https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/yew6zFWAKG4AGs3Wk/foom-and-doom-1-brain-in-a-box-in-a-basement
We used to worry about global warming, but now we don’t. We used to worry about ASI, but now we say that’s silly.
Full kudos to Steve Byrnes for sticking with the “it’s really bad” theme when it’s out of fashion. I was there decades ago and I’m still there.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/22/macos-26-tahoe-beta-drops-firewire-support
Up until a few years ago I had several firewire peripherals. Now they are only for an old machine running Sierra or so.
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/06/12/macos-tahoe-brings-a-new-disk-image-format/
“Unless a sparse bundle is required (for example when it’s hosted on a different file system such as that in a NAS)”
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-drug-safety-foreign-manufacturers-takeaways
“FDA allowed into the United States at least 150 drugs or their ingredients from banned factories … in India.”
“I’m not interested in using American military power to make the world safer for dictatorship.”
https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-letter-from-an-iranian
Should be required reading for my friends of the left.
Iran is yet another civil war waiting to happen.
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/chinas-industrial-policy-has-an-unprofitability
But if they can get the US car market that would help a bit.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-the-onion-nyt-ad-congress-cowardice
Maybe the post-Z generation will be into integrity? When do we get them?
https://www.startribune.com/canada-forest-fire-smoke-minnesota-air-quality/601376477
In an anonymous poll Minnesotans would vote for CO2 increases. But even in MN there are consequences …
“On Tuesday, June 3, the air quality index hit … 800 in Grand Portage … worst air quality ever recorded globally occurred in New Delhi, India, on Nov. 11, 2022, when the AQI reached 999.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-20-2025
MAGA depends on journalists being corrupt and weak.
“FAR BETTER AN APPROXIMATE ANSWER TO THE RIGHT QUESTION, WHICH IS OFTEN VAGUE, THAN AN EXACT ANSWER TO THE WRONG QUESTION, WHICH CAN ALWAYS BE MADE PRECISE.’
JOHN W. TUKEY THE FUTURE OF DATA ANALYSIS (1962)
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/06/20/forcing-passkeys/
I think it will be passkeys and email, no more passwords. Because the web is dying and not worth the money to maintain authentication/password systems.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMcp2409371?query=WB
Thanks to modern imaging we see the time bombs. I would have guessed it was less common than 3%. Operate for “≥7 mm in diameter and located in the anterior circulation”.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/health/diabetes-cure-insulin-stem-cell.html
“patients in the trial had to stay on drugs to prevent the immune system from destroying the new cells.”
Lifelong immunosuppression is not ideal.
Great Econ hx – esp mechanism of ag boom/bust cycles. We really are speed running the late 70s.
Starting to feel earth is a bit odd.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/we-all-need-to-take-a-troubling-new
The SEO title is completely backwards. This is an encouraging study — gun management can work in America.
https://gwynnedyer.com/2025/bottom-trawling/
“Bottom trawlers are responsible for the bulk of the damage that human beings have done to the oceans”
Much new to me here.
“Hope was born with spina bifida, and her father has cited her disability as a reason he went into state politics.”
A deranged man with a gun.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/14/no-kings-protests-anti-trump-rallies-us/
We are a broken nation. But not a broken people.
MidManagers make or break any enterprise, they are mostly invisible, and they are widely disparaged.
https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/06/14/a2a
Does anyone out there remember TeleScript? I wonder how the agent protocols line up.
“MCP is for tools (function-like things with inputs and outputs). A2A is for when you need free-form communication. Hence why tasks look more like actors.”
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/06/12/apples-spin-on-ai-and-ipados-multitasking/
They really are lost.
Trump is testing how dumb the MAGA really are.
https://gwynnedyer.com/2025/geoengineering-or-bust/
America, the fallen giant, is best kept out of the discussion.
https://gwynnedyer.com/2025/where-shall-we-put-the-palestinians/
Falling into the abyss.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/science/genes-dna-microproteins.html
So much complexity. Likely key to some diseases.
https://www.bannedinyourstate.com/p/should-you-go-to-a-protest-tomorrow
N-95 mask helps a bit with tear gas. Jedeed doesn’t fuss much about phone beyond removing biometric login.
We will be at the back and will leave if there is violence.
“housing crash and Great Recession, the rise of China, racial diversification, and the rise of smartphone-enabled social media”
My list: IT, globalization, rural collapse, rise of women. (I think we broke in late 90s, well before his 2010 date.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/army-parade-trump.html
Excellent article on why the US Army is in a slow motion crisis.
Also, the M1 is obsolete now.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-12-2025
According to Noem. No Kings march Sat June 14.
Raskin: “We have no kings here, we have no queens here, we have no emperors, we have no dictators, we have no despots, and we have no serfs and no slaves and no subjects, and none of us is a subject to Donald Trump. None of us is a subject to Mike Johnson.”
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/a-showdown-made-in-heaven
“Trump watches TV news throughout much of the day and night. It is the way he has lived for most of his life. His sense of reality is formed by what he sees and hears on the TV screen.”
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/is-tulsi-gabbard-okay
The GOP Senate is perhaps the worst of the GOP. They are not as stupid as the GOP Reps, that makes them more explicitly evil.
https://thenewstack.io/what-you-need-to-know-about-apples-new-container-framework/
Hypervisor. This sounds not terrible.
AN interesting example; basically enhanced semantic search. Not a big AI tech challenge, but does a useful thing that is not cost-efficient without AI.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-civil-war
If we get to rebuild we need to understand why America derailed after 1995.
Two have plead guilty but nobody’s talking.
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/10/ios-26-apple-wallet-digital-id-passport-support/
“According to Apple’s website, you’ll be able to use it at TSA checkpoints, online, and in person.”
No need to carry your wallet/state ID when you go to a bar. This is a big leap and bypasses the complexity of state ID support. As is typical of Apple the important updates are done quietly, the liquid glass stuff is BS to cover their AI failure.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-10-2025
Even though it’s no longer news, Putin’s power over the GOP remains astounding. He used his billions to completely corrupt the party.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/10/rfk-smoking-maha-tobacco-cigarettes-00394863
RFK appears to use nicotine replacement products when stressed. Given his psychiatric and substance history it would be extraordinary if he was not a heavy smoker in the past, I suspect he’s a closeted smoker now.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/if-you-lie-with-doge-you-get-fleeced
via Bannon. So 50/50 at best unless someone talks.
“America will spend years paying the price for Musk’s fraudulence.” If we are very lucky.
He is who he always was and he was very transparent about his goals. The rot is in us, the American people. And, of course, in the legacy media.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/well/mind/executive-function-tips.html
Pretty good really.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/business/media/hbo-max-warner-bros-discovery.html
Why they merged then split. Daytime TV fair doesn’t work for a streaming audience.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/novo-nordisk-s-canadian-mistake
Semaglutide goes generic in Canada. Maybe invasion delayed while Canada supplies US market?
https://www.dot.state.mn.us/roundabouts/safety.html
No wonder they are popular. Crashes tend to be low consequences vs t-bone of running an intersection.
https://www.startribune.com/trump-races-to-fix-a-big-mistake-doge-fired-too-many-people/601368798
Musk takes the blame. Fed workers needed big raises before DOGE, raises will need to be bigger now.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/08/apple-research-lrms
Encouraging sign that we have hit a hard AI limit for at least a few years. The longer the better.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-golden-age-of-resignations
People with courage and convictions.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-7-2025
An antidote to MAGA lies.
HCR has very much seized her moment. Historians arise.