Link. Lots of bribes will flow to GOP SCOTUS.

Link. “there’s now enough computing power available on a US $0.70 CPU to make Python a contender in embedded development, despite the overhead of an interpreter”

“You can still get a job today as a Fortran programmer”

Link. Via Mastodon. I’d buy these.

Link. Noah and the Economist do battle. He’s winning.

“The Economist seems to be picking random data points about countries importing more stuff from China, and just assuming, without evidence, or in direct contradiction of the evidence…”

YABW. (Yet another Biden win)

Link. The real story here is why they didn’t do a better job.

“the operation published a 66-page research paper falsely claiming that Covid had started in the United States”

The party line is that COVID came to China via frozen food. Which is so dumb, but they started with it and have to stick with it.

Link. Canadian politicians keep digging. Can’t stop ….

Link. He chose “Sony XAVAX1000, 6.2-inch media receiver. Simple, clean design with an actual knob. I think it’s discontinued but Best Buy had one.”

Link. You kind of have to accept automatic update.

Link. Historical myths proliferate, especially when they fit a culturally fashionable frame.

“… it should perhaps be a requirement to upload to some public repository the photographs or transcriptions of any cited archival sources that are not otherwise freely accessible online…”

Link. “Schools that combined better ventilation with filtration had 48 percent fewer cases …. A large study of schools in Italy … ventilation systems or devices that deliver clean air had an at least 74 percent lower risk of infection than students in classrooms with open windows.”

There’s a ton of unsent rescuer money, about 20% schools need spending to achieve standards. I wonder if spending rules are too complex or have legal risk to staff.

Link. 2008! I assume runs on old versions of Windows.

Link. I didn’t know they existed until recently. Old tech.

System Settings/Preferences > Accessibility > Display > Show Window Title Icons

Link. It’s scary out there.

Link. To my knowledge she’s never acknowledged how wrong she was. This piece should never be forgotten.

Includes the line “Not even Republicans are eager to follow Trump’s lead.”

Link. Sometimes one tribe is really f*cked up and the other tribe is not.

Link. The New York Times has a Trump addiction. The reality is he loses elections.

Link. All the standards will get a Webb version.

Link. Where bungled is a generous term.

Link. If you don’t have a blog home definitely check out micro.blog.

Link. Apple is determined to turn macOS into a kind of cache and sync system for iCloud content.

Link. The emperor is naked.

Link. The money is hard to resist; just don’t ask too many questions.

This time it was “NightOwl”

Link. Klein mainlines all the battiness she can find – what drove Wolf mad?

“She is getting everything she once had and lost – attention, respect, money, power.”

Klein has written a book about Wolf’s derangement and the role of social media celebrity.

Link. The long claw of Xi pursues China’s heroes into Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia. Mao but with far more power.

Link. A strong resemblance is likely, so the eyewitness agreement adds little.

Because of the scope of image search the false positive rate is substantially higher than in a typical selection. Police are as bad as doctors at understanding test characteristics

Link. Xi commands employment for the young.

Link. Oddly interesting

Link. The original articles were big wins for the authors with prestige pubs. Retractions may come but it’s possible the errors were a combination of honest mistakes and cognitive confirmation bias.

Link. Pro version is a one-time payment of $25, a bargain by today’s standards.

Link. Bullshit jobs? “Conference Board does a very detailed running survey of job satisfaction in the U.S., and although satisfaction was indeed low at the time Graeber wrote his essay, it has since recovered strongly, and is now higher than it’s been at any point since the survey began back in 1987”

Link. SCOTUS is not a guide to ethical behavior.

Link. The religious right is right to panic.

Link. “If your document is larger than 500 MB and you aren’t using Apple File System (APFS) or you’re using an older version of Pages, Numbers, or Keynote, the app might prompt you to save the document as a package.”

Weird. I think you want to convert to single file when you update Pages to a more recent version. I wonder if the Package version doesn’t really work with iCloud Drive.

Link. 3.7 million babies are born in US yearly. So this would be 0.3% of births. 57% of procedures were on chest.

Link. I would clip a line from the infant seat to my belt each time I sat in the driver’s seat.

Once it surprised me.

Link. Prediction incorporates quantum foam space time. Result matches a lattice simulation; but we don’t understand the simulation.

Hoping for failure of the standard model.

Link. They are prisoners pending payments. About a billion a person. But it is Iran’s money.

Link. We can make people age faster … but not slower. “his research on the epigenetic clock made him doubt that people would ever live past the maximum human life span of about 120 years”

Link. The teary part comes from stories of her will and her family support.

Link. Visiting aliens travel on unshielded fusion reactor.

“strong ionising radiation changes the electrochemical structure of fungal melanin, increasing its ability to act as a reducing agent[3] and transfer electrons”

Link. Speech given by minister. Xi showed up later. Most likely health … we may never know.

Link. Subtitles needed. Soon software will tweak spoken audio.

Link. The crowds came later. Hope for those who get the death slot on the agenda.

We don’t know why some GLP-1 cause more weight loss than others. 500% increase in brain levels. Drugs in development even more effective.

Link. NASA’s InSight lander data combined with 1970s Viking lander data.

Link. “In 1957, a group of nine Black teenagers, escorted by the U.S. National Guard, integrated Little Rock Central High School as white protesters spit and jeered.”

Link. “a 400-year-long period of massively elevated wildfire … at the end of that period, you’re in a different ecosystem and all of the megafauna are gone.”

Link. We are in a low output state.

Link. Torture was popular in America. I suspect it still is.

Link. Xi definitely contributed, including a bad choice on COVID vaccines.

Link. Great leadership and team. Reminds me of old Cray.