Link. Will take 1-3 years to get all the missing pieces.
Monthly Archives: April 2022
“hope that the nation will have a better vaccine by the fall, when the coronavirus is considered likely to re-emerge in force.”
Link. Tells me to get my 2nd booster in July.
“health care providers to test children with unexplained hepatitis for adenovirus infections and to report those cases to health officials.”
Link. Curious.
15 years for 5 carjackings. “Ironrope has nearly two dozen other criminal cases pending in Hennepin County District Court in connection with alleged crimes from January 2020 until shortly before his arrest in January 2021.”
Link. Terrible childhood, terrible adult. The carjackings are a plague here.
“It is insane to me that cryptocurrencies are still a thing.”
Link. Schneier.
Brave and DDG Remove AMP By Default.
Link. Safari please?
Terminal pain relief and murder charges: innocent this time.
Link. What an incredible hell ride.
“self-reported non-White respondents were consistently more susceptible to Truth Decay. Although race was not always significant, it often was significant even after controlling for other variables, such as education, political party, and biases or reas
Link. “Truth Decay is the diminishing role of facts in American public life.”
Putin, the Patriarch, and the corruption of Orthodox Christianity: “the era of hope that began in 1989 is over. Ukraine is now the scene of the largest conflict in Europe since World War II. NATO and Russia are openly enemies again”
Link. Putin seems a sincere religious fanatic.
“the G.O.P. as a whole has turned to hate-based politics”
Link. It has worked for Putin.
“The high point of techno-democratic optimism was arguably 2011, a year that began with the Arab Spring and ended with the global Occupy movement.”
Link. Thesis is social media is corroding bonds of civilization.
OWC miniStack STX: “3 Thunderbolt ports in addition to the one that goes back to the Mac. It’s $279 for the base configuration with no storage.”
Link. That’s surprisingly affordable. Hope it works.
DALL-E: “economics of the metaverse …virtual worlds needs virtual content created at virtually zero cost, fully customizable to the individual.”
Link. Descendant of ad-funded bot-generated spam pages that often dominate Google searches. I’m sure this will go well.
M1 Thunderbolt ports don’t fully support USB 3.1 Gen 2
Link. “normal testing, 5 Gb/s should yield around 500 MB/s, 10 Gb/s gives around 1200 MB/s, and 20 Gb/s about 2400 MB/s.” Apple is open to litigation since they claim support.
“most M1 Macs don’t support the USB 3.1 Gen 2 standard, making Thunderbolt transfers slower than they should be, in both theory and practice.”
Link. Bugs and chip limitations. Intel better!
“Democracy is failing and authoritarianism rising, Karaganov said, because of democracy’s bad moral foundations.”
Link. al Qaeda was infuriated by feminism, Russia is infuriated by LGBTQ.
“Instead of arresting him, the sheriff’s office kept digging, in part because “it was clear to deputies that the man communicated differently,”
Link. Damn good police work.
“Nineteen states have changed their election laws to enable Republicans to win their states regardless of the will of the voters, sending Republican electors to put a Republican president in place”
Link.
“In Russia, however, such acts are rarely investigated or even acknowledged, let alone punished. That leaves it unclear how much the low-level brutality stems from the intent of those in charge or whether commanders failed to control their troops.”
Link. Trump pardoned a serial killer war criminal.
Putting COVID risks in perspective.
Link. Similar to 2011 Afghan military service for 40yo — at most likely, much less now.
“he rarely missed a 6 a.m. run, as far as 15 miles, before working for 12 hours a day in Koiban, his village in Nandi County. He always ran alone, doing so out of pure enjoyment.”
Link. Great story.
“Zelensky says, “they are afraid to admit guilt.” He compares them to “alcoholics [who] don’t admit that they are alcoholic.” If they want to recover, “they have to learn to accept the truth.”
Link. Rejecting guilt is a core principle of America’s white nationalist party.
“liberals see ideals of full democratic participation and equality before the law not just as formal commitments, but as rooted in deep respect for the human worth of others”
Link. A pretty good summary of modern liberalism. What Douthat hates and fears.
