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Britain’s worker shortage.

Posted on September 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Usual unpersuasive explanations. Maybe we will understand in a year or two.

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J.&J. Conundrum “The city of San Francisco also began offering a Moderna or Pfizer booster shot to J.&J. recipients about a month ago.”

Posted on September 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We haven’t “cheated” with a Moderna for our J&J guys — mostly because they are low risk. If approved we certainly would.

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“Johnson went on to walk without a cane despite never regaining feeling on his right side. He can’t run anymore, which frustrates him, so he has turned to competitive bodybuilding instead.”

Posted on September 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Hard ass.

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“Suicides were rare in both groups, but were significantly lower in those treated with ECT.”

Posted on September 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We aren’t set up to do ECT but it’s probably the best available treatment for suicidality. (Which is related to depression but not the same thing.)

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Juul: “Wow, it’s successful. People are using it,’” Erica Halverson, a former Juul marketing manager, said. “… ‘Oh crap, the wrong people are using it.’”

Posted on September 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Learn from this.

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NC voter ID: “judges stated that they did not find that the Republican lawmakers who approved the law acted out of racial animus, but rather that they wanted to depress Black turnout”

Posted on September 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “That made no difference, the judges wrote, because the discriminatory effect is the same, even if done for partisan gain.”

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“lived across the hall from him in a rooming house in Galveston, Texas, where Mr. Durst was hiding from the authorities and living as a mute woman”

Posted on September 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Wealth did not suit him.

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Google’s quantum computer time crystal.

Posted on September 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Conventional physics, amazing technology.

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Israel’s assassination of Iran’s nuclear leader – Fakhrizadeh.

Posted on September 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Timed to beat Biden’s presidency.

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“It is incumbent upon us, the voters, to ensure that no military officer ever again faces even the possibility of a choice between obedience to the Constitution and the fate of human civilization itself.”

Posted on September 17, 2021 by jgordon

Link. McConnell’s legacy.

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J&J vaccine: nowhere near knowing if needs booster.

Posted on September 17, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Weird. We may need a different approach.

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“the same 12MP specification has been in the iPhone camera system for years now.”

Posted on September 17, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Favors light sensitivity and low noise over digital zoom/cropping.

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Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election.

Posted on September 17, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Target Black Americans with the intent of harming Black Americans. Russian because they are profoundly racist and mindlessly destructive.

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“People who were vaccinated early tended to be older, richer and more educated”

Posted on September 17, 2021 by jgordon

Link. SCREAM it. This is why we do randomized placebo controlled trials. Being smart has huge advantages in everything.

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Curing sickle cell disease.

Posted on September 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A million now but costs will fall quickly.

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Inspiration4 crew members.

Posted on September 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “In addition to Jared Isaacman, the mission’s commander, there are three other astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon capsule.”

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Synthetic Biology: optimized enzymes.

Posted on September 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Ginkgo Bioworks profiled.

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China vaccinated: “people who refused to be vaccinated would have that entered into their “personal credit score.” They could be barred from going to work or entering hospitals and train stations.”

Posted on September 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Now THAT is a mandate with teeth.

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“if mechanical Ultegra is going away, mechanical road shifting is most assuredly doomed.”

Posted on September 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I mourn.

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Nipah Virus.

Posted on September 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. For this reason alone we can never again have a GOP president.

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RN sues to get spouse Ivermectin. Judge squashes.

Posted on September 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Kentucky Supreme Court “only allows admission of scientific evidence based on sufficient facts or data.”

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“CRT as being an analysis of social science through the lens of racial power dynamics — basically, discarding objectivity as a hopeless goal”

Posted on September 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. If that is CRT I’m against it.

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“list of spacecraft found in the Culture novels and short stories by Iain M. Banks.”

Posted on September 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I’m rereading Excession and I need this.

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Another Way to Do Protein Structure Prediction

Posted on September 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Incidentally the most coherent presentation of Searle’s Chinese room argument I’ve seen in 30 years.

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“The iPhone 13 Pro camera modules are entirely different from the non-Pro 13 and and 13 Mini, though”

Posted on September 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. First year I’ve considered a Pro model.

