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.

Link. A very accessible discussion. I learned things.

Link. Paxlovid isn’t worth much.

Link. It’s like watching a horror movie. One day we will put a stake in this thing

Link. 7% net traffic is malign.

Link. I’ve noticed this over the past few years. Google no longer indexes my Google Blogger posts. I suspect running Google ads helps. Otherwise you need to be a brand domain (Reddit, etc).

Link. Web service, free pending a business model. Example of results:

I’m testing it out. Similar to PubMed search to RSS.

Link. Noah claims that even if Trump loses the United States can barely stand up against China, and cannot handle both Russia and China. It’s Germany or Europe will fail.

Link. Similar to the feature pulled from iOS 17.5 but now with a proper UI and security cautions. Aperture had a similar feature, but Aperture was known for corrupting its database. I’m very curious how many lost things we’re going to find.

Link. The reboot process should be interesting too.

Link. I wrote this 13 years ago. It’s still pretty much the same story — but I don’t write for the GoogleMind now. The GoogleMind was dying even was a wrote that post. I write for the AIs now.

Link. He didn’t mention Rabin. As usual I am in the murky middle, but if I had to rule I would say he’s practicing a form of wishful thinking.

Link. “… for some complex numbers, the zeta function is equal to zero … in 1859, Bernhard Riemann conjectured that all the zeros are concentrated on two lines.”

The article is about a proof away from the core hypothesis, but the author does a great job of explaining the Riemann hypothesis for non-mathematicians.

Link. Changed shipping routes by data mining ship logs around 1840.

Link. The single machine desktop app still works for now, but the iOS app is mostly dead and there’s no future replacement.

Link. Similar story with Afghan opium.

There is no longer a viable economic strategy for rural areas anywhere.

Link. “The wealth of America’s billionaires was estimated at around $5.2 trillion in 2023, while federal government spending was about $6.4 trillion”

He ignores the sociopolitical consequences of wealth asymmetry. These days Noah writes what tech billionaires like to read – but the essay is still worthy.

Link. A huge success — but also very disruptive. It’s not surprising that a cap has been added.

China is 2nd largest source. Xi hates Canada for a reason.

Link. A $4 billion dollar AT&T fine might change someone’s behavior. But there will be no consequences in the US of course.

Link. ‘Participants with weak inner voices did worse at … Verbal memory …”

Not much new — it’s a short summary. Not having an inner voice may have other advantages.

This is a rather sensitive topic as it edges into the fun future-field of comparative consciousness (human, animal, AI)