Xinjiang prisoner describes life inside China’s detention camps
Link. “If the cameras saw anyone speak, a booming voice would tell them not to talk.”
“Think of how many of those 5,300 schools you’ve actually heard of. Now think how many you’ve seen mentioned in conversations about what does, or should, happen in a college classroom.”
Link. He is so right.
“all but 13 of China’s top 100 cities (by gdp) were implementing covid restrictions (see chart). Ten cities are in “severe lockdown”, meaning more than half of residents are confined to their homes. Changchun, Xuzhou and Shanghai were recently in
Link. In a democracy Xi’s gov would fall.
Donbas: “allowed those displaced since 2014 to vote — the majority would be likely to vote to remain in Ukraine. However, a vote restricted to just those remaining in the Donbas would be likely to endorse joining Russia.”
Link.
“new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactured in large quantities”
Link. Seems like bigger news if true. 2D polymer.
Monterey backup problems.
Link. I’m having trouble with backup to a CCC generated disk image.
“Bitcoin had turned out to be practically the opposite of untraceable: a kind of honeypot for crypto criminals that had, for years, dutifully and unerasably recorded evidence of their dirty deals.”
Link. Why it’s not banned.
Stabyl Browser for iPad: counteract tremor.
Link. Brilliant.
Doctorow does billionaire taxes.
Link. The GOP delivered.
“March 23 theft of roughly $625 million worth of cryptocurrency from the Ronin blockchain”
Link. North Korea. I think stealing this from a US Bank might get more attention.
“authors found that substitution of as few as five amino acids can lead the program to predict very different three-dimensional structures, which is the equivalent of an image-recognition declaring that a picture of Richard Nixon is in fact a begonia”
Link. Protein folding prediction.
“25 richest Americans paid $13.6 billion in taxes, a true tax rate of 3.4%.”
Link. Worth repeating.
“Swan tries to get McConnell to say whether there is anything Donald Trump could do or say that would lead McConnell not to support him. The answer Swan eventually got was: No, there is no such line.”
Link. Evil.
“Minnesota’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate reached an all-time best 2.5 percent in March”
Link. Damn. That’s low.
No-knock raids: long WaPo review.
Link. Judicial review doesn’t work. Would need a lot more money/time/resources to be effective. Mostly is about preventing powdered drug flushing.
“used those identifications to inform the families of the deaths of 582 Russians, including by sending them photos of the abandoned corpses.”
Link. A web site of names and identifying information would be less cruel.
EBV Rx for MS phase I trial: ATA188 improved course, myelin growth.
Link. Phase I is super early but, yeah, watch this. Also, EBV vaccine needed.
Science 2022: “fake journals, fake papers, fake author lists, and faked data”
Link. China and Russia.
App Store scams are profitable.
Link. Apple is either incompetent or malicious.
ARBs can cause intractable diarrhea in some.
Link. Wild story. Always suspect the meds (or something else someone is taking)
Fixing supply chain will increase prices.
Link. Consumers will increase home stockpiles as well. Extra bicycle tubes and chains.
“for people to successfully skip surgery, patients need to have their affected foot in a brace early — within the first three days.”
Link. Study makes brace therapy more acceptable but I’d likely lean to repair.
Radio Free Europe sites: “[Russian] Audience numbers have surged during the war despite the censorship.”
Link. Sharing truth.
Amazon seller: “surcharge, which averages 5 percent of the current fulfillment fees, will take effect on April 28.”
Link.
No Mean Girls in CrossFit (Except for Fran)
Link. “I’d overhear my teammates whispering to each other about how chubby I was, and I’d charge the opposition. Our team won a tournament once thanks to my somewhat brutal saves.”
Written by a friend.
“Apple’s app store is so full of scams and garbage, and the firm is so inattentive, that one dude on Twitter – @keleftheriou – is constantly embarrassing Apple”
Link. Cook has been an idiot.
“deeper domain-specific conversations, I find myself engaging in arcane Reddit communities”
Link. Facebook Groups here.