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macOS: run an app or tool at startup.

Posted on September 16, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I did not know. Very handy.

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Trek’s Mino Link of Doom – beware the lost spacer (Trek Fuel EX mountain bike).

Posted on September 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. 2021 model anyway. Needs a rethink but if you know about the problem the Fuel is still a fine bike.

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“Why should we have to download and install 3.1 GB of macOS update just to get a minimal security update of a few megabytes?”

Posted on September 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Bad decision somewhere.

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Vaccination exposes truth that a lot of American police are kind of dumb.

Posted on September 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We need smarter cops.

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“California Democrats’ decision to clear the field and make the race a stark choice between a Democratic governor and a Republican nightmare worked out just fine.”

Posted on September 15, 2021 by jgordon

Link. 66% is incredible margin.

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“age expressed in some of these responses is instructive — if only to truly understand the extent of the callousness currently baked into American work culture.”

Posted on September 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. If you sold your soul to Satan you’d despise the soulful.

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“Citizen Lab researchers and others suggest that Apple should simply provide an option to disable iMessage entirely.”

Posted on September 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. iMessage is the new Flash.

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Fine structure constant: “dimensionless combination of dimensionful physical constants: the elementary charge squared divided by Planck’s constant and the speed of light”

Posted on September 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. So it varies?! (Probably not but the early universe discussion is confusing.)

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Election 2021: Saint Paul Mayor

Posted on September 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. That’s pretty simple.

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Infertility and miscarriages in women physicians.

Posted on September 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Do schools advise egg freezing now?

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UK Vaccine committee: “margin of benefit, based primarily on a health perspective, is considered too small to support advice on a universal program of vaccination of otherwise healthy 12- to 15-year-old children”

Posted on September 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Political pressure forced vaccine anyway. I’m very curious what the 5-12yo data will show in the US.

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“Only in older adults over 75 do the vaccines show some weakening in protection against hospitalization.”

Posted on September 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I can’t reconcile this with the limited protective effect of J&J in reports from 1-2 days ago.

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“a bug in CoreGraphics decoding JBIG2-encoded data in a PDF file”

Posted on September 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I remember JBIG2.

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Here is the state of America circa 2021 – Kevin Drum

Posted on September 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Much of this I knew. Some I want affirmation of.

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“Pro-Trump and anti-Trump conservatives have often each been mutually horrified to discover how radically their highest values differed from those of old allies and former comrades.”

Posted on September 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. They are now the small-c conservatives of Democratic voters.

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Facebook “built a system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules”

Posted on September 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Love to see Facebook broken into pieces but the depths of this article show how hard the problem is. (Trump and soccer guy most egregious).

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The GOP is against civilization – and even “good” media colludes.

Posted on September 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. If they cannot rule they will destroy.

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Husband and wife dead: “Davy Macias did not get vaccinated because she was pregnant”

Posted on September 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Her husband almost certainly unvaccinated as well. Young orphans. She was a nurse.

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SD physicians blame Sturgis Rally, Sturgis Rally supporters say that can’t be right.

Posted on September 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Bit of a silly article really.

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Shootings way up in Minneapolis.

Posted on September 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. It’s real here.

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“I suppose I have three things to say about 9/11.”

Posted on September 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The only retro I have found not annoying. Better – it’s illuminating. (Of course he agrees with me. We usually do.)

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“In 2016, Massachusetts became the first state where four-year college graduates represented the majority of voters in a presidential contest.”

Posted on September 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “realignment of American politics along cultural and educational lines, and away from the class and income divisions“

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“selling fake vaccination cards with a government logo on them is a crime.”

Posted on September 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Federal crime. Article doesn’t discuss free distribution.

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“protection was significantly higher among Moderna vaccine recipients (95 percent) than among those who got Pfizer-BioNTech (80 percent) or Johnson & Johnson (60 percent).”

Posted on September 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. J&J shouldn’t be used going forward. Moderna is very impressive.

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America’s generous religious exemptions for vaccination.

Posted on September 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. COVID worship is a legitimate religion. The chosen ascend after a brief period of purification through suffering. Presumably.

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