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“Care Courts, would be to create a new branch within the civil court system where those suffering from the most severe mental illnesses could be brought before a judge”

Posted on April 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Addressing homelessness.

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“Reporters like politics. Most readers care about governance.”

Posted on April 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. This.

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Using a Synology NAS.

Posted on April 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Retro. Great advice still.

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Explainer: Thunderbolt

Posted on April 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. It’s not as fast as it says it is.

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Tucker Carlson: “Inside the network, he answers solely to the Murdochs themselves”

Posted on April 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Tucker says what Lachlan and Rupert believe. They are both white nationalists and they both want rich white men to rule instead of a messy democracy.

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“Many of Beijing’s residents have a measure of disdain for Shanghai”

Posted on April 30, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Decadent. Beijing will support Xi.

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Crypto scam fuel hate movement.

Posted on April 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Sadly they got into the scheme at the right time.

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“most things we could and should be doing for Americans in need — like extending the expanded child tax credit — can’t be done in the face of 50 Republican senators, plus Joe Manchin”

Posted on April 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. College debt relief is only on table because of Manchin.

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“Although the Late Devonian was a dangerous time to be prey, it was also a place of mental peace — a time before self-awareness and embarrassment.”

Posted on April 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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“Nabiullina “understands very well she can’t just leave. Otherwise, it will end very badly for her,” one of these people said.”

Posted on April 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Putin regime starts to crack. No mention of recent “suicides” but doubt they are forgotten.

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103 Bits of Advice — from age 70.

Posted on April 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Most advice is by people too young to know.

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“central role of CEMIP in OA synovial membrane development and underscored that targeting CEMIP could be a new therapeutic approach”

Posted on April 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. We have no clue why some people get “osteoarthritis” early and some get so little.

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“PFAS exposure can contribute to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease”

Posted on April 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Lots wonder why so much fatty liver now.

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“In the 1850s, 1890s, 1920s, and then again in the modern era, wealthy people had come around to the idea that society worked best if a few wealthy men ran everything.”

Posted on April 29, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Rupert. Donald. Elon. Larry (Ellison). Not sure about Bezos or Gates.

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“job prospects for recent college graduates began to weaken around 2005, then suffered a significant blow during the Great Recession and had not fully recovered a decade later.”

Posted on April 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Working for $16/hr and healthcare.

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The new weight loss pills: “incretins, which are naturally occurring hormones that slow stomach emptying, regulate insulin and decrease appetite.”

Posted on April 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Bariatric surgery will fade away — when price falls. Maybe 5-8 years.

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Apple … “made a terrible design choice with the Studio Display”

Posted on April 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Too clever.

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“Carlson … will speak this summer at the Iowa Family Leadership Summit, a gathering traditionally used to launch presidential campaigns.”

Posted on April 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. After Trump anyone can be president.

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“most soul-sucking April of the last 10 years was back in 2013, when the mercury never once hit 60º and it was legitimately cold for half the month.”

Posted on April 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. April is getting worse.

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“for predicting some dog behaviors, breed is essentially useless, and for most, not very good”

Posted on April 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Novelty response, anxiety, don’t travel with breed. “One thing pit bulls did score high on was human sociability”

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“officers were 12% more likely to stop a car occupied by a person of color during the day”

Posted on April 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A clever way to differentiate racism from differential arrest rates not necessarily directly related to racism.

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Bike Helmet Ratings by Virginia Tech

Posted on April 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. How have I not seen this before?!

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A Long Walk in a Fading Corner of Japan.

Posted on April 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Beautiful.

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iOS “Autocorrect draws on four sources”

Posted on April 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Make a typo 3 times and it’s memorized. Text Replacement can enhance autocorrect.

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“Twitter’s ex-CEO Dick Costolo seemed to respond obliquely to Musk, writing “Bullying is not leadership.”

Posted on April 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. World’s biggest asshole.

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“One thing makes it easier for Musk to walk away before any of this becomes a problem: The market partly anticipates it already.”

Posted on April 27, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The Atlantic, WaPo, and NYT should take Twitter private each with 1/3 ownership.

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Learning a city by walking.

Posted on April 25, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I’m a cyclist but I agree with his take.

