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Seoul COVID eruption.

Posted on December 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Doesn’t explain how controls failed. We thought SK was on top of this thing.

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FFmpeg FOSS video editing toolkit.

Posted on December 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Are there similar projects now?

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SolarWinds was good at selling to government.

Posted on December 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The disaster analysis should focus on why SolarWinds won government contracts. I suspect this will highlight regulations and laws that confound gov software buys.

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Save America, move to Austin.

Posted on December 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. It could work.

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Ad Tech bubble.

Posted on December 22, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The tech is camouflage, the real story is monopoly rent.

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“Some of them are also less afraid of contracting Covid-19 because the pandemic appears to have been mostly stamped out in China, he said.”

Posted on December 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Easier decision here.

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Spike model: “… an innovation that was rejected for publication by scientific journals five times because reviewers questioned its relevance.”

Posted on December 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Genius needs persistence.

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Pfizer anaphylaxis – PEG or not.

Posted on December 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Good review of the analyses.

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“Trump’s unofficial election advisory council now includes a felon, adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory, a White House trade adviser and a Russian agent’s former lover”

Posted on December 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. In the movie this kind of team always wins in the end.

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“Case studies on these immunocompromised people have shown that the virus can accumulate a large number of mutations as it replicates in their bodies for a long period of time.”

Posted on December 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Grim news.

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“Mr. Trump was tweeting out anti-mask claims minutes after Mr. Pence received his vaccine.”

Posted on December 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Pence v Trump will be fun to watch.

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Engaging With Trump’s Die-Hard Supporters Isn’t Productive.

Posted on December 21, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Mass delusions are common in every culture and history. Sometimes they destroy societies, most often they collapse. What do experts say about engagement with the deluded?

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“The Republican Party has been radicalized, with countless Republican lawmakers and other prominent figures within the party having revealed themselves to be moral cowards”

Posted on December 20, 2020 by jgordon

Link. No moral credibility at Federal level.

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A little more clarity on the latest fail of US cybersecurity.

Posted on December 20, 2020 by jgordon

Link. That we know of.

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“skepticism of science, impatience with health restrictions, prioritization of personal politics over public safety, undisciplined communications, chaotic management style, indulgence of conspiracies, proclivity toward magical thinking, allowance of tur

Posted on December 20, 2020 by jgordon

Link.

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“If you disable SIP on an Apple Silicon Mac, you lose support for the Apple DRM. (FairPlay)”

Posted on December 19, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Follow the money.

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“AppTrackingTransparency is a great step forward for Apple. When a company does the right thing for its users, EFF will stand with it”

Posted on December 19, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Suck it Facebook.

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“An arrangement brokered by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will deliver cheap vaccines throughout most of Latin America.”

Posted on December 19, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Credit.

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My 2015 post on why Trump was a sign of a healthy democracy.

Posted on December 19, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I didn’t actually say a *President* Trump was good for democracy.

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Monitoring the patient with chronic kidney disease — my ABFM QI project criteria.

Posted on December 19, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I like my new personal CKD monitoring checklist.

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“police killings went from about 4% of violent U.S. deaths at the turn of the century to about 9% in the 2010s”

Posted on December 19, 2020 by jgordon

Link. We need so much more social science research.

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“My experience has been that Google’s results are much better than Bing’s, which are better than DuckDuckGo’s”

Posted on December 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. True, but Google results were much better 10 years ago.

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“LG 27UK850-W is a good monitor for the price”

Posted on December 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. More than a review, also a tutorial on modern PC displays. I usually just buy the mid-range Dell but my eyes suck.

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“Facebook’s argument is along the lines of arguing that the police shouldn’t crack down on burglaries because it might hurt pawn shops”

Posted on December 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Facebook hasn’t got a tentacle to slither on.

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“be surprised if Zoom’s source code and server infrastructure was not riddled with backdoors and eavesdropping features.”

Posted on December 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Yeah.

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Redfield gestures Trump towards the bus.

Posted on December 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “CDC head said one thing that has disappointed him is the inconsistent messaging and politicization over mask wearing.”

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“since 2015, Defense Department training accidents have exceeded combat deaths worldwide.”

Posted on December 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Must read.

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MAGAts call for Insurrection Act.

Posted on December 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Owning the Libs gets even more expensive.

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COVID-19 is 10 times deadlier for people with Down syndrome, raising calls for early vaccination | Science | AAAS

Posted on December 18, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Germany doing early vaccination.

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HIV vaccine fails, but better ones coming.

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. We got lucky with COVID.

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COVID-19 Vaccines and Herd Immunity: at worst a manageable annoyance.

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Even if we don’t drive R < 1 we can get to reasonable normal. (He doesn’t mention animal reservoirs)

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Gmail Click-time Link Protections

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The Evil is strong.

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NeoFinder – “Affinity Photo DAM”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I like the theory. Still on Aperture.

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Texas vs. Google: “how Google convinced so many employees that AMP was good with such transparently bad reasons.”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Motivated reasoning. I’m surprised HOW evil Google is.

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Where Is End-to-End Encryption for iCloud?

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Your iCloud backups are available on demand.

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Republican “shock”: “my pledge is I won’t engage these discussions or treat them as meaningful or serious.”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Laughter or silence are our options.

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“we are adding outlining to MindNode”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Next few months.

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“anyone could access SolarWinds’ update server by using the password “solarwinds123”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Russians not necessarily genius?

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Podcasts in Big Sur.

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Abandon hope.

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Preview in Big Sur Destroying PDFs Again

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “I don’t think it’s yet recovered from the rewrite five or so years ago.”

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Facebook seeking politicians.

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Go Apple.

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“his swipe at Mitch McConnell today was really barely a swipe at all.”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I noticed. He is more controlled than he seems.

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“corrupt Democrat politicians and election officials who support Black Lives Matter and who use voter fraud and voter suppression”

Posted on December 16, 2020 by jgordon

Link. BLM enraged Trump’s base like nothing else. it was his great hope. Team Biden won despite that.

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“Reagan and his officials spent years denying the threat from acid rain while insisting that evolution was just a theory and promoting the teaching of creationism in schools.”

Posted on December 16, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Evangelical dominance and shift of base to white non-college began in 70s, likely reaction to civil rights movement. The feedback loop reinforced over last 50 years. (Carter was religious but very stong on science.)

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Squeezing the CDC.

Posted on December 16, 2020 by jgordon

Link. This summary is less alarming than I expected. Damage done, but also resistance. It can be built back better.

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Squeezing the CDC.

Posted on December 16, 2020 by jgordon

Link. This summary is less alarming than I expected. Damage done, but also resistance. It can be built back better.

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COVID anosmia from the inside.

Posted on December 15, 2020 by jgordon

Link. A hard blow deserving of sympathy.

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“Although the M1-based Macs have only two Thunderbolt ports, they each have their own bus and support the Thunderbolt 4 option that enables the use of Thunderbolt hubs.”

Posted on December 15, 2020 by jgordon

Link. That is a big enhancement.

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“Each kit, which tests a single swab sample, is expected to cost about $30 or less”

Posted on December 15, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Home antigen test. Expensive for most, gov subsidy would be wise.

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COVID associated Autoantibody Problems

Posted on December 15, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Some preexisting. Immune responses are crazy idiosyncratic and remarkably chaotic.

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