Link. Martinique. All but forgotten. Story of a survivor. (2004 tsunami killed near 10x as many and it’s almost forgotten now.)
Monthly Archives: December 2022
Parity violation in early universe?
Link. Nobody is confident and 2 analyses produced differing confirmations.
ChatGPT impact: “in the long run, we are all dead, and even before that, some of us may find ourselves either unemployed or earning far less than we expected, given our expensive educations.”
Link. In the 1950s many had quite agreeable jobs moving index cards around in huge office buildings.
Jim Kolbe GOP legislator (obit): “In 2013 he married his partner of eight years, Hector Alfonso, a special-education teacher, who survives him.”
Link. When the GOP wasn’t 92% evil.
All-Road bikes.
Link. Surly, Salsa and All-City are all the same company?!
“More Americans will look upon Hunter Biden with some measure of pity than Republicans think.”
Link. Many GOP voters love people who have had substance problems. Also, the big fingers anxiety seems real.
“GPT-4, the next incarnation of the company’s large language model, which is rumored to be coming out sometime next year. We are not ready.”
Link. Faint optimism: It took 25y to go from “wow” speech recognition to speech recognition that we all use.
Mac Cryptexes
Link. “Many of the system components that used to be stored on the Data volume are now loaded by Ventura in cryptexes, including Safari and all its supporting components” Great explainer.
Wonderful Progress Against Severe Lupus; “signs of complete remission of lupus: the patient’s lesions, rash, arthritis, and kidney and cardiac symptoms disappeared, and there was a thousand-fold decrease in antibodies to double-stranded DNA”
Link. Tears in my eyes. Science.
Creative Cloud to Affinity V2: “40%-off sale through 14 December 2022”
Link. Adobe will buy Affinity and kill it.
“every media company but Netflix posted higher losses in the first nine months of 2022 compared to 2021. Disney lost $3.42 billion vs. $1.21 billion in 2021.”
Link. It’s going to change.
“United States should organize and lead a major public and private, international humanitarian effort to help the Ukrainian people make it through the winter.”
Link. Do we still have what it takes?
“Then Taibbi’s Twittergate hit and I was so tired I just gave up and spent the next two days playing The Long Dark cranked to max difficulty”
Link. Jedeed is the chronicler of our time.
Fentanyl. “Dawn, who in her grief has attempted suicide. “That’s why we’re doing this interview is because we want to help.”
Link. (Free) Puts Hunter Biden’s problems in a different light. “Jacob Harding went to treatment and is now in medical school at ECU.”
“stop thinking of tumors as completely human tissues, but rather as mixtures of aberrant human cells and opportunistic bacteria”
Link. Implies some bacteria promote cancer.
America’s Social Security Disability system is broken.
Link. A federal program run by the states. It is easier to fly to Mars than to fix SSDI.
FIFA corruption: “Qatar just played the game everyone else was going to, they just had more means to do it. Whoever was going to win was never going to win this cleanly. There was perhaps no way to win this cleanly.”
Link. Nothing has changed.
“I often tell families that instead of playing violin or piano, which is something almost every Chinese American can check off on their profile, try a different instrument”
Link. It’s about getting into the most elite schools.
Gene therapy for APOE4 Alzheimer’s – a 5 person safety trial.
Link. At least it’s not another useless amyloid thing. “proteins from the added gene appeared in the patients’ spinal fluid, and levels in the brain of two markers of Alzheimer’s disease, tau and amyloid, fell”
Mpox: “nation is now averaging fewer than 10 cases per day — a steep decline from the roughly 450 daily cases at the peak of the outbreak in early August.”
Link. Good work all.
“prior to the industrial revolution, there was insufficient sulfur in the atmosphere to tarnish silver.”
Link. Quick research says sulfur is indeed the agent. I suppose this is plausible.
From the archives (1997) | V.S. Naipaul: “India is a country that, in the north, outside Rajasthan, was ravaged, and intellectually destroyed to a large extent, by the invasions that began in about 1000 A.D.”
Link. Great essay from long ago via Noah.
Yes, He Will Burn It All Down.
Link. “Complete and utter imperviousness to shame is one of Trump’s superpowers.”
GOP meets the sword.
“There are no confirmed sequelae of Covid-19,” said Dr. Chong Yutian”
Link. Until this week China had promoted Long COVID fear to discredit western vaccines. Now they are in full reverse.
My cyberpunk city, my cyberpunk world. “And then those adventures became not just possible, but inescapable and terrifying.”
Link. Stupidmancer, but yes.
52 things I learned in 2022 by Tom Whitwell
Link. “Fees from music playing on Peloton are “a top 10 account for pretty much all major record labels right now.”
“All I want is for you to be nice to me. Please be nice to me. Please be my friend. Will you be my friend?”
Link. The Onion gets it.
“former actor James Woods and Chinese troll accounts were not allowed to post ill-gotten photos of Hunter Biden’s hog on a private company’s microblogging platform 25 months ago.”
Link. Musk is a moron.
Udell – hope for the Fediverse (mastodon, etc)
Link. “High autonomy. As little friction as necessary, but not too little. As much fanout and velocity as necessary, but not too much.”
iPhone 14 Repair Changes
Link. Battery replacement is much higher.
Daring Fireball: Google Moves Maps to the Root Google.com Domain
Link. “Grant location access to Google Maps now, and you grant it to all of Google.”
Family Sharing: all charges go to Family Organizer – UNLESS there’s an Apple Account balance
Link. Apple’s purchase history doesn’t capture this – that’s a bug.
“why Amazon chose not to implement a blockchain of its own: It couldn’t get a straight answer to the question, “What useful thing does it do?”
Link. Apple never even looked at it.
The BSA & Military Bicycle Museum: “Another section of the welfare scheme is that devoted to improving the life and training of the boy workers. The physical development of the lads is encouraged by the teaching of Swedish Drill and Gymnastics.”
Link. Late 19th to early 20th. Amazing reading.
Swedish Death Cleaning: “consider taking an afternoon to declutter your hard drive and desktop as well—that’s one mess no one looks forward to dealing with.”
Link. “afternoon” Hilarious. Digital cleanup for pending death is a multi-year project.