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“action is equivalent to a 5-foot-10 human leaping a third of a mile from their partner after sex”

Posted on April 25, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Beats being dinner.

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“people who met the minimal duration of exercise recommended by many public health organizations—about the equivalent of two-and-a-half hours of brisk walking per week—had a 25% lower risk of depression”

Posted on April 25, 2022 by jgordon

Link. VHA should pay for gym memberships.

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“Journalists at Rossiyskaya Gazeta, a state-owned newspaper, had invented the quote on the grounds that Russian intelligence was able to read Ms. Albright’s mind.”

Posted on April 25, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Remember all those Soviet ESP studies? Big in the 70s. Also, Pussy Riot pushed Putin’s buttons.

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“while the duration of the second doesn’t change, the duration of a minute occasionally does”

Posted on April 25, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Great time primer. Optical clocks: “A clock just one centimeter higher than another ran faster.”

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“The gammacoronaviruses and deltacoronaviruses, meanwhile, derive from ancestors in pigs and bird species, although there’s one of them that shows up infecting beluga whales, of all things.”

Posted on April 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Whales.

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Bike Touring 1896.

Posted on April 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “There was a time when many a hotel had a regulation that no one in a bicycle costume was permitted to enter the dining room, but such inns are fast getting behind the times.”

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America: “little effort so far at think tanks, professional military institutions and universities to build and contemplate the dire scenarios that have become increasingly plausible”

Posted on April 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Universities seem stunned.

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The science of “Everything, Everywhere All at Once”

Posted on April 24, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The directors know their science, but it is a story. (Also I liked it very much.)

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“Ukraine had managed to deliver weapons via helicopter under cover of darkness to the steel plant in Mariupol, The Associated Press reported.”

Posted on April 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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Gerhard Schröder: “mocking his detractors over copious amounts of white wine … Putin, 69, whom he considers a friend and sees regularly”

Posted on April 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The alcohol helps.

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“This is the black hole information loss paradox. You take quantum mechanics and general relativity, combine them, and the result doesn’t fit together with quantum mechanics.”

Posted on April 23, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The simplest and clearest explanation of the paradox I have read.

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Apple’s Thunderbolt 4 Pro Cable: “Among the 19 wires, there are 5 tinned copper wires used for power supply. The video notes that most of the wires are plated with silver and pure copper.”

Posted on April 22, 2022 by jgordon

Link. $130. The Intel CPU can probably run Doom and is sure to be hacked.

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“In industrial control systems, there is still so much low-hanging fruit,” Keuper told MIT. “The security is lagging behind badly.”

Posted on April 22, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Glasshouse.

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Monterey command line network Quality Tool tests Internet Responsiveness… “Eero has added a Smart Queue Management feature”

Posted on April 22, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Optimize videoconferencing. On XFINITY upload capacity is often lousy.

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“more than 100 years after general relativity was first put forth, there are still only about ~20 exact solutions known in relativity, and a spacetime with two point masses in it still is not one of them”

Posted on April 22, 2022 by jgordon

Link. It is insane that Einstein came up with this.

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“Within weeks, though, faced with Trump’s continuing popularity with his base, McConnell and McCarthy had lost their courage.”

Posted on April 22, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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“the whole thing is ridiculous, and not just because of the man receiving light therapy atop a pile of stone slabs in the dead of night”

Posted on April 22, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Useful cultural context.

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The Epstein Cello: How he operated.

Posted on April 22, 2022 by jgordon

Link. He had a talent for playing people.

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When two different respiratory viruses infect the same cell chimera may be produced.

Posted on April 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. It took a long time for medicine to accept that people get more than one infection at the same time.

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Scientists find no benefit to time-restricted eating: “I was a devotee,” he said. “This was a hard thing to accept.”

Posted on April 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Weight loss was just calorie restriction, timing didn’t matter. Only works in mice.

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“People actually have strong associations between the concept of creativity and other negative associations like vomit and poison,”

Posted on April 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Ok, that explains a lot in my life.

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Five ways to paste plain text on a Mac

Posted on April 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Great reference.

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“Apple Maps now shows cycling directions in Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Charleston.”

Posted on April 21, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Not Minneapolis-St Paul. I thought the project had been killed.

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