Link. Nobody answers the phone but journalists desperately need something to write about.

In MN Walz was suddenly “at risk”. We sent him money. He won by a big margin. We could have sent it elsewhere.

Link. Review of science of human arrival in Americas. Probably multiple arrivals but end of large mammals 11kya seems a marker.

Link. Apple has no pride.

Link. Mojave was ok.

Link. His murders could not be considered.

Link. Set aside the complete mess of “long COVID”. Then for the immune COVID risk is comparable to flu risk, but there is a lot more COVID out there.

(I wear mask when boarding/leaving airplane seat.)

Link. Pando accelerated expected changes. In demographics and other areas. Good news for under 50.

Link. Every day we need to thank the space angels for Biden.

Link. Musk. “often interrupts meetings seemingly at random, talking for long stretches”

Link. I was happy with not-Trump. I did not expect him to be so good at the job.

Link. Instagram appears to be afraid of them.

Link. Double the conservative resolution expectations.

Link. Sad to say I didn’t think of the NFT angle. Porn is obvious market but sounds like child predators could also be early adopters.

Link. That would be funny.

Link. Very expensive now but competition is coming. We now have weight loss medications; when the price falls they will be very popular.

Link. A short and brutal retelling.

Link. I wonder if she had some residual function as well as extraordinary discipline. She predates modern therapies. Her instincts were better than the early medical advice she received.

Link. Lousy IT, high risk routing, terrible employer. But the root cause is: “federal government has given airlines a liability shield”

Link. Most use it for announcements or broadcast tweets. I use feedbin for this.

Link. Wait on it.

Link. “He later edited his post, calling the initial version a “misunderstanding” and “technical error” and stressing that he had “always supported the Russian president.”

Link. Ortega usual idiot authoritarian. “10 percent of Nicaragua’s population leaving in the past four years”

Link. Santos is the GOP rep Long Island deserves.

Link. Prices disconnected from reality.

Link. “Officially, seven people have died from the virus since pandemic rules were relaxed on Dec. 7 … crush of hearses outside a crematory in Beijing to the overflow of yellow body bags at some funeral homes.”

Link. I’ve been disappointed but not surprised by the rationalizations for staying. Especially by those who have the tech confidence to go elsewhere.

Link. Carlson senses power slipping away. Are the Murdochs ghosting him?

Link. We expected COVID would beat China. We did not expect the Party to go AWOL. WTF is up with Xi? These are weird days in China.

Link. Fat (winter trail) bikes are possible because of front disc brakes and thru axles. We couldn’t do them in the 90s.

Link. Relatively readable. Been a long time since W3C made waves.

Link. If they can really do interoperability with Mastodon I’d be interested. No date.

Link. The logging data flow is excessive. I wonder how iOS does.

Link. Happy accident or exploit? In gCal settings turn off automatic event creation. (More AI always means more spam.)

Link. I did not know that. This article needs to be widely read especially in high school.

Link. China’s COVID chaos. First China has to invent a narrative that makes Xi seem less stupid.

Link. It’s a form of required rest but very different from terrestrial sleep.

Link. Our blood would clot if we stored it somewhere.

Link. 7 trillion dollars. It’s easy to audit minions, very hard to audit the powerful. Another way GOP is ending America.

Link. White men who voted for democracy rather than the GOP candidate.

Link. I worked in a distant medical relative of this. I get their work. A library science specialty. Interesting perspective pre-AI.

“1973 where a group called the Ethical Culture Society set up a meet and greet with Frankenstein’s monster for kids, as an alternative to sitting on Santa Claus’s lap.”

Link. Testing how credulous the people are. “In Yulin, the authorities ordered pharmacies to ration ibuprofen”

Link. Share price will fall another 50%.

Link. Most users won’t be able to do this and even geeks lost a lot in migration.

Link. This is worth a read. The cohesion of a community is going to be monetized. Standard protocols and data freedom are answer. ActivityPub/Mastodon are right.

Link. “Chinese-owned internet services should be banned in the United States, and TikTok exemplifies why. Just ban it.”

Link. Undetected sure to incompetent oppo research and death of local journalism.

Link. “overwhelming evidence of just how far Trump’s star has fallen”. It’s bad luck to say he’s done. But he’s done. Except in the alternate history novels.

“That woman fucked her way to every podium she’s ever stood behind and hats off to her” is pure Jedeed.

Link. St Paul’s skyways are a preview of the end of man. (Fun to tour and photograph.)

Link. Post-pregnancy comeback but unresolved thrill issues. Not only woman to do this. There are stronger riders but few are this mad.

Link. Reminds me of the time between Gopher and the WWW. Many experiments in hypertext, many roads explored. The #ActivityPub powered #Fediverse is the place to watch today. Twitter is the dead past.