Link. Two year backlog, low income filers who are due refunds.

Link. A very hard slog but there is new energy.

Link. Religious zealots are bad everywhere.

Link. This is brilliant. Material will set off alarms at airports. Only a test for now.

Link. Her unhealthy and costly obsession is a great gift to history. Internet active scanning. Linkfest.

Link. This was as good as the web got. The pieces were all in place. Two years later the web began to die.

Link. Microbes of the Mole Man.

Link. I think Ars got this right.

Link. HRC.

Link. Maybe Denver too?

Link. My father’s brother died of amyloid cardiomyopathy. Go pharma.

Link. Voters bring hope to South Africa and promise of a better future to India. Democracy has a pulse.

Link. Dyer dismembers the Putin talking points regurgitated by Trump et al.

Link. The outside view was that it was really wonderful. I wonder if some aspects of it lived on in SharePoint (aka the worst software ever made)

Link. We need the responsible CEOs in prison.

“Boeing’s failure to timely and voluntarily self‑disclose the offense conduct to the department; and Boeing’s prior history, including a civil FAA settlement agreement from 2015 related to safety and quality issues”

Link. Chinese biomedical publications are, at the moment, nearly worthless.

Link. FINALLY.

I believe this is a significant contributor to Trumpism. America’s election system gives small town rural voters power and their communities have been dying since the 80s.

Young people leave for college and never return.

Link. But it doesn’t hurt.

Link. There have been two, ours is bigger.

Link. “reason enough to avoid both of these compounds as sweeteners, and I would extend the caution to the other sugar alcohols as well (maltitol, mannitol, sorbitol, etc.)” OTOH aspartame seems good.

Link. Immense details on immune studies of these 2021 healthy young volunteers. About 1/5 NEVER were PCR positive despite being infected; the innate immune system worked fast. (Most people who say they never got COVID are presumed to be like this. They got COVID (virus), killed it, never noticed).

“authors were also able to find a blood marker that could distinguish the sustained-infection group from those where the virus didn’t get a chance to establish itself … HLA-DQA2, whose function is not really clear yet.”

Link. I mostly agree. The broadband fail is my team (Dem) being stupid. America needs a GOP that is not insane.

Link. Lots of apartment construction and new home — in context of record prices. Signs of rebalancing.

Link. Crime on a staggering scale.

Link. I just wanted to write “Mexico’s female Jewish scientist president” because it blows my mind.

Link. “the use of A.I. or algorithmic-based technologies should concern us more because it’s much easier to price-fix when you’re outsourcing it to an algorithm versus when you’re sharing manila envelopes in a smoke-filled room.”

Fighting monopolies is a major responsibility of good government.

Link. Clean energy offsets are in part an accounting trick. Microsoft fusion timeline is absurd.

These kinds of externalities are usually managed through forms of taxation.

Link. Opportunity identified.

Link. Controlled by clerics yet dressed up like a democracy. It’s sort-of a joke and sort-of real.

Link. A useful reference review. No big Sequoia changes found so far; just continuation of iCloud Keychain functionality.

Link. As expected.

Link. “Pirate Ship has negotiated corporate-level discounted shipping rates of up to 89% off retail and passes most of those savings on to customers.”

Their profits come from the retained savings.

Link. Reputedly a famously cruel review. Link via Threads

Link. “large studies have suggested that languages have been optimized to transfer information clearly and efficiently.”

But we can do a lot of reasoning without using our unique and stable individual language network.

Link. “…Patients often keep taking the obesity drugs, while many who are taking drugs they need to be healthy, like statins, abandon them …”

Physicians will increasingly start with the glutide. Speculative uses for inflammatory conditions or Parkinson’s need clinical trials.

Link. Wouldn’t WordPress plugins have similar issues?

Link. A story of both American brutality and some compassion on the side. (Note CIA illegally destroyed their torture videos.)

The Cheney/Bush torture program was quite popular with Americans after 9/11.

Link. $20 per year. I’ve been using Junkman which does pretty well.

The best discussion I’ve seen to date. Mostly dealing with political spam — I think carriers are forbidden to block some of it.

Link. “the universe has evolved via frequent mergers of galaxies, which would naturally result in many merging quasar pairs observed throughout the universe.”

Link. Substack. Twitter. Reddit. Most people just shrug and continue. Sometimes the bad guys win.

Link. Nothing bad or dramatic, just continued progress. Gates foundation and UNFPA working away.

Link. “macOS Sequoia brings radical changes that somehow escaped presentation at WWDC … lack of documentation fills me with deep and growing despair”

The Tim Cook era.

Link. Smells like another product failure.

Link. Relevant to ICC investigations. The conclusion is deeply buried in the article.

Link. “group and its leaders have remained broadly unpopular in the enclave. More Gazans have even been willing to speak out against Hamas, risking retribution.”

There was one election then Hamas ended elections.

Link. Lots of interesting lessons.

Link. Flagged misinformation is not main problem now. Fox not mentioned specifically but Murdoch is a famed serial killer.

“Make headlines better” is key recommendation. Most Americans never get past the headline.

Link. Horizontal scrolling. Damn kids.

Link. Consistency counts for something.

Link. Religious things.