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Fines for not wearing masks on plane are rare.

Posted on September 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. There’s no way to actually enforce the rules.

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Ivermectin As a COVID-19 Therapy. Lowe June 2021.

Posted on September 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. This is what I need for my patient discussions.

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“Nearly half a million scientific papers have now been published on Covid-19”

Posted on September 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We need more anthropologists but we need them to advise on social engineering (verboten concept).

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Lowe on Ivermectin – 5/11/2020.

Posted on September 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Key reference for physicians to understand why it was of real interest and how that interest quickly faded.

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Documents X from Readdle: “Readdle’s Documents is a mobile file manager app that lets you do things like download videos, read ePUBs, open ZIP files, watch movies, and edit PDFs”

Posted on September 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. iOS is such an odd beast. So many longstanding omissions. I am amazed some prefer it to macos for work.

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iOS Drafts has a voice voice to text transcription feature.

Posted on September 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Damn. I could have used this before. Will now.

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Use private Wi-Fi addresses in iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and watchOS 7

Posted on September 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I missed this feature.

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“Apple also has a massive backlog of [security] bugs that it hasn’t fixed”

Posted on September 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. There’s no cost to being insecure.

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“each of these outlets will start to sell at-home rapid test kits at cost for the next three months.”

Posted on September 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Lots of good stuff.

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“I’ve lost count of how many times T-Mobile has been hacked.”

Posted on September 8, 2021 by jgordon

Link. With huge consequences for their share price.

Oh… wait …

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“systemic RNA signals in influencing behavior transgenerationally, and if this study is correct, now even horizontally.”

Posted on September 8, 2021 by jgordon

Link. RNA as a memory message (meme). Transcoded interpretation. Another parallel between immune and nervous systems.

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Stranded in Newfoundland on Sept. 11.

Posted on September 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Most of us donate to the Red Cross once in a while. But when you’re the one they’re helping, you start wondering why you didn’t give more.” Great story.

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Nipah virus outbreak in India.

Posted on September 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. 2018: “killing 17 of the 18 people who caught it from a contaminated family well”. Fruit bat. Good to see these things get more attention now.

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“Du Yuesheng’s life began in misery. Before it was all over, it would take him through unspeakable power, obscene wealth, international infamy, and final obscurity.”

Posted on September 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Deleted history.

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“everyone’s blood-sugar control at home was best only on the days when they exercised”

Posted on September 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Current recipe is 3 HIIT a week and 4 1h slower workouts. The blood sugar finding is curious.

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“if magnetic monopoles exist, they are required to have a very high rest mass: something on the order of 1015 GeV or higher.”

Posted on September 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The Cabrera result is a funny physics footnote.

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“medieval Arthurian legends were a bit like the Marvel Universe, in that they constituted a coherent fictional world that had certain rules and a set of well-known characters who appeared and interacted with each other in multiple different stories”

Posted on September 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We like these stories.

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“the big blob of stuff released by a solar superstorm takes 1-3 days to get to Earth, so once it’s identified you’d have time to prepare”

Posted on September 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Carrington events are bad, but we have known about them for a long time.

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Madagascar: “The United Nations said nearly 14,000 people are at Level 5 famine”

Posted on September 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Level 5 is when “people have absolutely nothing left to eat”

That’s a small number of people, how did international aid systems fail to prevent this?! (400,000 are Level 4)

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“surgery lasted more than 12 hours and involved input from specialists in several fields including neurosurgery, plastic surgery, pediatric intensive care and brain imaging. Two experts from London and New York with experience separating twins took part.”

Posted on September 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Glory earned.

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Seeking longevity – Altos Labs “involve the introduction of genes, some of which are oncogenic. This is hard to pass through the filter of regulatory agencies.”

Posted on September 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I think I’d like 10,000 years.

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“the cosmological principle more precisely says that matter in the universe is equally distributed when you average over sufficiently large distances.”

Posted on September 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. There’s evidence it’s not true. Which means a reboot awaits.

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“The economy, though its growth has been unsteady over the past decade, is five times the size it was in the early 2000s. Once scarce in most places, electricity is now widely available. Smartphones and internet access are common.”

Posted on September 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The Taliban rule a different country.

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“In Brazil, which had a slow, chaotic vaccine rollout, nearly 64 percent of the population has received at least one dose of a vaccine, a rate that exceeds that of the United States”

Posted on September 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Maybe we really are finished.

