Link. Adoptions FELL in 2020 (many shelters were closed).
Monthly Archives: May 2021
“getting the latest and greatest from your favorite sites directly in Chrome, building on the open RSS web standard”
Link. What’s the catch? (“Experiment”)
“getting the latest and greatest from your favorite sites directly in Chrome, building on the open RSS web standard”
Link. What’s the catch? (“Experiment”)
Apple again omits accessibility features for adults with cognitive disabilities.
Link. The Untouchables.
“In India, caseloads have been falling rapidly for almost two weeks.”
Link. I wondered. This deserves way more coverage.
“merely typing the characters bputil will instantly disable any support that your M1 Mac was signed up for”
Link. Really?
San Francisco’s Shoplifting.
Link. Some of this is happening in Minneapolis. It will drive more business to Amazon and secure package storage and low income life will get more expensive (driving more shoplifting). Or we will have more violent arrests.
“it’s also not clear whether cyberattacks can be deterred”
Link. Moderm wartech is also suited to terrorism and criminal conflicts.
St Paul Grand Rounds – pretty much done.
Link. Suddenly decades of work come together.
Race in America | The Economist’s take.
Link. “Reparations” in effect but never in name.
CRISPR Editing in Primates: “infusing cynomolgus monkeys with this therapy at a dose of 1 mg/kg showed an 81% decrease of PCSK9 in their blood and an accompanying 65% reduction in LDL.”
Link. And suddenly we aren’t in Kansas any more.
“championed new state taxes on the digital ads sold by companies like Facebook and Google”
Link. Gee, when I advocated taxes as a solution to negative externalities of the ad-supported internet I couldn’t even get a retweet.
“The fact that a low-mileage leased vehicle is more valuable at turn-in time than a heavily driven one may help explain why carmakers are seemingly not deeply concerned about odometer rollback.”
Link.
“Infected Temnothorax ants live at least three times longer than their siblings, and perhaps much more”
Link. Must read.
Americans are not very supportive of right to choose
Link. Roe is toast. Red states will eliminate access. GOP rule will bring national restrictions. Not necessarily good for GOP.
“Visual Studio Code 1.56.1 is a free Electron-based open source download for OS X 10.10 and up”
Link. It’s quite well done.
“after two hundred and fifty years, in the view of the I.E.A., the time has come to stop exploring for oil, gas, and coal.”
Link.
The end of the [American] War on Islam
Link. I agree with all of this. Good to see it noted that America fully embraced a very effective surveillance state. Resistance was sporadic and easily crushed.
Getting more from Activity Monitor: a primer
Link. It’s old school amazing. How has it avoided the usual Apple software lobotomy?
“Theories of accidental release from a lab and zoonotic spillover both remain viable.”
Link. Yes.
Thiel funds GOP.
Link. Thiel is Ann Coulter ally who hates “globalization”. (? non-euro? asian?)
“private spying has boomed into a renegade, billion-dollar industry, one that is increasingly invading our privacy, profiting from deception and manipulating the news.”
Link. “ Information gathered by private investigators is often laundered through public relations firms, which then shop the material to journalists.”
“Apple has constructed a bureaucracy that has become a powerful tool in China’s vast censorship operation”
Link.
“Apple made Guizhou-Cloud Big Data, or GCBD, a company owned by the Guizhou provincial government, the legal owner of its Chinese customers’ iCloud data.”
Link. Hope not a surprise.
Cheney hasn’t given up.
Link. A stubborn woman.
Air pollution, cognition and NSAIDS.
Link. This feels very squishy. Not enough data to act on it. What do animal models show? How would this even work?
13 AirTag Tracking Scenarios
Link. Need iPhone 11 or 12 to be truly useful. Not great for tracking stolen bikes and the like.
Big Sur lies about free disk space — and that can tank an OS update
Link. Diskutil command line has useful powers, this tells how to delete TM Snapshots to free up space.
“The U.S. government’s top national security leaders soon realized they were dealing with an off-the-books operation by the commander in chief himself.”
Link. You’ve already forgotten haven’t you? Ironically Biden would succeed where Trump failed.
“$2.5 trillion was spent on trying to replace legacy IT systems, of which some $720 billion was wasted on failed replacement efforts.”
Link. Are they really more vulnerable to intrusion? “ the finer details of how the system works are no longer understood.” Not just the finer details.
1981: “The average difference between the sentences that two randomly chosen judges gave for the same crime was more than 3.5 years”
Link. Resembles 1970s medicine. I wonder if more consistent today.
Biden’s GOP charade is about Manchin.
Link. At least the meetings are brief.
Republican war on voting attacks poll workers.
Link. Black voters of Georgia triggered an existential crisis. Never again says the GOP.
“Hook Pro enables you to automatically add and tag bookmarks in Pinboard”
Link. Personal Information Management returns.
Brilliantly Wrong: The Political Cartoons of the Onion’s Stan Kelly | The New Yorker
Link. The explainer I wanted. The gap between Kelly and alt-right cartoonist Ben Garrison is oh so fine. Via a reply to @cstross.
Cannabis and psychosis: “The underdeveloped brain is more complicated than the 30-year-old brain”
Link. Excellent discussion. Redefining “full adult” as 25yo makes a lot of sense — the age of car rental.
From slavery to makers and takers.
Link. Looking back it seems so predictable, like simulations of continental drift.
White women still favored Trump (but less so)
Link. “White women voted 48% for Mr Biden, two points higher than the share that supported Hillary Clinton”. White men shifted more.
“R.J. Reynolds used Eric Garner’s death at the hands of a New York police officer to denounce a proposed ban on menthols in the city”
Link. Friend of the Black man.
Alien encounters: “If so many can deny or downplay a disease that’s killed millions, dismissing some unusual debris would be trivial”
Link. Billions believe in supernatural deities and lead perfectly mundane lives. Aliens would be easy to ignore.
“Air quality in buildings can be improved with a few simple fixes”
Link. This is so obviously the right move.
Rep. Matt Gaetz Snorted Cocaine With Megan Zalonka, Escort Who Had ‘No Show’ Gov’t Job
Link. “Zalonka, who is an amateur fashion model and the communications director for the American Medical Marijuana Physicians Association”.
Her book is going to be big.
Record number of Twin Cities bike trail closures
Link. Mostly for good cause but detours need work.
Perfluorocarbon oxygen enema for murine hypoxia
Link. Breathing through the butt.
“Last week more than 28,800 virus genomes, almost 10 percent of all positive test cases, were uploaded to an international online database called GISAID”
Link. We can still do great things.
“94 percent effective at preventing symptomatic Covid-19 illness”
Link. *symptomatic* is key. Many more will test positive with PCR if timing is right.
Starlink: “unreliable, inconsistent, and foiled by even the merest suggestion of trees.”
Link. “Slack, Zoom, or gaming, simply weren’t usable for me, even when I was seeing the fastest speeds”
NYT has deep dive into how Biden works.
Link. Lots of insider information here. Four historians?
“rarely exhibits the smoldering anger or sense of deep disappointment that advisers to Mr. Obama became familiar with”
CIA “infused” a purée of pasta, sauce, nuts, raisins and hummus into his rectum because he went on a hunger strike, “
Link. Rather than have CIA testify to the Bush-Cheney torture program he will be released.
B.1.617 outbreak among Pfizer/Moderna vaccinated.
Link. None very sick but this is a bad time to be unvaccinated.