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Leave Joe Biden Alone: “I think he’s done a pretty good job”

Posted on June 14, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Me too. I do not understand American voters at all.

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Pediatric idiopathic hepatitis: “trying to determine whether the cases represent a new phenomenon or are simply a new recognition of one that has long existed”

Posted on June 14, 2022 by jgordon

Link. My money leans 80% to the latter.

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“Walker has openly described struggling with his mental health, including in “Breaking Free: My Life With Dissociative Identity Disorder,”

Posted on June 14, 2022 by jgordon

Link. His stories are very often untrue.

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Seven dumb features from WWDC 2022

Posted on June 14, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Not saying no.

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“When you read [your work] aloud, there are parts you might skip over—you find yourself not wanting to speak them. Those are the weak parts”

Posted on June 14, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Same with presentations.

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Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer (AI story, free)

Posted on June 14, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Clarkesworld mag. SF writers have been exploring AI for centuries. They are where you start.

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“Taiwan’s defenses are, by many accounts, ill-equipped and understaffed.”

Posted on June 13, 2022 by jgordon

Link. As usual no mention of a nuclear option.

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WaPo: how to create a share link that’s free for all for 14 day.

Posted on June 12, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “You can gift up to 10 articles each calendar month. Each gifted article can be shared with multiple recipients for up to 14 days.”

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How to Use the Google Flights Explore Map to Find the Cheapest Place to Fly

Posted on June 12, 2022 by jgordon

Link. It’s obscure.

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“technological determinist … it stands mostly above any one society, and it sets the constraints under which every society must operate.”

Posted on June 12, 2022 by jgordon

Link. In the 80s I thought a lot about technocentrism. How societies became more similar as they adopted technologies.

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“Google announced Thursday its new Dynamic World app—which uses the Google Earth engine—and actively displays how the earth’s surface is changing due to climate change and land development.”

Posted on June 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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Monkeypox and moving male Pride events to the Fall

Posted on June 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. It’s a gay male STD for the moment.

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Black/Hispanic: “vaccination rate for both groups is slightly higher than it is for white Americans”

Posted on June 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. And now whites die more frequently.

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China acts as thought it thinks COVID was a lab leak.

Posted on June 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Continuing to block research.

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Starbuck’s public bathroom policy is failing.

Posted on June 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Started to reduce police contact with Black men who are not customers.

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Expensive cancer screening tests want to bypass FDA.

Posted on June 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Huge wealth awaits. Uncertain value. Certain cost.

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Rules for Contrarians: 1. Don’t whine. That is all

Posted on June 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “if annoying people is what you’re trying to do, then you can hardly complain when annoying people is what you actually do”

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Paxlovid indications and the Test to Treat program.

Posted on June 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I am stunned how hard it was to find the information that went into this post.

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“do need you to love San Francisco a little bit, like I do a lot, in order to hear the story of how my city fell apart”

Posted on June 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I’m of her era, when I fell in love with the city. Bruce Springsteen at Winterland.

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Good news in cancer therapy.

Posted on June 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Immune methods and novel diagnostics.

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“Rosetta 2 can be used to run Intel binaries in ARM Linux”

Posted on June 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Curious.

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XKCD: Exercise Progression

Posted on June 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. It’s a thing. Middle-aged nerds becoming exercise nerds.

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“secure classroom doors at Robb Elementary School were different. They had metal frames, and opened outward, making it impossible to force them open with a ram”

Posted on June 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The road to sanity begins with dropping cable TV to cut Fox revenue.

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Trump base after Trump: “full-time anti-trans panic”

Posted on June 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. On the bright side Trump seems to be fading.

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“Representative Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania” – key role in the coup attempt.

Posted on June 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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“The job of the Fed used to seem easier because it wasn’t taking enough risks.”

Posted on June 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Stable by sub-optimal.

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“We’re going to sit on stage, before multi-network national TV cameras. And we’re not going to say a word.”

Posted on June 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. January 6 committee: discipline.

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“Studying biographies of strongmen/tyrants shows that they all share the same essential character structure, or more accurately a character defect (disorder): a severely impaired conscience”

Posted on June 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Expert review. 2017.

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App Shortcuts may be one useful.

Posted on June 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Maybe.

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“surely never a more damning indictment presented against an American president than outlined on Thursday night”

Posted on June 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “John Tyler sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War”

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“…Jared Kushner is shown dismissing the threats of Pat A. Cipollone, then the White House counsel, to resign in the face of Mr. Trump’s machinations as “whining”

Posted on June 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Knew Trump had lost the vote. Planned to keep power anyway. Forever.

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Ukraine: “Stay the course.”

Posted on June 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Kissinger is such a moron.

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Pew: 5 percent of 18-30 identify as trans or nonbinary.

Posted on June 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Does not say what % identify as gay or lesbian.

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“Recessions are rare things, and if you always predict growth, you’ll be right much more often than you’re wrong.”

Posted on June 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. We are not in a recession.

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Predicted axial Higgs mode detected, particle arises due to dual symmetry breaking.

Posted on June 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Standard model allows particles to exist with multiple symmetry violations.

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Poor Single Mom: Pregnancy a choice not a mistake.

Posted on June 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. They want to be mothers and they have very unrealistic expectations of their male partners.

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Autonomous Ships.

Posted on June 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Can’t respond to SOS.

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“it took a few hundred years of living with chickens to get to know them well enough to begin eating them regularly.”

Posted on June 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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Monkeypox Can Be Airborne.

Posted on June 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Like smallpox.

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Trastuzumab deruxtecan effective in low HER-2 metastatic breast cancer.

Posted on June 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Two years more. Progress.

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“a user can set up an account recovery contact to make sure that they always have access to their account, even if they forget their Apple ID password or device passcode.”

Posted on June 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Can I back them up myself?

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“Longer torso and long arms = poor deadlift”

Posted on June 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Why I should NOT lift from the floor.

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“private-equity firms and developers are often circling nearby, looking to buy up such properties and turn them into more lucrative ventures”

Posted on June 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. 20 million Americans in mobile homes facing real trouble.

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Global markets, photolithography: “The world market … dominated by a single firm in the Netherlands, ASML:

Posted on June 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A good example.

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Crypto: “It sounds extreme and implausible to suggest that an asset class that has become so large, whose promoters have acquired so much political influence, could lack any real value.”

Posted on June 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. K discounts the illegal too quickly.

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Gun cult: “Americans are actually far more religious than adults in other wealthy nations, so we are not suffering from a prayer deficit.”

Posted on June 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Clearly we need to promote atheism.

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Fox: “News Media CEO Suzanne Scott decided to lure viewers back by giving them, as he notes, what they wanted: “False hope.”

Posted on June 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Fox went insane because their audience is insane.

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Hacking Bitcoin: “the extranonce’s leaky behavior was tolerated because it allowed Bitcoin’s creator to keep an eye on miners”

Posted on June 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “even on occasions when the mining pool became centralized, the dominant miners declined to attack it.”

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“Google Wave would go on to revolutionize how we call, communicate, work, and interact online. It remains an indispensable tool to this day, but could its runaway success story…”

Posted on June 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A startling into to Apple Freeform.

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New parental controls come to iOS 16.

Posted on June 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. It’s been a dumpster fire in an earthquake.

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