May 2024
Thursday, 30 May 2024
Find the Trusted Messengers
Katelyn Jetelina, MPH, PhD: “The major challenge is that those at risk, and with whom we need cooperation to stop H5N1 from becoming a pandemic, trust the government and institutions the least […] There are many reasons for lack of trust: Their values don’t align, there are language barriers, some have been burned before, public health leaders have vilified them, and some have legitimate concerns about their livelihood being impacted.”
Wednesday, 22 May 2024
“No way to prevent this” say users of only language where this regularly happens
Xe Iaso: “In the hours following the release of CVE-2024-4323 for the project Fluent Bit, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a vulnerability in HTTP parsing code that allows for heap corruption and arbitrary code execution by making a HTTP GET request with a megabyte of the letter ‘A’ in its body.”
Friday, 17 May 2024
Why is China producing so many export goods, anyway?
Noah Smith: “This might sound like a bunch of Marxist mumbo-jumbo, but it’s actually not very different from how other countries think about technology, industry, and the national interest.”
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Against Sunscreen Absolutism
Rowan Jacobsen, The Atlantic: “Such a stance surely reflects understandable concerns about mixed messaging. But it also seems more and more outdated, and suggests a broader problem within American public-health institutions.”
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
The macro arsonists
Noah Smith: “This allows us to answer the question of ‘Why does the government borrow in a currency that it can print?’.”
Monday, 6 May 2024
North Korean weapons are killing Ukrainians. The implications are far bigger
BBC: “‘We are witnessing the real-time crumbling of UN sanctions against North Korea, which buys Pyongyang a lot of breathing space’”
Saturday, 4 May 2024
What the Debate Over Famine in Gaza Is Missing
Yan Slobodkin, Slate: “Yemen and Ethiopia have suffered tens of thousands of deaths each under IPC Phase 4 ‘emergency’ conditions without sliding into Phase 5. Sudan is currently facing a food crisis that threatens to be more deadly than the one in Gaza because the affected population is larger, but the IPC has not designated famine there either.”