Link. Maybe 50% chance this works.
Monthly Archives: July 2021
“Conservatives disparage arguments made by “snowflake” college students. But the case against CRT is made of the same stuff.”
Link.
“In Kentucky, the most extreme example, the annual inflow of federal money per capita is $14,000 greater than the outflow.”
Link.
“seasonal flu shot is associated with roughly one to two additional cases for every million vaccines administered.”
Link. So J&J maybe 5x higher risk than seasonal flu.
Thailand latest to decide Sinovac is lousy.
Link. China is in the crosshairs of Delta. I bet Xi gets mRNA.
“growing Christian movement that is nondenominational, openly political and has become an engine of former president Donald Trump’s Republican Party”
Link. Authoritarian movements usually have companion churches. Article omits sacrament of the gun.
Fox is Carlson: “Its return to the top came thanks, in part, to a programming strategy that gave more hours per week to opinion shows”
Link. Stop watching all Fox programming.
Unable to update date of birth associated with an Apple ID: “… could not be changed because of a server error”
Link. I don’t think this is a common bug, but it hurts nonetheless.
The end of the Victoria’s Secret Angels.
Link. A cultural artifact out of time. I suspect it will be back eventually.
mRNA 12-17: “70 myocarditis cases, but would prevent … 215 hospitalizations”
Link. To me that is not a great therapeutic index. Curious to see if there will be full approval.
“Germany’s vaccine commission recommended in April that anyone under 60 who had received a first shot of AstraZeneca should follow it up with either Pfizer or Moderna.”
Link. Our guys got J&J, I’d like a mRNA for them.
“With 2.7 percent of the world’s population, Brazil has suffered 13 percent of the Covid-19 fatalities”
Link. Elect an idiot and die.
Iran: “U.S.- and British-made vaccines banned by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei”
Link. Vote for an idiot, get idiocracy.
M1 Airs are prone to Panics (spontaneous restart with full data loss).
Link. It’s not just our machine – which we named “Crashy”! (To be fair things are much better since last macOS update.) I wonder if it’s a hardware issue.
“HCoV-HKU1, crossed the species barrier in the 1950s. The oldest, called HCoV-NL63, may date back as far as 820 years.”
Link. The history of coronavirus pandemics.
“Telefónica handled a 45 percent jump in data through its network with no increase in energy use. Cogent’s electricity use fell 21 percent even as data traffic increased 38 percent.”
Link. We do more computing, but we are even more efficient. Bitcoin remains a concern.
Breathalyzer for COVID: “breath samples from people with Covid-19 had higher levels of aldehydes”
Link. I’d be surprised if these succeed.
Economics: On police chases and library fines.
Link. Technology can reduce the externalities.
CIA “… reviewed the test flights of the U-2 reconnaissance planes and then A-12 aircraft (the predecessor of the iconic SR-71 Blackbird) in the 1960s and found that roughly half of U.F.O. sightings were attributable to those top-secret programs,”
Link. Air Force invented “natural phenomena” to cover up.
Prostate cancer Rx: “combines a compound that targets a protein on the surface of prostate cancer cells, called prostate-specific membrane antigen, or P.S.M.A., with a radioactive particle that attacks the cells”
Link. Median 4 extra months of life, but these patients were at the very end.
“44 percent of people ages 20 to 29 losing money to fraud, more than double the 20 percent of people ages 70 to 79.”
Link. Dementia mostly bites after 85, but the 44% is higher than I’d have guessed. Different scams for young.
“401 doctors in Indonesia have died… At least 20 of them were fully vaccinated with Sinovac.”
Link. Delta. Sinovac not effective.
Does Free Community College Work?
Link. Quebec has had free community college since the 1960s. Maybe earlier. It is easy to do.
Ramadi, Anbar province, Iraq.
Link. “Along with the $70 million hotel, construction has begun on one of the country’s biggest shopping malls and companies are submitting bids for an international airport.”
Another Western Digital 0-Day.
Link. Use the drives but NEVER use their software.
NYC’s new mayor has a bike with a backwards fork.
