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“it’s gratifying to know I’ve done something that Goddess Snow approves of.” More like this, please., please.

Posted on July 31, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Humanity.

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“Sadism. Research shows that many trolls are sadists, who delight in making other people feel uncomfortable.”

Posted on July 31, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Rerun of a Noahpinion essay — I confess I haven’t thought enough about how the net enabled a golden age of sadism.

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“Welwitschia grows only two leaves — and continuously — in a lifetime that can last millenniums.”

Posted on July 31, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “When it does stop growing, it’s dead.”

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Explainer: Snapshots in APFS.

Posted on July 31, 2021 by jgordon

Link. APFS has become impressive. Now Apple needs to replace SMB.

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“Twisties” in gymnastics.

Posted on July 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. It can end careers.

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M1 MacBook screen crack defect.

Posted on July 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Air and Pro. Sure sounds like a product defect.

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US cumulative GDP projections: “$295 trillion over the next 10 years”

Posted on July 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Remember the Singularity?

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“For Chinese students hoping to get a spot at a prestigious university, everything hinges on the gaokao”

Posted on July 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Insanity.

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“Osterholm’s plea for humility does have policy implications. It argues for prioritizing vaccination over every other strategy.”

Posted on July 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. He has been a few times in the pandemic and has become more cautious. I felt same way with SARS – do not understand.

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“Ms. Dingley’s identity was confirmed through DNA testing after a single bone had been found close to her last known location.”

Posted on July 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. But no gear. That is weird.

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Disability benefits: “structurally difficult to be on S.S.I. and not live in poverty.”

Posted on July 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The bureaucracy and paperwork is incomprehensible.

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For history: Trump’s attempt to seize power gets more details.

Posted on July 30, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “The department found that the error rate of ballot counting in Michigan was 0.0063 percent, not the 68 percent that the president asserted.”

The crisis was real. He’s still trying.

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“33 percent of Black men have felony records”

Posted on July 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Wait. Stop. Whoa. This is a throwaway line in an article on American injustice. I don’t believe it.

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SK: “34.9 percent of its 5​2 million people having received at least one dose”

Posted on July 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. That’s more than I thought. I think Japan might be less.

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Women Surgeons: “42 percent had suffered a pregnancy loss, more than twice the rate of the general population”

Posted on July 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Age at pregnancy and age of partner would be a factor, but that’s a big delta for a healthy cohort. Unexpected.

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Mandate Momentum

Posted on July 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Shame and blame worked for smoking, driving drunk and more.

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“Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema said she does not support the bill in its current form”

Posted on July 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Waiting for a form McConnell approves of. There will not be an infrastructure bill that relies on Sinema.

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“The country has never cut poverty so much in such a short period of time”.

Posted on July 29, 2021 by jgordon

Link. 45%

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“Hundreds of children in Indonesia have died from the coronavirus in recent weeks, many of them under age 5, a mortality rate greater than that of any other country”

Posted on July 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. No explanation why.

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“The aging liberal justices have essentially put a higher priority on their own personal interests than on their judicial ideals.”

Posted on July 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Or the Republican justices are more profit motivated.

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“YouTube’s ad revenue was up 84 percent in the second quarter from the same period in 2020”

Posted on July 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link.

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Transferring your photos from Google Photos using Avalanche

Posted on July 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. First use Google Takeout.

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Monterey music: “main part of the window was entirely devoted to an ad for Apple Music, and there seemed to be no way to dismiss it except to subscribe.”

Posted on July 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I try to avoid Apple products.

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“Apple contracts many of its Mac repairs to third-party providers, including CSAT Solutions”

Posted on July 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Sweatshop. Repair will be poor quality. We need “right to repair” so we can get better options.

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Mountain Bike Road Trip Planner.

Posted on July 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Trailforks. Choose a route for the side trip.

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Astounding details on the nanomachinery of the coronavirus: “The virus’s speedy entry using TMPRSS2 explains why the malaria drug chloroquine didn’t work”

Posted on July 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. It’s ludicrous that we are made of this.

