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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”

Posted on December 3, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Impressive. “everyone had tested negative for the coronavirus before the event”

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Terraforming Mars in 3 Simple Steps

Posted on December 3, 2021 by jgordon

Link. It’s easier to create fully artificial environments.

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Google Can Now Help You Find a Doctor That Takes Your Insurance

Posted on December 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “doctors near me,” – can filter by insurance plan.

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“Instead, a different set of cells, which he calls progenitor cells, give rise to most blood in living animals.”

Posted on December 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Not stem cells. They just casually toss that in. Also on CHIP: “proteins suppressed the growth of other stem cells and injured the environment where the marrow cells grow”

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How This All Happened: American economy 1945-2021 in 5000 words.

Posted on December 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Damn.

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Inside Apple’s Chat Support.

Posted on December 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Makes Amazon warehouse look good.

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“Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina and Alabama — have each sequenced and reported fewer than 3 percent of their cases”

Posted on December 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Omicron will be found first in states that sequence well.

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Jim Warren obit: “West Coast Computer Faire in the 1970s”

Posted on December 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Glory Days.

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“The original virus that came out of Wuhan, China, in early 2020 did not infect rodents. But as variants — Alpha, Beta, Delta — started to emerge, those viruses could infect rodents.”

Posted on December 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We are not going to eliminate a rodent borne disease.

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Omicron Time.

Posted on December 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The oracle speaks. (He’s great.)

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52 things I learned in 2021.

Posted on December 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. So much clean fun.

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“Unless the animals exercise. In that case, post-mortem exams of their tissues show, the animals’ brains typically teem with healthy, helpful microglia deep into old age”

Posted on December 1, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Now replicated in humans with puny (by my standards) amounts of exercise.

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“Worldwide, about 56 percent of people have received at least one vaccine dose. Every continent is above 50 percent except for Africa — which is at about 10 percent.”

Posted on December 1, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Lack of demand mostly.

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Vaccines for the unwealthy: “growing signs in parts of Africa, as well as South Asia, that skepticism or outright hostility toward the Covid vaccines may run deeper than expected”

Posted on December 1, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Stop beating up on wealthy country vaccine use.

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Molnupiravir looks useless and can’t be given to women at risk of pregnancy.

Posted on December 1, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “final data showed only a 30% relative decrease, and because the numbers also changed in the control group, the absolute change was only 3% in the end.”

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Reith Lectures: AI and why people should be scared.

Posted on December 1, 2021 by jgordon

Link. AI worries are considered silly now. Even so I consider AI our greatest existential risk over the next 80 years. It’s my favorite Fermi paradox resolution.

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“Marcus Lamb, co-founder and CEO of the conservative Christian Daystar Television Network who vocally opposed Covid vaccines, has died at age 64”

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Of COVID. He sent others into the valley, but at least he keeps them company.

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“In Greece, the prime minister announced that Covid vaccinations would be obligatory for people age 60 and older, and that those who failed to book a first shot by Jan. 16 would face fines.”

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Mandate!

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“The New York Times described the speech as Biden “trying to project an image of calm, and to keep the country from panicking, while also ensuring that Americans get vaccinated and take other precautions.” Perhaps he was calm, and the panic was largel

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link.

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“contextual menu which appears when you Control-Shift-Click on the disk icon in the Time Machine pane.”

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Ctrl-option to verify. WTF Apple, is this documented anywhere?! Works in Mojave and probably earlier.

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Monterey: “screensavers like the Classic, which displays a series of images, are as broken as they have been in Big Sur.”

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Hope this attention will lead to an Apple fix. Thanks Howard!

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Monterey bugs and annoyances.

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Mojave was good.

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“There were no COVID-related deaths yesterday in New York City, where the vaccination rate is 90%”

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. NYC for the win.

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Accessible Underground Passageways of Saint Paul and Minneapolis

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Visit by bike or foot.

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Simpson’s Paradox and Vaccines: “all-cause death rates for vaccinated people aged 10-59 are significantly higher than for unvaccinated people in the same age group.”

