Mark Jones

Occasional items that interest me,
and other public notes to myself. Quotations typically shortened.

[Mark Jones @redtexture]

@nd_wallingford @KaseyKlimes Post WW2, Federal programs supporting single unit housing were discriminatory. By design. Thus enabling white migration to new suburbs, preventing same by nonwhites. Book, by Richard Rothstein:
"The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America"

[Mark Jones @redtexture]

Here is an introduction to taking apart and cleaning a carburetor, for those of you who are living in the dark ages of electric or fuel-injected vehicles.

Rebuild of the Dirtiest Carb EVER
Junkyard Mook
(Youtube - 17 minutes)
https://t.co/UuXg2RfwBJ

[Mark Jones @redtexture]

@rebwriteswrongs Plenty of lawyers can testify to this.

[Mark Jones @redtexture]

@avibryant FYI

[Mark Jones @redtexture]

Three Mathematicians We Lost in 2020
John Conway, Ronald Graham, and Freeman Dyson all explored the world with their minds.
By Dan Rockmore
The New Yorker
December 31, 2020
https://t.co/GjPVrY4GKe

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

[my French boyfriend, watching American news]: I don’t understand??? Things are so bad??? And they set nothing on fire??? How do they expect to fix???

[Mark Jones @redtexture]

Three Mathematicians We Lost in 2020
John Conway, Ronald Graham, and Freeman Dyson all explored the world with their minds.
By Dan Rockmore
The New Yorker
December 31, 2020
https://t.co/GjPVrY4GKe

[Mark Jones @redtexture]

@BarKoad @profgalloway @andersoncooper @drsanjaygupta @AC360 @CNN States have again and again abandoned their colleges. An old American custom. Harvard was a variety of state school. Yale was a variety of state school. William and Mary was supported by taxes on tobacco.

[Scott Galloway @profgalloway]

The 40-year party of universities raising tuition faster than inflation is over — the lights have come on in terms of the price-value tradeoff

Thx for having me @andersoncooper @drsanjaygupta @AC360 @CNN #HigherEducation
👉 https://t.co/4mqV67l62f

[Adem Tumerkan @RadicalAdem]

*A key book worth reading is - ‘The Marshall Plan’ by B.Steil

(The M.P. was a post-WWII initiative via the US to flood Europe w/ cheap $’s - thus the birth of the Eurodollar market - for rebuilding efforts)

Note the US may soon need to repeat this via flooding $’s to the EM’s

[Mark Jones @redtexture]

Mike Mandel's complete set of 135 photographer "baseball cards" from the 1970s. Apparently still for sale at Vincent Borelli for $3850.

https://t.co/YiekBDnCLE

[@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com on Bluesky @norootcause]

It's not that "there's no root cause". You can always come up with a way to define one if you like. It's just not a *useful* way to think about how incidents happen.

Believing in a root cause will limit the kinds of questions you ask, and, consequently, what you will learn.

[Mark Jones @redtexture]

The War Room
A Documentary of the 1992 Clinton Presidential Campaign
By D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus
(about 90 minutes)
https://t.co/yuQLqthPfC

[Mark Jones @redtexture]

@ReaperCancelled @dailydirtnap You assume 100% assimilation of ingenstion of nutrients consumed.
A common and typical error.

[Mark Jones @redtexture]

https://t.co/XNXwTLv7JM

[Peter Hilton @PeterHilton]

This touched a nerve. And there are so many more ‘standard bugs’ that software development keeps repeating, e.g. in internationalisation:

• country flags for languages
• ASCII-only text input
• separate ‘first name’ and ‘last name’
• no localised salutations

[Mark Jones @redtexture]

'John had standing instructions for this moment: Do all the rest, do it superbly, and don’t show me the edits.'

A Rolling Tribute to New York’s John Homans (1958–2020)
https://t.co/uw7oUn8jux

[Steve Saretsky @SteveSaretsky]

Name a business you think will file for bankruptcy within 12 months.

I’ll start, WeWork.

[Mark Jones @redtexture]

"viral aerosols in building plumbing were drawn into apartment bathrooms through floor drains; initial exposures occurred in these bathrooms"

J Environ Health. 2006 May;68(9):26-30; quiz 51-2.
Environmental transmission of SARS at Amoy Gardens.

https://t.co/4NoO0xBttv

[Mark Jones @redtexture]

"more than one of eight asymptomatic patients who were admitted to the labor and delivery unit were positive for SARS-CoV-2."

Universal Screening for SARS-CoV-2 in Women Admitted for Delivery
(Columbia Univ. Medical Ctr)

New England Journal of Medicine
https://t.co/IxTTHbvaaR

[Mark Jones @redtexture]

@RagheeHorner

We all know transportation is a leading indicator, and trucks, and leasing of trucks, and price of used trucks, capital expenditures on new trucks too.
Layoff news at commercial truck manufacturers piles up.
LANDLINE MEDIA Jan 14, 2020
https://t.co/RTIXNTtALE