Link. The disturbing bit is that nobody dares to tell him. Or he ignores what he is told. (He probably doesn’t actually ride it. Likely just a prop.)
“Republicans have introduced 216 bills (in 41 states) aimed at facilitating hardball electoral tactics. As of June, 24 of these bills had passed.”
Link. “Actually Victoria, they did know it was happening.”
“Ordinary respiratory viruses may play a bigger role in asthma attacks than previously thought.”
Link. Perhaps in heart attacks as well.
Tour de France: “average resting heart rate of 42 beats per minute for the team before the start of the Tour, and 40 bpm after the first rest day”
Link. 30mph peloton speeds.
“We understand the contours of the problem, can even articulate and tweet frantically about them, yet we constantly underestimate the likelihood of their consequences.”
Link. Could America really become a Haiti?
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Link. It still around. Does it add value? In retrospect was it a good idea?
“The core paradox of modern China — that it is a hypercapitalist success story while remaining a Communist dictatorship — is resolving itself in favor of the latter.”
Link.
“Americans have concrete reasons to be skeptical of assurances that COVID-related health care won’t empty their wallets”
Link. Executive orders?
Finder metadata: “In ~/Movies, ~/Music and ~/Pictures the Finder offers extended options according to the types of file it expects to find there.”
Link. Whoa. Lots of weirdness here.
“many companies in the private sector and federal and state government agencies remain rife with vulnerabilities that Russian actors can find and exploit.”
Link. People who live in glass houses …
“once we actually account for LBJ’s programs in the statistics, we see that the War on Poverty was actually a big success.”
Link. Rightist critics look only at income, omitting the poverty reduction interventions.
Haiti – still broken.
Link. We don’t know how to create a stable society. The proposals in the article are unpersuasive.
COVID and the brain: astrocytes, pericytes and autoantibodies.
Link. All of these things likely happen in other diseases. The autoantibodies are suspect in schizophrenia.
Big risks to unvaccinated. Clues to so many other disorders including CFS.
Sea Otter proton leak: “Sea otters are churning through calories even without a lot of physical activity because that energy goes straight into heat.”
Link. Be handy in several ways if humans could do that.
Anti-Androgen Therapy for the Coronavirus: “Brazilian trial showed a 77% reduction in mortality, which is either very impressive or too impressive”
Link. I’d bet on fake.
Sheryl Sandberg visits the underside of the bus.
Link. The knives are sharp, but she is hardly innocent.
“Mao Zedong is a hero who speaks to their despair as struggling nobodies.”
Link. “online calls for violence against capitalists … go uncensored on China’s internet.”
Similar to American non-college but in China is broader.
Space startups: “SPACs allow companies to go public earlier than a traditional initial public offering, giving investors an opportunity to cash out much earlier. The value of the public company is often based in part on growth projections rather than ac
Link. Fintech.
Minneapolis founder of Major Taylor bike club – racing and racism at 80 yo.
Link. Unusual to hear a voice like his. Lives by George Floyd memorial.
Mating rituals of the geeky millennial.
Link. Or maybe Gen Z? Curious indeed.
Vaccine reluctant: rural, also “vaccination rates were also below average for Americans under 50; Black Americans; Republicans; and people without a college degree.”
Link. “state legislators in Missouri have warned hospitals not to require employees to get vaccinated”
Does non-college alone explain all the variability? Need regression analysis.
Biden is preparing an executive order targeting noncompete clauses for workers.
Link. Peculiar continuity with Trump admin. Sadly limited impact on deplorable states like MN.
“He has come to mistrust the Alzheimer’s Association, calling it “a big promoter, almost a marketer, for Biogen,”
Link. Grim.
“It took 79 days, on average, for their resting heart rates to return to normal, compared with just four days for those in the non-Covid group.”
Link. Surprising. What is physiology?
MacOS “discover which third-party kernel extensions are installed is in System Information: select the Extensions item in Software, then order the list using the Obtained From column”
Link. Kernel extensions are a leading cause of panics/OS crashes.