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“And as for our recruiting at UT Austin … I fear we might as well now be trying to recruit colleagues to Kabul University.”

Posted on September 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Texas has rarely been less appealing. And that’s saying a lot.

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Climate adaptation: New Orleans is doomed.

Posted on September 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Everything is of course, but NO is doomed sooner than most. At some point we give up on new levees and pay people to move.

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After COVID: how much protection to provide against infecting the vulnerable?

Posted on September 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The tectonic plates of the social contract shift. Fodder for some good class discussions.

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Mass sociogenic illness: “In March 2021, physicians described in the British Medical Journal an influx of young females to their clinics presenting with tic-like symptoms.”

Posted on September 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. It’s a thing among 20s teens.

Also why Long COVID is a harder problem than non-physicians imagine.

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Review of air traveler misbehavior: not just COVID.

Posted on September 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Crowding, growing obesity, maybe aging all a factor. Lowering plane temperatures and stopping alcohol sales at airports and planes would help.

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QAnon Shaman Pleads Guilty: “His family, Mr. Watkins said, believed that Mr. Trump was going to be reinstated as president and could issue Mr. Chansley a pardon”

Posted on September 4, 2021 by jgordon

Link. It’s genetic.

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“Britain’s vaccine watchdog declined on Friday to endorse Covid shots to all children between 12 and 15 years old, advising the government that the health benefits were only “marginally greater than the potential known harms,”

Posted on September 4, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I don’t think vaccine will be approved for under 12 in US.

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“‘Andromeda Strain’ is now technically possible as a name,”

Posted on September 4, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Love idea of naming COVID strains after constellations, but Andromeda is a galaxy, not a constellation. So name after galaxies…

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“These folks that hang out on Clubhouse were touting ivermectin as the new wonder drug for COVID”

Posted on September 4, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Clubhouse was such a bad idea. I recall some quackier doc colleagues going on about ivermectin, but I’m amazed it got so big. I wonder what’s next on the nut plate?

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Introducing the ‘mozjpeg’ Project. 2014!

Posted on September 4, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “production-quality JPEG encoder that improves compression while maintaining compatibility with the vast majority of deployed decoders”

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Explainer: the macOS file versioning system.

Posted on September 4, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Also his Revisionist utility explained. Sounds like Big Sur is when versioning got more polish.

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“causes of the current labor shortage. Research on this question is unambiguous: We don’t know what’s going on”

Posted on September 4, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Refreshing candor.

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“Why do [tech] stocks maintain lofty multiples?, they remain expensive as long as The Metrics don’t break down.“

Posted on September 3, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I remember 1999.

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Wirecutter’s price over quality bias.

Posted on September 3, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I stopped using them after some disappointing purchases.

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“Apple’s mobile ID implementation supports the ISO 18013-5 mDL (mobile driver’s license) standard”

Posted on September 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. This could be big.

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“indices have effectively forced hundreds of billions of dollars belonging to US investors into Chinese companies whose corporate governance does not meet the required standard”

Posted on September 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Soros is bearish on China.

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The GOP goes vigilante and SCOTUS has fallen.

Posted on September 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The Civil War never ended.

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Taking Stock Of The Great and Cowardly Press Freakout (Afghanistan Aug 2021).

Posted on September 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The NY Times did a miserable job.

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“Republicans have had a lucrative, no-risk way to rail against abortion. But accountability is coming.”

Posted on September 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Roe is toast. Let the voting begin.

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Unvaccinated teachers die of COVID.

Posted on September 2, 2021 by jgordon

Link. If they were vaccinated we’d know. What a stupid way to die.

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Biden governs like he thinks the US in on the brink of collapse.

Posted on September 1, 2021 by jgordon

Link. He knows.

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Musk: “I think he’s going to turn a profit on Starship by using it to launch Space based solar power satellites.”

Posted on September 1, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Musk read High Frontier.

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“Symantec made some big mistakes as a CA. Those mistakes led to an investigation, and what was found was highly concerning.”

Posted on September 1, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Old apps that used Symantec certs will get flagged.

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“People who beat cancer have a great positive attitude. It’s what distinguishes the survivors from the dead.”

Posted on September 1, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Grateful to see this skewered.

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