Link. Wars between Trump loyalists, mostly incompetents.

Link. Treating chronic severe pain with long cold miserable and even more painful endurance swims is a novel approach.

Link. Updates a lot of old ideas. It’s only recently (basically yesterday) that we have had one hominid on earth.

Link. The blurry video should be watched. Do not approach that sleepy vegetarian bear.

Link. Derek Lowe imagines a chemist of the 90s presented with the latest in modern biotech. Going where no-one has gone before.

Link. Free link because I learned several surprising things reading this.

The Druse remind me of Mormonism.

“In 2018, Israel passed a law that defined the right to national self-determination as being “unique to the Jewish people.” This is what the Christian Nationalists want America to do.

Link. We American Olds are losing our wits (data suggests starts in 50s for most), many have cash, and there is no risk for the criminals. This is the ultimate growth industry.

Best to not be online at all.

(The most likely fix is the AI Guardian.)

Link. “$25,000 package for the Y Plus that included an eight-year warranty, installation of a home charger and 12 months of insurance.”

Capitalism and massive government subsidies mean China will rule the auto world. Our tariffs will only slow the demise of US auto companies.

Link. A smooth transition from denialism to ennui. (Some is justified cynicism about corporate slogans.)

I expect CO2 boredom to reach 60% in the US in the next few years.

Progress will be made in the shadows, out of public attention.

Link. China rules the sun.

Link. Limited value until we have better therapies or preventive measures. Interesting even specialists can’t reliably differentiate Alzheimer’s from other dementias. (Many are likely multiple causes).

Interesting is tau.

Link. Carter can pass now.

Link. Argghhhhh.

Link. He argues non-AGI UBI reduces economic growth by increasing leisure time and decreasing work output. Assumption that society will not tolerate falling incomes.

I like this as a framework for discussion especially through a disability lens.

Link. I have always appreciated Trump’s transparency.

Link. Yeah. Definitely Wakanda. Independent 1968 from UK.

Formerly Swaziland.

Link. jk about year one but this is a fun overview.

(They will want their own calendar though)

Link. It’s wild. Free link.

Link. Can Trump win in time to save Putin?

Link. At the time I’d have said they, and school staff, got the worst of the pandemic. They still head my list.

Link. The most important American politics article of 2024. Via Mastodon.

The pastor-academic wrote a book called “None”.

(Hilariously our Antichrist is an atheist who is the last champion of the fundaments)

Link. 7% chance second cancer regardless.

This is very hard to understand. Suggests we are missing something big about breast cancer.

Link. Autoantibodies blocking brain uptake.

Link. “The system was allowed unlimited time; for some problems it took up to three days. The students were allotted only 4.5 hours per exam.”

Link. Apple plays similar games and they get worse every year.

Link. Intriguing in many directions. Can’t show causation but effect was expected.

“When a shingles vaccine, Zostavax, was first rolled out in 2006, a number of studies found hints that the risk of dementia seemed to be lower in those who got the shots.”

If animal studies agree Shingrix will be a popular vaccine.

Link. I edit Previous Recipients every year or two.

Link. The content wars begin.

Link. Not CRISPR, rather a 2017 gene editor created by torturing bacteria that has very focal action that happens to work for mouse model progeria (single gene disease). Kolata masterfully blends personal stories and science. I suspect a book is pending ….

PS. They expect future fixes for other terrible genetic diseases.

Link. Apocalypse now.

Link. The sensory inputs don’t change, but mouse behavioral manifestations of pain respond to an “expectation” of relief. The human analogue would be the common pain relief that is felt a few minutes after taking Advil (before it can actually do anything).

Sensory inputs come from the periphery, but pain is always in your head.

Link. America is a dystopian nation; our vandalism is legendary. For some reason bicycles are more often stolen than vandalized.

I wonder if non-bicycle micro mobility works better in Canada. MSP is not as bad as the Bronx. There are relatively easy regulatory fixes for Type II/III eBikes.

Link. I also believe it’s the smartphones, but the effect is gender specific. It’s girls, not boys.

Link. Shoplifting is mostly to support fentanyl purchases.

Link. And maybe get tenure. The National Library of Medicine indexes scam science that lay people fall for.

Link. Apple doesn’t want this business.

Link. Vacuum collapse 10,000 times sooner than expected.

Link. “When CrowdStrike for macOS started using a System Extension nearly four years ago, it … proclaimed that “reducing the need for privileged access is always a more secure approach”

Link. SCOTUS was built to fail, but the design of the Fed was designed to resist a Trump.

“Great care went into designing a system of 14-year governors’ terms on a schedule so that no president could ever appoint a majority on the board…

…. Martin told Nixon to go pound sand.”

Link. I know some fitness models, but this is quite different.

Link. This is so much like the 1970s. Fun read. Book excerpt.

Link. It’s a short time series but that sounds about right.

Link. Checks are still used for many business transactions but retail checks are disappearing fast.

History: “To physically return all the checks, the government maintained a special fleet of planes that each night flew canceled checks around the country. ”

Cash may make a comeback?

Link. I really want to replace 1Password. We are getting closer.

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Link. Brave new world.

Link. The people I read tend to be de facto secular humanists who don’t take religious docctrine seriously. Being. mad for power is quite consistent with being a religious zealot.

Link. “Eventually, if you take advantage of the web, the web will start shutting its doors

Talking about Google here, who has been a parasite on free content for 13 years.

Link. Obvious to anyone paying attention, but this rarely gets said so clearly in the media.

Link. “it’s about feeling safe and cozy in a world that’s changing too fast for their liking”

In the 70s we called this “Future Shock”. There were books.