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In VA population: Black Men Twice as Likely to Develop Prostate Cancer
Link. VA care eliminates most racial disparities but not this one.
“United States has been underbuilding for so long that it’ll take years to meet demand.”
Link. Private equity making things worse faster. “boomers who own a lot of housing stock are sticking around in their primary homes longer”
“Reagan cut Mr. Carter’s renewable energy research budget by 85 percent. “The Reagan administration fired most of the scientists working on solar energy,”
Link. The GOP has been bad for a long time.
“when Schumer brought up a vote to change the filibuster to a talking filibuster for this bill … Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) joined the Republicans to kill the measure”
Link.
Monterey memory leak: “rapid gusher in the Finder’s Find command”
Link. Come on Apple. Fix this.
Google will end our free Google Apps, must pay by May 1.
Link. “Google will suspend your automatic Workspace subscription/accounts if you do not enter billing details before July 1, 2022.” I don’t THINK I received emails on this, but maybe I deleted them. Wow. What a friggin mess for us.
*Hey, whatever happened to Opera?”, you now have your answer: cryptocurrency grift.”
Link. What’s wrong with a clean death?
1Password: “Unless they’re factoring the value of the individual passwords, $6B makes no fucking sense.”
Link. I want Apple to do a better job at replacing them.
Add your COVID-19 vaccine to Apple Health and Wallet.
Link. Some health systems will get data into Health, but don’t support Wallet QR code.
Google Scholar Library adds read later.
Link. Scholar is last remnant of Google before the fall.
“Take a good look at the Universe around us. It will never be this rich — or this easy to access — ever again.”
Link. See, you are not alone. The universe is also dying.
“emergence of our species—Homo sapiens—between 350,000 and 200,000 years ago,”
Link. But 50kya something dramatic changed.
Base Rate Fallacy: why “vaccinated” may get more “infections”.
Link. Who gets PCR tests and who gets exposed.
Discovering Paxlovid: “hands-down all-time champion example of accelerated drug development”
Link. How medicinal chemists work.
“Detainees at an Arkansas jail who had Covid-19 were unknowingly treated by the detention center’s doctor with ivermectin.”
Link. American prisons are so bad.
America’s surge in violence: “the short-term solutions around high violence are mainly punitive”
Link. More policing. A frank article.
What does Safe Mode do to an M1 Mac?
Link. Not fsck. “the next reboot skips validation of the SSV.” Bug?
“The notion that Russia might actually invade Ukraine is frankly ridiculous.”
Link. Bold statement.
Omicron: “amount of viral RNA is highest three to six days after diagnosis or symptom onset.”
Link. I was very positive on day 5, less so day 7. Isolation value may become impractical.
The Industrialization of Space: “39 other companies in eleven different countries whose vehicles are scheduled to make their maiden flights this year.”
Link. Suddenly everything.
“The Party’s promise to overtake the US economy and make China the world’s dominant power will probably never come to pass.”
Link. Why have Xi’s peers allowed another Mao? Fear of the whirlwind.
“Impaired hippocampal neurogenesis, decreased oligodendrocytes and myelin loss in subcortical white matter were evident at 1 week, and persisted until at least 7 weeks, following mild respiratory SARS-CoV-2 infection in mice.”
Link. Charming.
“assess their priors and make Bayesian inferences, thereby ensuring they overcome their innate psychological biases—simple stuff, but important nonetheless,” said CDC director Rochelle Walensky”
Link. Onion.
Shame of pharma CEOs (and many others)
Link. Lowe unloads. He often defends pharma (correctly) but not on this.
NATO “defense of the democratic institutions of member states, not just their territory.”
Link. Responding to Putin’s GOP.
Musk is worse than an asshole and a bully.
Link. Thug.
iPhone 13 models don’t support Noise Cancellation.
Link. Hardware bug Apple decided not to address?
“Stasi’s files were opened to the public, and anyone could apply to see if their nearest and dearest had been passing along information. Many decided not to”
Link. Choosing ignorance – the good and the bad.
mRNA win has legions of parents.
Link. No way to be fair given Nobel rules.
Riemann Hypothesis, Explained.
Link. Sometimes YouTube is worth it.
“He was wearing one of those anti-vax ‘Live free or die’ t-shirts. I just said, ‘I see you made your choice.’ He was already so far gone he couldn’t hear me.”
Link. ER docs and cops see the worst of us.
Network Time Machine Backups: All the mediocre options.
Link. I do Synology NAS but it’s not my main backup solution.
“military invasion, which could begin between mid-January and mid-February.”
Link. The most predictable invasion ever?
“Germany would most likely eventually have to move to treating the virus as endemic.”
Link. The headline synopsis does not match the article. The experts quoted say it is endemic and we have a new routine.
“deputy patsy would be leading a small team to take the fall for all future investigations into Adams for misappropriating funds, political patronage, and nepotism”
Link. New York is weird. Too.
“…. there’s a certain point where a pawn should understand they’re a pawn, not a king, or a queen, or even a rook. So, if you’re still a willfully unvaccinated person: You’re a pawn, sorry.”
Link. We need to lower people’s self-esteem.
“first-year enrollment is 9.2 percent lower than prepandemic levels in fall 2019.” College.
Link. Very bad.
“Epstein-Barr virus infection increased the risk of multiple sclerosis over 30 fold”
Link. MS patients tend to have very effective immune systems. But EBV cannot be eliminated.
“iPhone 14 Pro models will have a new main sensor, switching from 12MP to 48MP.”
Link. 12 is too small.
What is the metaverse? The Verge.
Link. First useful summary I have found for the average geek.
“self-deception is the strongest and most mysterious of all the deceptions. With self-deception, you’re both the teller and receiver of the lie.”
Link. Fascinating and so important. Related, I think, to our capacity for denial. Maybe essential for life.
Thai unloads on Apple’s Mac strategy: “We once hoped for a successor to AppleScript; now we are grateful that it is at least still on life support.”
Link. Apple hasn’t made a significant Mac app in over 10 years.
Tianjin: “One local health official said that the virus appeared to have been spreading in the community “for some time.”
Link. Breached.
“After a lengthy back-and-forth over the election results, Mr. Trump asked how he could have lost the presidential election to Joe Biden, who he falsely claimed did not attract crowds during the campaign.”
Link. “Siri, what is narcissistic personality disorder?”
China’s COVID revolution.
Link. Maoism lives. The more entropy I accumulate the more I distrust zealotry of all causes.
Google (AI) Research: Themes from 2021 and Beyond.
Link. Long and impressive. Meanwhile Google Search results suck and iOS autocorrect is deteriorating. Something is off.
“security problems that stem from all controls becoming software controls”
Link. No plug.
“most of the 150,000 or so mail-in P.C.R. tests given to students were never returned; of the ones that were, a majority produced invalid results.”
Link. Self-administered testing only works for elites.
“Half or more of the increasing gap in wages among American workers over the last 40 years is attributable to the automation of tasks formerly done by human workers, especially men without college degrees”
Link. I believe but has been hard to show.