https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/h5n1-update-january-7
Happily COVID left us with a much improved public health system. (Oh, wait, that’s on Earth-2)
“H5N1 is something to watch, but don’t let it take up too much headspace yet”
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HMPV in China: RSV-like virus identified 2001 causing more pneumonia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/health/hmpv-virus-china.html
The article doesn’t say why the virus is spreading more now. Often we don’t know. Probably common here but we don’t test for it. Nobody trusts China however.
US hits demographic cliff expected since Great Recession
https://hechingerreport.org/the-impact-of-this-is-economic-decline/
College tuition falling, many closing, international students down, fewer seek college.
“The proportion of high school graduates who are Hispanic, nationwide, is expected to rise from 26 percent to 36 percent by 2041”
Editing Contant/List relationship broken in macOS Sequoia
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/477085/contacts-app-misbehaving-in-sequoia-on-m1-imac
I have the same problem except I can’t change any Contact List relationships. I’m going to try the latest macOS (secret) update and if that doesn’t work it sounds like we need to rebuild the Contacts database from iCloud. (May be related to my migration from Monterey)
Kevin Drum makes the case for America’s ability to build despite our regulatory environment.
Pinboard (jgordon) https://jabberwocking.com/yeah-america-can-still-build-stuff/
I am sure he is wrong about government software. Still, it is a good counterpoint to Noah et al.
“America’s political elite appeased a bully, the American people endorsed that strategy, and now America’s economic elite is falling all over itself to appease the bully some more.”
Jan 6 is the day the music died.
from Pinboard (jgordon) https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/my-extremely-brief-take-on-january
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“change rage is real, and trying to argue people out of it rarely succeeds. Which is why fighting negative externalities should, where possible, leave the way people live more or less untouched.”
This is so familiar to anyone who has worked on pedestrian safety, bicycle paths and the like. It is, sadly, very true about climate change mitigation.
A loved one with a cognitive disability reacts to any new thing with NO. (It can take him 1-2 days to process, when left alone he may quietly change his mind.) I have learned that many of his traits are far more common that I once thought.
from Pinboard (jgordon) https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lessons-from-new-yorks-congestion
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“AI systems emit between 130 and 1500 times less CO2e per page of text generated compared to human writers, while AI illustration systems emit between 310 and 2900 times less CO2e per image than their human counterparts”
AI energy use is not a good hill to die on.
from Pinboard (jgordon) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54271-x#ref-CR21
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