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“2010, Chey Cheol-won, a member of the family that ran the SK conglomerate, received only a suspended prison sentence after battering a union activist with an aluminum baseball bat.”
Link. South Korea.
“Patient care is at the forefront of everything we do at GNAAS, and the success of this next stage of the jet suit trial is a great step towards helping us reach more patients.”
Link. Cooler than you.
DeSantis follows Orban’s path.
Link. Use the state to punish disloyal, reward loyal. Pretty soon no more democracy.
Trump investors: hedge funds.
Link. “Pentwater Capital and Sabby Management” biggest buyers.
Before ribosomes: “By cyclically heating and cooling the system, they could repeatedly break and make bonds between the amino acids on the two chains, flipping the amino acids from one strand to the other and extending the chain.”
Link. Life is impossible. Almost.
NYT bicycling gear guide.
Link. I know this stuff and these are good recommendations.
Booking flights: “schedules become much more settled by 90 days out, so the later you book after that, the lower the chance of changes”
Link. Avoid the budgets.
‘The Last Generation’: “A new survey of more than 20,000 people, mostly female between 18 and 31, found that two thirds of them don’t want to have children.”
Link. In China the last rebellion is refusing to reproduce.
Family of man wrongfully accused in Drexel case
Link. FBI should pay – “He and his client are exploring options for potential civil litigation, Adams said.”
Biden Asia trade deal: “the deal does not require congressional approval”
Link. Every sane nation wanted this to work and knew the GOP had to be bypassed.
“Japan’s income inequality is about average for a rich country, and its relative poverty rate — defined as the percent of the population with income below 50% of the median — is higher than in Europe.”
Link.
Wheelbarrow: “thousand years longer to occur to anyone in Europe after its first use in China” (2013)
Link. Fallows essay on 50 top innovations. The wheelbarrow delay is a fascinating puzzle.
Paxlovid use guidance from FDA
Link. Surprisingly well done, esp drug interactions.
A moderate economist makes the case for some student loan forgiveness.
Link. We’ve done a lot subsidies and gifts over decades to many groups.
Southern Baptist: “The convention was saved from liberalism by the courage of these two men who wouldn’t back down”
Link. They did not end well.
Lara Logan traveled the road Musk is now on.
Link. Always a bit flaky, some back and forth, then full crackpot. It’s more common path than I had once thought.
Taunting Xi by translating Chinese social media posts into English.
Link. Xi is fragile.
“the median CEO uses a password that is “startlingly dumb,”
Link. Imagine Trump.
“Guidelines for managing friends of varying sorts — what is some real world (not usual feel good stuff) for a young person? Looking for a reference. For example 1/10” / Twitter
Link. Soliciting input on this early list. Might republish if I get some.
IF NO KNOWN HEART DISEASE …“For people over 60, per the task force guidelines, or 70, per the cardiologists’ recommendations, the risks of starting aspirin now outweigh the benefits.”
Link. It is all so fuzzy most docs won’t bother with aspirin for *primary prevention* unless special risk factors. Spend time on exercise, blood pressure, statins.
Read Japanese using Live Text and Translation
Link. For 25y I’ve advocated for writing styles that facilitate machine translation. Never heard it from anyone else.
The principle of least action: “there is also an action that gives you electrodynamics. And there’s an action that gives you general relativity”
Link. S=0. Pretty easy to follow. Sabine’s usual hints about the eternal now.
Ellison: “pledged $1 billion of the $44 billion deal for Elon Musk to buy Twitter.”
Link. Thiel, Ellison, Musk, Murdoch, Trump.
How Facebook learned that high quality news came from libs.
Link. Conservative news sources are all poor quality.
“Average Uber prices rose 92 percent between 2018 and 2021”
Link. “an Uber from Manhattan to JFK Airport was $100—nearly double the fixed yellow cab rate. But good luck finding a yellow cab!”
Cheap Flights.
Link. Some old names and some new. Especially when you have more time than money.
“France wanted reparations from the people it had enslaved.”
Link. NYT is doing the story of Haiti.
How to Use Extra Space on an APFS Time Machine Drive
Link. “when you should create a new volume within the Time Machine APFS container and when you should instead create a separate APFS container.” (Oakley)
Vandoit: The latest in domestic extreme travel.
Link. In my dreams.
“… theory that non-Whites were brought to the United States to replace White people for political purposes.”
Link. The most succinct description of GRT I’ve seen. “Political purposes” and “brought” are key concepts.
“The effect of sanctions on Russia offers a graphic, if grisly, demonstration of a point economists often try to make, but rarely manage to get across: Imports, not exports, are the point of international trade.”
Link.
Why You Need to Audit Your iPhone Auto-Renew App Subscriptions Right Now
Link. I hate subscriptions and have far too many.
Apple Introduces Professional IT Training
Link. Late to the game but good.
“Time Machine’s APFS backup volumes are different. For a start, they’re not formatted in normal APFS, but using its case-sensitive variant.”
Link. Simplifies language support? Is ios APFS case sensitive?
A useful primer on infectious evil.
Link. Discord well named. The author’s statement that violent gaming plays no role is not evidence based.
Puberty In girls starts 2-3y earlier than 70s.
Link. Definitely obesity related. Chemical suspected but hard to show so far. Stress seems less likely.
“the sheriff had not sent the skull to the medical examiner’s office — believing that it may have been from a recent murder victim — the skull most likely would never have been analyzed by an anthropologist”
Link. So much knowledge of early Americans is lost now.
Bike and outliners – micro.blog
Link. Echoes of the Glory Days. If we can recycle the 70s why not the 00s?
“social media apps are now the primary way teenagers and young adults buy illegal drugs. Dealers create profiles containing enough clues [emoji based] to be recognized by their target market, and the deals are done in private messages.”
Link. Lethality not great for biz but they make it up in volume. Venmo?!
Vibe Shift 2022.
Link. Suddenly groups of fashionable teens are colorful. (I’m infinitely post-vibe so is fun to watch.)
“Centrists deceive themselves into believing they can forge a bipartisanship that doesn’t exist, while progressives can’t see what’s in front of their faces—that they have little public support.”
Link. And that’s the sane party.
“192 Republicans, opposed the bill” – emergency support infant formula.
Link. 2022 GOP is most amoral party in at least 100 years. It works for them.
Fascism: “As a cult of irrationality and violence, it could not be vanquished as an argument”
Link. I like that definition.
“Kidneys from deceased Black donors are automatically downgraded as higher risk.”
Link. Based on history but gene testing might end that practice.
“450 killings, right-wing extremists committed about 75 percent. Islamic extremists were responsible for about 20”
Link. Left count for 4%.
“About 39 percent of Black Americans have one copy of the gene’s risk variants; another 13 percent, or nearly 5.5 million, have two copies. Those with two copies are at increased risk for fast progressing kidney disease that often starts in young adul
Link. It’s not structural racism alone.
Amazon to sort-of support ePub
Link. Rare example of progress.
Bike 1.0 – macos outliner. “The .bike file format is HTML–you can view it in your web browser. Bike also supports .opml and .txt.”
Link. $30.
“just as responsible, from Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch on down”
Link. Fallows is willing to name Lachlan. Tucker is just a mouthpiece.