Link. Don’t worry, the paper is flawed.
Daily Archives: January 3, 2023
“Halteria in a small pond may be able to eat as many as 10 trillion chloroviruses a day”
Link. “[Viruses are] made up of really good stuff: nucleic acids, a lot of nitrogen and phosphorous,”
Jedeed’s New Republic piece on Patriot Academy: “deeply Christian founding and to religious men such as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson”
Link. I love her writing. She knows of, course, that neither were religious men.
“No matter how many times you tell people they may not like everything you have to say about them, they never really believe it until they see it in print
Link. Laura Jedeed has a big one in The New Republic. “No one will force you to be a Christian in Rick Green’s America. But you will largely need to live like one.”
The Next Ukrainian Offensive.
Link. Persuasive. “US military aid to Ukraine so far is less than the annual cost of its long war in Iraq, and about one-tenth of the current US defence budget. This is the best bargain in American military history.”
“Inflation is fundamentally the outcome of the distributional conflict, between firms, workers and taxpayers”
Link. This is a good K article. (Free at this link)
Minneapolis violent crime down some: “Carjackings dropped from 655 to 524, gunshots fired reports declined from 11,536 to 9,097,”
Link. Kids back in school? Carjacking numbers and gunshot numbers insane. We need years of much greater declines.
UI Inconsistencies in Windows 11: “ODBC Data Sources utility there is a Windows 3.1-styled folder selection window!”
Link. I’ve seen that! Is so funny. I don’t mind the bold UIs, some are better than current fashions.
“Benjamin Bratton, described TED’s influence on intellectual culture as “taking something with Valium and substance and coring it out so that it can be swallowed without chewing.”
Link. I saw one that wasn’t bad very early on but then lost interest. The style annoyed.
“There is just a 20-millisecond interval in the heart’s cycle when a strong blow can cause an arrhythmia”
Link. I didn’t know of the diastole timing. “Precordial thump” was an old and ineffective approach to cardiac arrest.
Can you rely on macOS Ventura for malware protection?
Link. He say most of us can. For now.
From 2008: “Andrew Olmsted, who also posted here as G’Kar, was killed yesterday in Iraq. Andy gave me a post to publish in the event of his death; the last revisions to it were made in July.”
Link. So long ago, so near at hand. Via a Mastodon post. Obsidian Wings is and was a multi-author blog. Still active, still old school.
“The dreams of the 90s are alive in the Fediverse”
Link. Excellent overview from Ars Technica. ActivityPub fediverse includes Mastodon.
“how the bipartisan infrastructure law is rebuilding the country, providing jobs that don’t need a four-year college degree”
Link. The gap between 20/h and 80/h. Biden hasn’t forgotten the non-college.