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Age effect swamps vaccination effect. Great example.

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Master Mask Testing Data Set

Posted on November 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Two years into the great endemic and this is the best consumer oriented information to guide mask purchases. We are truly a failed state.

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Nurdles: the worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard of

Posted on November 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “… colloquial term for “pre-production plastic pellets”, are the little-known building block for all our plastic products”

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Healthcare Industry Predictions For 2022.

Posted on November 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Doesn’t mention private equity; a suspicious omission. Useful as a guide to what money people say out loud to each other.

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“As college graduates increasingly married other college graduates, earning power became concentrated within households, rather than being more evenly distributed across them.”

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The dominance of women in college education, and soon in lifetime earnings, will force changes to existing social roles.

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“we are in a position where we have unilaterally broken nearly all of the contractual trade commitments that we made to other nations over the last 30 years.”

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Biden hasn’t fixed this Trump problem.

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“In the middle decades of the 20th century, people on all sides seemed to agree about the problem: the vulnerability of rootless, ignorant mass society to political persuasion and propaganda.”

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Rupert Murdoch is our Goebbels.

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Big Sur “Classic” screensaver doesn’t actually, you know, work.

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Crazy I never saw mention of this. I guess nobody uses it! Basically it has never worked and it still doesn’t. If you enable clock display it will work. Wonder if it works in Monterey.

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“federal government has ramped up prosecution of crimes on flights, especially by passengers refusing to abide by Covid protocols”

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A few well advertised prosecutions will help.

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‘Afghan Girl’ From 1985 National Geographic Cover Takes Refuge in Italy

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. An unwilling symbol that the Taliban could not long ignore.

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Iraqis Return From Belarus.

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Putin pulled the leash.

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“molnupiravir, reduced the risk of hospitalization and death in high-risk Covid patients by 30 percent. An earlier analysis had found a 50 percent reduction.”

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Versus 90%+ for immunization. The meds won’t save the unvaccinated from their folly.

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Iran runs out of water: “driest summer in 50 years”

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Mismanagement sure, but likely climate change. Iran needs Israeli water tech.

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Afghan Economy Nears Collapse.

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Article doesn’t describe the negotiations presumably happening.

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Israel and Iran cyberwar attacks civilians directly.

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Iran likely to attack US healthcare. Which could lead to non-cyber war.

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Early stem cell therapy for DM I works better than expected.

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Lifelong immunosuppression still needed but this is a rare stem cell success in an experiment. Puny amount of development money and huge academic and personal effort. Years from the market.

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Minneapolis tries a different integration approach – but Black parents are disinterested.

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. St Paul Central High meets their goal — but advanced academic classes still have few Black students.

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Infrastructure: “cost estimates are “systematically and significantly deceptive.”

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. This is one of our great challenges.

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Preparing your Mac for someone else to own (pre ECAS).

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. This is what I have done.

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macOS Erase All Contents and Settings: “EACAS is a thoroughly practical tool, as well as an elegant demonstration of the benefits of the SSV and Secure Boot.”

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Deep clean your Mac too.

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Three Monterey bugs.

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Memory leaks mostly. Give Monterey a few more months.

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macOS Explainer: .DS_Store files

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Resource Forks were easier. “be prepared to massage the folder until its .DS_Store behaves again.”

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Making the case that the media is screwing America with its Biden coverage.

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The main driver of media coverage is clicks and negative stories get more clicks and engagement. This is American media now. (PS. Don’t look to Cohn for explanations)

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Apple not updating their known malware protection?

Posted on November 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “If I were still reliant on Big Sur or any previous version of macOS, I think I’d use that time to try out some third-party protection”

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2021 e-reader roundup: Kobo Sage, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Paperwhite.

Posted on November 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I’m in the ePUB camp, almost always DRM free. So Kobo.

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Luck maketh the man: lessons from the randomness of WW II torpedoes.

Posted on November 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A brilliant idea.

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