Gordon's Notes

Commentary: politics, science, technology and humanity. Secular humanist.

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Last days at the best of social networks: app.net (aka Alpha, ADN).

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My ( @johngordon ) App.net services are beginning to fail - including PourOver . Post counts are gone. I still find some great discussions; ...

Trumpism: a transition function to the world of mass disability.

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We know the shape of the socioeconomic future for the bottom 40%  in the post globalization post AI   mass disability world . But how do ...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

What socioeconomic support will look like in 20 years

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This is what I think socioeconomic support will look like in 2040 based on cognitive [2] quintiles. The bottom quintile (0-20%, non-voters)...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Massive phone spam -- from Weatherby Healthcare

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Weatherby healthcare  hires physicians for “locum tennis” roles. That’s filling in for someone on holiday and the like. They’ve contracted ...
Friday, August 19, 2016

What a solution for phone spam will look like

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The FCC wants a vast and unmanageable array of voice communications carriers to fix the robocall plague . I’m here to tell you what will ha...

Crab Bucket

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Terry Pratchett taught me about “crab bucket” in Unseen Academicals  [1]. I don’t know if it’s a metaphor of his part of England, or if it’...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Those moments when you feel the walls of reality fall away

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I’m working through a tedious form that requires me to look up old information from dusty files. I step away to eat and locate some document...
Monday, August 08, 2016

Creaks and clicks in geriatric bikes

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I like a quiet bike as much as the next neurotic guy. So the creaks and clicks in my 20 yo Cannondale T400 have been distracting. Like denta...
Sunday, July 31, 2016

In defense of Donald Trump.

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Trump is more racist and sexist than most 70+ yo white men. He is amoral and a con man. He may be a sociopath and probably has a narcissisti...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

Life tip: photograph or photo-scan cards and special correspondence

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A few years back, around the time the iPhone camera became very good at close photography, I began to photograph Father's Day cards and ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Double unders

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People come to our gym and in two months they’re doing double unders. I am not those people. After ****** of practice I do about 5 DU with...

Signs of progress from O'Reilly and Limbaugh.

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Limbaugh says that black Americans really need to stop talking about that unhappy slavery episode . O’Reilly tells us the slaves building th...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Informatics core: US genomic and healthcare standards have a common problem.

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My current work means I’ve spent many hours plumbing details of major American and international health care standards, particularly FHIR, H...
Monday, July 11, 2016

Systemic failure in American medicine: combining ICD-10-CM with "leaf code" reimbursement rules

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This is very much “inside baseball”. It’s related to professional work I do. It’s incomprehensible to most people, but it’s having a big imp...
Saturday, July 02, 2016

Fixing disc brake squeaks - mountain bike.

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I found 2 techniques for silence squeaky disk (disc) brakes — all involving rotor cleaning. (If pads are contaminated they need to be replac...
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