Favorites September 6th 2022

DALL-E: mixed use urbanism that existed before boomers banned it

Rachel Cohrs @rachelcohrs

Pfizer isn't sharing its vaccine for studies of next-generation Covid-19 vaccines that some researchers hope could offer better protection against transmission and infection. It's not in Pfizer's financial interests to allow studies of competing products

statnews.comPfizer isn’t sharing Covid vaccines with researchers for next-gen studiesResearchers studying next-gen vaccines to fight an evolving Covid threat are running into problems getting existing vaccines to use in their research.

Seems like kinda a bummer, I wonder how common this problem is in the industry.

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle

Treated sewage from the region’s 8 million residents is a key contributor to the harmful San Francisco Bay algae bloom. But upgrading aging treatment plants will come with a huge price tag.

trib.alPoop and pee fueled the huge algae bloom in San Francisco Bay. Fixing the problem could cost $14 billionTreated sewage from the region’s 8 million residents is a key contributor to the San...

I didn't link it previously, but a ton of fish died in the SF bay due to an algae bloom, turns out it was caused by sewage rather than global warming. Eww.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

BREAKING WAPO: A document describing a foreign government's military defenses — including its nuclear capabilities — was found by FBI agents who searched Trump's home, according to people familiar with the matter.

washingtonpost.comMaterial on foreign nation’s nuclear capabilities seized at Trump’s Mar-a-LagoSome of the documents seized on Aug. 8 detail top-secret U.S. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them.

Just in case you're wondering, yes it was a classified document. By the way, this leak seems inadvisable.

Dan Morain @DanielMorain

NYTimes website ledes with this: “California Avoids Rolling Blackouts Despite Record Heat” The story draws a contrast with Texas’s blackouts. ⁦H/t @ShawnHubler⁩ ⁦⁦@Kellen_Browning⁩ ⁦@ivanlpenn⁩ JillCowan⁩

nytimes.comWeather Updates: California Avoids Rolling Blackouts Despite Record HeatThe state electricity regulator said the need for mandated outages had faded. Cities across California set record high temperatures, including Sacramento at 116 degrees, pushing energy demand to a record, as well.

It's cool to see in this graph how we managed to lower demand with the emergency text messages.

Will Stancil @whstancil

Feels like this should be illegal!

Android vs iPhone, serious price discrimination.

Matthew Martin @hyperplanes

here is an extremely typical example of the kind of mixed use urbanism (suburbanism?) that existed before boomers banned it. Retail shop strapped to the front of a residence. Every neighborhood of single-family housing had shops like this mixed in when your parents were little

Threads

• Now that there are less restricted equivalents to DALL-E available to run on local machines, people are finding ways of making truly terrifying stuff. Honestly, it was too horrible for me to get to the end of the thread.

• Thread about why Russia can't reroute their gas from Europe to China.