Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Gender and politics in America

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My Twitter feed often ascribes GOP dominance at the state and federal level, and the patriarchal policies that follow, to male choices. Tha...
Monday, March 26, 2018

Macintouch in the twilight

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I’ve read Macintouch for decades. It’s been a living fossil for 15 of those years; Ric passed on RSS and blogs and feeds and permalinks. For...
Sunday, March 18, 2018

How to build a safe and sane social network

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This is how to build a safe, sane, and sustainable social network. Build it to be viable on $1/user year. Sell memberships for $25/year. ...
Saturday, March 17, 2018

Medical topic monitoring: PCOS topics added to my RSS feeds

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I’ve been a fan of the National Library of Medicine’s medical literature service through MEDLARS to MEDLINE to Grateful Med (my fave) to the...

And so it came to this

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In the year 2018 it is no longer insane to suspect that the Soviet Union Russia executed a successful multi-year campaign against the Unite...
Saturday, February 17, 2018

CHIP, immune disorders, osteoarthritis, and hydroxychloroquine

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A footnote in my post on Kateva’s liver disease  linked to a NYT article on  CHIP (clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential) . Wikipe...

Notes on managing a canine biliary system clearance disorder (intrahepatic cholestatic liver disease).

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I was doing a bit of personal research today that might be of interest to a few others, so sharing here. Kateva, of Kateva.org fame ,  is 1...
Sunday, January 28, 2018

Arthritis update (personal note)

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My familial arthritis showed up in one finger a few years ago, but in December of 2015 it became a bigger deal [1]. It looked like an early...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Scientific American forgot to tell me how to activate my digital subscription. Here's how.

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When I renewed Scientific American last September I had a “deal” that included 1 or 2 freebies and digital service for $40. (Today I’d use A...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Year one of post-imperial America

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The Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989. That was the end of Russia’s Empire, the end of the USSR. I was 30 years old. I may still have a n...
Saturday, December 30, 2017

Tech regressions: MORE, Quicken, PalmOS, iOS, Podcasts, Aperture, Music, iPad photo slide shows, and toasters.

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One of the odder experiences of aging is living through technology regressions. I’ve seen a few — solutions that go away and are never repla...
Friday, December 29, 2017

Did an autonomous Tesla kill its first cyclist?

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This Nov 2017 crash hasn’t gotten enough attention … Tesla Strikes and Kills UK Cyclist | Bicycling.com … An 80-year-old man was killed F...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

NYT moves columnist blogs into a controlled venue -- with some deprecated RSS

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The NYT has moved Krugman’s blog to a new platform . I presume this is true for all their journalists. The NYT RSS index still points to hi...
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Tuesday, December 05, 2017

Weinstein, The Enquirer, Pecker and Trump - a curious set of friendships

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From NYT essay on Weinstein and his enablers an interesting set of misogynistic relationships … Weinstein’s Complicity Machine - The New Y...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Taxing the externalities of the attention economy

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The Economist has an excellent overview of the risks of the attention economy  (11/4/17). The Gamergate connection is particularly good. Th...