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“Members of the House Republican Doctors Caucus also claimed at a news conference last week that natural immunity is an acceptable defense against the Delta variant”

Posted on July 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. What a bunch of turds.

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“photosynthetic efficiency went up by a startling 36%”

Posted on July 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Radical bioengineering.

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“our world as we know it is on the brink; we face massive death tolls, and the collapse of economies and nations.”

Posted on July 28, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We don’t understand why Africa seemed to be relatively spared before now. China will be next.

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“Mr. Biden made it clear that he was running out of patience with people who refuse to get a shot that could save their lives and protect others.”

Posted on July 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Not just him.

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“Dr. Candela said that he got both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as soon as they were available, but that his wife, a registered nurse, feared it could alter her DNA and had not yet been inoculated. She has also prevented their four children, who a

Posted on July 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Only half of the US is mostly sane.

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Vaccine approval July 2021: “last week an FDA official told CNN that the (Pfizer) decision is likely to come within 2 months”

Posted on July 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. But Moderna has not even submitted all documents!

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“We would normally have four to eight international student employees,” Kennedy said, “But this year, we have none.”

Posted on July 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Tourism communities relied on international student workers. They are in deep trouble.

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Unvaccinated Black Americans are often not classical anti-vaccine.

Posted on July 27, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Very low trust in authority, disconnected from trustworthy information sources but cued by untrustworthy sources.

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“those who say that they know, don’t know, because those who do know say that they don’t know.”

Posted on July 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. True words from an unexpected gold medalist. The confident deserve some distrust.

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Much of Oklahoma is native land now.

Posted on July 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Supreme Court is likely to walk back some of their ruling. Transition has been fast.

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The Day the Good Internet Died: Google Reader.

Posted on July 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Google Reader Social is what I miss most.

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“the coffee drinkers had a 21% reduced chance of developing chronic liver disease; a 20% reduced risk of chronic or fatty liver disease; and a 49% reduced chance of death from chronic liver disease.”

Posted on July 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Weird source for a medical review but not bad job. I first learned the coffee liver effect on thecurbsiders podcast. Well known in hepatology.

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Why is China smashing its tech industry?

Posted on July 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “levied a multi-billion dollar antitrust fine against Alibaba (which is sometimes compared to Amazon), deleted its popular web browser from app stores, and took a bunch of other actions against it.”

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“Dr. Mercola has built a vast operation to push natural health cures, disseminate anti-vaccination content and profit from all of it”.

Posted on July 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Invents a ludicrous disease then sells scam cures. $100 million in profit. Scams that kill people. Pure evil.

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The thrash of camp counselor work 2021.

Posted on July 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Nobody was ready.

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Rand Paul is getting less amusing and more nazi.

Posted on July 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A dim, dangerous, and nasty man.

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“it costs $99 for a three-month subscription to XLoader customized to infiltrate MacOS devices”

Posted on July 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Hopeless.

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“Shifting the focus of our transportation investments from speed to safety would save thousands of lives and prevent tens of thousands of injuries each year.”

Posted on July 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The culture is changing.

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“From 2011 to 2013, Chinese-backed hackers targeted, and in many cases breached, nearly two dozen companies that own such pipelines”

Posted on July 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Hopeless.

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“waging a war against the filibuster would play into the hands of Republicans seeking to hold up his agenda”

Posted on July 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The fight McConnell wants.

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“Apple managers threatened security companies to shut up because otherwise their apps in the @AppStore might get extra reviewed”

Posted on July 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Apple “security” is faked.

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Protein Folding Progress – What’s It Mean?

Posted on July 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Means we work on the next set of unsolved problems limiting real world impact.

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“you aren’t getting a fix for the flaw that makes your iPhones easy prey for Pegasus spyware”

Posted on July 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We will need to update phones every year.

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Scientists Finish the Human Genome at Last.

Posted on July 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Dr. Phillippy admitted that part of his motivation for such an audacious project was that the missing gaps annoyed him.”

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