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“systemic corruption wherever it occurs: It is not primarily a problem of individual immorality, but of a collective action trap.”
Link. We are more corrupt than most imagine. “power and wealth accrue to those willing to play the corruption game, and those who are not get left behind.”
“Strips that can detect fentanyl have become increasingly valuable resources for local health officials, and some states have moved recently to decriminalize them, even as others resist.”
Link. Article does not mention role of crypto currency in the fentanyl industry.
Abortion with mifepristone/misoprostol combo to grow in US.
Link. I’m surprised it’s only 25% here, I’d thought 75%. I suspect there’s good reason we do more suction but article doesn’t discuss.
Interview for Decisional Abilities: IDA helps with assessing elder ability to manage money.
Link. I’d like an AI to watch what I do.
Teen mental health issues in America.
Link. It’s very hard to study, but like many physicians I think physical inactivity, smartphones, and social media have been mostly bad news for a lot of teens.
“demographics, preferences, and values of two people had surprisingly little power in predicting whether those two people were happy in a romantic relationship.”
Link. “Desired romantic partners are easy to predict with data.”
iPhone Optimized Battery Charging explained.
Link. Needs location services.
Mac Studio Max and Studio Display: impressions and future
Link. Oakley approved.
“harder to find solutions via general Web searches. I keep running into outdated advice and pages that are filler/SEO content that doesn’t answer the question, even incorrectly.”
Link. We all see this.
“McCain spent his 70th birthday with Oleg Deripaska and Rick Davis on a Russian yacht at anchor in Montenegro”
Link. People know things.
Nobel disease: “provides an existence proof that being an authority in one field does not necessarily make one an authority in any other field”
Link. So good.
“But tonight there is someone I can write of the way I used to write, without reservations of any kind. Last Thursday, at the Harvard Square theatre, I saw my rock’n’roll past flash before my eyes.”
Link. Those were the days.
COVID wars: “Mu found itself competing with an even more formidable variant: Delta. Delta was not as skilled at dodging antibodies as Mu, but it was more transmissible”
Link. We can’t yet predict which scary variant will actually win.
Intuit: “pay back $141 million to more than four million Americans who were unfairly charged for tax services that were falsely advertised as free.”
Link. Should have been a $5 billion fine.
“genes can move among complex, multicellular creatures as well, perhaps with help from pathogens”
Link. They behave like an infection that can confer new powers (but usually problems).
XKCD: The Apple Map existential crisis.
Link. The directions and business listings are still mediocre though.
Noah: American is not actually collapsing just yet.
Link. For now he is persuasive.
Saudis and 9/11: “Biden ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to declassify documents that suggest there may have been a Saudi spy involved.”
Link. Missed that.
“During October–November, unvaccinated persons had 13.9 and 53.2 times the risks for infection and COVID-19–associated death, respectively, compared with fully vaccinated persons who received booster doses”
Link. Pre-Omicron. 50x is astounding.
“Maria Alvarez, 46, a mother and a realtor, said she is pro-choice, but “I really don’t have a strong opinion on it.”
Link. Minuscule sample but affirms my prejudices so I’ll go with it. Most women don’t care – for now. (Also most people don’t care about CO2.)
“They mistook common language and values like attitudes to the Second World War and Orthodoxy as a sign that somebody loves them”
Link. Many local leaders thought to be natural Russian allies turned Ukrainian.
“It’s not that Tunisia’s democracy is threatened. Tunisia’s democracy has been shot in the head”
Link. No more hope.
“When Rich Strike hit the wire low and long as if he were trying to sneak past a hall monitor”
Link. “He taught him to go between horses” Fun coverage. Is wild to watch the aerial view videos.
Trilobite sex.
Link. Alien life: “The standard trilobite limb is segmented into three distinct portions — a walking leg, or endopodite, and a gill structure, the exopodite, are connected to the body by a spiny food-processing section, the protopodite”
Hot Banana – XKCD What If is live.
Link. New post. Maybe due new book? “Imagine you’re an atom of potassium; every second you roll 21 dice. If they all come up 6s, you decay.”
no-knock warrants banned: “Florida, Oregon, Tennessee and Virginia”
Link. Florida?! Really??
“The Invisible Bridge is a chaotic, meandering tale of exhaustion, confusion, oddity and pointlessness. Which means it’s a book about the 70s”
Link. My formative time (albeit in Canada).
TLR7 and Lupus.
Link. A mechanism for SLE. Excellent news.
Apple Music Now Available on Roku
Link. “Roku-equipped streaming media boxes are a good budget alternative to the Apple TV”
Nalaprop 1.1: free utility exercises macos language analysis tools.
Link.
“when you sign up for an Internet account, you would create only a username; Passkeys would create the passkey and store it in your keychain.”
Link. Similar to Apple password generation.
The story of Nauru.
Link. One day it will be beautiful again.
“Realistically — which is a golden word in the savvy style — Senate Republicans will not consider any action that protects the right to vote or encourages more people to vote”
Link. Why journalism is failing America.
Grammarly: “I doubt that most customers realize that the contents of nearly every text field on their Mac is being uploaded and stored in the cloud.”
Link. Sigh.
“24 states are likely to ban abortion if they are allowed”
Link. Don’t live there, don’t go to college there.
Venomics harvests evolution: “Captopril … was created in the 1970s from the venom of a Brazilian jararaca pit viper..”
Link. New tech means lots of great new drugs. Awesome science.
Pediatric Hepatitis: “public health measures implemented over the past two years may have left fewer children exposed to common adenoviruses. That, in turn, might have made them more susceptible now,”
Link. I like this theory. Is rare. We might be seeing 2y worth of cases compressed into months.
“reminiscent of AOL’s disastrous takeover of Time Warner”
Link. Musk is nuts.
Mental Health Apps often sell user information.
Link. NYT said same recently. Only VA (gov) apps are definitely trustworthy.
Canon Camera Museum
Link. Canon Camera History from our first camera to the latest one. (Via @mjtsai)
Why we lost the human Lyme vaccine. 2019.
Link. Might COVID make many Americans more vaccine savvy?
“During breaks in the shelling, they would find damaged or destroyed Russian vehicles and smelt down plates with gold wiring. One plate would get them 15,000 rubles, or about $200, back home.”
Link. Russia is a failed state.
“improvement in American schooling during the 1990s and early 2000s was a cause for celebration”
Link. Stop funding schools by local taxation.
“Until Apple updates Activity Monitor to give reasonable figures for M1 chips, don’t use or trust its CPU % or energy values: they’re nonsense.”
Link.
“Between 1501 and 1650, prices of everyday goods across Europe rose six-fold before leveling off and remaining more or less stable on a new level for the next hundred years.”
Link. The Price Revolution.
“there is no precedent for highly ethnically and religiously diverse democracies that actually treat all of their members as equals”
Link. Egypt was stable and static for a long time (by human standards).
Bloodworm fang assembler: “the protein catalyzes a reaction to create melanin and recruits copper ions. Then, it links melanin into polymers, assembles itself and melanin into a structure and uses the copper to seal the whole thing together”
Link. Mostly two amino acids. Evolution is terrifying.
Ive “revoked engineers’ access to the design wing if they talked too loudly or mentioned costs”
Link. Apple is scary place. Ives was hardware, Cook services, but software had no champion. App score scams and Aperture’s failure are today’s problems.
Tsai review of Apple Watch SE – the first review I can trust.
Link. He likes it well enough but lots of flakiness. Confirmed my decision not to buy.