Link. Mine had dried too much. 30sec in microwave warmed glue do I could get backing off.
Author Archives: jgordon
“Over the ensuing months, Abbott prevailed in court, the poisoning of a newborn baby went largely unnoticed …
Link. Until 2022. The “restraining order” ploy was pure Jones Day evil.
“new synthetic microbiome can even withstand aggressive pathogens and cause mice to develop a healthy immune system”
Link. To understand, first make it.
“the iPhone has gone from being a product that is designed in California and made in China to one that is a creation of both countries.”
Link. A factor in Apple’s share price
“… Cannon felt obliged to reassure MAGA Republicans that Trump is being treated fairly, rather than the rest of us that the rule of law is being protected…”
Link. “Once you have the courts you can pretty much do whatever you want.”
“an AI model can create a Greg Rutkowski lookalike in moments, while a real Greg Rutkowski probably takes many hours of work”
Link. Must read. The tectonic plates are shifting. Could be just a Richter 8, could be new world.
“More than three dozen Republican members of Congress chose to retire rather than sacrifice their consciences, or face the same fate as Sanford.”
Link. There was a GOP resistance, but Trump crushed it. McConnell is truly more evil that Trump.
Machine Learning for identifying proteins based on tissue derived fragments.
Link. Proteonomics age.
Claude Shannon’s Concept of Entropy Quantifies.
Link. Minimum number of Y/N questions needed to answer a question.
“Moderna itself is being sued by at least two other companies who claim that their own cationic lipid IP is being infringed… NIH is in fact also suing Moderna…”
Link. Normal pharma business. Great for lawyers.
“Any appeal would be heard by the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta, where Mr. Trump appointed six of its 11 active judges.”
Link. The loyalty of Trump’s judges will be tested.
“CR2032 batteries with bitterant coatings might not work with AirTag or other battery-powered products, depending on the alignment of the coating in relation to the battery contacts.”
Link. Avoid Duracell.
“if you wanted to build a refrigerator you would create custom refrigerator controller hardware and embedded software. Today, you just grab some standard microcontroller off the shelf and write a software application for it. And that microcontroller alrea
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“the rhetoric on the Kiwifarms site and specific, targeted threats have escalated over the last 48 hours to the point that we believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life unlike we have previously seen from Kiwifarms or a
Link. Considered decision.
Apple Studio display: “Thankfully, I’ve not been getting this buzzing, but I’ve had problems with the display’s camera, audio, and USB.”
Link. Other than that Mrs Lincoln…
“floppy disks—along with other dated tech like CDs and MiniDiscs —are still required for around 1,900 government procedures.”
Link. This has got to be culture.
I Have Nothing to Hide: contemplating the end of the personal life.
Link. The vast majority of human life was lived with no expectation of privacy at all. It’s a fragile thing.
Living with the potential Nazi: “And the best thing you can do – maybe the only thing you can do – is to stay in these people’s lives if you can, if it’s safe. As a living refutation of all that nonsense.”
Link. A small minority of humans are naturally Nazi, but a majority are capable of Nazi. Basically, humans are horrible. But capable is not inevitable.
“… Russian economy performed during the Boris Yeltsin years. … worse than America’s decline during the worst of the Great Depression”
Link. I read newspapers then and had no idea.
“Getting a Kindle Kids was a huge mistake. Do not buy this product for your children or grandchildren.”
Link. Damn.
SMS antispam: Truecaller freemium or $30/y.
Link. I never heard of it. Our advertising infrastructure is broken.
Mints utility provides user info on macos malware.
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WaPo suffers a Trump deficit.
Link. We will never be rid of him.
Paxlovid valuable for over 65 and probably unvaccinated 50-65.
Link. Vaccinated under 65 do so well it’s hard to measure improvement.
“a lost arm of the Nile once cut through this stretch of desert, and would have greatly simplified transporting the giant slabs to the pyramid complex”
Link. Expected but good to confirm.
“Twice a day, he replaces the depleted lithium-ion batteries in his sky-blue Piaggio electric rickshaw with fully charged ones at swapping stations around New Delhi”
Link. Cheaper than gas. Science can save us.
Autism in South Korea.
Link. We know very little.
“The areas of the brain traditionally attributed to language have lots of other functions”
Link. A neuroscience of language update by a science writer missing her left temporal lobe.
“humpback songs easily spread from one population to another across the Pacific Ocean. It can take just a couple of years for a song to move several thousand miles.”
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“life expectancy for Native Americans and Alaska Natives fell by six and a half years
Link. Vs 3y fall for non-native. Some COVID directly, but also alcohol, etc.
Failed GOP fund raising was so sleazy even GOP balked.
Link. Rick Scott’s fiasco.
“reporters scrambled after the nearest bottle of weak sauce to draw equivalence between Biden’s commentary and a movement that’s currently calling in bomb threats to children’s hospitals.”
Link. What do advertisers want?
“For minimal to low risk, the researchers concluded that men and women shouldn’t exceed two drinks per week.”
Link. Never more than two a day. Alcohol has no virtues.
Biden made the right choice on Afghanistan.
Link. The generals have no credibility. They aren’t that bright.
“the middle seat gets both armrests”
Link. If you don’t like it the middle seat would be happy to switch with you.
“Gingrich was part of the effort to overturn the 2020 election”
Link. Of course he was.
“Over the last three months, of the nine security updates to XProtect pushed by Apple, only one has been delivered and installed correctly through my Monterey Content Caching server,”
Link. Do you believe what Apple says or do you look at what they do?
Filtering RSS: “In olden times, I might have used Yahoo Pipes to do the filtering”
Link. London after the Fall of the West. That’s the web we live in now.
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Link. Looking back at “Primary Colors”. We’ve come a long way baby.
macOS active malware scans.
Link. We need bigger engines. Our 2020 8 GB Air is dying beneath Monterey; this must contribute.
“twice the number of classified documents the former president’s lawyers turned over voluntarily while swearing an oath that they had returned all the material demanded by the government.”
Link. Will his lawyers flip?
FileMaker is Claris P now … “there will be a freemium version of Claris Pro with free access to Claris Studio (and presumably Claris Go).”
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“Burlingame had deliberately provoked the lawmaker who had beaten Sumner, Preston Brooks of South Carolina, and unable to resist any provocation, Brooks had challenged Burlingame to a duel”
Link. “Forgotten now, Burlingame’s speech was once widely considered one of the most important speeches in American history.”
China can’t imitate Russian sanction resistance.
Link. “China similarly could tuck away a billion here and two there. But then it essentially is stuck. It has a monster of an economy and is highly dependent on trade”. China is so much bigger than Russia.
“our system of liberal democracy is actually holding up pretty darn well.”
Link. Contrarian.
China and America alike: “Both stronger and weaker, both more likable and more offputting, both more tender and more cruel.”
Link. America’s cruelty isn’t quite at Russian levels but it dwarfs Canada’s.
“The web service that hosts Truth Social claims that the company had not paid its bills since March.”
Link. It can’t be super expensive. Suggests Trump has abandoned Truth.social.
U.S. Warships Sail Taiwan Strait: “Chinese military said on Sunday in a statement that it had monitored the ships’ passage but did not indicate any additional response.”
Link. Is Xi recalculating?
“Americans this year have died from Covid at a rate 80 percent higher than Canadians and 30 percent higher than residents of the European Union”
Link. US/EU numbers are as expected but WTF is it with those Canadians? Do they put IQ enhancements in Canuck water?
“Sailors who enter the program bolstered by steroids and hormones can push harder, recover faster and probably beat out the sailors who are trying to become SEALs while clean”
Link. They went too far.