Late February links

Colin Gorrie asks, How far back in time can you understand English?

The Science of Blunders: Confessions of a Textual Critic (1991), by James Willis, via Language Hat.

Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative treatments. — Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds, by Alice Klein, via Kottke (emphasis mine).

At Least 15 Have Died on Tahoe-Area Slopes This Year, by Chris Hippensteel.

Introducing Acme Weather, by Adam Grossman.

I love the kind of cross-medium glue utilities that James describes in Graduating between mediums of communication.

Also from James, an introduction to Dopplr colours (sic).

Constraints and the Lost Art of Optimization, by Den Odell, via Jeremy.

Also via Jeremy: Webspace Invaders, by Matthias Ott.

C2PA is just the beginning. We can’t yet see the end, by Aram.

The A.I. Evangelists on a Mission to Shake Up Japan, by Javier C. Hernández and Kiuko Notoya. I can’t decide if we should take チームみらい (Team Future) (Wikipedia) seriously or not.

Lose Myself, by Greg Knauss.

So much of my life right now is people who can’t wait one more minute, who just want to be on their phone, who are ready to get to the next thing, always hungry and ready to stomp. I’m one of them too, I know. We’re so impatient with each other, bored and fractious. Yet no one will stand more than a foot away, no matter how often you ask, and we love each other too, and pet each other on the head. The combined attraction-repulsion of a family moving together through space, a single molecule bouncing between museums.

— Paul Ford, in Mother Church

Fix Your Hearts or Die, by A.R. Moxon: This [the male loneliness epidemic] is a problem. What I am inviting you to contemplate is how frequently it is treated as a problem for men, caused by women, to be solved by everyone else. I’m inviting you to contemplate how seldom it’s being treated as a problem caused by men who have never even started the work they need to do on themselves. (Emphasis his.)

Women’s Institute branches shutting down over trans ban, by Sophie Perry.

Pulse Nightclub To Be Demolished Next Month To Make Way For Memorial, by Margaret Hetherman.

The US deported a gay asylum-seeker to a third country where homosexuality is illegal, by Monika Pronczuk.

Billionaire-Funded Anti-Trans Bathroom/Sports Ban Ballot Initiative Moves Forward In Maine, by Erin Reed.

Vanderbilt To Drop Major Gender-Affirming Surgeries For Trans Adults, by s. baum.

Noem’s use of Coast Guard resources strains her relationship with the military branch, sources say, by Gordon Lubold, Courtney Kube, Jonathan Allen, and Julia Ainsley,

I’m firmly in the “check isdonaldtrumpalive.com every day” phase of life.

but here in the land of the Mad King, it’s just another batshit thing that happened, and we all just shrug our shoulders and move on. — Jeff Tiedrich

Jamelle Bouie had a conversation with Andrea Pitzer the other day about concentration camps and the conditions that give rise to them. See also a 2018 conversation between them on the same topic.

Bye, Canada: I’m going back to where I came from, by Anuja Bhatt.