilicon, a quarter of the world’s tomato paste and a fifth of global cotton.”
Link. Known to have forced labor, aka slavery.
“since 2000, and especially since the global financial crisis, businesses have persistently been unwilling to maintain a level of investment spending that used all the money households wanted to save, unless interest rates were very low”
Link. Too much money, too little demand.
“humans are the only animal that actually gets Alzheimer’s”
Link. If I knew that I’d *cough* forgotten. Why?!
Amway and Web3 – similar cultures.
Link. Guest post. Two cults.
Monkeypox spread explained: “They go specifically to have sex with many other men.”
Link. Ripping off the bandaid.
“After The New York Times asked Capital One about Mr. Oriach’s case… After The Times contacted Bank of America, it refunded …”
Link. Despicable. They cave when the NYT knocks but before that they shaft customers.
“myxoma virus killed 99.8 percent of the rabbits it infected, typically in less than two weeks”
Link. And recently it got more lethal!
China: “22 of more than 33,000 patients hospitalized after testing positive for Omicron developed severe illness”
Link. More curious and hard to parse numbers.
“The first thing to check if you experience sporadic networking failures is iCloud Private Relay”
Link. Too fragile.
“it was not until June 2 that General Edmund Kirby Smith surrendered the Confederacy’s Trans-Mississippi Department,”
Link. Keep as reference.
“we have a recession? Well hell yes! Will stock and real estate prices fall? Well hell yes!”
Link. Crypto was on average a funds transfer from the unlucky to the lucky.
“….dictating the ways in which the events at the Alamo are remembered; protecting Confederate monuments; ending gay marriage…”
Link. Texas GOP platform “planks” 2022.
Sheryl Sandberg and the Crackling Hellfire of Corporate America: “you cannot simultaneously dedicate yourself to making untold fortunes for a giant corporation and to championing a social good.”
Link. Great writing and love the title.
All the Pixar Movies, Ranked.
Link. Damn, Pixar is so good.
Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea: “susceptible to the experimental antibiotics lefamulin and zoliflodacin”
Link. Hope vaccine works. We need more bioscientists!
iCloud Shared Photo Library doesn’t follow iOS definition of a “family”.
Link. This won’t be pretty.
“Ports are also fundamental to Network Address Translation (NAT). That uses dynamic port numbers, between 49152-65535”
Link. Very old and I didn’t know that.
Ubiquitous computing: a smart power adapter.
Link. Can it run Doom? Also, I remember when devices needed specific watts. Now they can live off anything.
macOS App crashing mysteriously? Check disk space.
Link. Would have been easier to debug in the blog era.
“handed control of the firm to a former plastic surgeon named Giancarlo Devasini, who has stored some of Tether’s assets in a bank in the Bahamas run by one of the creators of the “Inspector Gadget” cartoon.”
Link. On the bright side the fentanyl trade still needs Tether.
Foxes eating avian flu infected birds dying of a brain disorder.
Link. No mention of wolves or dogs. Believed not spreading between fox kits.
“The fallout from the burglary gained no traction before the election, which Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew won with an astonishing 60.7 percent of the vote”
Link. Nixon authorized to a burglary and remained very popular. Bork was his lackey.
Bone marrow hematopoiesis drives multiple sclerosis progression.
Link. Idea is to target clones producing the auto reactive T cells. Would work for other diseases. We don’t know how.
Slowing sea level rise by impeding melt of Greenland’s glaciers.
Link. Something like this.
“A Proud Boy told the committee that if they had found Pence, they would have killed him.”
Link. Luttig’s testimony surprising. Not as Scalia as we expected.
“that minute imperfections in phones caused during manufacturing create a unique Bluetooth beacon”
Link.
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.”
Link.
“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.